Science
Diabetes was a death sentence until Frederick Banting discovered how to extract and use this hormone to treat the disease
What is insulin?
Humans have 22 pairs of nonsex these & one pair of non-nonsex
What is chromosome?
A term coined by Marvel, so tiny that Ant-Man has to shrink way down to enter it. Dr. Strange pays a visit too.
What is the Quantum Realm?
It's known as Earth's twin, but it has surface temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is Venus?
If your lab has a tile counter, don't use it to place solid carbon dioxide, also known as this; the adhesive will be destroyed.
What is dry ice?
To provide immunity from smallpox, in 1796, British physician Edward Jenner used cowpox to make the first of these. Which is why the word comes from the Latin for cow
What is vaccine?
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The standard model of particle physics accounts for 3 of the 4 fundamental forces, skipping this one, important in daily life
What is gravity?
Because Planck's Constant, which is in constant use, runs through 4.14 eV, short for electron, this unit. It takes about 625 quintillion eV per second to light a 100-watt bulb.
What is Volt?
There are about 6 trillion miles in one of these units of space distance.
What is a light year?
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Knowing what the D in DNA stands for should tell you this noun, the sugar found in DNA.
What is Deoxyribose?
In 1996, a team at Roslin Institute in Scotland used a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce the first clone of an adult mammal, a thin Dorset sheep named this
Who's Dolly?
It's the type of ionization chamber heard here, a measuring device that non-physicists never want to hear working hard nearby
What's a Geiger counter?
In 2022, the White House announcement of the First World Quantum Day cited contributions like these super accurate timekeepers found on every GPS satellite.
What are atomic clocks?
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With Perihelion on July 28, it will be seen again from Earth in 2061. When all of you are looking back on your youthful hopes.
What is Halley's Comet?
Still mysterious, but described as a repulsive force. It makes up 70% of the universe, way more than the same named “matter”.
What is dark energy?
This property of elements, like uranium and thorium, was discovered in part by Marie Curie, who actually coined the word for it
What is radioactivity?
It's the study of fishes, all 30,000 or so species of them.
What is Ichthyology?
In computing, either one or zero on or off can be represented by this unit put QU for quantum before it, and it can be in both states at once, allowing more simultaneous operations
What is a bit?
A cluster of young stars, This group of astronomical siblings includes Electra, Maia, & Alcyone
What is Seven Sisters?
Embryonic stem cells divide and give rise to more specialized ones like neurons for the brain in this process.
What is differentiation?
In 2020 for the first time ever, the Nobel prize in chemistry was won by two women, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym
What is CRISPR?
With hard work & strong acid, you can get the original metals from alloys, like this partner of zinc out of brass
What is copper?
Classical mechanics says that all physical quantities can be known at the same time. This principle from Werner Heisenberg sets Quantum Science apart by saying that the more sure you are of a particle's position, the less true you are of its momentum.
What is the Uncertainty Principle?
The Herschel, an Infrared Telescope then the largest sent into space, was launched in 2009 by this Paris-HQed NASA counterpart
What is The European Space Agency?
The person who gives the weather forecasts on your local television station often refers to this for forecasting the weather in your area
What is Doppler Radar?