منابع مشابه
Self‐Replenishable Anti‐Waxing Organogel Materials†
Solid deposition, such as the formation of ice on outdoor facilities, the deposition of scale in water reservoirs, the sedimentation of fat, oil, and grease (FOG) in sewer systems, and the precipitation of wax in petroleum pipelines, cause a serious waste of resources and irreversible environmental pollution. Inspired by fish and pitcher plants, we present a self-replenishable organogel materia...
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Hans Reinke * and Gad Asher * 1 University of Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. 2 IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. 3 Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel. * Correspondence to: [email protected]...
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Mother Nature is an exceedingly exacting old lady. She guards her treasures well and does not yield them on casual inquiry. To be sure, she has spread the stuff and substance of the Universe before everyone so that it might be described and classified. For generations men have eagerly approached this monumental job until at last there is available a fairly satisfactory account of the structure ...
متن کاملHowling for the moon.
Rennard and Vestbo have sounded a ringing call to arms. Instead of trying to make minor improvements in the rate of decline of spirometry in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), they call for an all out effort to find a cure. Their arguments have attractions, but we believe that the evidence shows it would be easier to hatch out chickens from a plate of scrambled eggs tha...
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An old explanation of the moon illusion holds that various cues place the horizon moon at an effectively greater distance than the elevated moon. Although both moons have the same angular size, the horizon moon must be perceived as larger. More recent explanations hold that differences in accommodation or other factors cause the elevated moon to appear smaller. As a result of this illusory diff...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/363404a0