Het laatste boek dat Charles Darwin schreef, één jaar voor zijn dood, gaat over,

zoals hij het zelf noemde, een onbeduidend onderwerp. Dat was een ontdekking, vlak

na zijn reis met de Beagle gedaan, over de gevolgen van de activiteit van aardwormen

voor de vorming van de aardkorst. Het werd destijds omschreven als ‘een nieuwe

geologische kracht’. In de meer dan veertig jaar na die ontdekking verzamelde

Darwin op de hem kenmerkende wijze gegevens over het belang van aardwormen bij e...

Het heelal wemelt van de meest vreemde planeten. Sommige zijn compleet bedekt met water, andere bestaan voor een groot gedeelte uit diamant en weer andere lijken als twee druppels water op de aarde. Nieuwe ontdekkingen van tot de verbeelding sprekende werelden volgen elkaar in rap tempo op. Dit boekje praat je bij over de zoektocht naar deze werelden. Hoe gaat die zoektocht in zijn werk? Wat voor bijzondere plekken hebben we al ontdekt? En de heilige graal: vinden we ooit een tweede aarde?

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It is often taken for granted that the Standard Model of Particle Physics is the most successful scientific theory ever developed. However, since its inception in the 1970s, it has been widely recognized that as long as gravity remains excluded from its framework, a deeper theoretical level must exist beyond it. To bridge this gap, two possible approaches can be taken: one is to push forward by embedding the Standard Model within a more comprehensive theory; the other is to cri...

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Moleculen vind je letterlijk overal. Ze vormen alles om ons heen en zelf bestaan we ook uit deze superkleine bouwstenen. In dit boek bespreken Nobelprijswinnaar Ben Feringa en collegachemicus Anouk Lubbe de belangrijkste moleculen uit onze directe omgeving. Zo lezen we over moleculen in onze kleding, over stoffen in frisdranken, over aminozuren in ons lichaam, over de wonderbaarlijke kwaliteiten van grafeen, over moleculen waar we dronken, vrolijk of juist ziek van worden, over het synthetisc...

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