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Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history. With more than a million victims every year – more than any other disease, including malaria – and antibiotic resistance now fo……続きを見る

In this so called digital age, there are many people who have taken up writing as a hobby, and many more who would like to. The big stumbling block to the vast majority is how to get their work publ……続きを見る

Why is it that many people come down with the flu in winter months but flu is rare in the summer? Why then do new flu strains such as the recent swine flu epidemic affect people even in the summer m……続きを見る

"Nobody! is the Rube Goldberg of popular science!" Nobody at The New Yorker "A pie in the face of consciousness!" Nobody at Soupy Sales "Soupy Sales meets Mr. Wizard!" Nobody at Harry Potter's Pea S……続きを見る

Mr. Lynch brings to the fore some new theories on a variety of topics that have puzzled us for many years, while we stubbornly cling to some beliefs (as we did with the Flat Earth belief, even to th……続きを見る

A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his own cells……続きを見る

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A selection of choice articles from the Enhanced Editions blog. 続きを見る

Η γρήγορη εξέλιξη της τεχνολογίας δημιουργεί προϊόντα και υπηρεσίες που αλλάζουν τα παραδοσιακά δεδομένα για πολλές καταστάσεις της ανθρώπινης καθημερινότητας. Τα τεχνολογικά επιτεύγματα γρήγορα περ……続きを見る

A Return to Glory is a Photo Essay about the Restoration of the Western Mfg. Special. 続きを見る

This book gets to the heart of science by asking a fundamental question about its essence: what is the true nature of space and time? Both defy modern physics and scientists find themselves continua……続きを見る

As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined by getting papers into print, but by getting them into the reader's cons……続きを見る

Modern statistics is very different from the dry and dusty discipline of the popular imagination. In its place is an exciting subject which uses deep theory and powerful software tools to shed light……続きを見る

There is no doubt that Magento currently is one of the most powerful and fast-growing ecommerce platforms. Over the past few years, not only the number of websites using Magento, but also the number……続きを見る

As we contemplate the cosmos and our place in it one question crops up again and again, and has done for centuries: are we alone? So far there is no definitive evidence for an answer one way or the ……続きを見る

The pattern set nearly 70 years ago by Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism has had a dominant influence on almost every subsequent English and American text, persisting to the present da……続きを見る

Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all mem……続きを見る

This essay tells of an alternate form of chemotherapy. I.P.T.L.D., Insulin Potentiation Therapy Low Dose. By utilizing cancer's love of sugar it targets the cancer tumors using less chemo than today……続きを見る

This is a short discussion paper listing possible solutions to the question, "Why haven't alien civilizations contacted us?" It tosses up a range of possibilities, from the idea that there is no oth……続きを見る

The article-based thesis is becoming increasingly common, especially in the 'hard' sciences such as biology, medicine and technology, and is beginning to replace the traditional monograph. Format gu……続きを見る

Collected here are the best of 10 years' worth of essays from ideonexus.com celebrating astronomy, evolution, general science, and the human place in the cosmos. 続きを見る

An armchair cosmologist through the three decades of the golden age of astrophysics, I developed my own model little by little, but also with a lot of help from the alternative ideas brought to ligh……続きを見る

Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who ……続きを見る

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets ……続きを見る

A collection of reflections about information and digital literacy practice in schools, libraries, support agencies, and informal learning settings. 続きを見る

Die besten Erklärungen des Kult-Professores. Physik verstehen und dabei auch noch Spaß haben? Unmöglich? Generationen begeisterter Zuhörer beweisen das Gegenteil. Mit Wissenschaftsstar Walter Lewin ……続きを見る

This is a short creativity essay, using fictional dialog/setting. The topic is about how cell phones evolved. However, the purpose was to incorporated creative fictional dialog into a non-fiction es……続きを見る

Criticism about the neo-Victorian novel ー a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian world from present-day perspectives ー has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen yea……続きを見る

A Physics World Top Ten Book of 2010 Steven Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections that have also earned him a re……続きを見る

I've spent most of my working life working and studying the electrical trade from night schools, to four years at Staffordshire University; worked installing electrical supplies in shops and offices……続きを見る