Scientific Secrets of Nature

Andreas Korn-Müller

ISBN 10: 366269574X / ISBN 13: 9783662695746

Verlag: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH and Co. KG, DE, 2024

Beschreibung

In this book, you and your children will discover the amazing wonders of nature through simple experiments. What's the science behind the Lotus effect? Find out using kohlrabi leaves. Feeding carnivorous plants with gummy bears? Yes, it works! But why? Determine the air quality of your surroundings, a park, or a forest with a homemade lichen grid. Quickly, you'll become an expert on the wonderful and useful lichens. Invisible microorganisms of a lake become visibly teeming life with a laser pointer - all without a microscope! Discover the "dark" side of nature with a simple UV flashlight, making vegetables, plants, mosses, fungi, algae, crabs, and shells glow in vibrant colors. A red glowing spooky bell pepper for Halloween? Yes! An exploratory night walk on the beach? Hooray! Great fun with experiments for indoors and outdoors for the whole family. This book is the perfect companion for hikes and holiday travels - bringing you closer to nature. Featuring numerous color photos, many descriptive graphics, and 14 spectacular videos. So: Off into nature!

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9783662695746

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Scientific Secrets of Nature
• Verlag: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH and Co. KG, DE
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 366269574X
• ISBN-13: 9783662695746
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 2024 ed.
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

In this book, you and your children will discover the amazing wonders of nature through simple experiments. What's the science behind the Lotus effect? Find out using kohlrabi leaves. Feeding carnivorous plants with gummy bears? Yes, it works! But why? Determine the air quality of your surroundings, a park, or a forest with a homemade lichen grid. Quickly, you'll become an expert on the wonderful and useful lichens. Invisible microorganisms of a lake become visibly teeming life with a laser pointer – all without a microscope! Discover the "dark" side of nature with a simple UV flashlight, making vegetables, plants, mosses, fungi, algae, crabs, and shells glow in vibrant colors. A red glowing spooky bell pepper for Halloween? Yes! An exploratory night walk on the beach? Hooray! Great fun with experiments for indoors and outdoors for the whole family. This book is the perfect companion for hikes and holiday travels – bringing you closer to nature. Featuring numerous color photos, many descriptive graphics, and 14 spectacular videos. So: Off into nature!

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andreas Korn-Müller studied chemistry in Tübingen and earned his doctorate in 1994 at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried. After two years of post-doctoral research in the high-security HIV laboratory at LMU Munich, he has been working as a freelance science communicator since 1997. In addition to various museum exhibitions, the multiple award-winning recipient has developed eight different science shows, which he performs worldwide under the stage name "Magic Andy," especially at Science Festivals for audiences young and old, with great success. To date, he has written four non-fiction books and numerous articles for scientific journals.