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He proposed a classification of civilizations into three types, based on the axiom of exponential growth: A Type I civilization (planetary) is able to access all the energy available on its planet and store it for consumption.

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It is about 25 miles (40 km) from New York City and about 30 miles (48 km) south of Newark.

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6 km) mainline's southern terminus is at the Delaware Memorial Bridge on Interstate 295 (I-295) in Pennsville Township.

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BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.

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Biosphere 2 was only used twice for its original intended purposes as a closed-system experiment: once from 1991 to 1993, and the second time from March to September 1994.

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Some individual cats, such as Grumpy Cat and Lil Bub, have achieved popularity online because of their unusual appearances, considered humorous by internet users.

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In most cases, the energy released from a nuclear weapon detonated within the lower atmosphere can be approximately divided into four basic categories: the blast and shock wave: 50% of total energy thermal radiation: 35% of total energy ionizing radiation: 5% of total energy (more in a neutron bomb) residual radiation: 5–10% of total energy with the mass of the explosion.

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Multiple exoplanets have been found to orbit in the habitable zones of their stars (where liquid water can potentially exist on a planetary surface), but Earth remains the only planet known to support life.

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It is therefore used commercially only in low concentrations.

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Their hydrogen bonding causes their many unique properties, such as having a solid form less dense than its liquid form, a relatively high boiling point of 100 °C for its molar mass, and a high heat capacity.

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Carbon's abundance, its unique diversity of organic compounds, and its unusual ability to form polymers at the temperatures commonly encountered on Earth, enables it to serve as the common element of all known life.

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A dog's sense of smell is so strong that they can detect cancer in humans.

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Bottom ash and boiler slag can be used as a raw feed for manufacturing portland cement clinker, as well as for skid control on icy roads.

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Like the other alkaline earth metals (group 2 of the periodic table), it occurs naturally only in combination with other elements and almost always has an oxidation state of +2.

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It is present at about 24% of the total elemental mass, which is more than 12 times the mass of all the heavier elements combined.

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Freeze-fracture can be induced artificially to view in detail the properties of a material.

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One must specify a wavelength range when designing or ordering such coatings, but good performance can often be achieved for a relatively wide range of frequencies: usually a choice of IR, visible, or UV is offered.

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On June 12, the volcano's first spectacular eruption sent an ash column 19 km (12 mi) into the atmosphere.

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A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be liquid at standard temperature and pressure.

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Of the three naturally occurring radon isotopes, only 222Rn has a sufficiently long half-life (3.

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Lead is malleable and soft, meaning it can be shaped into different shapes and lead has a relatively low melting point.

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It has various allotropes, but only the grey form, which has a metallic appearance, is important to industry.

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The fastest land animal is the cheetah, capable of running at speeds of up to 93–104 km/h (58–65 mph).

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He is the only bowler to take 800 Test wickets and more than 530 One Day International (ODI) wickets.

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Earth rotates around its own axis in slightly less than a day (in about 23 hours and 56 minutes).

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A dog's nose is so sensitive that they can detect changes in a person's emotional state.

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A census can be contrasted with sampling, in which information is obtained only from a subset of a population.

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This quality can apply to an ability, as in a rational animal, to a psychological process, like reasoning, to mental states, such as beliefs and intentions, or to persons who possess these other forms of rationality.

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While invertebrate brains arise from paired segmental ganglia (each of which is only responsible for the respective body segment) of the ventral nerve cord, vertebrate brains develop axially from the midline dorsal nerve cord as a vesicular enlargement at the rostral end of the neural tube, with centralized control over all body segments.

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The most extensive modification resulted in a specialised maritime patrol derivative, the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, which remained in service with the Royal Air Force until 2011, over 60 years after the Comet's first flight.

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In 1974, the SR-71 set the record for the quickest flight between London and New York at 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56 seconds.

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Supersonic flight more than halved travel times, but sonic booms over the ground limited it to transoceanic flights only.

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A neutron star has been proposed as the origin of an unusual FRB with periodic peaks lasting over 3 seconds reported in 2022.

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Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, and its valuation soared in the early 2010s after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick.

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A survey of researchers in the field found only a small minority fully endorsing the "pseudoscience" label.

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The easy problems are amenable to functional explanation—that is, explanations that are mechanistic or behavioural—since each physical system can be explained purely by reference to the "structure and dynamics" that underpin the phenomenon.

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Some states occur only under extreme conditions, such as Bose–Einstein condensates and Fermionic condensates (both in extreme cold), neutron-degenerate matter (in extreme density), and quark–gluon plasma (at extremely high energy).

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Substances respond weakly to magnetic fields by three other types of magnetism—paramagnetism, diamagnetism, and antiferromagnetism—but the forces are usually so weak that they can only be detected by lab instruments.

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Fluorescent materials may also be excited by certain wavelengths of visible light, which can mask the glow, yet their colors may appear bright and intensified.

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Optical rogue waves are rare pulses of light analogous to rogue or freak ocean waves.

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In the case of catch bonds, the lifetime of the bond actually increases up to a maximum before it decreases like in a normal bond.

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Concrete is the most widely used material in existence and is behind only water as the planet's most-consumed resource.

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DNA testing of more than 240 volunteers from the local Champagne and Aishihik First Nations identified 17 people who are maternally related to the ice man.

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Their mass is approximately 13 to 80 times that of Jupiter (MJ)—not big enough to sustain nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium in their cores, but massive enough to emit some light and heat from deuterium fusion, 2H, an isotope of hydrogen with a neutron as well as a proton, that can undergo fusion at lower temperatures.

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Fu Hao's life and military achievements are known almost entirely from the contents of her tomb, rather than from literary records.

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One kind of Pekingese is referred to as a "sleeve" because it was bred to fit into a Chinese empress’ sleeves, which was how it was often carried around.

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It has a slightly ellipsoidal shape with an average diameter of 1,100 km (680 mi), about half the size of the dwarf planet Pluto.

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The Cassini orbiter was able to track the 2010–11 instance of the storm, also known as the Northern Electrostatic Disturbance, because of an increase in radio and plasma interference, or the Great Springtime Storm.

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Only planets whose orbits are seen edge-on from Earth could be detected.

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A surprising non-spherical expectation for the shape of the nucleus originated in 1939 in the spectroscopic analysis of the quadrupole moments while the prolate spheroid shape of the nucleon arises from analysis of the intrinsic quadrupole moment.

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Although very badly preserved, the site is unique for its scale and for the completeness of the sculptures.

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"Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1,000 years.

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The site flourished for about 1,300 years until the Spanish invaded.

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In most cases, this implies a greater energy input needed for heavier isotopologues to reach the transition state (or, in rare cases, dissociation limit), and therefore, a slower reaction rate.

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In three-dimensional systems, only two kinds of elementary particles are seen: fermions and bosons.

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Nevertheless, the successful synthesis of superheavy elements up to Z = 118 (oganesson) with up to 177 neutrons demonstrates a slight stabilizing effect around elements 110 to 114 that may continue in heavier isotopes, consistent with the existence of the island of stability.

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Traveling to an arbitrary point in spacetime has very limited support in theoretical physics, and is usually connected only with quantum mechanics or wormholes.

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The value of a redshift is often denoted by the letter z, corresponding to the fractional change in wavelength (positive for redshifts, negative for blueshifts), and by the wavelength ratio 1 + z (which is greater than 1 for redshifts and less than 1 for blueshifts).

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The ancient Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Medieval Christians, and others thought of the 7 classical planets as gods and named their 7 days of the week after them.

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The skeleton was originally nicknamed "Little Foot" in 1995 when four ankle bones in a museum collection were sufficient to ascertain that the individual had been able to walk upright.

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6, with a main period near 400 days, has the widest range displayed by any first-magnitude star.

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The Hasmonean kingdom was the first independent Jewish polity since the fall of the Kingdom of Judah in 587/6 BCE, and a rare example of indigenous rule in an age dominated by great empires.

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Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.

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In 2025, Thunberg twice joined a humanitarian flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip, which drew international attention and political controversy.

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Today, there are only a few legal restrictions on public nudity in Germany.

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Modern biblical scholars view the baptism of Jesus as a historical event to which a high degree of certainty can be assigned.

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For more than a half-century of his activity, Beritashvili was considered a leader among neurophysiologists of Central and Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union.

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The domestic cat is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae.

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In 2011, his article "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in the American Economic Review during its first 100 years.

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As with many expletives, the term can be used as an interjection, or as many other parts of speech, and can carry a wide variety of meanings.

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It is the country's first locally designed and constructed jet aircraft, and likely the biggest aircraft industrial programme to take place in any of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) countries except the Soviet Union.

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They can be found in seas, brackish estuaries and lagoons.

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In 2023, mixed amphetamine salts (Adderall) was the 15th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 32 million prescriptions.

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Moskstraumen is unusual in that it occurs in the open sea, whereas most other tidal flows are observed in confined straits or rivers.

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According to the researcher Enzo Emanuele, in light of the comparative lack of neurochemical studies on the early stage of romance, "it would not be surprising that a diversity of biological mechanisms could be involved", due to the complexity of love.

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The class includes the only extant order Pantopoda (lit.

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The gulf is thought to be one of the most ecologically diverse seas on Earth and is home to more than 5,000 species of micro-invertebrates.

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Squid can change colour for camouflage and signalling.

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Following his defeat to Leon Spinks, Ali regained the heavyweight title in their September 15, 1978 rematch, becoming the first boxer to win the championship three times.

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The vetrovnjak, recorded in parts of western Serbia, fought against a bringer of bad weather imagined as a black bird.

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