Death by hand soap? It’s no joke and worried researchers are trying to get the word out to the public about this latest health risk. The Western world has become phobic about germs—just about any kind of germ, even good…
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Raspberries are delicious and very healthy fruits. You can discover both wild-growing and cultivated raspberries. Nothing could be more pleasing than picking the tempting red fruit off the bush yourself. Yet, how do you identify raspberries? If you lack knowledge…
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Determining which science magazines are the best depends a little on the taste of different individuals. People are interested in different kinds of science and since different magazines offer different information, they might not always be what one is trying…
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February 26, 2014 Earth Science
Pink diamonds are among the rarest of diamonds, only produced from a few mines in the world. The majority of pink diamonds come from mines in India, but some also come from mines in South Africa, Brazil, and the Argyle…
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February 25, 2014 Earth Science
The advance and retreat of ice sheets has been occurring for millennia. Ice sheets grow when snow accumulates faster than it melts. As the snowfall accumulates, its weight presses down on earlier snows and compacts this into glacial ice. An…
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We have all seen some of those sci-fi thrillers on the big screen. Movies like Terminator or the Matrix give us glimpses of how battles might be waged many years from now. Did you ever think though that perhaps it…
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Nanotechnology made a significant advance in December 2010 as scientists contsructed the world’s first nanoradio receiver using graphene, the film-like carbon compound which made headlines earlier this year when its discoverers were awarded the Nobel prize. According to the arXiv…
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Intelligence is the capacity for learning. The more intelligent you are, the more you can learn and potentially accomplish. Human beings are complex and that makes generating a concise list of factors affecting intelligence difficult. Some factors, like brain damage,…
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February 25, 2014 Earth Science
The Beaufort Wind Scale has for almost two hundred years been the standard method of observing and recording wind conditions in maritime and coastal environments. The thirteen point scale being used in many shipping forecasts to indicate the experienced and…
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February 25, 2014 Physical Science
Some say he was a man born out of time, a man born too soon, that his inventions changed the world, and that he was an unappreciated genius who wanted to give free energy to people. Nikola Tesla (July 10,…
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