11 results for “rings”
Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
rings Saturn's rings stretch about 280,000 kilometres from edge to edge, nearly three quarters
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Planet Earth
Volcanoes
Ring of Fire About three quarters of the world's volcanoes stand along the edges of the Pacific
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Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
ring a year. Count them and you have the tree's age; measure them and you have
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
rings are tilted with it. The consequence is bizarre seasons: as Uranus makes its 84-year
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The Human Body
Lungs and Breathing
rings of cartilage you can feel in your neck. At the top sits the larynx, the voice
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Atoms
rings almost without limit, which is why life is built on it. Every reaction, from rusting
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Space & the Universe
Nebulae
ring or hourglass shape. The name is a historical accident; the eighteenth-century astronomer William Herschel
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Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
ring of molten debris into orbit. Within perhaps a century that debris clumped together into the Moon
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The Human Body
Digestion
ring of muscle into the intestine. Liquids pass quickly; a fatty meal lingers longest. The chemical
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Space & the Universe
Black Holes
ring of hot gas around a dark shadow at the heart of galaxy M87, 55 million
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Chemistry
The Chemistry of Life
rings, sometimes with millions of atoms. No other element is nearly as flexible. Add hydrogen, oxygen
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