Can fruit really be used to make a battery? Would it work with all fruits? Well, let’s get some things together and see what we know and what we can learn. Batteries are gadgets that are designed to store chemical…
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Break chemistry out of the laboratory and move it to your house. Not all chemistry experiments require the use of dangerous chemicals that have the potential to explode. In fact, many experiments are perfect for the home setting. Don goggles to protect…
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Physicists have been moving closer to confirming the existence of the Higgs Boson particle, also dubbed the “God particle.” On July 4, 2012 an announcement is scheduled to be made regarding the ATLAS and CMS projects conducted via the European…
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On July 4, 2012, a particle that had similar properties to the Higgs-Boson particle was discovered. With this discovery, many news articles have explained what the Higgs-Boson particle is, but not necessarily, why it is important to the field of…
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Time Travelers Scientists believe that traveling through time is theoretically possible under the right conditions. In physics and in science fiction, a method of time travel is often speculative at best. But what if time travelers actually existed? How would…
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The Einstein Observatory, also known as HEAO-2, was launched in 1978 and over its three years of operation, the observatory made many significant contributions to the field of X-ray astronomy. Light classified as X-rays is characterized by a wavelength between…
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The human eye is extremely sensitive to the sun’s light. Even a glance at the sun will cause after-images, as a result of overexposure to strong light. Looking at the sun directly, even for a few seconds, can cause permanent burns to…
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It’s out there; it’s everywhere; scientists may not yet be able to describe it in any known physical terms, but its there just the same, and it represents about 74% of the stuff that is the known universe. It is…
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It is agreed upon by physicists worldwide that there are five states of matter. The three common states that occur under “normal” conditions on earth are gases, liquids, and solids. The other two are plasma and superfluids (also known as…
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April 30, 2014 Physical Science
Nanotechnology arose in the 1980’s and is now widely used in medical, structural and health and beauty industries. Working at the nano level means quite small. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, (nano =billion). That is difficult to…
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