… you're planning a vacation later this year, better make sure it's not in Kansas. According to recent reports, the state's overall IQ has just taken a nosedive. What has caused this "giant step back into the nineteenth century" as one person called it?…

… yeast; its environmental niche has not been completely defined, although outbreaks of disease have been associated in particular with pigeon roosts and other large contaminated sites. There are two varieties of C neoformans, distinguished by antigenic…

… its Strong Adhesive Properties To better understand the adhesive properties of the gecko, scientists have discovered new data that explains how the gecko can attach itself to almost any surface. They specifically studied the Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko…

… his youth in Munich, where his family owned a small shop that manufactured electric machinery. He didn’t talk until the age of three, but even as a youth he showed a brilliant curiosity about nature and an ability to understand difficult mathematical…

… back to the most basic units of matter, atoms. Since atoms are extremely small, scientists have perplexed a great deal over finding a way to measure atomic mass. They struggled to find a universal container that had the capability to mass atoms.…

… and Lowry in 1923, an acid was defined as a proton donor and a base was defined as a proton acceptor. In the simple acid-base reaction shown below, H3O+ is termed a Bronsted Acid, and HO- a Bronsted Base. In writing organic reaction mechanisms,…

… and prediction 3 Diagram 4 Results for temperature and concentration on Tables 5 Graph for results for rate of reaction against temperature 6 Graph of results for rate of reaction against time 7 Graph for concentration results 8 Graph and table…

… a child that is the exact replica of you? Did you ever imagine of having the cure for heart disease or cancer? Well, these fantasies are not far from reach. The way we could reach these fantasies is through a process called cloning. Cloning is…

… always questioned the origins of their existence and the creation of the universe. "Where did it all come from?" "How was it created?" These are the questions that plagued ancient societies and are those which still puzzle scientists today. Cosmology,…

… atom, compound, molecule, and trace element. ELEMENT: a substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by chemical reactions. COMPOUND: a substance consisting of two or more elements combined in a fixed ratio. MOLECULE: two or more atoms…