15 results for “generator”
Life & Biology
Evolution
generation after generation, keeping what works. Nothing plans it, and nothing aims at it. Evolution has no goal
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Electricity and Magnetism
Lightning, compasses, motors, radio and light itself are all one phenomenon. Discovering that they were the
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Animals
Animal Migration
generations ago. It will arrive at the same trees. How it does this, and how swallows
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Animals
Whales and Dolphins
generations. Pods have distinct dialects of calls. This is culture, in the sense that anthropologists use the word
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
generating a strong magnetic field, and without that shield the solar wind gradually stripped the atmosphere
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Space & the Universe
Nebulae
generation star at least, built from material processed through earlier nebulae. The oxygen you are breathing
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Space & the Universe
Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars
hardest to detect. Within a generation, new telescopes should tell us whether they are rare, or everywhere.
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Animals
Sharks
upheaval is now, in a few human generations, being pushed toward the edge, and the oceans will be poorer for it.
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
generates electric currents, which in turn produce a magnetic field. This self-sustaining machine is called
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Life & Biology
What Is Life? The Cell
generation to the next. Fire captures energy but carries no instructions. A crystal has order but does
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Space & the Universe
The Life of a Star
generations of stars that had lived and died before. You are, quite literally, made of star
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Planet Earth
Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
generate the deepest earthquakes, the biggest volcanoes and the deepest ocean trenches. When two continents collide
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The Human Body
The Immune System
generation of cancer therapies that work by unleashing the immune system on tumours. The army inside
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Planet Earth
Volcanoes
generations. Nobody alive knew that Vesuvius was a volcano. Within a day the city was buried
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
generates the strongest magnetic field of any planet, twenty thousand times Earth's. The region it dominates
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