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ourse of the 19th century, the word "science" became increasingly associated wit h the disciplined study of the natural world including physics, chemistry, geolo gy and biology. This sometimes left the study of human thought and society in a linguistic limbo, which was resolved by classifying these areas of academic stud y as social science. Similarly, several other major areas of disciplined study a nd knowledge exist today under the general rubric of "science", such as formal s cience and applied science. More about Science... View new selections below (purge) edit Selected article This long range RADAR antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track spac e objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll. RADAR is a system that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, direc tion, and/or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, mot or vehicles, weather formations and terrain. A transmitter emits radio waves, wh ich are reflected by the target and detected by a receiver, typically in the sam e location as the transmitter. Although the radio signal returned is usually ver y weak, radio signals can easily be amplified, so radar can detect objects at ra nges where other emissions, such as sound or visible light, would be too weak to detect. Radar is used in many contexts, including meteorological detection of p recipitation, air traffic control, police detection of speeding traffic, and by the military. The term RADAR was coined in 1941 as an acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging. This acronym of American origin replaced the previously used British abbreviati on RDF (Radio Direction Finding). The term has since entered the English languag e as a standard word, radar, losing the capitalization in the process. ...Archive/Nominations Read more... edit Selected picture View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. Credit: Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antar ctica south polar ice cap. This is toward the northeast. Earth, also known as Te rra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. It is the largest of the solar system's terrestrial planets, and the only planetary body that modern science confirms as harboring life. Scientific eviden ce indicates that the planet formed around 4.57 billion years ago, and shortly t hereafter (4.533 billion years ago) acquired its single natural satellite, the M oon ...Archive/Nominations Read more... edit Selected biography Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 C September 2, 1992) was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a lead er in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied ch romosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. She developed the te

chnique to visualize maize chromosomes and demonstrate genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosisa mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, and she demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere. She was awarded prestigious fellowships and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944. ...Archive/Nominations Read more... edit Did you know... ...that in recent years Mediterranean alcoholic beverages (pictured) have be en subject of intense scientific study? ...that the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar OJ287 has be en measured as weighing 18 billion times the mass of the Sun, six times heavier than the previous record holder? ...that the origins of Castle Lake (pictured) in California date to the Plei stocene Era (more than 10,000 years ago) when a glacier carved a basin in the lo cation of the current lake? ...that 2002's Hurricane Elida was the first hurricane to be observed by the MERIS sensor aboard the ESA's satellite Envisat? ...that for a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels wit h the fluid flow? ...Archive/Nominations Read more... edit Associated Wikimedia Science portal on Wikinews Science on Wikiquote Science subject on Wikibooks Science portal on Wikisource Science category on Wikicommons Science category on Wiktionary Wikiversity Scho ol of Science News Quotations Manuals Texts Images Definitions Learning Wikinews-logo.svg Wikiquote-logo.svg Wikibooks-logo.svg Wikisource-logo.svg Commons-logo.svg Wiktionary-logo-en.svg Wikiversity-logo.svg What are portals? List of portals Featured portals Purge server cache This is a featured portal. Click here for more information. Categories:

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