Science & Technology Essays and Term Papers

the term or concept “biosphere”, and prior to the 1960’s minimal people knew the term “environment”. Beginning around the 1930’s, literature concerning this topic began to appear. Up until this time Americans thought of the natural world as being a…

hydrogen, and oxygen. It is used in the treatment of rheumatic fever, headaches, neuralgia, colds, and arthritis; reduce temperature and pain. The formula for aspirin is CH3CO2C6H4CO2H. Aspirin's scientific name is actylsalicylic acid (ASA). The…

survived the mass-extinction at the end of the Permian as swimming archosaurs. From those emerged bipedal archosaurs, among others two groups of bipedal herbivores, the short-necked ancestors of the ornitischian dinosaurs, and long-necked ancestors…

to reproduce human beings without sexual reproduction is no longer only an idea to be explored in sci-fi movies and books. After over forty years of research and development, human cloning is quickly becoming a reality. Cloning captured the public’s…

one might be tempted to see it as applicable to the world. Of abstract, as well as abstract scientific research in some ivy covered campus of some high tech partial accelerator laboratory, here were one may conjure up mad scientific blowing…

of Sir Isaac Newton’s laws everyday. In a car, pushing a car, or even in a fight. All of these laws have to do with motion. You can experience the first law in a stopping car, the second when you are a pushing a shopping cart, and the third one…

You get to make persons, as they want to be. You play to be god for some time, the people that had a plastic surgery is because they though that god made a mistake with them and they want to correct that. Being plastic surgeon has lots of risks,…

Nowell-Smith PART A: SUMMARY I would like to begin by defining the issue of the article by Patrick Nowell-Smith. The issue of his article is legalizing euthanasia and giving people a right to decide when and how to die. What is euthanasia and…

There were many people involved in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. Most of these people were fine scholars. It all started out with Copernicus and his book called On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. This…

their husbands are equally fervent about being fathers. Their dreams are not of just any child. They want a child or children of their flesh, a child with the father’s chin and mother’s knack for mental arithmetic. —Barbara Stewart, New York Times…