作者: Fred Bortz

Japan. March 11, 2011. 2:46 P.M. The biggest earthquake in Japan’s history-and one of the world’s five most powerful since 1900-devastated the Tohoku region, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of T …

Japan. March 11, 2011. 2:46 P.M. The biggest earthquake in Japan’s history-and one of the world’s five most powerful since 1900-devastated the Tohoku region, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of T …

In every age, science and technology have advanced human civilization. From architecture to engineering, medicine to transportation, humans have invented extraordinary wonders. Explorers long ago and …

From earliest times, humans have looked to the sky in wonder, and their wonder and curiosity fueled science. Ancient peoples built enormous temples and monuments to observe the sun and track the move …

If learning about the origin of the universe wasn’t enticing enough, this title guides readers through the trials of its discovery by Edwin Hubble, after whom the Hubble space telescope is named. Chr …

Disciplinary Core Ideas for biological evolution that include evidence of common ancestry and diversity, natural selection, and adaptation are concepts students need to grasp in Common Core State Sta …

Johannes Kepler is a fascinating man who would revolutionize humanity’s conception of the cosmos and their place within it. He would replace the Ptolemaic system with his three laws that described th …

Widely regarded as the father of modern genetics, Austrian friar and scientist Gregor Mendel discovered that inherited traits do not blend together, as people once believed. By cultivating thousands …

One of the greatest scientific minds of the past 500 years, Sir Isaac Newton laid the groundwork for the theory of gravity and the laws of motion. This volume, dedicated to his life and work, goes be …

Aligned to Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects, this volume helps students understand the central ideas of Mendeleyev’s periodic law. Mendeleyev’s major breakthrough was his arranging of the e …

Before Copernicus, educated people believed without a doubt that the sun and the planets traveled around Earth. Through his brilliant thinking and years of careful observation and documentation, Cope …

Explore the history and the theoretical properties of Higgs Bosons, the exciting subatomic particles that have eluded scientists for years. …

Discover the engineering and science behind particle accelerators, the massive machines that smash the smallest atoms together to observe how they work. …

Explore the history of the discovery and the properties of the electron, the negatively charged subatomic particle that orbits around an atom’s nucleus. …

Explore the history of the discovery and the properties of the neutrino, one of the smallest subatomic particles. …

Explore the history of the discovery and the properties of the neutron, the subatomic particle that, with the proton, makes up an atom’s nucleus. …

Explore the history of the discovery and the properties of the photon, the particle that comprises light. …

Explore the history of the discovery and the properties of the proton, the positively charged subatomic particle that, with the neutron, makes up an atom’s nucleus. …

Explore the history of the discovery and the properties of the quark, one of the most basic constituents of matter. …