… too little on protecting its forest and too much on destroying it. ‘Community groups are sweating to planting trees while government bulldozers are clearing them away’ (3) The rate of forest destruction to planting in Queensland is 10:1.…

… it is not actually a chemical. “Freon” is actually a trade name that describes an entire class of chemicals used in refrigeration. It is a trademark of E.I. DuPont and is actually known as a chlorofluorocarbon. The parent hydrocarbons are methane,…

… quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people’s homes and offices…

… scientific revolution was not only a challenge to a government but was also a challenge to a deeply rooted religion. The Church, having been influenced by Greek philosophers, viewed the world as a creation by God, complete with lawfulness, regularity…

… the 18th of February in 1564. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family and had gained some distinction as a musician and a mathematician. At an early age, Galileo manifested his ability to learn both mathematical and mechanical types…

… February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. Galileo was the first of seven children of Vincenzio Galilei, a trader and Giula Ammannati, an upper-class woman who married below her class. When Galileo was a young boy, his father moved the family moved to Florence…

… Jovian System and gain more close looks at the largest planet of our solar system. It was launched on October 18, 1989 onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, after being delayed due to the Columbia tragedy. And because of the delay its flight path was…

… by Mendeleev in 1871. He predicted that the then unknown element gallium should resemble aluminum in its properties. He suggested that the name ekaaluminium. He predicted that the element would have an atomic mass of 68, its formula would be Ea2O3,…

… (He) or molecular (co2).  No shape-expands to fill any container  Highly compressible (density function of applied pressure).  Form homogeneous mixtures.  Individual molecules far apart from each other. Pressure =…

… into cells for therapeutic purposes. Recent scientific breakthroughs in the genomics field and our understanding of the important role of genes in disease has made gene therapy one of the most rapidly advancing fields of biotechnology with great promise…