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(Sarah of the Clue Crew) This type of electricity can build up on an insulated object like a balloon

The X-Men know it's a change in a DNA molecule of a cell that's passed on to an offspring cell

First described by an English physician in 1817, this disease is marked by tremors of the hands

Spanning about 35 degrees in the southern sky, the Gum Nebula is a large remnant of one of these explosions

"From the Big Bang to Black Holes" is the subtitle of this landmark book by physicist Stephen Hawking

Early 1800s:Catastrophism says big events, like the one in Genesis 7, shaped the Earth & its life

1751:Axel Cronstedt discovers this -- the element, in a mineral, not the coin in his pants pocket

4th century B.C.:Aristotle writes, "It is agreed that there are...only two solids, the pyramid and" this geometric one

2001:Researchers produce pulses of this that last 650 billionths of a billionth of a second

1855:Matthew Maury publishes the first textbook of this science, "Physical Geography of the Sea"