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New Scientist (2013-12-21)

New Scientist (2013-12-21)

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Name: New Scientist (2013-12-21)
Format: pdf
Size: 28.44 MB

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Title: Saving the Tasmanian Devil
Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Language: angielski
Year: 2019
Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction, Nature, Science, Geography
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780544991484
Total pages: 124

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In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it’s too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully eradicate certain genetic diseases.
In 1995, a deadly disease began sweeping across the Australian island state of Tasmania, killing every infected Tasmanian devil. The disease moved so fast that some scientists feared the species would be wiped out in the wild within a few decades.
Where did this disease, named Devil Facial Tumor Disease, come from? What caused it-a virus, bacteria, or something else? How did it pass from one devil to another? What could be done to fight it?
When author Dorothy Hinshaw Patent learned of the race to save the devil from her friend, Australian geneticist Jenny Graves, she felt compelled to travel to Australia to learn firsthand from scientists what they were finding out about these iconic Tasmanian animals and what they were doing to help it from disappearing in the wild.
Follow Dorothy as she takes readers on a fascinating journey into the Australian mainland and Tasmania, visiting parks and wildlife refuges and joining geneticist, ecologists, and other researchers as they work tirelessly to save Tasmania’s unique icon.

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New Scientist (2013-12-14)

New Scientist (2013-12-14)

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Name: New Scientist (2013-12-14)
Format: pdf
Size: 14.82 MB

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Title: The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo
Author: Sy Montgomery
Language: angielski
Year: 2009
Subjects: History, Nature, Outdoor Recreation, Young Adult Nonfiction
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780547248929
Total pages: 60

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A 2007 Sibert Honor Book
It looks like a bear, but isn’t one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey- but isn’t a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what’s a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschie’s tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea’s cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.

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New Scientist (2013-10-26)

New Scientist (2013-10-26)

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Name: New Scientist (2013-10-26)
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Size: 15.03 MB

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Title: Eclipse Chaser
Author: Ilima Loomis
Language: angielski
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction, Science, Technology
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9781328770967
Total pages: 68

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The August 2017 solar eclipse is the chance of a lifetime for astronomer Shadia Habbal-years of planning come down to one moment of totality. Will everything go off as planned?
On August 21, 2017, much of America stood still and looked up as a wide swath of the country experienced totality-a full solar eclipse. Even in areas outside the path of totality, people watched in awe as the moon cast its shadow on the sun. For most, this was simply a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Not so for Shadia Habbal, who travels the world in search of solar eclipses in order to study the sun’s corona. Solar wind and storms originating in the corona can have big effects on our planet. They can disrupt technology, expose aircraft to radiation, and even influence global climate change.
In the months leading up to the 2017 eclipse, Shadia assembles a team of scientists to set up camp with her in Mitchell, Oregon. Years earlier, a long, expensive trip to Indonesia to study an eclipse failed when the skies remained too cloudy to see it. Shadia is determined to have the 2017 eclipse be a success. Will the computers fail? Will smoke from nearby fires change direction? Will the cloudy skies clear in time? Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they count down the months, days, hours, and finally minutes until totality.

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