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Crater Lake

Crater Lake: overwhelmingly yet sublimely beautiful. Moody. At times brilliantly blue, ominously somber; at other times buried in a mass of brooding clouds. The lake is magical, enchanting - a remnant of fiery times, a reflector of its adjacent forested slopes, a product of Nature's grand design. ...

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Geology

There's Oil Down There

Ever wonder what oil looks like underground, down deep, hundreds or thousands of feet below the surface, buried under millions of tons of rock and dirt? If you could look down an oil well and see oil ... Continue reading

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Biology

Welcome to1984

You've probably heard reports about a recently-developed technological device that may help quadriplegics regain control of their limbs. The device is designed to read the quadriplegic's brain waves, ... Continue reading

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Biology

Proteins Function Through Their Conformation

To produce proteins, cellular structures called ribosomes join together long chains of subunits. A set of 20 different subunits, called amino acids, can be arranged in any order to form a polypeptide ... Continue reading

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Chemistry

Chemical Burning

Chemical burns are the result of very normal reactions that can occur between the offending material and living tissue components. People generally tend to regard their bodies as things outside of the ... Continue reading

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Lunar Explorations

LunarExplorationsEver since the beginning of intelligent life on Earth, the moon has been a focal point of human curiosity. Galileo’s discovery in 1610 that the moon had craters, valleys and mountains, instead of the smooth surface previously believed, only added to a burning desire to learn more.

So when exactly did our up-close-and-personal explorations begin? It was in 1959 that the Russians started sending their Luna probes to the moon. The first man-made object to land (actually, crash) on the moon was Luna-2. That same year Luna-3 sent the first images of the far side of the moon – the side hidden from the Earth for more than 4.5 billion years. The USA caught up with the Russians in 1969 when the first manned mission, Apollo 11, landed on July 20. 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,' Neil Armstrong proclaimed as he stepped onto the lunar surface. (He was supposed to say 'one small step for a man,' but he misspoke under the pressure of that historical moment.) Since that day, five more manned Apollo missions have landed on the moon. The last one, Apollo 17, left the moon on December 14, 1972, and no humans have returned since. All together only ten humans, none of them women, have walked on the surface of the moon.