Gramáticas extraterrestres

"Experimentos de Ciencias" abre caminos para que los niños aprendan a partir de la acción. Los contenidos de esta obra abordan desde la relación entre el niño pequeño y la Ciencia, hasta cómo montar un rincón de Ciencias en el aula y cómo utilizar el vocabulario científico. Los experimentos que propone se agrupan en bloques: experimentos con aire, con animales, con el medio ambiente, con plantas, con los sentidos, con el agua. Sam Ed Brown es un doctor en Ciencias Químicas que cambió su carrera para enseñar en una escuela infantil. Ha sido Director de Educación Infantil para...

La cantidad de información sobre las ciencias de la vida está aumentando rápidamente, pero la capacidad cerebral del ser humano no. La genómica nos ha proporcionado una nueva perspectiva que nos ha obligado a una revisión completa y aumentada del material sobre genética molecular.

Of all the different areas in computational chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) enjoys the most rapid development. Even at the level of the local density approximation (LDA), which is computationally less demanding, DFT can usually provide better answers than Hartree-Fock formalism for large systems such as clusters and solids. For atoms and molecules, the results from DFT often rival those obtained by ab initio quantum chemistry, partly because larger basis sets can be used. Such encouraging results have in turn stimulated workers to further investigate the formal theory as well as...

Everyone has questions about our universe: How hot is Venus? Can you distinguish between a pulsar and a quasar? Is there a universe or a multiverse? Where do we fit into the infinitely grand scheme of things? How do we map the Cosmic Microwave Background? Most tantalizing of all: Is there anyone out there? This small volume encapsulates the terrifying hugeness of the cosmos into bite-sized particles that mere earthlings can understand. It takes you on a cosmic tour, shedding light on the most awesome of objects and places and explaining some very big ideas, concepts, and discoveries. It also...