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If you are just starting with windows programming, then using the Win32 API (i.e. the functions provided with the windows header files) might be a tad too difficult. You could do a quick google search on LibSDL or even Allegro as they will simplify your programming by a great deal. If you do...

It really depends on what discipline of biology you are interested in. Nature and Science are great, and cover some very interesting research, but they are quite multi-disciplinary. For example, for all things pharmacology the British Journal of Pharmacology (pubslihed by Nature group) is very...

Through my casual surfing of news sites I've come across this article, and I thought that it's really cool. For those of us who were curious as to why a little bit of heat can help reduce pain: . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5144864.stm

You could probably estimate the rate of random mutations an organism undergoes, but when it comes to "measuring" natural selection you would hit a dead end (I would think). There are simply too many factors that would influence the manner by which natural selection would work. And while...

once you write your php program you will need to download the php library (if you haven't already done so). In most cases php programs are executed by a webserver (apache, IIS, etc.) but you can also run it from a shell (like from DOS). From what I understand from your post, you don't really...

Even if someone filled the bath tub with distilled water, there's still enough salt on the human body (i.e. from sweat) to add quite a few ions into the tub.

if you have VERY pure water then it would be a poor conductor and you could say that it would not conduct electricity. However even small amounts of salts (or other impurities) will increase electrical conductance. As for the electrical appliance in the ocean, I'm not too sure. Maybe somebody...

Thats a really good point, and I can see this technique being used in order to elucidate the efficacy and potency of various drugs in vivo. However, with that said, when dealing with drugs you also have to consider their metabolic products. In many instances drugs get broken down to compounds...

I would be a little bit scared knowing that my blood-brain barrier would be open for 4 hours, that's a lot of time for nasty things to get in there. Also assuming that a single-administration of the drug probably will not do, it would mean that the barrier will be opened up multiple times. It's...

They start with several "basic" molecules that have various regions on them that they can modify (i.e. double bonds, triple bonds, functional groups) and then they sequentially react those basic compounds together to make more complicated structures (the proper order of reactions is crucial, as...

A quick search on pubmed on the topic resulted in quite a few articles (so the question has been asked, at least to some extent, before). Here's the first article that caught my eye:

I'm not 100% sure that I understood your post correctly, but here's my take on it. When you selectively breed animals you usually do so for a certain trait or a group of traits, but there are be numerous other genes (traits) that are excluded from your breeding selection. Because of that you...

lol, yeah I didn't follow the link...my bad. At least my memory didn't let me down (this time).

There have been previous experiments done on mice, rats, and other lab animals showing similar results. Some experiments have shown that stress levels, diet, living conditions, etc. can influence future generations. From what I remember a lot of the effects are attributed to changes in DNA...

The entire cell membrane is not destroyed, only the membrane at the interface of the tip/cell is made porous. Because of that measurements can be made using this particular technique. You should do a quick search on google and you'll be able to find movies/animations that demonstrate and explain...