Branches of Science
Sonny Carter was a physician, professional soccer player, naval officer, and NASA astronaut. He was born Manley Lanier Carter, Jr. on August 15, 1947 in Macon, Georgia. He graduated from Lanier High School in 1965 and then went to on study at Emory Uni...
Micrococcus luteus is a Gram-positive, spherical, saprotrophic bacterium that belongs to the family Micrococcaceae. It is found in soil, dust, water and air, and as part of the normal flora of the mammalian skin. The bacterium also colonizes the human ...
Lactobacillus acidophilus is a species in the genus Lactobacillus. It is a homo-fermentative species, fermenting sugars into lactic acid, which grows readily at rather low pH values and has an optimum growth temperature of 37 °C. It occurs naturally...
Chlamydophila psittaci is a lethal intracellular bacterial species that causes endemic avian chlamydiosis, epizootic outbreaks in mammals, and respiratory psittacosis in humans. It can be transmitted through inhalation, contact, or ingestions among bir...
Segisaurus, meaning "Segi canyon lizard," is a genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period (183 million years ago). It was discovered by a Navajo Indian -- Max Littlesalt -- in 1933 in Tsegi Canyon, Arizona, for which it was ...
Zupaysaurus, meaning "devil lizard," is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Rhaetian stage of the Late Triassic, and possible the Hettangian stage of the Early Jurassic Period of what is now Argentina. It was discovered in the Los Colorados Formation...
Suzhousaurus is a genus of therizinosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It was discovered in the Xinminpu Group of the Yujingzi Basin, Gansu, China. It was described by Li et al., who performed a cladistic analysis and found that Suzhousa...
Ebolavirus (EBOV), a viral genus, is the disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), a viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The virus gets its name from the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the first outbreak occurred in 1976. The ...
Mary Cleave is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She was born Mary Louise Cleave on February 5, 1947 in Southampton, New York. She graduated from Great Neck North High School in 1965, and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degre...
Roy Bridges is an American aviator, a retired U.S Air Force officer, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born Roy Dubard Bridges, Jr. on July 19, 1943 in Atlanta, Georgia. As a child, he was active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved its second h...
Qantassaurus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the late Aptian to early Albian age of the Early Cretaceous Period (115 million years ago). It lived in Australia when the continent was still south of the Antarctic Circle, and was still part of the ...
Saurophaganax, meaning "lizard-eating monster," is a genus of allosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period and lived in what is now North America. It comes from the Morrison Formation. It was discovered in the panhandle of Oklahoma, with more poss...
Kevlar, a trademark of para-aramid synthetic fiber, is related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. DuPont developed Kevlar in 1965 and was first commercially used in the 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires. Its normal form is as a...
A cash register is a device for calculating and recording sales transactions. A cash drawer for storing cash is attached and the register usually prints a receipt. Cash registers were first invented in order to deter employee theft and embezzlement. It...
Velafrons, meaning "sailed forehead," is a genus of the hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mexico. It was discovered in Rincon Colorado, Coahuila, Mexico in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation of the late Campanian age datin...
Physics is the scientific study of matter and its motion through space/time and its derivitives, including energy and force. It is generally the analysis of nature and is conducted to help us understand how the universe behaves. Physics comes from the ...
