January 25, 2015 Physical Science
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) Born to a Prussian baron in Wirsitz, Germany in 1912, von Braun developed a love for rocketry at an early age. As a child he read the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. But it…
Read more
The American eel is an ugly and slimy little creature that resembles a flattened snake in some respects but it has a most interesting life cycle. And not only that, it has secrets about its overall life that scientists have…
Read more
January 25, 2015 Physical Science
An “Invisible Man” in the Ralph Ellison sense-a social non-entity-can see, as we learn in his novel, all too clearly. An Invisible Man in the H.G. Wells sense of somebody who is “see-through” cannot, for two reasons. The first and…
Read more
January 25, 2015 Physical Science
What is nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is the science and the engineering achieving the manipulation of matters from atoms and molecules unit level. The physical dimension of nanotechnology is expressed in nanometer. A nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter. An…
Read more
The concept of Paradox is critical to the development of mathematics as paradoxes highlight those areas of our knowledge where intuition or ‘common sense’ seems to fail. The relationship of mathematics with reality has often been problematical. Mathematics has often…
Read more
January 25, 2015 Physical Science
Some red tides, foxfire, and fireflies are examples of remarkable biological chemical reactions. Bioluminescence is light produced within a living organism, usually by the chemical reaction of luciferin with luciferase. Named for Lucifer, the light-bearer, the compounds produce an eerie…
Read more
January 25, 2015 Physical Science
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) operates using the physical properties of the hydrogen nucleus to create an image of internal body parts without damaging radiation. Previously called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging the naming convention was changed to reduce fears about nuclear…
Read more
January 25, 2015 Physical Science
RUBBER BANDS AND STRINGS WHAT HAPPENED TO PHYSICS? In the early 1900’s, after Albert Einstein finalized his relativity theories, he thought that he could find proof that unified all four physical phenomena. These four forces are: electromagnetism, gravity, the strong…
Read more
January 25, 2015 Physical Science
In a period of less than one hundred years, humankind advanced from traveling by horse and buggy to making a trip to its planet’s satellite. Just imagine what the humans might be able to accomplish over the course of the…
Read more
January 25, 2015 Physical Science
The first fact most students learn about electricity and magnetism is that there exists a physical property known as charge, which can be positive or negative. Two particles of like charge repel one another, and two particles with opposite charges…
Read more