A Century of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Century of Nature write by Laura Garwin. This book was released on 2010-03-15. A Century of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.
Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030
Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2019-04-21. Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and high-value agricultural commodities and foods. Today, the U.S. food and agricultural enterprise faces formidable challenges that will test its long-term sustainability, competitiveness, and resilience. On its current path, future productivity in the U.S. agricultural system is likely to come with trade-offs. The success of agriculture is tied to natural systems, and these systems are showing signs of stress, even more so with the change in climate. More than a third of the food produced is unconsumed, an unacceptable loss of food and nutrients at a time of heightened global food demand. Increased food animal production to meet greater demand will generate more greenhouse gas emissions and excess animal waste. The U.S. food supply is generally secure, but is not immune to the costly and deadly shocks of continuing outbreaks of food-borne illness or to the constant threat of pests and pathogens to crops, livestock, and poultry. U.S. farmers and producers are at the front lines and will need more tools to manage the pressures they face. Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of relatively new scientific developments across all disciplines that could accelerate progress toward these goals. It identifies the most promising scientific breakthroughs that could have the greatest positive impact on food and agriculture, and that are possible to achieve in the next decade (by 2030).
TIME 100 New Scientific Discoveries
TIME 100 New Scientific Discoveries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook TIME 100 New Scientific Discoveries write by The Editors of Time. This book was released on 2017-01-20. TIME 100 New Scientific Discoveries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the latest of TIME's extraordinary volumes on scientific discoveries, this special edition curates the 100 most impactful recent breakthroughs across 10 disciplines. Through sharp photos and TIME's peerless reporting, readers will explore the most captivating news and revelations in technology, botany, archaeology, genetics, zoology, the Earth, the mind, the cosmos, medicine and chemistry. Among the highlights:How to curb Alzheimer's disease with small lifestyle changesControversial findings about newfound human ancestors known as the HobbitsHigh-tech solutions to diabetes careThe gene-editng technique known as CRISPR, and the ethical questions behind itWhy the plight of the honeybee matters
Serendipity
Serendipity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serendipity write by Royston M. Roberts. This book was released on 1991-01-16. Serendipity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of the things discovered by accident are important in our everyday lives: Teflon, Velcro, nylon, x-rays, penicillin, safety glass, sugar substitutes, and polyethylene and other plastics. And we owe a debt to accident for some of our deepest scientific knowledge, including Newton's theory of gravitation, the Big Bang theory of Creation, and the discovery of DNA. Even the Rosetta Stone, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the ruins of Pompeii came to light through chance. This book tells the fascinating stories of these and other discoveries and reveals how the inquisitive human mind turns accident into discovery. Written for the layman, yet scientifically accurate, this illuminating collection of anecdotes portrays invention and discovery as quintessentially human acts, due in part to curiosity, perserverance, and luck.
First Contact
First Contact - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Contact write by Marc Kaufman. This book was released on 2012-03-13. First Contact available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kaufman details the incredible true story of science's search for the beginnings of life on Earth and the probability that it exists elsewhere in the universe.
