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  • ...|civil servant]]. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied [[science]]s where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical ...ncing the development of modern [[economics]] and [[social sciences|social science]]. Following [[Galileo]] and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted [[Aristotle|Ari ...
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  • ...brightest rings (Adams and Le Verrier) have been imaged with the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] and Earth-based telescopes, owing to advances in resolution and ...ref name="Lassell" /> This ring is a faint sheet of material occupying the space between the Le Verrier ring at about 53,200 km and the Arago ring at 5 ...
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  • ...niversal gravitation]], and describes gravity as a geometric property of [[space]] and [[Time in physics|time]], or [[spacetime]]. In particular, the [[curv ...ssical physics, especially concerning the passage of time, the geometry of space, the motion of bodies in [[free fall]], and the propagation of [[light]]. ...
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  • | journal=Planetary and Space Science | volume=43 | journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] | volume=251 ...
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  • ...kely than on nearby [[Europa (moon)|Europa]].<ref name=Lipps2004/> Various space probes from ''[[Pioneer 10|Pioneers 10]]'' and ''[[Pioneer 11|11]]'' to ''[ ...Evidence for an Ocean on Callisto |year=2001|publisher=Lunar and Planetary Science XXXI|pages=1818|url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2001/pdf/1818.pdf| ...
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  • ...ocs/vol1_all.pdf Volume 1, The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues]'', European Space Agency, 1997, and the [http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-S?HIP%2032 | accessdate = 2006-07-04 }}</ref> In 2005, using the [[Hubble Space Telescope]], astronomers determined that Sirius B has nearly the diameter o ...
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  • ...metric series, including one defining [[irrational number]]s as [[Sequence space|convergent sequences]] of [[rational number]]s. Dedekind, whom Cantor befri ...egment and all of the points in an [[n-dimensional space|''n''-dimensional space]]. About this discovery Cantor famously wrote to Dedekind: "''Je le vois, m ...
    51 KB (7,330 words) - 21:13, 6 May 2010
  • ...al.<ref name=Bell1991/> The reddening of the surfaces may be a result of [[space weathering]] caused by bombardment of the surface by charged particles and ...ry Sciences Institute, Hoston|journal=Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference|volume=21|pages=489–490|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990LP ...
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  • ...rs |title=Molecular Biology of the Cell; Fourth Edition |publisher=Garland Science|year=2002 |location=New York and London |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bo ...issue=5929 |pages=929–30 |year=2009 |month=May |pmid=19372393 |doi=10.1126/science.1169786}}</ref> and the [[glycosylation]] of uracil to produce the "J-base" ...
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  • ...7|pages=13–32|doi=10.1006/icar.1996.5637 |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGF-45M91DF-24&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_s ...{{cite web|title=Dawn: A Journey to the Beginning of the Solar System|work=Space Physics Center: UCLA|url=http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/dawn/background.html| ...
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  • ...to mathematics; sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[computer science]] benefit from the concept. ...algebraic]] concepts such as [[module (mathematics)|module]]s and [[vector space]]s also form groups. ...
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  • ...also found in some bacteria, where it is located within the [[periplasmic space]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Wood PM |title=Why do c-type cytochromes exis ...=206 |issue=4423 |pages=1148&ndash;59 |year=1979 |pmid=388618 |doi=10.1126/science.388618}}</ref> Some bacterial electron transport chains use different quino ...
    72 KB (10,211 words) - 02:53, 7 August 2009
  • ...com/entertainment/books/36520714.html], and in the title of the [[European Space Agency]] bulletin report ''Exploring the water cycle of the 'Blue Planet' [ | journal=Science | year=1988 | volume=241 ...
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  • ...[[Astronomical spectroscopy|spectrum]], [[luminosity]] and motion through space. The total mass of a star is the principal determinant in its [[stellar evo | url = http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeath/stellardeath_intro.html ...
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  • ...l angular motion of IK Pegasi across the sky because of its motion through space. ...essdate=2007-05-14 }}</ref> The combination of these two motions gives a [[space velocity]] of 20.4&nbsp;km/s relative to the Sun.{{Ref_label|D|d|none}} ...
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  • ...-set topology]]"; it involves viewing sets of positional values as [[Stone space]]s and noticing that their real representations are given by [[continuous f ...|first=Charles |year=1846 |title=The University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and Their Numerous Applications |publisher=A.S. Barnes |url=htt ...
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  • ...e divided into smaller ones, which are then solved [[Concurrency (computer science)|concurrently]] ("in parallel"). There are several different forms of paral ...mon. [[Computer networking|Communication]] and [[Synchronization (computer science)|synchronization]] between the different subtasks are typically one of the ...
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  • Three years later she received a letter from the [[Prussia]]n Minister for Science, Art, and Public Education, in which he conferred on her the title of ''nic .... She was especially happy to see [[Soviet]] advancements in the fields of science and mathematics, which she considered indicative of new opportunities made ...
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  • ...s, given its stability and similarity to the Sun, and it appears in some [[science fiction]] literature. | publisher=Space Telescope Science Institute ...
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  • ...the probe (green wave) are [[Shapiro effect|delayed]] by the warping of [[space and time]] (blue lines) due to the [[Sun]]'s mass.]] ...gravitational attraction between [[mass]]es results from the warping of [[space and time]] by those masses. ...
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