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scientist [′sī·ən·tist]
(science and technology)
A person having the training, ability, and desire to seek new knowledge, new principles, and new materials in some field of science.


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The prediction is contained in a study published in the journal of Science by the scientits at the University of Arizona, US.
They report a straightforward relationship between elasticities of materials and the topographies of the wrinkles that form in them In their report, Cerda and Mahadevan focus on membranes, such as the skins of apples and people, in which a thin, pliant layer overlies thicker, stiffer tissue, Because the thin surface tends to bow smoothly when compressed whereas the stiffer substrate prefers to crinkle, the wrinkle pattern comes out somewhere in between, the scientits say.
Earth scientits have moved within one step of gaining a conviction in nature's grandest murder case: the mass extinction that closed the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
 
 
 
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