Computer modelling suggests that as ageing stars throw off their outer layers and lose mass to become a dwarf, they destabilise the environment around them.
So Mr Borlaug first bred wheat cultivars for rust-resistance, a ten-year task, and then crossed them with Norin, a dwarf Japanese variety, to produce a shorter, straighter, stronger wheat which, when properly charged with water and fertiliser, gave three times the yield.
But how is this different from requiring a dwarf to submit to a stretching rack?
Even a temporary closure would imply a disruption to dwarf any previous oil shock.
The pessimists argue that for all its construction boom (William Penn's statue, once setting a limit to any building's height, became a relative dwarf more than a decade ago), Philadelphia is still a laggard, slowed down by a history of outdated habits and infrastructure that does not apply to sunbelt cities such as Atlanta or Houston.
In Switzerland right now, a dollar that used to somewhat dwarf the Swiss franc no longer does.
FORBES: Swiss National Bank Cruelly Puts a Bull's Eye On Switzerland's Economy
Two of the planets (Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f) orbit a K2 dwarf estimated to be around 7 billion years old.
ENGADGET: NASA's Kepler discovers three potentially habitable planets
Based on models of galaxy formation, for years theorists have expected to find a lot more of these dwarf galaxies around our own Milky Way.
FORBES: Astronomers Confirm Milky Way's Most Distant Stellar Stream
By running repeated computer simulations, he has worked out what would happen if a red-dwarf star were to pass through the solar system.
Dr Kirkpatrick points out that the spectrum (and thus the chemical composition) of a methane dwarf is very similar to that of Jupiter.
"The Return of the King" turns out to be even more ambitious than its remarkable predecessor, "The Two Towers, " though it's obviously not as compact (another relative thing), what with dramatic convolutions within its several plot lines and a stupendous martial passage that manages to dwarf the battle of Helm's Deep.
Depending on its initial mass, it might collapse to a compact hot star known as a white dwarf (when the star's mass is less than 1.4 times the mass of our sun) or to a neutron star (for stars 1.4 to about three times the mass of our sun) or to a black hole (for stars more massive than three times the mass of our sun).
At least a dozen such dwarf galaxies are thought to have once surrounded our own Milky Way.
FORBES: Astronomers Confirm Milky Way's Most Distant Stellar Stream
What is it in our collective imagination (or lack thereof) that requires every dwarf to be heavily bearded and sporting a thick Scottish brogue?
In a world where private capital flows to poor countries dwarf official assistance, development banks should do what markets cannot or will not do.
Lining the steps up to a temple are scores of beggars: soldiers with legs lost to landmines, mothers with pot-bellied babies, a dwarf with misshapen limbs who could be ten or 30.
Now, with Greece acting like a Black Dwarf, pulling the other troubled countries towards the orbit marked bailout, bond investors are starting to contemplate a total disaster scenario.
The current flows of funds into bonds dwarf whatever led to the bubble in 2000 by a long shot.
The white dwarf is thought to have later blown up in a supernova after siphoning matter, or fuel, from a nearby star.
FORBES: NASA Reveals the Mysteries of the First Known Supernova
He loses his wisdom and eventually his kingdom when the dragon Smaug, a creature even more enslaved to the love of gold than the dwarf, takes it from him.
He notes it could be part of the Sagittarius stream, a remnant of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, long assumed to be one of the building blocks of our own Milky Way.
FORBES: Astronomers Confirm Milky Way's Most Distant Stellar Stream
If the new object were a captured alien, it could give astronomers their first good look at an extra-solar planet, or a brown dwarf if that is what it turns out to be.
The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first probe ever to visit the dwarf planet.
MSN: New Pluto moon hints at perilous journey for spacecraft
The probe, which launched in 2007, reached Vesta a few weeks ago, and will be spending about a year there before it departs on its three year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres, also located in the asteroid belt.
In one sketch, the dwarf Thorin, depicted in battle, wore a surreal helmet that appeared to be sprouting antlers.
She reached the Wimbledon semi-finals that year but has yet to win a regular tour event, and the photogenic Russian's off-court sponsorship deals dwarf the figure she has earned playing tennis.
While clawbacks are especially popular in larger Ponzi schemes where investor losses often dwarf available assets, a new tactic has emerged in several recent cases seeking to use criminal and civil usury laws to maximize clawback recoveries.
In coastal areas of the United States, offshore resources tend to dwarf the land-based wind component with the exception of California, Texas, Maine and a few other states.
FORBES: Turn Baby, Turn - Offshore Wind Power Poised for Major Growth in U.S.
Their goal was to measure distant Type 1a supernovae - the brilliant ends of a particular kind of dense star known as a white dwarf.
应用推荐