Astronomy & Space Science
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-20 | Author:Habour, David [Habour, David]

Figure 22. The distance between the light source (which, remember, is at the C of C), and the point where the edge-rays focus is labeled “d”. The greatest radius of ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marcia Bartusiak

An image of 3C 273, the first identified quasar, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. (ESA/Hubble & NASA) 3C 273 is now considered relatively close to us, as quasars go. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 18,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Thomas R. Scott

WEATHER FORECASTING Few aspects of our natural world affect us as much as the weather, determining a range of future outcomes from whether you should plan to have a picnic ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 16,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-28 | Author:Lederman, Leon M. & Hill, Christopher T. [Lederman, Leon M.]

TIME REVERSAL INVARIANCE AND ANTIMATTER One of the most remarkable consequences of Einstein’s special theory of relativity is that, when combined with the quantum theory, it predicts the existence of ...
( Category: Physics September 16,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Richard Cohen [Cohen, Richard]

Augustine Mouchot’s solar-powered printing press at the Paris World Exhibition of 1878 A few years later, in 1900, an enterprising Bostonian, Aubrey Eneas, formed the first solar power company, and ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 15,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-01 | Author:Steve Rhodes [Rhodes, Steve]

The fact is that we won’t be living physically in the same world together. It is not that they will be taking away our Earth. They will have their own. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:John Logsdon & John Logsdon & Bill Nye

“Concluding Remarks by Dr. Wernher von Braun About Mode Selection for the Lunar Landing Program,” June 7, 1962 * * * *** Our general conclusion is that all four modes ...
( Category: Engineering September 13,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I better confess that while I do abhor war, yet there are worse things. Ah, my friends, far worse! A state of so-called peace, in which labor organizations are riddled, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Christopher Golden [Golden, Christopher]

The night sky caressed Blue Jay as he rode the wind higher. Dark as it was, the moon was bright enough that he could see his companions emerging from a ...
( Category: Fantasy September 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-10-31 | Author:Terence McKenna & Rupert Sheldrake & Ralph Abraham [McKenna, Terence]

Rupert: I’m only modeling vision, so far. Ralph: The visual part of the mental field may be a very thin slice of the morphogenetic field that is in very close ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality September 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-06 | Author:Peter Coles [Coles, Peter]

Turning back the clock The production of the microwave background during the epoch of recombination and the synthesis of the elements during the nuclear fireball are two major successes of ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:David C. Catling [Catling, David C.]

An inside view of terrestrial life: the cell We have just considered biology on a global scale but under the microscope all organisms are composed of cells of different types ...
( Category: Evolution September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:John Brockman [Brockman, John]

12 Science Is Not About Certainty Carlo Rovelli Theoretical physicist, Professeur de classe exceptionelle, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille; author, The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy INTRODUCTION by Lee ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Ben Bova [Bova, Ben]

THE GIANT PLANET Jupiter is indeed the giant of the solar system, 11 times wider and nearly 318 times more massive than Earth. Yet this enormous world spins so fast ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-23 | Author:Baggott, Jim;

LIFE’S BUILDING BLOCKS Despite the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth today, all life forms rely on broadly the same set of cellular structures and biochemical systems that are used ...
( Category: Evolution August 24,2018 )