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Snowball Earth

The Snowball Earth hypothesis posits that the Earth’s surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, some time earlier than 650 Ma (million years ago). View...

September 28, 2012

SMART Search Engine

Search engine for Multimedia Environment generated content (SMART) is a new project to develop a search engine which will draw its results from sensors. This European-funded project aims...

September 28, 2012

Square Kilometer Array

For many years, two groups of countries, one consisting of Australia and New Zealand, and one of several sub-Saharan countries led by South Africa, have polished their competing...

September 27, 2012

Sugar Development Fund

The Sugar Cess Act, 1982 provides for levy of cess, which currently is Rs. 24 per quintal with effect from 1st March, 2008 on production of Sugar for...

September 27, 2012

Shining Path

The Communist Party of Peru more commonly known as the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a Maoist organization in Peru. Formed in the 1960s with an objective to...

September 27, 2012

Shape Memory Alloys

The Robojelly mentioned in above note used Shape Memory Alloys. The live jellyfish is an ideal invertebrate to base the vehicle on due to its simple swimming action:...

September 25, 2012

Slashtag / Microsyntax

Slashtags or Microsyntax are a set of short community-created conventions for attributing information on Twitter. They are designed to be succinct and provide an easy way to provide...

September 25, 2012

Selene / Kaguya

Kaguya was the name of a Japanese princess. The same name has been given to the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft which is technically Selenological and Engineering Explorer...

September 24, 2012

Statins

Statins are a class of medicines, used to lower cholesterol levels by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, which plays a central role in the production of cholesterol in...

September 24, 2012

Silene stenophylla

Recently, a 32000 years old Ice Age flower blossomed again. Silene stenophylla is a species of flowering plant that grows in the Arctic tundra of far eastern Siberia...

September 24, 2012

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