Physical Science

Astronomy projects make excellent alternatives to the standard volcanoes and potato clocks for science fairs and school assignments. The universe is an amazing place, and with astronomy, the sky above your backyard becomes a science lab. When working with elementary…
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What’s up to four times as big as Jupiter, is so distant that astronomers haven’t been able to find it in more than 80 years, and is the stuff of legends and conspiracy theories? “Planet X.” A mystery object that…
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Mars, the fourth planet in the solar system, is also the closest to Earth. For generations, man was fascinated by its beauty in the night sky. Red planet, it was called, was attributed to the war god by Romans and…
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What child isn’t fascinated by the stars, the planets, and the idea of zooming through space in a rocket ship? Astronomy projects can be the perfect way to spark a child’s interest in science. In rural and suburban areas, where…
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Watching the night sky has interested many generations throughout time. The invention of the telescope in 1608 by Hans Lippershey started the development and variation of the different designs, up to what we know today as modern and powerful telescopes….
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There is no complete answer to what light really is. However in certain circumstances, light acts as a wave. One of those circumstances is in the classic, Two-Slit Interference experiment. In Two-Slit Interference, a single source of light is split…
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Saturn has always been of great interest because of its rings and its size, both of which make it one of the most visible planets. In fact, it was the most distant planet known to have been observed by ancient…
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The United States military has been hitting moving missiles with moving missiles for nearly twenty years now. For the last five years they have had the ability to hit something that is moving at a high rate of speed in…
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A field of space and time appears to be the substratum of the mass-energy of the universe coinciding historically with it’s dispersion ‘outward. Space-time configured as it is at any point is what it is. It may be collapsible or…
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The love of the stars and planets can be nurtured and grown inside any student, including the commonly apathetic middle school student, as the mysteries of the surrounding universes and deep space are taught in the intriguing manner that they…
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