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Next, the researchers plan to closely examine how St6galnac1 affects Paraprevotella in rats and what chain reactions this relationship triggers in the gut and throughout the body.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
The victory of Haiti’s enslaved people over France won independence for that nation in 1804, setting a series of chain reactions in motion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Scientists call it “tickling the dragon’s tail,” Custer said, because the experiment approaches but stays below the stage at which the fission of nuclear materials sustains an ongoing series of chain reactions.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
This book covers people and events from early 20th century discoveries leading to the creation of nuclear chain reactions, through the Manhattan Project and the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
If Arp is right, the exotic mechanisms proposed to explain the energy source of distant quasars—supernova chain reactions, supermassive black holes and the like—would prove unnecessary.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
