An intrinsic property is one that depends on only the figure in question, and not its relation to a coordinate system or other external frame of reference. The fact that a rectangle has four equal ...

Don’t expect 120th birthdays to become the norm anytime soon. / Thanasis Zovoilis/GettyImages The idea of increased longevity has become a hot topic in recent decades, with some anti-aging ...

Standing tall, he turned around on the vertiginous slope and scanned the horizon of his favorite corner of Russia—the Putorana Plateau, a wild, uninhabited tableland the size of Nevada ...

In a distance-time graph, the gradient of the line is equal to the speed of the object. The greater the gradient (and the steeper the line) the faster the object is moving.

This geologic colossus—the highest and largest plateau on the planet, ringed by its tallest mountains—covers an area greater than western Europe, at an average altitude of more than two miles.

Survivorship curves actually describe the survivorship in a cohort: If cohorts are similar through time, they can be considered to describe the survivorship of a population. Because survivorship ...

You will then see a two-dimensional plotting surface where you can input equations and find out what their resultant graphs look like ... a striped or dotted line/curve. This can help you do ...

The figure shows the LoCoHD curves (top graphs) and structures (bottom panels) of His276 and Met197 in podocin, two strongly bimodal amino acids, measured from a molecular dynamics simulation.

More information: Guichun Wu et al, Triassic integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas, Science China Earth ...

This article was published in Rivet's winter issue. Click here to read more. Abercrombie & Fitch has undergone a significant ...

The event – commonly dubbed a yield curve inversion – was largely viewed as a signal the U.S. economy would likely slip into recession in the near future. An inverted yield curve occurs when ...