UNDER THE SUNTime is a runaway train… Here today and gone tomorrow. Somebody else’s all over this planet in what they fit into that space in their world. Go west and you go backward from the International Date Line. Go…
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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are part of the Local Group cluster of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, but they are not bound gravitationally to the Milky Way. They can be found in the southern constellation Mensa. Both…
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The writer is of the opinion that time travel, as envisaged in the old movie “Time Machine’ or in the ever popular “Dr Who” series on television, is not possible. Science excludes the possibility of time travel for two reasons:…
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Human cells possess implausibly complexed structure and made up of many compounds, among them a group of essential fats called phospholipids. A sophisticated and refined combination of essential phospholipids (EPL) comprises of phosphotidyl Choline (lecithin), phosphotidyl Serine, phosphotidylethanolamine, phosphotidylinositol, in…
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Let’s try to answer this in plain and simple fashions. The above question, “does LHC have the potentiality to destroy earth?” – I can only assume that this question is posted in a direct line of thought that was really…
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The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is indeed the most powerful particle accelerator built yet by mankind. It smashes protons together at speeds to mere thousandths of a percent off ‘C’, the speed of light that is famously unobtainable by…
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Nevus, or as it is often called in common language, mole, is a benign neoplasm that can affect any of the cell types that populate the skin surface or epidermis. Examples of types of nevi include epidermal nevi and connective tissue…
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Neuroglia cells makes up most of the nervous system tissues and they outnumber neurons five to ten times. Neuroglia plays a major role in proper functioning of the nervous system. There are four main types in central nervous system and…
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This review will emphasize mammalian cells but also make reference to organelles found in plant cells. It is useful to view the cell as a functional unit consisting of distinct compartments separated by membranes. I. The plasma membrane separates the…
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On September 10, 2008 a full-scale test of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sent two beams of subatomic particles called hadrons crashing against each other from opposite directions. Within 24 hours an unprecedented four major earthquakes struck around the world…
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