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Astronomy
Astronomy: The study of objects and processes in the observable universe, e.g. stars, planets, comets or asteroids. [e]
Solar system: Our sun, Sol and the astronomical objects, like Planet Earth, gravitationally bound to it [e]
Planet: A cosmic body orbiting a star. [e] -- Derek Harkness
Moon: a naturally-occurring satellite that is in orbit around a planet; the moon is the Earth's only satellite. [e] -- Derek Harkness
- History of Astronomy: Add brief definition or description -- Thomas Simmons
Universe: The summation of all particles and energy that exist and the space-time in which all events occur. [e]
Andromeda Galaxy: Nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, also known as Messier 31 [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Astrophysics: Hybrid of Physics and Astronomy that attempts to explain the physical workings of the celestial objects and phenomena. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Cosmology: A branch of astronomy and of metaphysics committed to the study of the universe as a whole, of the contents, structure, and evolution of the universe from the beginning of time to the future. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
- Earth: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Earth (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed. (also in Earth Sciences - please check CZ talk:Core Articles)
Interstellar matter: The gaseous and dust material between the stars. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Johannes Kepler: (1571-1630) German astronomer best known for his three laws of planetary motion. [e]
- Milky way: Add brief definition or description
Ptolemy: (2nd century AD) Egyptian astronomer and geographer whose main work, the Almagest, a compendium of contemporary astronomical knowledge, was in use into the 15th century. [e]
Star: A massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by gravity. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Telescope: Instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Astronomical Unit: Mean distance from the Earth to the Sun used to provide relative distances within the solar system; value is approx. 150 million kms. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Big Bang: A cosmological theory holding that the universe originated approximately 20 billion years ago from the violent explosion of a very small agglomeration of matter of extremely high density and temperature. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
- Black Hole: Add brief definition or description
Comet: A ball of gas and ice that hurtles in an elliptical orbit around the Sun. [e]
Dark matter: Theoretical matter that neither emits nor absorbs light and appears to interact with other matter only gravitationally. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
- HR Diagram: Add brief definition or description
IAU: Internationally recognized authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies (stars, planets, asteroids, etc), headquartered in Paris, France. [e]
Kepler's laws: Three mathematical laws were discovered by German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), and used by him to describe the motion of planets in the Solar System, and the motion of any two bodies orbiting each other. [e]
Neutron star: the remnant of a star that had sufficient mass to explode in a supernova, but not so much mass that it forms a black hole instead of a neutron star. [e]
Nicolaus Copernicus: (1473–1543) Astronomer, founder of the heliocentric system. [e]
Supernova: An astronomical object exploding to a brightness similar to that of an entire galaxy. Caused by a catastrophic explosion of either a white dwarf system or an aged star about five times the size of the sun, which occurs when the star collapses; a neutron star or a black hole may be formed as a result, or the explosion results in no remaining compact object. [e]
- William Herschel: Add brief definition or description
Mercury: The first planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman messenger of gods. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Jupiter: The fifth planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman god of the same name; largest planet in our solar system. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Uranus: The seventh planet from the Sun in our solar system; name after the Greek god of the sky. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Neptune: The eighth planet from the Sun in our solar system; named after the Roman god of the sea. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
Dwarf planet: A celestial object orbiting a sun that is massive enough to obtain a round shape but too small to clear its orbital path of other celestial bodies. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
- Pluto: Add brief definition or description
Asteroid: Small, rocky bodies that orbit the Sun but have no atmosphere. [e]
- Asteroid belt: Add brief definition or description
- Binary star: Add brief definition or description
- Celestial coordinates: Any of a number of reference systems designed to specify the positions of celestial objects. [e]
- Celestial mechanics: Study of the application of the laws of physics to the motions of planets, satellites, and other celestial objects. [e]
- Cepheid variable: Pulsating variable star which exhibits a relation between period of variation and absolute luminosity as a result of which they are good indicators of cosmic distances. [e]
Ceres (dwarf planet): The most massive body in the asteroid belt. Originally classified as a planet, it later became the number one asteroid; now a dwarf planet. [e]
- Cosmic microwave background: Add brief definition or description
- Cosmic rays: Add brief definition or description
Crab Nebula: Add brief definition or description
- Eros (asteroid): Add brief definition or description
- Flare star: Add brief definition or description
- Galilean satellites: Add brief definition or description
Globular cluster: Add brief definition or description
- H I region: Add brief definition or description
- H II region: Add brief definition or description
- Halley's comet: Add brief definition or description
- Hubble constant: Add brief definition or description
- Magellanic Clouds: Add brief definition or description
- Nebula: Add brief definition or description
- Nova: Add brief definition or description
Olber's paradox: Add brief definition or description
Open cluster: Add brief definition or description
- Orion nebula: Add brief definition or description
- 2006 definition of planet: Add brief definition or description
Kuiper belt: Add brief definition or description -- Thomas Simmons
- Extrasolar Planet: Add brief definition or description
- Scattered disc: Add brief definition or description
- Meteroid: Add brief definition or description
- Dust: Add brief definition or description
- Oort Cloud: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Baade: Add brief definition or description
- Friedrich Bessel: Add brief definition or description
Parsec: Add brief definition or description -- Anthony Argyriou
- Planetary nebula: Add brief definition or description
- Pleiades: Add brief definition or description
Precession: Add brief definition or description
- Proper motion: Add brief definition or description
- Pulsar: Add brief definition or description
- Quasar: Add brief definition or description
Redshift: Add brief definition or description
- Solar eclipse: Add brief definition or description
- Solar wind: Add brief definition or description
- Star formation: Add brief definition or description
- Stellar evolution: Add brief definition or description
- Stellar parallax: Add brief definition or description
- Stellar populations: Add brief definition or description
- Sunspots: Add brief definition or description
Tide: Add brief definition or description (also in Earth Sciences)
Variable star: Add brief definition or description
- White dwarf: Add brief definition or description
- Henrietta Leavitt: Add brief definition or description
Isaac Newton: Add brief definition or description
- Edward C. Pikering: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Norris Russell: Add brief definition or description
- Harlow Shapley: Add brief definition or description
- ESA: Add brief definition or description
- RAS: Add brief definition or description
- Palomar Observatory: Add brief definition or description
- Annie Jump Cannon: Add brief definition or description
- Alvan Clark: Add brief definition or description
- George Ellery Hale: Add brief definition or description
- Edwin Hubble: Add brief definition or description
Jacobus Kapteyn: Add brief definition or description
- Gerard Kuiper: Add brief definition or description
Spectroscopy: Add brief definition or description
Already-written core articles in this workgroup
Sun: Add brief definition or description
Constellation: Add brief definition or description
Tycho Brahe: Add brief definition or description
- Venus: Add brief definition or description
- Mars: Add brief definition or description
- Saturn: Add brief definition or description
Calendar: Add brief definition or description
- Galaxy: Add brief definition or description
Galileo Galilei: Add brief definition or description
NASA: Add brief definition or description
Biology
Biochemistry
Biochemistry: Add brief definition or description
Ion channel: Add brief definition or description
- Protein synthesis: Add brief definition or description
- Oxidative phosphorylation: Add brief definition or description
- Anaerobic respiration: Add brief definition or description
- Active site: Add brief definition or description
Adenosine triphosphate: Add brief definition or description
Antibody: Add brief definition or description
- ATP synthase: Add brief definition or description
- Carbohydrate: Add brief definition or description
- Chemiosmosis: Add brief definition or description
- Electron transport chain: Add brief definition or description
- Enzyme kinetics: Add brief definition or description
- Fat: Add brief definition or description
- Glycoprotein: Add brief definition or description
- Michaelis-Menten kinetics: Add brief definition or description
Monoclonal antibody: Add brief definition or description
- Myosin: Add brief definition or description
Peptide: Add brief definition or description
- Protein phosphorylation: Add brief definition or description
Polypeptide: Add brief definition or description
- Polysaccharide: Add brief definition or description
Protein folding: Add brief definition or description
Protein structure: Add brief definition or description
- Proteolysis: Add brief definition or description
- Receptor (biochemistry): Add brief definition or description
- Redox: Add brief definition or description
- Substrate (biology): Add brief definition or description
Vitamin: Add brief definition or description
Biography
Biography: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Hunt Morgan: Add brief definition or description
Gregor Mendel: Add brief definition or description
- Carolus Linnaeus: Add brief definition or description
- Lynn Margulis: Add brief definition or description
Louis Pasteur: Add brief definition or description
Botany
Botany: Add brief definition or description
- Xylem: Add brief definition or description
Photosynthesis: Add brief definition or description
- Ethylene: Add brief definition or description
Action spectrum: Add brief definition or description
- Auxin: Add brief definition or description
- Calvin cycle: Add brief definition or description
- Cellulose: Add brief definition or description
- Chlorophyll: Add brief definition or description
- Gibberellin: Add brief definition or description
- Gravitropism: Add brief definition or description
- Leaf: Add brief definition or description
- Phloem: Add brief definition or description
- Plasmolysis: Add brief definition or description
- Root: Add brief definition or description
- Seed: Add brief definition or description
- Starch: Add brief definition or description
- Stoma: Add brief definition or description
- Thylakoid: Add brief definition or description
Cell Biology
- Cell Biology: Add brief definition or description
- Phospholipid bilayer: Add brief definition or description
- Flagellum: Add brief definition or description
Cell nucleus: Add brief definition or description
Chloroplast: Add brief definition or description
Mitochondrion: Add brief definition or description -- Thomas Simmons
Actin: Add brief definition or description
Apoptosis: Add brief definition or description
- Biological membrane: Add brief definition or description
Cell division: Add brief definition or description
- Cell wall: Add brief definition or description
- Cytoplasm: Add brief definition or description
- Cytosol: Add brief definition or description
- Endoplasmic reticulum: Add brief definition or description
- Fluid mosaic model: Add brief definition or description
Golgi apparatus: Add brief definition or description
- Microtubules: Add brief definition or description
Organelle: Add brief definition or description
Phagocytosis: Add brief definition or description
- Pseudopod: Add brief definition or description
- Ribosome: Add brief definition or description
Signal transduction: Add brief definition or description
- Vacuole: Add brief definition or description
- Vesicle (biology): Add brief definition or description
Developmental Biology
- Developmental Biology: Add brief definition or description
Embryo: Add brief definition or description
Ecology
Ecology: Add brief definition or description
- Habitat (ecology): Add brief definition or description
- Chemoautotrophic: Add brief definition or description
- Parasitism: Add brief definition or description
- Carbon cycle: Add brief definition or description
Carnivore: Add brief definition or description
- Ecological niche: Add brief definition or description
- Fundamental niche: Add brief definition or description
- Growth curve: Add brief definition or description
- Herbivore: Add brief definition or description
- Hibernation: Add brief definition or description
- Insectivores: Add brief definition or description
- Invasive species: Add brief definition or description
Nitrogen cycle: Add brief definition or description
Population: Add brief definition or description
- Predation: Add brief definition or description
Symbiosis: Add brief definition or description
Thermocline: Add brief definition or description
Evolution
Evolution: Add brief definition or description
- Microevolution: Add brief definition or description
- Speciation: Add brief definition or description
- Phylogeny: Add brief definition or description
- Endosymbiosis: Add brief definition or description
Adaptation: Add brief definition or description
- Convergent evolution: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary tree: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic drift: Add brief definition or description
- Homology (biology): Add brief definition or description
Macroevolution: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular clock: Add brief definition or description
- Monophyletic: Add brief definition or description
- Muller's ratchet: Add brief definition or description
Genetics
Genetics: Add brief definition or description
- DNA: Add brief definition or description
Mitosis: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic code: Add brief definition or description
- Chromosome: Add brief definition or description
- Mendelian inheritance: Add brief definition or description
- Acquired characteristics: Add brief definition or description
- Adaptive radiation: Add brief definition or description
Allele: Add brief definition or description
Asexual reproduction: Add brief definition or description
- Autosome: Add brief definition or description
- Centromere: Add brief definition or description
- Chiasma: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatid: Add brief definition or description
- Chromatin: Add brief definition or description
- Codon: Add brief definition or description
- Diploid: Add brief definition or description
- Double helix: Add brief definition or description
Epigenetics: Add brief definition or description
- Exon: Add brief definition or description
- Gamete: Add brief definition or description
Gene duplication: Add brief definition or description
Gene: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic recombination: Add brief definition or description
Genome: Add brief definition or description
- Haploid: Add brief definition or description
- Heredity: Add brief definition or description
- Hermaphrodite: Add brief definition or description
- Heterochromatin: Add brief definition or description
- Heterozygote: Add brief definition or description
- Homozygote: Add brief definition or description
Intron: Add brief definition or description
- Locus (genetics): Add brief definition or description
- Lyon hypothesis: Add brief definition or description
- Meiosis: Add brief definition or description
- Metaphase: Add brief definition or description
- Mutagen: Add brief definition or description
- Oncogene: Add brief definition or description
Phenotype: Add brief definition or description
- Punnett square: Add brief definition or description
- Quantitative trait loci: Add brief definition or description
- Recombination: Add brief definition or description
- Sexual reproduction: Add brief definition or description
- Sister chromatid: Add brief definition or description
- Splicing (genetics): Add brief definition or description
- Telomere: Add brief definition or description
- Trait (biology): Add brief definition or description
- Wobble base pair: Add brief definition or description
- X chromosome: Add brief definition or description
- Y chromosome: Add brief definition or description
Molecular Biology
- 'Molecular Biology: Add brief definition or description
Human Genome Project: Add brief definition or description
Polymerase chain reaction: Add brief definition or description -- Thomas Berkhout
- Transcription (genetics): Add brief definition or description
Antibiotic resistance: Add brief definition or description
- DNA replication: Add brief definition or description
Electrophoresis: Add brief definition or description
- Enhancer: Add brief definition or description
- Homeobox: Add brief definition or description
- Lac repressor: Add brief definition or description
- Microarray: Add brief definition or description
Microsatellite: Add brief definition or description
- Non-coding RNA: Add brief definition or description
Nucleic acid: Add brief definition or description
Nucleotide: Add brief definition or description
- Okazaki fragment: Add brief definition or description
- Operon: Add brief definition or description
- Plasmid: Add brief definition or description
- Promoter: Add brief definition or description
Restriction enzyme: Add brief definition or description
RNA: Add brief definition or description
- Transcription factor: Add brief definition or description
- Transformation (genetics): Add brief definition or description
Organism
Organism: Add brief definition or description
- Archaebacteria: Add brief definition or description
- Cyanobacteria: Add brief definition or description
- Drosophila melanogaster: Add brief definition or description
Eukaryote: Add brief definition or description
Prokaryote: Add brief definition or description
Protist: Add brief definition or description
Physiology
Physiology: Add brief definition or description
- Homeostasis (Biology): Add brief definition or description
- Osmosis: Add brief definition or description
- Circadian rhythm: Add brief definition or description
Action potential: Add brief definition or description
- Active transport: Add brief definition or description
- Facilitated diffusion: Add brief definition or description
- Feedback inhibition: Add brief definition or description
Neuron: Add brief definition or description
Pregnancy: Add brief definition or description
- Reproduction: Add brief definition or description
- Senescence: Add brief definition or description
- Thermoregulation: Add brief definition or description
- Tropism: Add brief definition or description
- Visual perception: Add brief definition or description
Chemistry - Stage 4
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Earth sciences - Stage 6
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Mathematics - Stage 3
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Physics - Stage 3
Physics: Add brief definition or description
Electricity: Add brief definition or description
Electromagnetism: Add brief definition or description
String theory: Add brief definition or description
- General relativity: Add brief definition or description
- Mathematical physics: Add brief definition or description
- Statistical mechanics: Add brief definition or description
Classical mechanics: Add brief definition or description
Quantum mechanics: Add brief definition or description
Thermodynamics: Add brief definition or description
- Optics: Add brief definition or description
- Condensed matter physics: Add brief definition or description
Particle physics: Add brief definition or description
Astrophysics: Hybrid of Physics and Astronomy that attempts to explain the physical workings of the celestial objects and phenomena. [e] -- Thomas Simmons
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics: Add brief definition or description
- Nuclear physics: Add brief definition or description
- Materials physics: Add brief definition or description
- Computational physics: Add brief definition or description
- The standard model: Add brief definition or description
- Particle accelerators: Add brief definition or description
- Maxwell's equations: Add brief definition or description
Kinematics: Add brief definition or description
Rotational Kinematics: Add brief definition or description
- Huygen's principle: Add brief definition or description
Diffraction: Add brief definition or description
Doppler effect: Add brief definition or description
- Lagrangian mechanics: Add brief definition or description
- Coulomb Interaction: Add brief definition or description
- Waves: Add brief definition or description
- Standing waves: Add brief definition or description
- Simple harmonic motion: Add brief definition or description
- Relativistic quantum mechanics: Add brief definition or description
- Fluids: Add brief definition or description
- Ideal gas: Add brief definition or description
- Entropy: Add brief definition or description
- Perturbation theory: Add brief definition or description
Pressure: Add brief definition or description
- Strong force: Add brief definition or description
Weak force: Add brief definition or description
- Fermions: Add brief definition or description
- Bosons: Add brief definition or description
- Leptons: Add brief definition or description
- Hadrons: Add brief definition or description
Higgs boson: Add brief definition or description
- Dirac equation: Add brief definition or description
- Klein-Gordon equation: Add brief definition or description
- Čerenkov radiation: Add brief definition or description
- Refractive index: Add brief definition or description
- Ferromagnetism: Add brief definition or description
- Paramagnetism: Add brief definition or description
- Diamagnetism: Add brief definition or description
Superconductivity: Add brief definition or description
- Semiconductors: Add brief definition or description
- Lenz's law: Add brief definition or description
- Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction: Add brief definition or description
- Bernouilli's equation: Add brief definition or description
- Viscosity: Add brief definition or description
- Pascal's principle: Add brief definition or description
- Rutherford scattering: Add brief definition or description
- Quantum field theory: Add brief definition or description
Momentum: Add brief definition or description
- Angular momentum: Add brief definition or description
- Energy: Add brief definition or description
Force: Add brief definition or description
Mass: Add brief definition or description
Weight: Add brief definition or description
- Charge: Add brief definition or description
- Four vector: Add brief definition or description
- Photo-electric effect: Add brief definition or description
- Blackbody radiation: Add brief definition or description
Compton scattering: Add brief definition or description
- Supersymmetry: Add brief definition or description
- Electroweak unification: Add brief definition or description
- Grand unified theory: Add brief definition or description
- Quantum harmonic oscillator: Add brief definition or description
- Double beta decay: Add brief definition or description
- Large extra dimensions: Add brief definition or description
- Millikan oildrop experiment: Add brief definition or description
- Michelson-Morley experiment: Add brief definition or description
- Polarization: Add brief definition or description
Electromagnetic radiation: Add brief definition or description
- Archimede's principle: Add brief definition or description
Electric motor: Add brief definition or description
Power: Add brief definition or description
- Vector: Add brief definition or description
Scalar: Add brief definition or description
- Tensor: Add brief definition or description
- Potential energy: Add brief definition or description
- Electric potential: Add brief definition or description
Boltzmann's Constant: Add brief definition or description
- Permittivity: Add brief definition or description
Magnetic constant: Add brief definition or description