Copyright: © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Great efforts and expense have been expended in attempts to detect genetic polymorphisms contributing to ...

Based on mineral physics and seismic studies, it has been proposed that parts of the liquid outer core of the Earth and other terrestrial planets are stably stratified, in particular near the ...

Prior to the 20 th Century, one of the most common ways of seeing the world was through the lens of stratification, which is the idea that the natural world comes in different scales or layers. For ...

Correspondence to Dr R Scott Braithwaite, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 E 30th St, Room 615, New York NY 10016, USA; scott.braithwaite{at}nyumc.org ...

Plant seeds go through a natural cycle without human intervention that allows them to detach themselves from the parent plant, weather through the winter, and germinate in the spring. The winter ...