The Wave of the Future With 70 percent of the earth’s surface covered by water, it is certainly feasible that flowing water should be a good source of alternative energy. Energy can be produced by strategically locating turbine engines in…
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Prions are infectious proteins thought to cause disease as viruses do, though they lack the DNA or RNA that forms the command structure of a virus. Prions have been implicated in scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy…
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It is human nature to try to control the natural world. Even before history was written, people have tried to control forces of nature, such as rivers. The practice of straightening rivers became popular for some time, but now people…
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A flash flood warning is given by the National Weather Service when flash flood conditions are being observed or are likely to occur. A flash flood is the rapid pooling of water, usually in areas such as basins, dry rivers…
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For one to understand the effects of El Nino (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) on the global weather, one has to know what it means in the first place. El Nino a.k.a. ENSO is defined as the following: a quasi-periodic climate pattern…
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Vascular tissue is a complex type of tissue found in plants, which allows nutrients and water to be transported throughout the plant via two main transporting tissues – the phloem and the xylem. This conduction of water and nutrients enables…
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Amino acids are a very important class of chemical compounds that are 20 in number. Each amino acid is composed of a carboxyl group and an amino group in which both are attached to a CH group. The difference between…
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Why Starry Nights spark Philosophical conversation has been a question that has been debatable since the beginning of time. No one can say for certain how or why philosophical conversations are so varied; yet everyone has had an opinion at…
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The ocean is often viewed as being constantly teeming with life. But in reality, most of the ocean is a vast wilderness of blue, with nothing below but thousands of feet of water. It takes a well adapted organism to…
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Novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote “The Sun Also Rises,” and like everywhere on Earth, it also rose in the tiny fishing town of Ilulissat, Greenland on January 11, 2011. Except the sun wasn’t supposed to rise there until January 13th; it…
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