When studying kinematics (the study of motion) it is important to know a few essential mathematical equations. These equations can be further developed by the use of variable substitution, as well as other mathematical operations. When taking advanced physics courses,…
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Studying the cell, the most basic unit of all life, was made possible was made possible by the invention and perfection of the microscope by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke in the early 1600s. After first observing the checkerboard-like…
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Who Loves Designer Vaginas? This just in: Science and nature are mocking America’s fickle God. Please, no screaming. What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about the fact that Mother Nature once again appears to…
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Radio-Carbon Dating Explained: Carbon dating is a radiometric dating method, which uses Carbon -14 (a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of carbon). This method can be used to date carbonaceous materials (substances which are rich in carbon), by using applied physics…
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Does the Large Hadron Collider have the potential to unlock the secrets of the universe? Absolutely! Will it bring us fantastic new technologies and revolutionise science? Definitely! Will it destroy the Earth? No way. The thing is, part of the…
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From Genocide to Neo-Eugenics* The constative issue of eugenics is one fraught with both peril and promise. Can the association with Hitler be put aside long enough to consider this issue without the onerous specter of the Holocaust and the…
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Gravity is the force that holds our solar system together. Without it, planets would simply float off into space, remaining un-deviated until they collide with another body. The detailed study of gravity began with Galileo, who was the first to…
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Nuclear fusion is, to put it simply, smashing very light atoms together to make heavier ones. In the process they release a large amount of energy which we can harness for electricity. In principle this sounds straightforward, but in…
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Whenever television movies and scientists speak about time travel we get the impression that they are speaking about physically traveling in or through time. Not traveling back in mind remembering what they or someone else did yesterday or this morning….
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In everyday life, and from a practical viewpoint, the only significant difference between a virus and a bacterium is its effect on the human body. Yet in both structure and function, these microscopic entities have little in common. For example,…
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