• "You can maintain a good geometry - the Earth and Sun are always in the same direction, " says Martin Hechler who has helped to design the mission path out to L2.

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  • The B-1B has a "variable-geometry" or swing-wing design: The wings are swept forwards, almost at right angles to the body, for take-off and landing and cruising.

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  • The adaptive dampers' response ranges from flinty to flintier, and stiffer springs, lightweight aluminum knuckles, and revised rear-end geometry give the XKR-S a bright, concussive ride that would pound commuters to dust.

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  • The existence of genetically identical siblings will have to be taken into account, but the new technology will make iris-scanning and hand-geometry systems seem quaint.

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  • Scientists like the concept because it would explain some important observations, not least the geometry of space - a superluminal expansion could have stretched everything until it was flat.

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  • The team's invisibility cloak exploits this effect, and relies on a specific geometry comprising two prism-shaped calcite crystals glued together, such that they leave a wedge-shaped gap beneath in which objects can be "cloaked" when illuminated with polarised light.

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  • Bhatia discovered that geometry matters to liver cells--they must be arranged just so.

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  • Geometry dictates that only two-, three-, four- and sixfold rotational symmetry can exist.

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  • Other bullet points for the 2014 Vanquish include an additional 55 horsepower (565 hp at 6, 750 rpm) and 37 pound-feet more torque (457 pound-feet at 5, 500 rpm) over the DBS. Aston's all-alloy 5.9-liter, mid-front-mounted V12 gets a sprucing up with variable timing on both intake and exhaust sides, as well as freer-breathing intake geometry.

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  • Of course, they're still in the starting stages at the moment -- a few outstanding issues include the amount of sunlight needed and if the geometry of the ISS window affects the image -- but NASA hopes to open up the ISERV to other scientists in a few months once it has all its kinks worked out.

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  • To make a diner rationally from the standpoint of geometry would have missed the all-important role of Googie architecture in the realm of psychology.

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  • A-level: chiefly geometry, vectors and calculus.

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  • Directing our eyes up the slope, we see the monastery complex's 12-story tumble of geometry come into focus: the Little Potala, as it is called, after the original in Lhasa, all stepped roofs and cantilevered walls, scaling the crag like a fairy-tale medieval fortress.

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  • He starts by building and painting the all-important frame, whose geometry determines that the seat, handlebars and pedals are in the correct position for each cyclist and the sort of riding they do.

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  • He also points out that, although British pupils are worse than their East Asian counterparts at arithmetic, they are better at higher-order mathematical skills such as geometry and handling data.

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  • According to Reviel Netz, a classicist at Stanford University who is working on the palimpsest, the original uncorrected diagrams suggest that Archimedes was more concerned with the mathematical arguments his geometry gave rise to than with the real-world behaviour of the objects he wrote about.

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  • But whatever the geometry, this should not be seen as a stop-gap multi-speed Europe, with leaders and laggards, pioneers and free-riders, the bold and the pusillanimous.

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  • Her cropped blonde hair and honey-toned skin offered a much-needed reprieve from the dress's stark geometry.

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  • One team, for instance, inserted the virus into a program running a Mandelbrot set, a complex, mathematics-based structure named after the father of fractal geometry.

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  • The entire GeForce GTX 400 series of consumer GPUs was designed from the ground up to deliver potent gaming performance with the top-of-the-line GTX 480 delivering up to 8x faster geometry tessellation, than the closest competitive product.

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  • There he met his mentor, the late Shiing-Shen Chern, regarded as one of the greatest geometry experts of the 20th century.

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  • In the rear, black-tinted glass and a shallow black band underline its horizontal geometry.

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  • Many batteries are made in a kind of "Swiss roll" geometry, in which the layers are rolled up into a cylindrical or round-edged rectangular shape.

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  • One reason is that the flat geometry of the hepatitis C protease protein made it is difficult target to hit with small-chemical drugs.

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  • The app examines the geometry of people's images and reassembles them so participants appear to inhabit the same 3-D space.

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  • They generally require the drillers to file a plan for royalty-sharing when the drilling permit is issued for a specific unit, based upon known geometry of hydrocarbon reservoirs and surface area.

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  • Vienna, Austria-based Markus Rose, editor of Rosecast is a financial astrologer who takes his cues from the geometry of heavenly bodies and uses a modified version of the 1947 Bradley model to call market turning points.

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