Science & Math
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

CHAPTER 7 OUR MISERABLE FUTURE The future ain’t what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA In one sense it is both remarkable and exciting to find ourselves in a universe ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Greene, Brian [Greene, Brian]

Mysteries and Multiverses: Can a multiverse provide explanatory power of which we’d otherwise be deprived? No doubt you’ve noticed that even the most sanguine projections suggest that predictions emerging from ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-01 | Author:Sean Carroll

COLLAPSE OF THE WAVE FUNCTION The thing about this discussion that tends to rub people the wrong way—and with good reason—is the crucial role played by observation. When we observed ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Carl Sagan

CHAPTER 11 A PLANET NAMED GEORGE And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night … WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest, ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-09 | Author:Frank Close

Figure 6 Neutrinos produced in the decay of pions and moons. (a) A pion decays into a muon and a single neutrino. (b) When a muon (denoted it) decays into ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Isaac Asimov

HABITABILITY The mere fact that a planet is in the ecosphere does not mean that it is a suitable abode for life; that it is habitable, in other words. For ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Vladimir Rubtsov & Edward Ashpole

duration of the effect. The TSB had exploded in the lower atmo- sphere, at a height less than 10 km, where high-temperature plasma can exist only several minutes before it ...
( Category: Astronomy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

THERE’S ANOTHER REASON FOR the frenzy: A self-described “long-haired rock and roller” with a mailbox shaped like a rocket and a persona as subtle as a fireball. Robert Haag—The Meteorite ...
( Category: Comets, Meteors & Asteroids March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Dava Sobel

ANNA enters. ANNA. His clothes are dry. RHETICUS. (to COPERNICUS) Let me help you. ANNA. Everything’s ready. It’s time now. COPERNICUS. Thank you, Anna. You can just leave those here. ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Mary Roach

MISSION CONTROL: Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Frank, do you have any lotion remaining? BORMAN: Any lotion? MISSION CONTROL: Roger. BORMAN: We have some but we sure don’t need it, ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-02 | Author:David R. Montgomery

Figure 15. Map of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States showing the net depth of topsoil eroded from colonial times to i98o (modified from Meade i98z, 241, fig. ...
( Category: Soil Science March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Roby Jose Ciju

Steps Involved in Mushroom Growing There are SIX major steps are involved in the growing of mushrooms. These are, 1. Compost preparation 2. Pasteurization 3. Spawning 4. Casing 5. Pinning ...
( Category: Botany March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Marion Nestle

THE POLITICS OF RISKS AND BENEFITS When dealing with questions about the risks of genetically modified foods, industry leaders are fond of saying that nobody has died yet from eating ...
( Category: Food Science March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1986-08-12 | Author:Vicki Hearne; Donald Mccaig

One day a letter came from a British publisher asking him to do a book whose working title would be “Through the War” and whose purpose would be to once ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry March 25,2014 )