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5 hours ago · Scientists found that T oblanceolata had a record-breaking genome size of 160.45Gbp – about 7 per cent larger than that of the Japanese plant P japonica (148.89Gbp). When the plant’s DNA is unravelled from each cell, it would stand taller than the Elizabeth Tower in Westminster, London, researchers said. In comparison, the human genome ...
13 hours ago · Scaling the world’s highest peak is all in a day’s work for 54-year-old Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa, a man breezily modest about having set foot on the summit of Everest more times ...
13 hours ago · Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
13 hours ago · The problems of consciousness, Chalmers argues, are of two kinds: the easy problems and the hard problem.. Easy problems. The easy problems are amenable to reductive inquiry. They are a logical consequence of lower-level facts about the world, similar to how a clock's ability to tell time is a logical consequence of its clockwork and structure, or a hurricane a logical consequence of the ...
13 hours ago · Sandie Shaw – " (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me ", " Girl Don't Come ". The Supremes – " Where Did Our Love Go ", " Baby Love ". Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders – " Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um ". The Rockin' Berries – " He's In Town ". The Shangri-Las – " Remember (Walking in the Sand) ".
13 hours ago · Early life, family, and education Hamer was born as Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the last of the 20 children of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend. In 1919, the Townsends moved to Ruleville, Mississippi, to work as sharecroppers on W. D. Marlow's plantation. From age six, Hamer picked cotton with her family. During the winters of 1924 through ...
