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Category Archives: Sciences
Brainstorm current trends for term paper research topics
Get a head start on your term paper by browsing websites and news outlets for current trends. To help you decide, here are some sources for research topics and some ideas for term paper subjects, for each field of study. …
Top recommended books for research papers by field of study
As you settle back into your course work after midterms, you should begin thinking of research topics for final term papers. Here are some suggestions for top recommended books in various college majors. Some are classic books in the field …
Computer science term papers: Tips and topics — release your inner nerd
You’re studying computer science because you like to code and create magic on the computer. But now you have to create a research project and write a term paper. Yikes! Bet you could use some tips on how to get …
Posted in College Success Tips, QTA Blog, Research Paper Help, Sciences, Student resources
Tagged computer science, nerd, term paper, tips
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Recent science articles describe new mammal species: the Olinguito
Scientists have named a new species of mammal, the first in South America in 35 years. Actually, the little olinguito, which looks like a raccoon or small bear, had been misidentified for hundreds of years, hiding among its well-known larger …
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Tagged mammal, Olinguito, science journal, undiscovered species
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Dinosaurs! An Alberta, Canada backhoe discovers what may be a duck-billed dinosaur fossil
You may not remember the names of all the dinosaurs the way you did when you were in grade school, and you may have missed some of the latest news in paleontology. But one man from Alberta, Canada didn’t miss …
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Tagged dinosaur fossils, Dinosaurs, Hadrosaur, National Geographic
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Astronomy articles celebrate Voyager spacecraft leaving the solar system
Recent science journal articles celebrate the achievements of the Voyager spacecraft. In 1977, NASA launched two Voyager spacecrafts, 1 and 2, each the size of a small car, to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and their moons. Then the craft …
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Tagged astronomy, science news, science topics, solar sytem, Voyager
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An 1817 earthquake in the Bermuda Triangle caused an East Coast tsunami
The Bermuda Triangle is well known as an urban legend haven: shipwrecks, ghosts, and strange disappearances populate stories about the area. But in 1817, a real disaster occurred in the legendary location: an earthquake with an epicenter in the Bermuda …
Move over, Mauna Loa Volcano: Earth’s largest volcano discovered and other volcano facts
For more than a century – since its first documented eruption in 1843 – Mauna Loa Volcano in the Hawaiian Islands has been considered Earth’s largest volcano. But although Mauna Loa makes up half of the big island of Hawai’i …
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Tagged earth science, geography, geology, Hawaiian islands, Mauna Loa, science, Volcano facts
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Hackers target New York Times and China — Will cyber attacks increase?
The last month has not been good for the Internet, with the websites of several major news organizations, including CNN, being hacked as well as most recently the sites of the New York Times and Twitter. But what is bad …
Diana Nyad from Cuba to Florida: Breaking open water swimming world records at 64
By the age of ten, Diana Nyad had a dream: swimming the 100 miles of open water from Cuba to Florida. She didn’t care if it would break open water swimming world records – she was interested in the destination. …