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• Aviation
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  Helicopter

  A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). Helicopters are classified as rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from conventional ... > more
• Energy Technology
  Electricity
  Sports Science
  Electronics
  Solar Energy
  Technology
   
  

  Transformer

  A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling with no moving parts. A transformer comprises two or more coupled windings, or a single ... > more
• Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Electricity
  Solar Energy
  Wind Energy
  Energy Technology
   
  

  Power station

  A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. At the centre of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy into ... > more
• Petroleum
  Fossil Fuels
  Sports Science
  Energy Policy
  Alternative Fuels
  Nature of Water
   
  

  Oil refinery

  An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into useful petroleum products. Raw oil or unprocessed ("crude") oil is not very useful in the form it comes in ... > more
• Weapons Technology
  Nuclear Energy
  Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Physics
  Environmental Science
   
  

  Effects of nuclear explosions

  A nuclear explosion occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. The driving reaction may be nuclear fission, nuclear fusion or a multistage cascading ... > more
• Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Sports Science
  Nuclear Energy
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
   
  

  Chernobyl disaster

  The Chernobyl disaster was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 at 01:23 a.m., consisting of an explosion at the plant and subsequent radioactive contamination of the ... > more
• Earth Science
  Geology
  Earthquakes
  Environmental Issues
  Climate
  Oceanography
   
  

  Earth science

  Many scientists are now starting to use an approach known as Earth system science which treats the entire Earth as a system in its own right, which evolves as a result of positive and negative ... > more
• Sports Science
  Transportation Science
  Vehicles
  Nature of Water
  Thermodynamics
  Chemistry
   
  

  Tire

  A tire or tyre is a device covering the circumference of a wheel. It is an essential part of most ground vehicles and is used to dampen the oscillations caused by irregularities in the road surface, ... > more
• Chemistry
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Organic Chemistry
  Biochemistry
  Physics
  Thermodynamics
   
  

  Chemistry

  Chemistry is the science that deals with the properties of organic and inorganic substances and their interactions with other organic and inorganic substances. In the study of matter, chemistry also ... > more
• Nanotechnology
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Nanorobotics

  Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometre (10-9 metres). More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the still largely theoretical ... > more

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