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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
"Have you wondered why some 60-year olds look and feel like 40-year-olds and why some 40-year-olds look and feel like 60-year-olds? While many factors contribute to aging and illness, Nobel Prize-winning Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn discovered biological markers, called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, which protect our DNA. Dr. Blackburn discovered that the length and health of one's telomeres provides a biological basis for the long...
Publisher
Haworth Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Sex, cells, and same-sex desire : the biology of sexual preference describes, reviews, and questions recent biological research on sexual preference. Based on the point of view of knowledgeable scientists as well as scholars in the social sciences and humanities, these essays place the biological research within the emerging field of queer studies. The issues involved have a vibrant history, are wide-ranging, and remain the subject of much controversy....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? Plants make up 80 percent of the weight of all living things on earth, and yet it is easy to forget that these innocuous, beautiful organisms are responsible for not only the air we breathe, but for many of our modern comforts: our medicine, food, even our fossil fuels. Now, Stefano Mancuso, one of the world's foremost experts on plant neurobiology, reveals...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Why do we get hung over? What would happen if you stopped sleeping? Is binge-watching TV actually bad for you? Why should I take a power nap? Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown, the people behind the YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, explain the true science of how things work. Applying the illustrated format of their videos to topics ranging from brain freeze to hiccups to the science of the snooze button, AsapSCIENCE takes the underpinnings of biology, chemistry,...