understand
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena wanted to understand how these chemical defenses move through the forest food web.
From Science Daily
The researchers are now trying to understand how tendon vibration changes the brain's interpretation of effort.
From Science Daily
"Without this, it's impossible to understand the impacts and costs of delayed discharges and whether the initiatives across Scotland are improving lives, services and delivering value for money."
From BBC
He faced court earlier this week - where he is understood to have requested voluntary removal from Australia - with the case adjourned until February.
From BBC
"Studying transport under such perfectly controlled conditions could open new ways to understand how resistance emerges, or disappears, at the quantum level."
From Science Daily
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