Climate Change
An expected consequence of climate change on the oceans, in addition to raising sea level.
What is ocean acidification?
An invasive fish might jump into your boat, breaking your nose.
What is Asian carp?
12 mg nicotine.
What is the average amount of nicotine in a standard cigarette?
The fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks.
What is the Higgs boson.
An American marine biologist whose influential book Silent Spring (1962) is credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
The air temperature beyond which humans can no longer cool their body temperature by sweat.
What is the "wet-bulb" temperature of 35 °C (or around 95 °F).
The likely cause of a serious brain infection after eating a salad in Hawaii.
What is a snail or slug infected with Rat Lungworm nematodes.
Nicotine deposited on the walls from second-hand smoke can react with this substance in the air to produce carcinogens.
What is nitrous acid?
The boundary of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape from within it.
What is the Event Horizon?
The originator of the "Poison Squad" and research studies to test the effects of food adulterants.
Who is Harvey Washington Wiley, MD?
The primary cause for rising sea level as a result of increased global temperatures.
What is the thermal expansion of water?
This invertebrate travelled from the Caspian Sea to the Great Lakes by hitching a ride in the ballast water of ships.
What are Zebra Mussels?
These two carcinogens are produced from enzymatic conversion of nicotine, both in tobacco plants and also in the human body.
What are NNN and NNK?
A region of space containing a massive object whose gravitational field distorts electromagnetic radiation passing through it in a similar way to a lens.
What is a gravitational lens?
An American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project.
Who is Francis Collins?
The last time in history that CO2 levels were as high as they are today.
What is the Pliocene Epoch, between 2.6 and 5.3 million years ago?
This invasive animal has eaten most of the small mammals in the Florida Everglades.
What are pythons?
The name of the protein molecule that binds nicotine and stimulates nerve activity.
What is the acetylcholine receptor?
The first direct observation of this new type of wave was made in 2015.
What are gravitational waves?
In 1961, she was an FDA scientist who identified the dangers of the drug thalidomide.
Who is Dr. Frances Kelsey?
A significant animal source of the greenhouse gas methane.
What are cow burps and farts?
A Pacific Ocean fish thought to have been introduced into the Atlantic Ocean by dive boat operators, seeking to stimulate reef diving tourism.
What are Lionfish?
A nicotine analog that is prescribed as a drug to help people quit smoking.
What is Chantix (or Varenicline)?
This black hole is located in the center of our galaxy.
What is Sagittarius A*?
University of Utah scientists that announced in 1989 that they had "established a sustained nuclear fusion reaction" at room temperature.
Who are Fleishman & Pons?