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... and improvements of seadefences against tsunamis—the great ‘tidal waves’ that often accompanyearthquakes.City by city, district by district, experts calculate the risks of damage andcasualties ... potential energy of a stream about to go over a waterfall. The energy associated with a certain speed or temperature was greaterin a large mass than in a small one, but only in the narrow sense that ... of monsoon r ains in India andother parts of Asia and Africa is related to conditions of atmospheric pressureacross the tropical Pacific Ocean. Records from Tahiti and from Darwin inAustralia...

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... Feenstra introduced his students to a weedcalled Arabidopsis thaliana, a relative of mustard. He was following a suggestionmade in 1 943 by Friedrich Laibach of Frankfurt, that arabidopsis was a handyplant ... TorontoWith offices inArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France GreeceGuatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Por tugal SingaporeSouth Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine VietnamOxford ... small step towards amassing antimatter for thepowering of a starship. When anti-atoms and normal atoms come together theyannihilate one another, with a huge release of energy, making antimatter...

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... satellites.They have masses a few times greater than the Sun’s, and nowadays they arecalled microquasars. The black hole idea was thus available, ready made, forexplaining the quasars and active galaxies ... are also seasonal differences in the uptake andrelease of the gas by seawater. The asymmetry results in a yearly wave in thegraph of global carbon dioxide, as measured at Mauna Loa.What rang ... somewhat laborious. By 2001, at Spain’s Instituto deAstrofisica de Canarias, Alister Graham and his colleagues realized that youcould judge the mass just by looking at a galaxy’s overall appearance.The...

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... those back together, abolishing theAtlantic Ocean, and the job is half-done.East of Africa it’s trickier, because Antarctica, India and Australia could fittogether in old Gondwana-Land in various ... called themthe Altaids, after the magnificent Altai mountain range that runs fromKazakhstan to China.‘The Tethysides and the Altaids cover nearly a half of the entire continent of Eurasia,’ ... In theAlps he saw the tr aces of a vanished ocean, which formerly separ ated Italy andthe Adriatic region from Switzerland and Austria.163The mathematics and abstract reasoning that emerged...

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... proteins, and animals makegreater use of this versatility than plants do. Another is that plants, beingstationary, need a wider range of defences than animals that can run awayfrom danger.In comparison ... in our own backyard,at the oldest stars of the Milky Way Galaxy itself, and at nearby galaxies. Billions of years from now, the Magellanic Clouds and the Andromeda Galaxy may allcrash into us. ... Leicester arranged with Russian colleagues to have the basalt frommany of the West Siberian boreholes dated by argon-argon at a Scottish lab in EastKilbride. Again, it all came out at almost exactly...

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... Berkeley announcedanother walker, around 5.5 million years old, found in Ethiopia. He called itArdipithecus ramidus kadabba, where kadabba meant ‘basal family ancestor’ in theAfar language of the ... widespread changes inthe Atlantic reaching to South America and West Africa, already correlated withsolar variations by other scientists. Farther afield, reductions of rainfall in EastAfrica coincided ... on.The alternations of warmth and cold went all the way back, at average intervals of 1 340 years, with a big cooling 8300 years ago, to events at the end of the lastice age. The great wobble-induced...

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... yobvious way to establish that one scenario rather than another was whatactually happened. Also lacking is clear knowledge about what the planet waslike at the time. It was certainly not a tranquil ... peculiar monotremes of Australia,’ she said. ‘The mammals that really matter had a northern origin, aswe see in Mongolia.’I Puzzles of ever-changing geographyMammals are hairy and warm-blooded, ... they arequite large. This strategy paid off in placental mammals as various as bats,whales and horses, as well as human beings.In South America, the picture became conf used when a dry-land...

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... possibility of retreat as well as advance, remains a valid basis for thinking generally aboutco-evolution and its weaponr y. Hamilton’s idea of sex as a means of sharing out539plant diseasesPotatoes ... large plates account for 94 per cent of the Earth’s surface. In descendingorder of size they are the Pacific, African, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, NorthAmerican, Antarctic and South American ... Guri. Within a few years, the smallest islands became fantastic caricatures of the communities of plants and animals on the mainland and the largestislands.‘The Guri archipelago is almost unique...

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... search for sparticles at Fermilab nearChicago, begun in 1996, concluded only that a gluino, if it exists at all, must beat least as heavy as an atom of lead. That was beyond the capacity of ... thesurface. During a total eclipse it appears as the streaky corona that gives theatmosphere its technical name. Telescopes called coronagraphs use a centralmask to create an artificial eclipse at ... because of technical problems in 2001.‘It was exciting to see the solar weather changing day by day,’ said Saku Tsuneta of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. ‘Storms on the Sun are...

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... Kurile Islands, Kamchatka in eastern Russia, and thence via theAleutian Islands to Alaska.7 04 volcanic explosionsAspects of the scenario are still debated. Especially uncertain is how all of thesecells ... 2000Valtaoja: personal communication, 2002Brain imagesLandau: W.M. Landau et al., Transactions of the American Neurological Association, vol. 80,pp. 125–9, 1955Scandinavian researchers: N. Lassen ... in a museum. There is a Dark Age of a billionyears, or perhaps much less than that, between the microwave background andthe appearance of the stars and galaxies. Very distant objects are also...

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