| Description |
xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Crazy creatures. Squeezy little bears ; Can we stomach the bugs bugging our stomachs? ; Protein, edit thyself! ; Magic bullets from the desert ; Asparagine and old lace ; Better reasons to kiss a frog ; Health warning: your body may be unstable ; All together now ; So where is most of the Universe? ; Y oh Y! ; DNA toys ; Resurrecting a billion year old protein ; Don't stop me now ; Cell jet printers ; A frizzled inhairitance ; How to eat without a stomach ; Astronomy helps spotting whale sharks ; Talk to your proteins ; Ancient stowaway in our eyes ; Deciphering the secrets of the Neanderthals ; Eat isotopes and live longer ; Virulence from the deep sea -- Sexy science. Feel the heat ; Mum's and Dad's ; Gold clusters shine brightly ; The green spark ; Read my lips ; You taste so sweet ; 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 ; The birds, the bees and the platypuses ; Our hairy cousins ; Cupid's chemistry ; Colombia after Columbus ; Cheers to the wine genome -- Cool technology. Life on the rocks ; Colors of the quantum ; Crystals made to measure ; The incredible nanoplotter ; Silencing the cacophony ; From e-ink to e-paper ; Spinning lessons ; Traffic-light proteins ; A cool receptor ; Replicators lose their inhibitions ; Biotronics: a collision of continents ; The one-atom quantum computer ; Twist and twirl ; Multi-purpose DNA ; Marveling at diatoms ; Nature's warning signs ; All on one chip ; Platinum stories ; Nanowires plugged into nerve cells ; Towards the perfect biosensor ; Hairy ball theorem untangles chemical problem ; A liquid mirror for the moon. |
| Subject |
Science -- Miscellanea.
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Science -- Miscellanea. |
| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| ISBN |
9783527322879 hardback |
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3527322876 hardback |
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