scientists

Collects issues eight through fourteen of "Tom Strong" comics, following the hero-scientist, his wife and daughter, his robot assistant, and his intelligent ape accomplice, as they meet the challenges of the old West, exotic jungles, strange dimensions, and other locales.

A biography of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British scientist Thomas Young, who is credited with discovering the three-color theory of vision and deciphering the text of the Rosetta Stone.

In January 1958, the midst of the Cold War, Luke Lucas wakes alone on the ground in a railway station with no idea how he got there--and finds that he must recover lost memories that others are glad he has forgotten if he is to save the launch of Explorer I, America's attempt to top the Soviet Union's Sputnik.

Simon Chase, a young marine biologist, studies and tracks marine animals, the effect of pollution, and other environmental threats. He becomes concerned when bodies begin to wash ashore and is faced with a malevolent creature whose hunt for prey is unstoppable.

An experiment turns dangerous when a team of scientists becomes trapped on an Arctic icefield where sixty powerful explosives, all set to detonate at midnight, are planted.

Introduces Uranus, describing its physical features, it unusual sideways spin, and the rings and moons found around the planet.

Describes the biggest planet in the solar system, including its atmosphere, surface, formation, orbit, and core.

Introduces the Earth, describing the physical features that make life possible on this planet.

A fictional student's report presents information on George Washington Carver, who became an expert on peanuts and other plants and taught others at the famous college for African Americans, Tuskeegee Institute.

Examines the life of American statesman Benjamin Franklin, looking at his activities as a printer, writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, and philosopher, and discussing his role in the founding of the United States.