Childhood Energy Practices “Stick” With Us Through Adulthood

It is common to relate previous experiences to current habits, for example, through everyday phrases like, “Were you born in a barn?” which refers to…
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It is common to relate previous experiences to current habits, for example, through everyday phrases like, “Were you born in a barn?” which refers to…
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A heterogeneous mixture is a combination of two or more substances, creating a new substance that has nonuniform composition. Within the new substance, the concentration…
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The United Kingdom (UK) faces dramatic changes in the energy system in order to address a variety of challenges, ranging from mitigating climate change, renewing…
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Publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) are required to reduce the pollutants in urban wastewaters to statutory levels prior to discharging the treated wastewater into natural…
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Hydrocarbons come in many shapes and sizes. Probably the most intriguing of these is caged structures. Some of these resemble diamonds and some are more…
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Iron is the fourth-most-abundant element in the Earth’s crust. There were massive movements of iron in primitive oceans in the early history of our Earth,…
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Enzymes in the human body serve a variety of different functions. For example, different categories of enzymes include digestive enzymes, metabolic enzymes, liver enzymes, nucleases…
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Science allows us to understand the mechanisms of the environment we live in as well as how we, as human beings, have an impact on…
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The International Energy Outlook 2016 (IEO 2016) published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that the world’s energy consumption will grow by 48% between…
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Emergent technologies have been historically predicated on the discovery and development of new materials – silicon computer chips, lithium-ion batteries, gallium nitride LEDs, etc. The…
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Metalloids are elements found between the metals and nonmetals on the periodic table of the elements. They are also called semimetals. Metalloids have properties that…
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