January 22, 2015 Physical Science
Growing a homemade crystal is a fun, simple science project that just about anybody can do! It requires some simple materials that are usually found at home, some patience, and a few days. The first step is to assemble the…
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“A Study of the Southern Pine Beetle” The Southern Pine Beetle (SPB), Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmerman, is the number one killer of pine trees in the South. Across the South, from Virginia, south to Florida, and west to Texas, pine trees…
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What is embalming? Embalming is one of the many processes in which a body is kept preserved after death. There are many reasons why people choose to embalm, and many circumstances in which people would be embalmed. There are many…
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Tobacco is a native plant of North and South America that is in the same family as the potato and pepper. The plant grows from tiny seeds that are carefully tended until the leaves are large enough to harvest and…
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January 21, 2015 Physical Science
The mass spectrometer is one of the most versatile instruments available to the analytical chemist. It can analyze samples that are gases, liquids, or solids. It is used to analyze individual atoms or complex biopolymers. When coupled with chromatography, which…
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According to a Californian First Nations’ myth, many mice hid inside the scales of the Douglas fir tree’s cones, which was kind enough to offer sanctuary for them during forest fires. Each of the three-ended bracts of the Douglas fir…
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To understand what causes airplane turbulence, it must first be defined. When two different air masses, which have separate pressures, are disrupted for whatever reason, air turbulence will result. Combine an aircraft traveling through this atmospheric inconsistency, and you’ve got severe…
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Counting sheep is a collection of short stories that all loosely share one general theme, Desert Bighorn Sheep. Most of these stories are set in Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge during the annual sheep count. Despite these restrictions, the contributing authors…
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Scientifically known as Pinus-nigra, the European black-pine occurs right across the Mediterranean including parts of Asia and the Maghreb Mountains of North Africa too. Most popular in the Turkish woodlands, this tree – Corsican Pine – is also found in…
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AP reports that thousands of pieces of correspondence between some of the world’s leading climate scientists were stolen from the unit at the University of East Anglia and leaked to the Internet late last month. Skeptics of man-made global warming…
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