Lone Cone Library

"Describes several scientists who went outside the box to discover scientific answers"--

There are stories of meat-eating plants, but are they really true? Yes! Plants are just as freaky as animals in many ways. This book dives into jungles, forests, and fields all over the world that contain some of the wildest plants on the planet. From Venus flytraps and pitcher plants to a plant that smells like a rotting corpse, these organisms are as diverse as they are weird. Toxic mosses and poisonous plants like the New Zealand tree nettle show...

"How many items can you think of that are made of plastic? Probably quite a few! It might be hard to imagine a world without plastic, but until about 100 years ago, plastic as we know it today didn't exist! The word "plastic" wasn't even used until the 1920s! In this volume, readers learn how many types of plastic were invented accidentally by scientists who were trying to make something else. In accessible, fun content, it describes how these discoveries...

One of the single greatest leaps forward in human healthcare happened because of an accident in a laboratory. This serendipitous event was the result of a summer vacation in Scotland and an unattended experiment. Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, one of the first antibiotics, in 1928 when he noticed that mold had gotten into a petri dish and it had prevented bacteria from growing. This book explores Fleming's accidental discovery, the science...

Presents brief explanations of inventions used in our everyday modern lives.

"A . . . visual guide to the history of science for young readers"--BTCat.

Answers twenty questions about Albert Einstein. Includes brief information on the theory of relativity plus a few experiments you can do at home.

Learn about the science of atoms and chemical reactions, and how observation and experimentation have enabled us to discover facts about elements and their uses, the nature of solids, liquids, and gases, and the weight of atoms.

Introduces readers to the different branches of science through creative projects, ranging in levels of difficulty, which are divided into the categories: air, water, earth, and fire.

Describes the critical events and timing which led to major scientific discoveries including Newton's laws of gravity, Lise Meitner's work with nuclear fission, and experiments with penicillin.