The 22-year-old can eke out a few fractions of an advantage when making a run, a pass or getting a shot away.
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Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
19 Dec. 2024
Subsidence is when the ground beneath a building sinks, pulling a building's foundations down with it, and researchers are able to measure it by fractions of an inch when looking at satellite imagery.
By analyzing fossil molecules in sediments deposited around 65 to 66 million years ago in the interior of the North American continent, the scientific team reconstructed air temperatures for the entire time period.
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David Bressan,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
The structure of these molecules changes depending on the temperature of the environment the bacteria once lived in.
The number of ads displayed has grown, the way Google ranks content is constantly changing to provide a better user experience, and rich snippets of text from websites began appearing in result pages several years ago.
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Nick Brown,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
After all, who needs a spike in real-time viewership when millions will watch it in snippets anyway?
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Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2025
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