Comprendiendo el infinito

A través de 22 inquietantes historias reales en las cuales está en juego el problema de la identidad, la autora nos sumerge en el mundo de la genética y del ADN, cuyo descubrimiento fue un hito científico del siglo XX y marcó un punto de inflexión en la historia de la humanidad.

Pocos personajes de la literatura son más reconocidos universalmente que Sherlock Holmes, el detective surgido de la imaginación de Arthur Conan Doyle. Cautivados por sus poderes de observación y deducción, muchos lectores pasan por alto el uso que Holmes hacía de la ciencia para resolver sus casos. Remediar semejante limitación, al mismo tiempo que introduce a los lectores en los fundamentos científicos de las técnicas forenses, es el propósito de este libro. Así, y tras introducir a los principales personajes del mundo de Holmes – Watson y Moriarty, en especial –, James F....

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

In previous volumes in this series, Advances in Metal and Semiconductor Clusters, the focus has been on atomic clusters of metals, semiconductors and carbon. Fundamental gas phase studies have been surveyed, and most recently scientists have explored new materials which can be produced from clusters or cluster precursors. In this latest volume, the focus shifts to clusters composed primarily of non-metal molecules or atoms which have one or more metal atoms seeded into the cluster as an impurity. These clusters provide model systems for metal ion solvation processes and metal-ligand...