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Social agents of all kinds are often using fearmongering as a tactic in the competition for attention, as illustrated by the examples below. [3] [5] Fearmongering can have strong psychological effects, which may be intended or unintended. One hypothesized effect is mean world syndrome in which people perceive the world as more dangerous than it ...
If, for example, the Sun were replaced by a black hole of equal mass, the orbits of the planets would be essentially unaffected. A stellar mass black hole can pull in a substantial inflow of surrounding matter, but only if the star from which it formed was already doing so. [10]
Christian Science is generally considered a Christian new religious movement; however, some have called it "pseudoscience" because its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, used "science" in its name, and because of its former stance against medical science. Also, "Eddy used the term Metaphysical science to distinguish her system both from materialistic ...
The book was expanded from an article first published in the Antioch Review in 1950, [7] and in the preface to the first edition, Gardner thanks the Review for allowing him to develop the article as the starting point of his book. [8] Not all material in the article is carried over to the book. For example, in the article, Gardner writes:
In molecular biology, an inducer is a molecule that regulates gene expression. [1] An inducer functions in two ways; namely: By disabling repressors.The gene is expressed because an inducer binds to the repressor.
1555 13088 Ensembl ENSG00000197408 ENSMUSG00000030483 UniProt P20813 P12791 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000767 NM_009999 RefSeq (protein) NP_000758 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 19: 40.99 – 41.02 Mb Chr 7: 25.6 – 25.63 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Cytochrome P450 2B6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CYP2B6 gene. CYP2B6 is a member of the cytochrome P450 group of ...
Misconceptions (a.k.a. alternative conceptions, alternative frameworks, etc.) are a key issue from constructivism in science education, a major theoretical perspective informing science teaching. [1] A scientific misconception is a false or incorrect understanding of a scientific concept or principle, often resulting from oversimplifications ...
Eberhard effect (science of photography) Edge effect (ecological succession) (ecology) Edison effect (atomic physics) (electricity) (Thomas Edison) (vacuum tubes) Efimov effect (physics) Einstein effect (disambiguation), several different effects in physics; Einstein–de Haas effect (science) Electro-optic effect (nonlinear optics)