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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that General relativity affects satellite orbits.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The space race led to significant technological advances.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Climate change increases atmospheric humidity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Alfred Wegener proposed continental drift.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Apollo missions brought back moon rocks.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The theory of punctuated equilibrium claims that evolutionary change occurs through truly sudden, instantaneous events.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Creatine can improve strength, energy, muscle mass, and recovery times.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Linus Pauling developed the concept of electronegativity and created a scale to predict chemical bonding in 1932.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Some scientists hypothesize that a genetic mutation in the chikungunya virus may have increased its ability to replicate in mosquito cells and spread via the Asian tiger mosquito.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A chemical reaction is a process in which one or more substances are changed into one or more new substances.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The general chemical formula for alkynes is CnH2n - 2.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Chemical elements are represented by a one- or two-letter symbol.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Calcium and vitamin D supplementation may reduce the risk of colorectal neoplasms by acting on normal mucosa to prevent early-stage colorectal carcinogenesis.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The HTML cellpadding attribute controls the amount of space between the contents of a table cell and its borders.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Genetic drift can be magnified by natural or human-caused disasters that randomly kill a large portion of a population, a phenomenon known as the bottleneck effect.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Weight is the gravitational force acting on an object and varies depending on gravity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mass is the quantity of matter in an object and does not vary in classical physics.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A specific weather event occurring in a particular region is evidence of global climate change.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Smoking can raise the risk of cataracts and cause macular degeneration.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Electron affinity is defined as the energy change that occurs when a neutral atom gains an electron.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Subterranean environments often lead to the evolution of similar traits in different animals, such as atrophied eyes and a translucent body.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Thalidomide is a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A rate law for a chemical reaction expresses the mathematical relationship between the reaction rate and the concentrations of species in solution.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Potential fluctuations measured in an EEG are mainly generated by pyramidal neurons.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Antoine Lavoisier coined the name oxygen in 1777 and identified it as a chemical element.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Galvanic cells are electrochemical cells in which a spontaneous redox reaction takes place.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Chemical equations represent the relative numbers of reactants and products using coefficients, which can be interpreted as ratios.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) provides highly precise and accurate bulk chemical data using small amounts of sample.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to megaloblastic anemia, nerve degeneration, and irreversible neurological damage.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is a former Indian president and aerospace scientist.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Many genome-wide association studies have shown that the influence of each single nucleotide polymorphism is small and that most reported genetic associations could be false positives.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Olfactory sensory neurons generate inward depolarizing receptor currents upon odorant binding that trigger action potentials.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Black hole singularities have infinite density according to general relativity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Cultural Revolution took place in China from 1966 to 1976 under Mao Zedong.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Wind turbines generate more energy over their lifetime than is used to build them.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Generative AI image models are trained on artists' artwork without permission.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that People with epilepsy have a higher risk of developing depression than the general population.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Siblings with the same biological parents can have different ABO blood types.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Human taste bud cells regenerate roughly every one to two weeks.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Burning natural gas emits carbon dioxide and leaked methane, both of which drive climate change.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Narcolepsy is associated with higher rates of depression than are found in the general population.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Human taste buds regenerate after being damaged or lost.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Identical twins can be born with different biological sexes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that NASA's Apollo 11 mission landed humans on the Moon in July 1969.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Rolling resistance of a tyre is caused mainly by energy lost as the rubber deforms and recovers (hysteresis) where it meets the road.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Cassini spacecraft detected organic molecules and molecular hydrogen in plumes erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Trees reduce climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Penguins can live in warm climates, including near the equator in the Galapagos Islands.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii is biologically immortal.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that CHARGE syndrome is caused in most cases by mutations in the CHD7 gene.?
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