Word: growingly
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...confronted motherhood pangs, loneliness (her boyfriend, Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale, lives in London) and turning 30. When she emerged from the fog, two things were clear. The hyperactive ball of energy that sang Just a Girl was now, she says, "like, a woman." Also, No Doubt needed to grow up. "I think we all knew it," says Dumont. "We got together and decided that rather than repeat Tragic Kingdom, we should have a goal--to improve as songwriters. To stretch...
...part of the universe (characters on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine use wormholes the way New Yorkers use subways). But according to an idea proposed in the 1980s by Stephen Hawking, it could also lead out of our cosmos altogether, creating a "baby universe" that would then expand and grow, forming its own self-contained branch of space-time...
...gravitational force is strong enough to bring expansion to a halt, the universe is destined to collapse, ultimately dissolving into a fireball--a Big Crunch that amounts to the Big Bang run in reverse. If it's not, and expansion wins out, then the universe will eventually grow unpleasantly dark and cold. Stars produce energy by fusing light atomic nuclei, mainly hydrogen and helium, into heavier ones. When the hydrogen and helium run low, old stars will sputter out without any new ones to take their place, and the universe will gradually fade to black. Such were the gloomy alternatives...
This creates an additional conundrum. Because a polluted cloud does not rain itself out, notes University of Colorado atmospheric scientist Brian Toon, it tends to grow larger and last longer, providing a shiny white surface that bounces sunlight out to space. Indeed, one reason the earth has not yet warmed up as much as many anticipated may be due to the tug-of-war between industrial aerosols like sulfuric acid (which reflect heat) and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (which trap it). Ironically, then, the cost of reducing one kind of pollution may come at the price of intensifying...
When objects grow cooler, what is actually, if invisibly, happening is that their atoms are moving slower. At a certain point--about -460[degrees]F--the motion of all matter would stop. Such utter atomic stillness is not possible, since the colder atoms become, the more they draw warmth from anything in the vicinity--often from one another. In 1995, however, a team led by physicists Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado at Boulder used lasers and evaporation to achieve something known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, a supercold gas in which atoms overlap and begin...