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With a wealth of expertise and a keen sense of humor, this collection of essays delves into the chemistry behind Casanova's experiments with "Spanish Fly," the invention of gunpowder, the mysteries of baldness, and a multitude of other everyday phenomena and well-known stories. This one-of-a-kind guide is proof-positive that chemistry can be useful as well as enjoyable. Con una riqueza de pericia y un buen sentido de humor, esta colecci�n de ensayos explora la qu�mica tras los experimentos de Casanova con la cant�rida, la invenci�n de la p�lvora, los misterios tras la calvicie y una ...

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"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.

Richard Feynman, premio Nobel de Física, no fue tan sólo un gran investigador, sino también un extraordinario maestro y un hombre de personalidad poderosa: una leyenda, a la manera de Einstein, para el gran público y «un genio», como dice el título de la biografía que le dedicó James Gleick, para sus colegas. Este libro, que reúne las partes menos técnicas de un curso introductorio para los estudiantes del Instituto Tecnológico de California, sirve a la vez como una introducción a la física para los no científicos y como una introducción al propio Feynman. Como ha dicho uno de ...