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Triton (gastropod) 21 Jul 2013 | 09:14 pm
Triton is the common name given in particular to a number of species of very large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Charonia. The name "triton" is also often applied as pa...
Phenology 10 May 2013 | 08:25 pm
Phenology is the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate, as well as habitat factors (such as elevation). Th...
Marine radar 17 Mar 2013 | 04:05 pm
Marine radars are x-band or s-band radar to provide bearing and distance of ships and land targets in vicinity from own ship (radar scanner) for collision avoidance and navigation at sea. Radar is a ...
Geomagnetic storm 16 May 2011 | 10:08 pm
A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a disturbance in space weather. Associated with solar coronal mass ejections (CME), coronal holes, or solar flares...
Prosopagnosia 29 Jan 2011 | 06:12 pm
Prosopagn osia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "inability to recognize/identify") is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recog...
Wind 20 Dec 2010 | 05:06 am
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, wh...
Ice 13 Jul 2010 | 02:04 am
Ice, technically, is one of the 15 known crystalline phases of water. In non-scientific contexts, the term usually mea ns ice Ih, which is known to be the most abundant of these solid phases. It can a...
Unidentified flying object 18 Jun 2010 | 01:25 am
Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any apparent aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The Un...
Hiccup 3 Jun 2010 | 01:32 am
A hiccup or hiccough (pronounced /ˈhɪkʌp/ HICK-up) is a contraction of the diaphragm that repeats several times per minute. In humans, the abrupt rush of air into the lung s causes the epiglottis to c...
Anemia 24 May 2010 | 03:51 am
Anemia (pronounced /əˈniːmiə/, also spelled anaemia and anæmia; from Ancient Greek ἀναιμία anaimia, meaning lack of blood) is a decrease in normal number of red blood cells (RBCs) or less than the nor...
