January 10, 2015 Earth Science
Molds are a type of fungi that are a constant and natural part of the environment. The tiny spores that are the method of reproduction travel easily through the air until they land in a moist and relatively draft free…
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January 10, 2015 Earth Science
Invasive species are of increasing concern now, as global trade, global human migration and a taste for both exotic foods and pets has gotten out of control. The term “Invasive or alien species” covers all life forms, including animals, plants, zoonotic or other pathogens…
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January 9, 2015 Medical Science
In our society, human cloning is a stepping stone to defining the ethical boundaries of science. The heart of this controversy has little to do with the technology behind cloning, or cloning itself. It is scientific fact that the cloning…
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Humans sit at the top of the food chain. Humans are overpopulated, voracious, wasteful, effective and globally transient in decimating species, habitats and links in the food chain at a rate that will eventually result in the death of hundreds of…
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Man has, through the centuries of his existence, always attempted to improve on Mother Nature, tampering with a system that has worked, fed and provided protection for animals and plant life for millions of years. While the addition of pesticides,…
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Many of us look back on the travails and the heroic efforts of our ancestors to journey to their new homes, the countries of our birth, with admiration; legitimately so. Nevertheless, ever since people first traveled the ocean waves, they…
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Metabolism, the totality of all the chemical reactions that occur in an organism, is a complex tapestry of chemical change woven together by the action of enzymes. In organisms, chemical reactions require an initial input of energy called the energy…
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Enzymes are organic catalysts which are protein in nature. They are found in all living things and produced in all living cells. As catalysts, they speed up or reduce the rate of chemical reactions in the body without being used…
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The first petroleum company was Seneca Oil founded in 1858 in Pennsylvania by George Bissell and Jonathan Eveleth. Originally it was called the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company with the objective of collecting oil from a spring at Titusville, Pennsylvania. They…
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There is no general agreement on the definition of an “oil plume”. Some scientists, the media and the public understand the term to mean a body of oil that is on, or under the surface of the water or is…
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