1. Edition - May 2008
30.90 Euro
2008. XI, 248 Pages, Hardcover
26 Fig.
- General Reading -
ISBN-10: 3-527-32287-6
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-32287-9 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim






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Short description
Michael Gross goes crazy over Nature's craziest inventions, he falls for the sexiest science, and admires the coolest technology. The best from the last 15 years, it's all here

From the contents
CRAZY - WEIRD AND WONDERFUL TALES FROM NATURE AND SCIENCE
Tardigrades can take the pressure
Magic bullets from the desert
Asparagine and old lace
Peptides shielding our skin
Health warning: your body may be unstable
All together now
So where is most of the universe?
Cell jet printers
A frizzled inhairitance
How to eat without a stomach
Astronomy helps spotting whalesharks
Talk to your protein
Ancient protein survives in our eyes

SEXY - OFFIAL: PEOPLE ARE THE WEIRDEST CREATURES ON THIS PLANET: SORRY, PLATYPUS
Read my lips
A matter of taste
Let your love glow
Jacobson's molecules
The science of the Simpsons
Elusive treasures
Eggs and sperms and rock n' roll
A Cuban success story
Cupid chemistry

COOL - WELL, HUMANS MAY BE WEIRD, BUT THEY DID DEVELOP SOME COOL TECHNOLOGY
Crystallographic antibodies
Dip-pen lithography
Traffic-light proteins
A cool receptor
Biotronics: a collision of continents
The one-atom quantum computer
Twist and twirl
Multi-purpose DNA
Diatoms
Nature's warning signs
All on one chip
Platinum stories
Nanowires plugged into nerve cells
Aptamer sensors
Hairy ball theorem untangles chemical problem