Word: carbonization
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...Wilmut and his colleagues managed to create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology as unsettling as it was startling. Unlike offspring produced in the usual fashion, Dolly does not merely take after her biological mother. She is a carbon copy, a laboratory counterfeit so exact that she is in essence her mother's identical twin...
...magma rises in a volcano, light molecules like carbon dioxide bleed off more than heavier gases like sulfur dioxide. The higher the CO[2] levels, the likelier an eruption. If magma gets stuck in the gullet of the mountain, SO[2] predominates. The more SO[2], the more stagnant the magma and the less probable an eruption. The problem is that taking accurate measurements may require climbing almost directly into a volcano--a decidedly dangerous proposition...
...fork back and forth throughout the meal and uses whichever hand is free to gesture or scribble notes. "All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion," he explains. "We can someday replicate that on a machine." Earthly life is carbon based, he notes, and computers are silicon based, but that is not a major distinction. "Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system." The notion, he admits, is a bit frightening, but he jokes that it would also...
...good thing about a two-game series is that there is another chance for a win the next night. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the second game was merely a carbon copy of the night before--except this time it was even uglier...
Though you may think that going to chem lecture is a waste because if you sit in the back, the professor looks as small as the carbon dioxide molecule he is talking about, the jokes are as stale as a Store-24 ham sandwich and the verbatim transcript of the lecture is in your chemistry book (pp. 325-346), lecture is an invaluable way to add to your understanding of the material--by trading problem sets with classmates. You can repeat this formula with biology and mathematics...