Biology
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Jones [Jones, Richard]

Mason bee Osmia tricornis Mason wasp Odynerus antilope Modern cement mortar is quick setting, very tough and has high compressive strength, but traditional lime mortar is a more forgiving, porous ...
( Category: Entomology October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

So it was the Canaanites’ fault: they had it coming to them because God wanted their land for his pet tribe’s Lebensraum and the incumbents just refused to get up ...
( Category: Biology October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sy Montgomery [Montgomery, Sy]

When I return to the aquarium, I find the last fish have been evacuated from the GOT. Aquarium engineers pulled the plug on the 200,000-gallon tank at 10 a.m., October ...
( Category: Marine Life October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-13 | Author:Robert Arp;Barry Smith;Andrew D. Spear [Spear, Robert Arp;Barry Smith;Andrew D.]

Combination Object-Entities BFO makes no claim to the effect that objects, object aggregates, and fiat object parts provide an exhaustive classification of the types of material entity. Thus, for example, ...
( Category: Bioinformatics October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:Newberg, Andrew & Waldman, Mark Robert [Newberg, Andrew]

It brings us into the presence of God and thus fosters the contemplative attitudes of listening and receptivity. It is not contemplation in the strict sense, which in Catholic tradition ...
( Category: Biology October 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Don Lincoln

FIGURE 4.4. The mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (left) was huge, many hundreds of feet across, while the Aliens (right) were classic examples of the diminutive ...
( Category: Astronomy October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Natalie Kuldell, Rachel Bernstein, Karen Ingram, and Kathryn M. Hart

Figure 6-7. Unpacking the inverter. Details for two part-level designs. The stationary-phase promoter, osmY, is the first component of each device. In the banana-generating system it is directly upstream of ...
( Category: Molecular Biology August 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-17 | Author:Sebastian Seung

Figure 48. Gray versus white matter of the cerebrum The distinction between gray and white matter was known in antiquity, but their fundamental difference became clear only after the discovery ...
( Category: Neurology August 26,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

WORLDWIDE, FIFTEEN MILLION PEOPLE FISH COMMERCIALLY. THE MOST dangerous occupation, fishing kills workers at rates eighteen to thirty times higher than national averages of on-the-job deaths. The fish they land ...
( Category: Oceans & Seas August 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Carl Zimmer

The secret to parasitizing ants this way is creating illusions of smell. Ants depend mainly on smells to perceive the world, and they've evolved a complicated vocabulary of airborne chemicals ...
( Category: Biology August 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Stephen Macknik [Blakeslee, Sandra]

END OF SPOILER ALERT When our son Iago was two, Steve showed him a magic trick. Steve felt he had gotten pretty good at the trick and wanted to show ...
( Category: Neurology August 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Nessa Carey

Learning from the epigenetic cat Not just any old cats, but specifically tortoiseshell ones. You probably know how to recognise a classic tortoiseshell cat. It’s the one that’s a mixture ...
( Category: Cell Biology August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:V S Ramachandran [Ramachandran, V S]

RECALL THE SIMPLE bouba-kiki experiment. Could it hold the key to understanding how the first words evolved among a band of ancestral hominins in the African savanna between one and ...
( Category: Biology August 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Ramachandran, V. S. [Ramachandran, V. S.]

RECALL THE SIMPLE bouba-kiki experiment. Could it hold the key to understanding how the first words evolved among a band of ancestral hominins in the African savanna between one and ...
( Category: Biology August 4,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:David S. Goodsell [Goodsell, David S.]

These types of cell-to-cell connections are fine for small regions of tissue, but to build large structures like muscles and organs, stronger materials are needed. These structures are built outside ...
( Category: Cell Biology July 28,2015 )