epub |eng | | Author:Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen

It seems obvious, because of our experience, that small things should bounce whereas big things splash. But why is this? At first glance, one might not expect there to be ...

epub |eng | | Author:Chris Bateman [Bateman, Chris]

4. Metaphors of Design Intelligent Design The wing of the swift resembles the wing of a fighter jet not by coincidence but because it is an effective shape for something ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:James N. Thompson, Jr. Jenna J. Hellack Gerald Braver & David S. Durica & James N. Thompson, Jr. & Jenna J. Hellack & Gerald Braver & David S. Durica [Thompson Hellack Braver and Durica]

III. Termination A. Three different codons can specify termination: UAA, UAG, and UGA. B. When one of these appears in the A site, a termination protein causes the release of ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-17 | Author:Zuk, Marlene [Zuk, Marlene]

(© Kim Warp/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com) On Cavemanforum.com, readers chime in: It’s actually also true than [sic] girls are more likely to settle for the less alpha-type guys, but if ...

epub |eng | | Author:Chris Stringer [Stringer, Chris]

Neanderthals used pigments too—these are of manganese dioxide from Pech-de-l’Azé in France. In support of that last viewpoint, there is arguably even stronger evidence of complex Neanderthal social behavior from ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Rebecca Stott [Stott, Rebecca]

By 1798, when he left for Egypt, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had been professor of vertebrates at the Jardin for five years. Like many serious young men who had been training for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott

Chapter 12 What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? One more defect and they could not have existed. —George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Hence we conceive of the ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:John Gribbin

7 Where Did the Chemical Elements Come from? Although Alfred Russel Wallace, writing more than a hundred years ago, had no idea of the true extent and complexity of the ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:John Gribbin

MAKING PLANETS Armed with this understanding of the geography of the Solar System, we can begin to understand how the planets formed, and why the Solar System is special. Working ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Mara Hvistendahl [Hvistendahl, Mara]

They wedded in Nguyen’s village, and Cheng brought Nguyen back to his farm near Taiwan’s western coast, in the rolling hills outside Taichung. When they reached his driveway, she looked ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sam Parnia

CHAPTER 9 The Afterlife We Know FIREFIGHTER DON HERBERT WAS battling a raging fire inside a house in Buffalo, New York, on December 29, 1995, when the roof collapsed and ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen Shrewsbury

Chapter Seven The Big Ones: Common, Chronic Diseases Chronic and common diseases such as asthma, cancer and heart disease are scourges of modern life. Pharmacy shelves are filled with blockbuster ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer

Order vs. Information Self-organizational theorists face, in addition, a conceptual distinction that has cast doubt on the relevance of their theories to biological systems. Self-organizational theorists seek to explain the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Deacon W. [W., Deacon, Terrence]

This complementarity of morphodynamic processes can produce far more than merely the creation of a kind of molecular bottle. Their reciprocity produces a special kind of emergent stability, unavailable to ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Greg Bear [Bear, Greg]

10 ARIZONA Stella awoke to the sound of an over-under songfest between barracks. The wake-up bell had not yet rung. She rolled between the crisp white sheets of the top ...