50 cosas que hay que saber sobre física

The book begins with a historical introduction, "Star Formation: The Early History", that presents new material of interest for students and historians of science. This is followed by two long articles on "Pre-Main-Sequence Evolution of Stars and Young Clusters" and "Observations of Young Stellar Objects". These articles on the fascinating problem of star formation from interstellar matter give a thorough overview of present-day theories and observations. The articles contain material so far unpublished in the astronomical literature. The book addresses graduate students and can be used as a...

Amazing things go on in the woods: there are trees communicating with one another, trees lovingly caring for and looking after their offspring and their old and afflicted neighbours, trees with sensibilities, emotions, memory. Learn some fascinating stories about trees and enter a completely new world...

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

Sabemos desde hace mucho cómo ha transformado la humanidad la superficie terrestre, pero no somos del todo conscientes de la presión sin precedentes a que están siendo sometidos los océanos. Éstos han cambiado más en los últimos treinta años que en toda la historia anterior de la humanidad. En la mayoría de los lugares han perdido más del 75 por ciento de su megafauna y hoy ya se está pescando hasta a tres kilómetros de profundidad. Los océanos son las autopistas del mundo globalizado y el rugido de los motores puede oírse en todos los rincones, incluso bajo el hielo polar. Pero ...