50 descubrimientos, ideas y conceptos en astronoma / 50 discoveries, ideas and concepts in astronomy

"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

El ADN biológico contenido en el esperma se forma mediante el proceso llamado gametogénesis. Consiste en diferentes fases después de las cuales se forman las células sexuales masculinas y femeninas. La estructura del ADN proporciona un mecanismo para la herencia. La conformación que adopta el ADN depende del nivel de hidratación, la secuencia del ADN, la cantidad y la dirección del super-enrollamiento, las modificaciones químicas de las bases, el tipo y la concentración de iones metálicos y la presencia de poliaminas en solución.

Charles Darwin stands as a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought in establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. These letters offer a fascinating window onto his daily experience, scientific observations, personal concerns and friendships, affording a unique glimpse of Darwin as both naturalist and family man. From his early years at Edinburgh University up to the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, the letters in this volume chart the most exciting years of Darwin's life, including the voyage of the Beagle and the subsequent...