Admiral Fitzroy was a commander of the HMS Beagle, and he helped out in the Darwin Expedition. He was also a meteorologist at some time and used a barometer made from storm glass. By observing the liquid in the storm glass it was supposed to tell you what the weather would be like. I'm interested in this because I've always wanted to see if something like this could actually work, or if it's just a myth. If I were able to do this project I would need to get or make a storm glass, which would be a hard thing to do because you would need a lot of different chemicals. Another problem is the good storm glasses are all very expensive, and making one is very difficult and it takes time that I probably wouldn't have. Otherwise it sounds like a very exciting experiment because you get to see how the storm glass' predictions relate to the actual predictions made by the weather channel and other websites. .
Many people don't know that mushrooms are not plants. They are fungi, and they need different conditions to grow. Another project I'm interested in doing is the effect of different weather conditions (humidity) and amount of light on the growth of a Morel or Shiitake mushroom. This interests me because I want to see if changing the amount of light given to the mushroom could actually stunt its growth or increase it. The only issue with this is that I have never grown a mushroom before, so I wouldn't really know the first thing about doing so but I'll try. Also I don't know if I would need a greenhouse to keep my mushrooms in as they grew. The other problem is depending on if the experiment goes as planned the mushrooms could take up to four weeks to fully grow. However, I feel like it would be worth the wait to find out the perfect conditions that a mushroom can thrive in, so it makes it easier if I ever had to grow mushrooms again.
Spider web silk may seem very fragile but it is either the same or stronger than steel.
They performed an experiment that suggests how the Earth's atmosphere might have formed. ... This organic compound produced in this experiment was efficient in knowing how the Earth's early atmosphere formed. ... These experiments support another hypothesis that RNA, rather than DNA, functioned as life's first information storage system. ... Jean Baptiste de Lamarck had his own proposal of evolution. ...
The AWA does not cover "95 percent" of animals used in laboratories and "does not prohibit invasive procedures or the killing of the animals" when the experiments are over. ... However, such use is not scientifically sound, as animals cannot predict human response (Shanks) and "as the FDA reports, 86 percent of experimental drugs don't make it to clinical trials due to the different biology in nonhuman species," and out of the remaining drugs, "unintended side-effects were labeled on the warning because of adverse reactions in humans that the animals did...
The importance of proper protein localization for organism viability highlights the need for investigating this fundamental process in prokaryotic cell biology. ... Using an in vivo pulse-chase type of experiment, I will test whether stalk proteins are delivered directly to the stalk. ... I will thus perform a fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiment in which I will induce expression of mCherry-CC1398 for several hours, inhibit new protein synthesis with cyclohexamide (to eliminate the potentially confounding effect of protein synthesis at the stalk), photobleach the stal...
When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually established evolution's truth beyond reasonable doubt. ... In most of these experiments, researchers subjected organisms to various types of selection--for anatomical differences, mating behaviors, habitat preferences and other traits--and found that they had created populations of organisms that did not breed with outsiders. ... At ...
Extraterrestrial Intelligence Some people think extraterrestrial life is reality. Others think it is just a fictitious character in science fiction novels and movies for entertainment purposes. The search for extraterrestrial life has been going on for many decades. Numerous people have been involv...
Many see it as a primarily economic phenomenon, involving the increasing interaction, or integration, of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment and capital flows. However, one can also point to a rapid increase in cross-border social, cultural and technological exchange as part of the phenomenon of globalisation. The sociologist, Anthony Giddens, defines globalisation as a decoupling of space and time, emphasising that with instantaneous communications, knowledge and culture can be shared around the world simultaneously. A Dutch academic who maint...
