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three-point landing

3 point landing

NOUN: An airplane landing in which the two main wheels and the nose wheel, tail wheel, or tailskid all touch the ground simultaneously. Continue reading three-point landing

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Color television

Television tube

Baird was an early pioneer in this area, and one of the first techniques developed employed a system whereby the normal frame frequency was increased by a factor of three, each successive frame containing the material for one primary color. Continue reading Color television

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How small can a genome be and still remain functional?

Henry Gee investigates

 

Tuesday April 24, 2001 The Guardian

 

Once upon a time, many hundreds of millions of years ago, a few bacteria – a committee of microbes – got together to form the first eukaryote, the first cell with an organised nucleus.

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