The Birds, the Bees and the Platypuses

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Crazy, Sexy and Cool Stories from Science, Erlebnis Wissenschaft

ISBN: 3527322876
ISBN 13: 9783527322879
Autor: Gross, Michael
Verlag: Wiley-VCH GmbH
Umfang: XI, 248 S., 26 s/w Illustr., 26 Illustr.
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Format: 2.5 x 22 x 14.5
Gewicht: 454 g
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

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InhaltsangabeCRAZY - WEIRD AND WONDERFUL TALES FROM NATURE AND SCIENCE Tardigrades can take the pressure Magic bullets from the desert Asparagine and old lace Peptides shielding our skin Health warning: your body may be unstable All together now So where is most of the universe? Cell jet printers A frizzled inhairitance How to eat without a stomach Astronomy helps spotting whalesharks Talk to your protein Ancient protein survives in our eyes SEXY OFFIAL: PEOPLE ARE THE WEIRDEST CREATURES ON THIS PLANET: SORRY, PLATYPUS Read my lips A matter of taste Let your love glow Jacobson's molecules The science of the Simpsons Elusive treasures Eggs and sperms and rock n' roll A Cuban success story Cupid chemistry COOL WELL, HUMANS MAY BE WEIRD, BUT THEY DID DEVELOP SOME COOL TECHNOLOGY Crystallographic antibodies Dippen lithography Trafficlight proteins A cool receptor Biotronics: a collision of continents The oneatom quantum computer Twist and twirl Multipurpose DNA Diatoms Nature's warning signs All on one chip Platinum stories Nanowires plugged into nerve cells Aptamer sensors Hairy ball theorem untangles chemical problem

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CRAZY - WEIRD AND WONDERFUL TALES FROM NATURE AND SCIENCE Tardigrades can take the pressure Magic bullets from the desert Asparagine and old lace Peptides shielding our skin Health warning: your body may be unstable All together now So where is most of the universe? Cell jet printers A frizzled inhairitance How to eat without a stomach Astronomy helps spotting whalesharks Talk to your protein Ancient protein survives in our eyes SEXY - OFFIAL: PEOPLE ARE THE WEIRDEST CREATURES ON THIS PLANET: SORRY, PLATYPUS Read my lips A matter of taste Let your love glow Jacobson''s molecules The science of the Simpsons Elusive treasures Eggs and sperms and rock n'' roll A Cuban success story Cupid chemistry COOL - WELL, HUMANS MAY BE WEIRD, BUT THEY DID DEVELOP SOME COOL TECHNOLOGY Crystallographic antibodies Dip-pen lithography Traffic-light proteins A cool receptor Biotronics: a collision of continents The one-atom quantum computer Twist and twirl Multi-purpose DNA Diatoms Nature''s warning signs All on one chip Platinum stories Nanowires plugged into nerve cells Aptamer sensors Hairy ball theorem untangles chemical problem

Autorenporträt

Michael Gross, born in 1963, began studing chemical engineering in Karlsruhe, but moved to chemistry at the univeristies of Marburg and Regensburg. After his Ph.D. in physical biochemistry he worked seven years at the Oxford Centre for Molecular Science in the field of protein folding, including studies of Alzheimers and Parkinsons diseases. Since 1993 he started with science journalism and wrote many popular science books (Life on the Edge, Travels to the Nanoworld, Light and Life, Astrobiology), some of them in German and English language. He is now writer in science at the Birkbeck College, London, and a regular contributor to several prestigeous journals and magazins like Chemistry World, Current Biology, Chemistry and Industry, The Independent, Nature, New Scientist, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Süddeutsche Zeitung and many more.

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