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  2. OpenSciEd - Wikipedia

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    OpenSciEd is an American nonprofit organization that creates open source science education materials and curricula for all grades, initially focusing on grades 6-8. [1] OpenSciEd's approach is based on a science storyline, where students build upon their understanding of a topic by asking questions and investigating their answers through ...

  3. The Inner Life of the Cell - Wikipedia

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    The Inner Life of the Cell is an 8.5-minute 3D computer graphics animation illustrating the molecular mechanisms that occur when a white blood cell in the blood vessels of the human body is activated by inflammation (Leukocyte extravasation).

  4. Ultraviolet - Wikipedia

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    The action spectrum shows that UVA does not cause immediate reaction, but rather UV begins to cause photokeratitis and skin redness (with lighter skinned individuals being more sensitive) at wavelengths starting near the beginning of the UVB band at 315 nm, and rapidly increasing to 300 nm. The skin and eyes are most sensitive to damage by UV ...

  5. Sun tanning - Wikipedia

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    Skin darkening from UVA exposure does not lead to significantly increased production of melanin or protection against sunburn. [9] In the second process, triggered primarily by UVB, there is an increase in production of melanin (melanogenesis), [ 10 ] which is the body's reaction to direct DNA photodamage (formation of pyrimidine dimers ) from ...

  6. Ion channel - Wikipedia

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    Ion channels are also classified according to their subcellular localization. The plasma membrane accounts for around 2% of the total membrane in the cell, whereas intracellular organelles contain 98% of the cell's membrane. The major intracellular compartments are endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and mitochondria. On the basis of ...

  7. What Happens to Your Body When You Drink a Glass of Wine ...

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    Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages worldwide, with people drinking it for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Especially in light of red wine’s place in the Mediterranean diet ...

  8. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    The four pigments in a bird's cone cells (in this example, estrildid finches) extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet. [1]Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye.

  9. Gasoline Linked to 150 Million Cases of Mental Health ...

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    A new study says that exhaust from gasoline containing lead may have contributed to ADHD, anxiety, and other mental health disorders in a large segment of the population