Aerotaxis [1 ] is the movement caused by oxygen gradients. Positive aerotaxis involves the movement toward higher concentration of environmental oxygen, while negative aerotaxis involves the movement towards a lower concentration of…
1843 (Mdcccxliii) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1843rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 843rd year of the 2…
Well-known and economically important members of this order include saxifrages (after whom the order is named), blackcurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, peonies, liquidambars, witch-hazel, Persian ironwood, katsura, jade plant, houseleeks…
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page.
Objective: Sulfur mustard (SM) is a bifunctional alkylating substance being used as chemical warfare agent (vesicant). It is still regarded as a significant threat in chemical warfare and terrorism.
Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me…
Eduard Ameseder war ein Sohn des Ingenieurs Theodor Ameseder. Seine Schulausbildung erhielt er am Gymnasium in Leutschau und der Realschule in Pancsova. [1 ] Nach Erlangen der Matura besuchte er zunächst die Wiener Kunstakademie, wo er ein…
I have a sick sense of humor and am basically here because I think that there should be a more visible effort for a broadly "encyclopedic" website, which would include a lot of material relating to topics which get little attention, like…