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...tion in the [[proper motion]] of Barnard's Star consistent with its having one or more planets comparable in mass with [[Jupiter]].<ref name=Bell>{{cite w ...vidence for periodic variation in Barnard's Star's brightness, noting only one possible starspot over 130 days.<ref name="Benedict1998">{{cite journal | l ...

...', is the third-largest known [[dwarf planet]] in the [[Solar System]] and one of the two largest [[Kuiper belt]] objects (KBO) in the [[Classical Kuiper ...er. The clickable coding treats the first object created in an area as the one on top. ...

...d multiple-substrate mechanisms. Kinetic studies on enzymes that only bind one substrate, such as [[Triosephosphateisomerase|triosephosphate isomerase]], ...h these mechanisms are often a complex series of steps, there is typically one ''rate-determining step'' that determines the overall kinetics. This [[rat ...

...nd allows for dramatic volume changes following [[phase transition]]s from one allotropic form to another.<ref name = "HeckerPlutonium"> ...ctive [[actinide]] metal whose [[isotope]], [[plutonium-239]] (Pu-239), is one of the three primary [[fissile]] isotopes<ref name = "Stwertka1998"/> ([[ur ...

...ntil he exposes its flaws.<ref name=King170>[[Peter J. King|King, P.J.]] ''One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World's Greatest Thinkers''. ...lled [[Philosophical realism|metaphysical realism]], but eventually became one of its most outspoken critics, first adopting a view he called "internal re ...

...to Kepler's laws, each object travels along an [[ellipse]] with the Sun at one [[focus (geometry)|focus]]. Objects closer to the Sun (with smaller [[semi- ...st of the largest natural satellites are in [[synchronous rotation]], with one face permanently turned toward their parent. The four largest planets, the ...

After [[World War II]], two distinct possibilities emerged. One was [[Fred Hoyle]]'s [[steady state model]], whereby new matter would be cr ...s-antineutrons), so a mass annihilation immediately followed, leaving just one in 10¹⁰ of the original protons and neutrons, and none of their ...

...aused one or more rotors to advance, and thus the encipherment varied from one key press to the next. ...ich would produce a different cipher. The settings were changed daily,<ref>One element of the key, the sequence of rotors in the machine, at first was cha ...

...he particles have no internal degrees of freedom and move independently of one another. Equipartition therefore predicts that the average total energy of ...fness of the spring and ''q'' is the deviation from equilibrium. If such a one dimensional system has mass ''m'', then its kinetic energy ''H''<sub>kin</s ...

...ll|year=1983|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521287634}}</ref> One must also choose a unique azimuth for the pole, e.g. θ&nbsp;=&nbsp;0. ...[-π/2,+3π/2) = [−90°,+270°). To obtain θ in the interval [0, 2π) directly, one may use instead ...

...t. From this he deduced that the number of stars steadily increased toward one side of the sky, in the direction of the [[Milky Way]] [[Galactic Center|co ...of a large star cluster containing hundreds of thousands of stars located one billion light years away<ref>{{cite news ...

...allows astronomers to determine the relative orbital velocity of at least one of the stars even though they are unable to resolve the individual componen ...the core a helium-burning shell formed in addition to the hydrogen-burning one and the star moved to what astronomers term the [[asymptotic giant branch]] ...

...een so as not to harm his study of [[Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]]. One day, however, Étienne found Blaise (now twelve) writing an independent proo ...is neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France. It was only w ...

...magnetic striping|alternating bands found on the ocean floors of Earth]]. One theory, published in 1999 and re-examined in October 2005 (with the help of ...billion years ago, the northern hemisphere of Mars was struck by an object one-tenth to two-thirds the size of [[the Moon]]. If validated, this would make ...

...each step, the smaller number is subtracted from the larger number, until one number is reduced to zero. The remaining number is the GCD.]] ...s reduced, repeating this process gives successively smaller numbers until one of them is zero. When that occurs, the GCD is the remaining nonzero number. ...

...Apollonius: for instance solution circles generically occur in pairs, with one solution enclosing the given circles that the other excludes (Figure 2). [[ ...blem iteratively in this case leads to the [[Apollonian gasket]], which is one of the earliest [[fractal]]s to be described in print, and is important in ...

...a distance of 11.9 [[light-year]]s. This makes it [[List of nearest stars|one of the closest]] star systems to the Sun, and the next-closest [[Stellar cl | title=The One Hundred Nearest Star Systems ...

...] typing at random would, as part of its output, [[almost surely]] produce one of Shakespeare's plays.]] ...ions of [[statistical mechanics]]. Various [[Christian apologists]] on the one hand, and [[Richard Dawkins]] on the other, have argued about the appropria ...

...= The action of a Caesar cipher is to replace each plaintext letter with one a fixed number of places down the alphabet. This example is with a shift of ...''', the '''shift cipher''', '''Caesar's code''' or '''Caesar shift''', is one of the simplest and most widely known [[encryption]] techniques. It is a ty ...

...rch of a new car, the player picks a door, say 1. The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player pi ...goat behind it. If both remaining doors have goats behind them, he chooses one randomly. After Monty Hall opens a door with a goat, he will ask you to dec ...