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  The International Space Station is a large spacecraft. It orbits around Earth. It is a home where astronauts live. The space station is also a science lab. Many countries worked together to build it. They also work together to use it. The space station is made of many pieces. The pieces were put together in space by astronauts.  The ISS consists of pressurized modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other components. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuzrockets as well as American Space Shuttles. The space station's orbit is about 220 miles above Earth. NASA and other space agencies uses the station to learn about living and working in space. The first piece of the International Space Station was launched in 1998. A Russian rocket launched that piece. After that, more pieces were added. Two years later, the station was ready for people. The first crew arrived in October 2000. People have lived on the space station ever since. Over time more pieces...

  S ugar has a slight odor, particularly granulated beet sugar. While all species of ants can differentiate between a wide variety of odors, the smelling range differs from a few centimeters to meters. Desert ants can smell sugar from up to 3 meters. the food sources that ants cannot smell from a distance they 'smell' it (contact chemoreception) by touching it. So in a way, all the food they detect, they detect it by smelling. So yes, ants smell (although contact chemoreception is more like taste) the sugar. The ant colonies send scout ants to search for food in various directions, often up to a range of 100 to 200 meters.(Depends on the territorial boundary and time of the year). The scout marches steadily in less circuitous paths initially if it has memories of previous feeder locations. (Ants use visual landmarks, and a stereo-smell system to create an odor map and navigate) Periodically it will halt and look for olfactory cues. It will then take into a more circuitous rando...

The word demolition means destruction, breaking down or removal. Demolition of building is the process of dismantling or destroying of a structure after its life of serviceability by pre-planned and controlled methods. Different steps are involved in the process of demolition of building structures which are: •Surveying •Removal of hazardous materials •Preparation of plan •Safety measures There are two types of demolition methods used for buildings and structures: •Non-explosive demolition •Explosive demolition Non-explosive demolition: It means the demolition of a structure done with some equipment without the use of any explosive. Different equipment’s used for the demolition activity are Excavators and Bulldozers, Wrecking Balls etc Explosive demolition: Implosion Method of Building Demolition, Implosion is the process of demolition of a building using explosives. If the supports of the building are removed, the structure collapses. Using implosion technique, the main supports of th...

  Doctors can and do use arterial blood sampling but usually only when it is absolutely necessary ie. they need an arterial blood sample for arterial blood gas analysis (ABG) to find out how much oxygen and CO2 is in the arterial blood or when they cannot get venous access (for examples in trauma or otherwise seriously ill patients). Venous blood is preferred for number of reasons: - It is easier. Veins are superficial and there are lot of them. If you compress the arm proximally you can see and feel the veins running across the length of the upper limb. If you are taking arterial blood you usually go for the radial artery and you usually have to rely on the pulse you feel (or hear using doppler). Veins also tend to be more tethered if you pick the right spot ie the vein doesn't wiggle away when you try inserting the needle and you don't need to go fishing for it. Veins also have thinner walls which makes it easier to get a needle in. Novices (like myself) may need to use a bit...

In physics, the Planck length, denoted ℓP, is a unit of length that is the distance light travels in one unit of Planck time. It is also the reduced Compton wavelength of a particle with Planck mass. It is equal to 5.72938×10⁻³⁵ m (Lorentz–Heaviside version) or 1.61623×10⁻³⁵ m (Gaussian version). It is a base unit in the system of Planck units, developed by physicist Max Planck. The Planck length can be defined from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light in a vacuum, the Planck constant, and the gravitational constant. It is the smallest distance about which current, experimentally corroborated, models of physics can make meaningful statements. At such small distances, the conventional laws of macro-physics no longer apply, and even relativistic physics requires special treatment. The smallest possible size for anything in the universe is the Planck Length, which is 1.6 x10 -35 m across. It is impossible to determine the difference between two locations less than one ...

The cricket Snickometer (known as 'snicko' for short) was invented by English Computer Scientist, Allan Plaskett, in the mid-1990s. Snickometer technology was first used in 1999 by Channel 4 in the UK, before being used in India and Australia. The snickometer is composed of a very sensitive microphone located in one of the stumps, connected to an oscilloscope that measures sound waves. When the ball nicks the bat, the oscilliscope trace will pick up the sounds. At the same time, a high speed camera records the ball passing the bat. The oscilliscope trace is then shown alongside slow motion video of the ball passing the bat, and by the shape of the sound wave you can determine whether of not the noise picked up by the microphone coincides with the ball passing the bat, and whether the sound seems to come from the bat hitting the ball or from some other object. This technology is used in televised cricket matches to graphically show the video of the ball passing the bat at the sa...

Apples are a popular and healthy fruit. Apples are easy to cultivate and tailor to certain tastes because of their resilient genetic diversity. They also have antioxidant properties that help protect against cancer-inducing oxidative damage, which can lead to various health problems. The saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” has withstood the test of time because of the impressive health profile of apples. But as you bite deep into an apple, you are confronted with something not so sweet in its core: tiny black seeds. Unlike the sweet tang of the fruit, the tiny black seeds are another story. They contain amygdalin, a substance that releases cyanide when it comes into contact with human digestive enzymes. But acute toxicity is rare if you accidentally eat some of the seeds. How cyanide works: Cyanide is a chemical known as one of the deadliest poisons. It has been used in chemical warfare and mass suicide. Many compounds that contain cyanide—called cyanoglycosides—are found in ...