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C (pronounced /ˈsiː/ – like the letter c) is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains...

Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological...

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware...

The family Asteraceae (/ˌæstəˈreɪsiiː, -siaɪ/), with the original name Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1...

Sexual assault is an act in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person...

Human papillomavirus infection (HPV infection) is caused by a DNA virus from the Papillomaviridae family. Many HPV infections cause no symptoms and 90%...

A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity...

A feral cat or a stray cat is an unowned domestic cat (Felis catus) that lives outdoors and avoids human contact; it does not allow itself to be handled...

The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been criticized since its creation in 2001. Most of the criticism has been directed toward its content, community...

Geothermal power is electrical power generated from geothermal energy. Technologies in use include dry steam power stations, flash steam power stations...

A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission system uses direct current (DC) for electric power transmission, in contrast with the...

Efficient energy use, or energy efficiency, is the process of reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services. There are many technologies...

The COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the COVID-19...

COVID-19 drug development is the research process to develop preventative therapeutic prescription drugs that would alleviate the severity of coronavirus...

The COVID-19 pandemic in Peru has resulted in 4,524,748 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 220,831 deaths. The virus spread to Peru on 6 March 2020, when...

The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network serving Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations, and ensuring...

Breed broiler is any chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) that is bred and raised specifically for meat production. Most commercial broilers reach slaughter...

A haplotype is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent, and a haplogroup (haploid from the Greek: ἁπλοῦς, haploûs...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the UK Government introduced various public health and economic measures to mitigate its impact...

Citizendium (/ˌsɪtɪˈzɛndiəm/ SIT-i-ZEN-dee-əm; "the citizens' compendium of everything") is an English-language wiki-based free online encyclopedia launched...