Gills and lungs are the two structures commonly used by animals for respiration. Both are characterized by large amounts of surface area that function in gas exchange. The difference between them is that gills involve external extensions from the body...

A gill is an anatomical structure found in many aquatic organisms. It is a respiration organ whose function is the extraction of oxygen from water and the excretion of carbon dioxide. The microscopic structure of a gill is such that it presents a very...

For Gill, next big thing is small Country artist back to touring little clubs to promote latest CD By JOHN GEROME Associated Press Sunday, February 9, 2003 Nashville, Tenn. -- Amid clanking beer bottles and a fog of cigarette smoke,...

Eric Gill Saint, typographer, philanderer AN OUTSTANDING calligrapher and typographer, Eric Gill also became one of this century's finest wood-engravers and, later in life, an honoured sculptor. (Never a likely candidate for the official honours list, Gill solaced himself by instructing his...

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who was dubbed the "Isaac Newton of our time" for his pioneering research on liquid crystals, has died. He was 74.He died Friday in Orsay, a suburb of Paris, Le Monde reported Tuesday. A relative confirmed the death but...

For the J. Mendel label's spring collection, shown Friday at New York Fashion Week, designer Gilles Mendel did everything he could to make it cool.He wasn't aiming for that leather-jacket sort of cool, nor was he necessarily striving for temperature cool since he showed fur...