… birds, mammals, and insects par take in a roundtrip journey to find a warmer climate, a better reproductive environment, and more food. Three species in particular that make this migration every year are the golden cheeked warbler, the whooping crane,…

… public, and, since I am known to most people who meet me as an enthusiast for space exploration and colonization as well, the question is put to me even more forcefully. Let us face this question head on. Firstly, there are several lessons to…

… the editorial that discussed the issue of doctor-assisted suicide, I have concluded that I strongly agree with the beliefs of Doctor Jack Kevorkian. Dr. Kevorkian believed in giving a suffering human being the freedom of choice, the freedom to play…

… is to discuss the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest. This discussion emphasizes the social and geographic background, the impact of deforestation on the Amazon’s people and resources, and the causes as well as some proposed solutions of…

… and an increasing number of customers begin to use the Internet for reasons other than searching, security becomes an extremely important issue. Customers demand satisfaction and security while transferring sensitive data, such as credit card…

… fever (Ebola HF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976. The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river…

… being within a certain physiological state. There are seven major factors that need to be homeostaticly maintained. They are: concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide, nutrition of cells, concentration of wastes, concentration of sugars,…

… set up in 2001 by New England Biolabs. The goals of OGL are to assemble a team of scientists dedicated to: The long-term preservation of marine organism DNA The development of tissue culture techniques for marine invertebrate cells The…

… is the master organizer of UNIX. The kernel schedules processes, allocates memory and disk storage, supervises the transmissions of data between the main storage and the peripheral devices, and honors the processes' requests for service. The traditional…

… by the announcement of Ian Wilmut and his colleagues. A press release stated that they had successfully cloned a sheep from a single cell of an adult sheep. Since then, cloning has become one of the most controversial and widely discussed topics.…