Physical Science

Within the lifetime of an average person, the stars in the night sky are constant and nearly unchanging. Historical records occasionally reflect rare events such as super novae, or the regular oscillations of variable stars such as Algol in Perseus…
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Sunspots have been observed and recorded for over 2,000 years. However, for most of that time, accepted science opinion didn’t admit to the existence of sunspots. Only relatively recently have we begun to understand what they are, what causes them,…
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What should one do if they see a UFO? There, at least the title is a complete sentence now. That, in itself, is one of the things that make this subject hard to swallow. Experience demonstrates that many proponents of…
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Aside from being a clever name for a new type of chewing gum, and eclipse is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which a celestial body such as the moon covers or obscures another celestial object such as the sun. While…
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Picture this, you are sitting outside on your front porch, sunlight hitting you square on the face. Doesn’t it feel grand? Now not to let it discourage you from enjoying the beauty of that beaming light, but really all it…
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UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. That’s all it means; it does not necessarily imply anything extraterrestrial. In the purest form, the evidence of a UFO could be no more than the photograph of a strange light in…
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The two space shuttle disasters caused a lot of people to stop and reconsider America’s space effort. We are expending a great deal of money for the privilege of watching a few individuals spend a limited number of hours in…
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The vast majority of people live rather mundane lives, rarely sparked with magic or wonder, until a person like Angeles Duran comes along and claims something new as her own…Well, alright, perhaps something that’s estimated to be billions of years…
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200 sextillion more stars have been projected to be in the sky according to reports citing data released by Yale and Harvard professors in the Journal of Nature. These claims build on earlier claims regarding universal star count by organizations…
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Three dimensional printing was developed years ago and has been in use for a time. There have been such advancements that a three dimensional object, based on CAD drawings and other digital content, can be produced in a few hours…
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