Physical Science

If you study the sky on a regular basis, you can see that many changes occur in a cyclical manner. The rising and setting of the Sun., the phases of the Moon, and the movement of constellations in the night…
Read more

A “falling star” is one of nature’s true spectacles. For a few brief seconds these darting flares that burn across the night time sky will easily out-dazzle their heavenly competition. We may call them “stars” but they’re not really. They’re…
Read more

What is a Periodic Table? As a chemist, the Periodic Table is the most important basics you have to learn before you can start learning anything else within chemistry. It is like if you want to learn English, you must…
Read more

The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun of all nine planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto).  Its diameter is 3,032 miles.  Its average distance from the sun is about 36 million miles.  It…
Read more

Gas is a basic state of matter, along with solids, liquids, and plasma. Gases have higher energy than solids or liquids, and are characterized by molecules that move freely, and by their capacity to expand to fill any container they…
Read more

Pythagoras of Samos lived in Ancient Greece from 560-480 B.C. He was born on the island of Samos according to Herodotus. It is now a part of the country Turkey. His father’s name was Mnesarchus and mother’s name was Pythais….
Read more

The reaction rate for chemical change to occur is the speed at which the chemical reactants disappear and form new products (Brady & Senese, 2009). The reaction rate can be measured by considering the amount of production of new products…
Read more

Elements are the basic building blocks of all substances and many elements have very interesting facts about them, many of which are little known.  One such element is Sulfur, also spelled as Sulphur in British Schools (though the Royal Society…
Read more

Liquids are one of the four phases or states of matter, along with solids, gases, and plasma. Liquids will always flow in order to fit the shape of the container they are poured into. This makes them like a gas….
Read more

The structure of snowflakes has always fascinated people, because, they are truly some of nature’s best works of art.  We can actually create some of these jewels ourselves, right in our own home. The main ingredient in our homemade snowflake…
Read more