Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

Discover the variety of animals that live in the rain forest, including frogs, jaguars, monkeys, parrots, and sloths.

Could there be life on Mars?

Meet fascinating animals that live in polar regions, including harp seals, leopard seals, orcas, penguins, polar bears, and walruses.

Did you know that the sun is actually a star?

Some plants need to have pollen spread from one plant to another flower in order to reproduce.

Humans have always wanted to fly.

At the scene of a crime, an evidence marker sits next to a pool of blood while an investigator's camera catalogs the scene.

Food is the body's fuel-but what happens to each yummy mouthful from the moment you take a bite?

Your mouth really is filthy!

COVID-19 has shut down most people's normal lives.

Science writer and plant expert Rebecca E.

Explore outer space through interactive augmented reality experiences!

What facial features do you have?

The bubonic plague wreaked havoc in the fourteenth century.

Explore how your body works through interactive augmented reality experiences!

The digestive system is made up of the tongue, the esophagus, the stomach, the intestines, and other parts.

Young readers will learn how pliers grip and hold objects in their jaws.

All kinds of animals have skin-even humans!

Each year, typhoid fever affects up to 20 million people.

Ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom .

How do we use our five senses?

An ant hurries over the rocky ground.

A pot of water boils over a hot burner on the stove.

Day follows night.

Every year, mosquitoes pass parasites that cause malaria to hundreds of millions of people, and hundreds of thousands die.

Just think, every single thing you do is handled by an amazing computer inside your head-your brilliant brain!

With a focus on STEM and late-breaking information, this book shows how scientists have made discoveries about Earth throughout history and how they will continue to do so in the future.

Will astronauts one day travel all the way to Mars?

¿Alguna vez te preguntaste qué hace brillar a una estrella?

Spark the love of learning with this picture-packed guide to the human body for children.

Fireworks crackle and boom in the sky.

Vivid photos and up-to-date information teach readers about Mars, including details on climate and geography, how scientists have explored the planet, and what they hope to find out about Mars in the future.

Scientists and health-care workers around the world are battling COVID-19.

Dive beneath the waves to meet the crab, fish, turtles, whales, and seaweed that live in the ocean habitat.

Saving the day is easy for fictional heroes with superspeed and superstrength.

From earwax and bad breath to boogers and burps, the human body is a disgusting place.

Light shines through your kitchen window.

Robots help us understand our universe.

Find out how atoms fit together and how our solar system spins.

Forces and motion are at work all around you-when you kick a ball, ride a bike, or drop a book.

Readers follow along as the moon shifts from new to full and back again, learning the words for each lunar phase and how the sun's light creates the moon shapes they see in the sky.

Deep in the Central African Republic, forest elephants trumpet and rumble along with the forest's symphony.

Did you know scientists perform hundreds of experiments in space each year?

Did you know space stations have orbited Earth for decades?

A green frog.

Animals have mastered motion.

From a budding bulb to a sure sign of spring, there are many steps in the life cycle of a tulip.

Could there be other planets in the universe similar to those in our solar system?

Can you stretch your thumb back to your arm?

Students will see how levels indicate whether objects are flat or straight.