• 피부와 태양

    피부와 태양

    과학동아 1993년 06호

    vulnerable, especially at the ear points and the nose. The Royal Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Australia says to keep pets indoors when the sun's ultraviolet is at its worst-between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.Pets lick off sunscreen creams. Don't lick off your own.최근 '네이처'지의 다이달로스 칼럼에서 데이비드 존은 묘하긴 하지만 그럴듯한 이론을 ...

  • 오늘날의 로봇

    과학동아 1992년 07호

    the tiles and perform maintenance. Closer to home is the woolshearing robot project at the University of Western Australia. Sheep can now be sheered in 17minutes, which is presumably better for the sheep as well as the wool industry.Michael Ali is a graduate student at New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Automation and Robotics (try that in a school song). He's devised a robotic ...

  • 과학평론

    과학평론

    과학동아 1991년 12호

    the actual eggs laid by a creature with hair were found. Such creatures included the spiny anteater, another native of Australia and New Guinea.(Such egg-laying mammals were called "monotremes"(One-hole).)It wasn't till the 20th Century that the intimate life of the platypus came to be known. It is an aquatic animal, living in fresh water. The bill of the duckbill is really nothing like a ...

  • 찾기 힘든 쿼크를 찾아서

    과학동아 1991년 07호

    second, it will simply not be a neutron star, but will be a quark star. Brian McCusker of the University of Sydney in Australia thinks that of quark stars did exist, the quarks would be stable.No one has ever really detected a quark on Earth and there are some scientists who believe it is impossible to detect them. On the other hand, it may be that once a quark star forms, bits of it will be ...

  • 종족의 보존

    과학동아 1990년 06호

    are occasional reports of fugitive glimpses of these creatures in the wilder parts of the island.Now Henry Nix of the Australian National University is trying to track down the elusive thylacine by computer. By carefully noting the environmental factors of different parts of the island, Nix is programming the computer to find the spots most congenial to the thylacine, pinpointing its most ...

  • 대 해빙

    대 해빙

    과학동아 1989년 12호

    Ohio River and Long Island. The sea-level drops and land bridges connect Asia with North America in the north and with Australia in the south, so that human beings could make their way into those continents from their Old World origins.But then the summers warm a bit as Earth,s orbit cycles back in time, so that more snow is melted than falls in the next winter. Less sunlight is reflected and ...

  • 책의 혁명

    책의 혁명

    과학동아 1987년 12호

    the Bible, can be compressed into the size of a credit card. This sort of thing has already been done by a company in Australia. Naturally, such a compressed electronic book cannot be read without a device containing a screen on which the words of the book can be displayed. It has to have controls to move forward and backward between the pages, to find a particular page quickly, and so on. ...