Biological Sciences
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Jack Ballard

The physical traits of wild hoofed mammals are remarkably adapted to the habitats in which they live, including specialized abilities that help them escape predators. Pronghorn are exceptionally fleet of ...
( Category: Wildlife April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Hope Jahren

10 “WHERE THE HELL have you been?” Bill hollered at me when he came around the corner and saw me standing in the lab. I blinked at him numbly. “I’ve ...
( Category: Biology April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Dave Goulson [Goulson, Dave]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Bee Enemies A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders April 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-21 | Author:Paul Davies

The Sisyphus Effect The discovery that Earth and Moon endured a punishing cosmic barrage until 3.8 billion years ago presents us with a major puzzle. If the fossil record is ...
( Category: Biology April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Sarker, Dipak Kumar;

The nanoemulsion represents a huge growth area and adaptation of the coarse emulsion. A combination of multiple emulsifiers (Span, Tween, poloxamers, lipids) and an improvment in manufacturing equipment means 40–100 ...
( Category: Pharmacy April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Robert Trivers [Trivers, Robert]

RAMMY AND ME. Glenroy leaning against me at Alligator Pond near his shop. (Trivers File Photo.) What to Do When a Crocodile Comes Straight at You? Someone asked Glenroy what ...
( Category: Developmental Biology April 21,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-19 | Author:Frank Swain [Swain, Frank]

Leucotomy was a delicate surgery, restricted to well-equipped hospitals – those best situated to do something rather than nothing. And if things had stayed that way, the procedure might have ...
( Category: Experiments & Projects April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Achaya, K T

7 THE MUSLIM CONTRIBUTION From about 700 AD, and continuing for nearly 300 years, small Arab Muslim kingdoms existed in the province of Sind, which is now part of Pakistan. ...
( Category: History April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

Summation Once an action potential is initiated in a neuron, it will propagate to the end of the axon at a speed and magnitude of depolarization that do not vary ...
( Category: MCAT April 19,2016 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Nathanael Johnson

TURKEY VULTURE Josephine, breathless and wild-eyed, found me in the kitchen. “Papa! There’s an eagle!” “Do you mean a seagull?” “No, an e-gull!” She pointed outside. I wiped my hands ...
( Category: Ecology April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Dale, Jeremy W.; von Schantz, Malcolm; Plant, Nicholas

However, we have to remember that we are using a multi-copy vector. E. coli produces enough of the repressor protein to switch off the single copy of the promoter that ...
( Category: Bioinformatics April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:David Toomey

CHAPTER SEVEN Intelligent Weird Life SETI has been with us since 1959, the year that physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published a paper in the journal Nature outlining an ...
( Category: Biology April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miles Olson [Olson, Miles]

Easing into killing If you haven’t hunted before and want to ease yourself into the raw, carnal reality of it, I suggest starting small. Go fishing, if that’s possible, and ...
( Category: Game April 15,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Suzana Herculano-Houzel

It seems fitting that great apes, elephants, and probably cetaceans have similar numbers of neurons in the cerebral cortex, in the range of 3 to 9 billion: fewer than humans ...
( Category: Biology April 14,2016 )