Physical Science

Helium is everywhere. From your blood to that bright neon sign hanging outside of your favorite pizzeria down the street. It provides lift for the Goodyear blimp that can be seen floating over sporting venues across the country. Saturn V,…
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If I were to tell you to go inside your closet and look through all of your clothes you would probably see some famous names like Ralph Lauren or Tommy Hilfiger, but what about Loeb Strauss? Well, you probably are…
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One of the advantages of learning sciences at an early age is that sciences such as chemistry can be portrayed in fun and interesting ways. Simple and easy experiments can show kids how science works and will also make them…
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Chemistry students and scientists alike use the periodic table of elements as a source for answers and new discoveries. It serves as much more than an educational cheat sheet; it’s composed of numerous bits and pieces of information about each…
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The periodic table is a great achievement of organized chemical information. It contains a list of all the chemical elements organized based on atomic number, electron configuration and occurring chemical properties. It´s called the periodic table because the way in…
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What if there was other versions of ourselves doing different things from what we are doing now? What if there were parallel universes? As a keen hobby scientist I like to read books and articles on Physics including those on…
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On the face of it, the answer to this question is obviously ‘no!’ Many different ways of dealing with quantum weirdness have been developed in QM’s 100 year history. From Bohm Theory to Many Worlds, from Dynamical Collapse to Instrumentalism……
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Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are solar system asteroids and comets which come closer than 1.3 astronomical units (AUs) from the Sun. Anything which comes closer than 1.0 AU from the Sun and is along the plane of the solar system will…
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My love of the work of musician Mark Oliver Everett (known to his friends as ‘E’) has recently opened me up to the work of his father, the physicist Hugh Everett III. Hugh, it seems, proposed the ‘many worlds’ theory…
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How Pulsars Were First Detected There are quite literally countless numbers of stars in the sky.  Some are quite obvious, such as our own sun, others we can see with the naked eye and are nearby such as the constellations…
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