The book discusses the beginnings of the process from cosmological observations and calculations, considers the broad features ...
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Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there ...
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A masterly survey of the last 13 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry, reviewed in light of the most advanced astronomical ...
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The STEREO mission uses twin heliospheric orbiters to track solar disturbances from their initiation to 1 AU. This book ...
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Although best known for its role in heart disease, the sarcomere--the fundamental unit of muscle contraction--is also involved ...
Continue readingTreats the broad range of acoustics from the basics of wave propagation in solids and fluids to applications such as noise ...
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Phototherapy exemplifies scientific medicine. The major advances have resulted from effective collaborations between basic ...
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In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so ...
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The present volume is a collection of reviews, essays and personal reminiscences on Occhialini's scientific life and work. ...
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How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical ...
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The recent cloning and identification of a large number of serotonin (5-HT) receptors-a major family of therapeutic targets-holds ...
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Specifically traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and ...
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This book describes the state-of-the art instruments for measuring the solar irradiance from soft x-ray to the near infrared ...
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This volume is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the engineering of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a revolutionary ...
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This collection of papers -- starting with a brilliant article by one of the masters of the field -- gives an excellent current ...
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This volume collects the edited tutorial lectures given at The Second International Summer School in High Energy Physics ...
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The random-walk technique, well known in physics, is also the basic model in finance, upon which are built, for example, ...
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This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting ...
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This volume provides a comprehensive look at the biology of plastids, the multifunctional biosynthetic factories that are ...
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker‘s "Aufbau der Physik", first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong ...
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