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by Robert M. Hazen


  tRNA

  troposphere

  tsunamis

  twins, and clones

  ultraviolet radiation

  ultraviolet waves

  uncertainty principle

  unified field theories

  universe:

  big bang theory

  birth of

  dark energy in

  dark matter in

  expansion of

  first ten-billionth of a second

  freezings of

  like clockwork

  predictability of

  structure of

  up and down quarks

  uracil

  uranium, radioactivity of

  uranium-235

  uranium-238

  uranus

  Urey, Harold

  van der Waals, Johannes

  van der Waals force

  Venus

  Vermont, marble in

  vesicles

  viruses

  visible light

  VLA (Very Large Array)

  VNTR (variable number tandem repeat)

  voids

  volcanism

  volcanoes

  volt, voltage

  Volta, Alessandro

  W and Z particles

  water

  bound

  evaporation of

  freezing

  fresh

  oceans

  surface

  water cycle

  wave function

  wavelength:

  range of

  use of term

  wave-particle duality

  waves:

  characteristics of

  electromagnetic

  energy

  infrared

  light

  radio

  seismic

  speed of

  weak force

  weather

  and air quality

  and convection

  weather cycle

  weathering

  weather reports

  wegener, Alfred

  white dwarves

  Wilmut, Ian

  wind energy

  wind speed and direction

  wireless communication

  Woese, Carl

  work, in thermodynamics

  xerography

  X-rays

  yeast

  Z and W particles

  Zeilinger, Anton

  zeitgeist

  zero, absolute

  zygotes

  SECOND ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 2009

  Copyright © 1991, 2009 by Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil Illustrations copyright © 1990 by Neil Hardy

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1991, and subsequently published in paperback in slightly different form by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1992.

  Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hazen, Robert M., 1948–

  Science matters : achieving scientific literacy / Robert M. Hazen

  and James Trefil.—2nd Anchor books ed.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-45664-9

  1. Science—Popular works. I. Trefil, James S., 1938– II. Title.

  Q162.H36 2009

  500—dc22 2009004660

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