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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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Since vortex rings are a surprisingly stable fluid dynamical phenomenon (a form of topological soliton), the best way to recover from them is to laterally steer clear of them, in order to re-establish lift, and to break them up using maximum engine power, in order to establish turbulence.

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The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) from Center City Philadelphia and has 22 airlines that offer nearly 500 daily departures to more than 130 destinations worldwide.

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The Cooper hijacking is the only documented unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial aviation.

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Besides traditional electronic hardware, these computational paradigms can be implemented on alternative physical media such as biomolecules (DNA, RNA), or trapped-ion quantum computing devices.

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A dog's sense of smell is reduced by up to 40 percent when he's overheated and panting.

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Spain ceded the territory to the United States, and Filipino revolutionaries declared the First Philippine Republic.

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Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of Hooptown USA, due to Spokane's annual hosting of the Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament.

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It was ranked first on the American Institute of Architects' list of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007.

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In 1967 the estate was purchased by the University at Buffalo (UB), which resold the Barton House and gardener's cottage, keeping only the main house.

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Mexico covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), and is the thirteenth-largest country in the world by land area.

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Supporters of net neutrality argue that it prevents ISPs from filtering Internet content without a court order, fosters freedom of speech and democratic participation, promotes competition and innovation, prevents dubious services, and maintains the end-to-end principle, and that users would be intolerant of slow-loading websites.

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In Alzheimer's disease (and other forms of dementia), the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain to be damaged; short-term memory loss and disorientation are included among the early symptoms.

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Simplistic calculations of the speed of distant galaxies due to the expansion of the universe appear to exceed the speed of light, but only local velocity can be defined uniquely.

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To its west it is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Strait of Gibraltar that separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa by only 14 km (9 mi); additionally, it is connected to the Black Sea through the Bosporus strait that intersects Turkey in the northeast and the Red Sea via the Suez Canal in the southeast.

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Pernese dragons are similar to traditional European dragons in the fact that they can breathe fire and resemble great lizards or dinosaurs with wings, but the resemblance ends there.

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Gladwell's writings often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, such as sociology and psychology, and make frequent and extended use of academic work.

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In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity, such as sexually reproducing, multicellular organisms on Earth, and subsequently human intelligence, required an improbable combination of astrophysical and geological events and circumstances.

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UT Dallas offers more than 140 academic programs across its seven schools and hosts more than 50 research centers and institutes.

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The glucose molecule can exist in an open-chain (acyclic) as well as ring (cyclic) form.

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Though Aristotle wrote many treatises and dialogues for publication, only around a third of his original output has survived, none of it intended for publication.

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Tsunami waves with run-up heights up to 45 m (148 ft) struck the uninhabited island of Tofua.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg.

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As opposed to sonic vocalizations, ultrasonic vocalizations cannot be detected by the human ear.

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Some animals remain in a state of dormancy for long periods, ready to become active again during the rare rainfall.

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People who do not go through the sleeping stages properly get stuck in NREM sleep, and because muscles are not paralyzed a person may be able to sleepwalk.

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Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet later testified the bombing was the only one in the campaign organized by his agency, and that the CIA had "miscalculated" the Yugoimport coordinates from its address.

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Its largest crater, Caloris Planitia, has a diameter of 1,550 km (960 mi), which is about one-third the diameter of the planet (4,880 km or 3,030 mi).

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The annual salmon run can be a major feeding event for predators such as grizzly bears and bald eagles, as well as an important window period for sport fishermen.

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The largest species grow to a length of 12–15 cm (5–6 in), including legs.

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The three species of Chelydra and the larger alligator snapping turtles (genus Macrochelys) are the only extant chelydrids, a family now restricted to the Americas.

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They can become particularly noticeable when looking at a blank surface or an open monochromatic space, such as a blue sky.

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The most common, the southern cassowary, is the fourth-tallest and third-heaviest living bird, smaller only than the two species of ostrich and the emu.

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Some rare occupations are included in this list, but only if they have notable practitioners, for example alchemist or phrenologist.

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Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins.

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