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In a vacuum, one torch facing East, one facing West. Both are switched on at exactly the same time. The light hits opposite walls of the vacuum at exactly the same time. At what speed were the photons...
Am brushing up on the above topics and think I'm finally getting the hang of photosynthesis. With regards to cellular respiration though am getting more and more confused! Understand that the equation...
If all the ice in the Antarctic, Greenland, and all the glaciers worldwide melted, how high would sea level rise, approximately? Stu.
As the things out there are traveling away from us, is anybody watching for them disappearing from our view.
The theory of human evolution as far as I'm aware is that at some point in the past a certain ape like creature started to develop in different directions and many sub-species evolved from it, humans...
How hard is it? we'll be doing it some time between january and june and it'll be on one of my maths papers in june. However there's a book about it that's a self-teaching guide which I could refer to...
could it be 2061?
We've lost the battle for billions, trillions, etc. to be sensibly ten to the sixth, twelfth, etc. Let's use them as ten to the sixth, ninth, etc. That way it is easy to work out that an octillion...
http://www.msnbc.msn...._and_science-science/
Or is it all a conspiracy of silence?...
Have exams in these and I actually do not understand much. Websites further confuse me and my lecturer doesn't have a clue what hes teaching... I need someone smart to explain these, in simplest form....
Next week in biology, we're having a mastermind quiz. We had to pick the part of the topic that we struggled with the most and revise it, to be asked questions on. The thing i find hardest and what i...
I've been looking and looking on the internet and I really cannot seem to find it.
Whats the difference between energy change and standard enthalpy change?
This time it is a conference about an astrobiology discovery.
http://www.nasa.gov/c...ses/2010/M10-110.html
I hope it's not another overhyped announcement, this one seems genuinely interesting....
Does anyone know how to find the coeficient of friction (cof) of a wooden shaft (oak) running in a teflon bush, & cof. of a teflon shaft running in a teflon bush I need to know this for use in the...
why does warm water freeze quicker than cold
I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce sphygmomanometer but I need to say it in a presentation in a couple of days. Can someone please write it phonetically for me as I don't have much of an idea at...
If someone has oestrogen responsive breast cancer and a cell breaks away to settle in another part of the body, would the secondary cancer still be oestrogen responsive?
So i'm just a bit confused about the phenotype ratio's in a dihybrid cross and linked genes. Not quite sure what i'm actually asking but if anyone can help please do! There is a question that comes up...
The current Wikileaks farrago makes me wonder why so much sensitive information is written in plain text which could be read even by a ten year old. Why isn't more of this stuff kept by goverments in...