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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World is a 2014 non-fiction book by the British materials scientist Mark Miodownik. The book explores many of the common materials people encounter during their daily lives and seeks to explain the science behind them in an accessible manner. Miodownik devotes a chapter ...
It describes how mankind's discovery, usage and trade of sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, and quinine have influenced history to make the modern world. In the second edition of the book, Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind , he adds the coca plant to the list.
Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures is a 2020 non-fiction book on mycology by British biologist Merlin Sheldrake. His first book, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it was published by Random House on 12 May 2020.
Earthseed also teaches that it is humanity's destiny to inhabit other planets and spread the "seeds" of the Earth. [2] Parable of the Sower was the winner of multiple awards, including the 1994 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and has been adapted into an opera and a graphic novel.
The book covers many topics including the effects of scale on the shape of animals and plants, large ones necessarily being relatively thick in shape; the effects of surface tension in shaping soap films and similar structures such as cells; the logarithmic spiral as seen in mollusc shells and ruminant horns; the arrangement of leaves and other ...
The researchers used CT scans to study the internal arrangement of the seeds, tested the stiffness of plant parts and captured time-lapse videos in the days leading up to a seed launch to track ...
Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) ' all ' and σπέρμα (sperma) ' seed ') is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, [1] meteoroids, [2] asteroids, comets, [3] and planetoids, [4] as well as by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms, [5] [6] [7] known as directed ...
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