• 3만분의 1확률

    3만분의 1확률

    과학동아 1997년 04호

    부품과 형상을 변경하면서 차량의 기본구조와 형식은 바꾸지 않는 경우를 스킨 체인지(skin change)라고 한다. 변화 정도가 큰 것부터 나열하면 풀모델 체인지 > 스킨 체인지 > 마이너 체인지 > 페이스 리프트가 된다.차량의 구조가 바뀌었는지 판단하는 가장 기본적인 사항은 바퀴 사이의 거리인 축거 ...

  • 아주 작은 악한

    아주 작은 악한

    과학동아 1993년 09호

    which migrate to the salivary glands and wait for the mosquito to get hungry.The next puncture of a human's skin puts the sporozoites into the human bloodstream. They are carried to the liver, where they reproduce asexually. After a week or more, the parasites emerge from the liver in their next form, called merozoites, which invade red blood cells. More asexual replication occurs, with ...

  • 피부와 태양

    피부와 태양

    과학동아 1993년 06호

    even cattle and pigs can also get skin cancer, especially if they are light-colored. Native Australian animals have skin pigment that protects against the sun, but the pets(from European stock) do not, and are 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 ...

  • Frog-And More In Space 우주공간에서의 개구리

    Frog-And More In Space 우주공간에서의 개구리

    과학동아 1992년 11호

    salamander bent on escape. Furthermore, amphibians have reasonably good lungs, although many can breathe through their skins, too, have efficient three-chambered hearts, and may live longer than many small mammals.While contemplating the history of amphibians and the marvel of space tadpoles, I think of the Permian amphibian, which left its footprints in the sands of time. The sands became ...

  • Out Of The Sun 태양으로부터

    Out Of The Sun 태양으로부터

    과학동아 1992년 11호

    sun except light. The ultraviolet side of the spectrum of light is invisible to us, even as it gives us sunburns and skin cancer. We also can't see infrared, the 60 percent of light at the other end of the spectrum. The sun, however, emits not only light but X-rays, charged particles and neutrinos.Charged particles zoom out of the sun in what's called the solar wind, reaching Earth in three ...

  • 특집1 알루미늄보다 가볍고 철보다 강한 '꿈의 소재'를 찾아서

    특집1 알루미늄보다 가볍고 철보다 강한 '꿈의 소재'를 찾아서

    과학동아 1991년 12호

    자신이 책임지겠다고 호언하고 있는데, 그들은 듀랄루민의 일종인 특수합금(polished skin sheet)과 6.4합금을 각각 전면에 내세우고 있다.알루미늄이 자동차 소재로 유망한 것은 사실이지만 차체로 쓰기에는 아직 요원하다는 것이 전문가들의 진단이다. 좋은 자동차의 관건이 안전성에 있는 만큼 ...

  • 고향 찾아가는 희귀한 말

    과학동아 1991년 04호

    explorer from the Polish province of the Russian Empire shot one in western Mongolia in the 1870s. He brought back the skin and bones to the St. Petersburg Museum, and there, naturalists found that it was not exactly an ordinary horse but was a separate species.Since the explorer's name was Nikolai Przewalski (pronounced "per-zhe-WAHL-skee"), the animal was named Przewalski's horse. Whereas ...

  • 종족의 보존

    과학동아 1990년 06호

    other end of the scale : the "hairy-eared dwarf lemur," a primate thought to be extinct since at least 1964, when a skin was turned over to scientists.The lemur is a primitive primate, the class of animals to which humans belong. It is, in fact, the smallest known primate. The lemur's body(not including its tail) is only 5 inches long, and it only weighs about three and a half ounces. It is ...