My opinion is that it was real, and there are some very good reasons that I say this. First, almost everyone knows that at one time or another, every nation has intentionally deceived as many of their own people as…
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An interest in Mars began in the 1870s with the Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiapparelli, who used a telescope to observe the Martian canals. After that an amateur astronomer and American businessman by the name of Percival Lowell founded an Arizona…
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Having been born in 1955 and being predisposed to a mother who wrote every day about her family and the events in the world taking place about her, the space race of the sixties was a very real part of…
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The periodic table of elements at first glance resembles a scrabble board in that colored squares of information are lined up horizontally and vertically. Within these blocks of information we learn the symbol of elements, the atomic weight, the date…
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Diffusion and osmosis are both equilibrium-related processes. Diffusion describes a general behavior of fluids (e.g. gases, liquids, solutions). Osmosis is a specific type of diffusion, occurring when mobility is restricted by a semi-permeable barrier. To make life easy, here’s an…
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Isotopes are used in medicine, and in other areas of technology. Isotopes are atoms of an element that have a different number of neutrons. In these atoms, the smallest particle of matter, neutrons and protons reside in the nucleus of…
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The Potato Conspiracy Last night I saw an alien. My wife did too. She calls them ‘potato men’ on account of their uncanny resemblance to certain tuberose vegetables. Well, perhaps you need to squint a little to appreciate the likeness…
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Thallium Symbol: Tl Atomic Number: 81 Atomic Mass: 204.3833 amu (atomic mass units) Melting Point: 303.5 C (576.65 K, 578.3 F) Boiling Point: 1457.0 C (1730.15 K, 2654.6 F) Number of Protons: 81 Number of Electrons: 81 Number of Neutrons:…
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The nature of matter has challenged science since the beginning of time. In 450 BCE, the philosopher Democritus considered a question that has yet to be answered. To what extent can we define what exists? To what extent can we…
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About a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein posited a brilliant deduction based on his theory of special relativity. One facet of Einstein’s theory suggested that matter and energy were related and he developed his famous E=mc2 formula to demonstrate this…
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