Physical Science

Light pollution is said to occur when artificial sources of light interfere with the natural night environment as a result of the glare that such lights create. This phenomenon is essentially a function of the increased, and increasing, level of urbanization…
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Telescopes are time machines: The farther they peer into the cosmos the further back in time they see. Over the past 100 years telescopes have traveled further back in time each decade until, with the advent of the superscopes and…
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An eclipse, also called an occultation, is an occurrence of one celestial body passing in front of another, from the point of reference of an observer. These can be viewed from a point on Earth or they can be viewed…
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Light is naturally available in our surrounding, either in day time or at night. Such light may derive from the natural or artificial resources. When we see an object located far from our standing place, we think that what we…
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The terms “binary planet” and “double planet” are informal terms used to describe a binary system of two astronomical objects that fit the definition of a planet and are close enough to each other that their gravitational fields affect each…
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Television shows like Star Trek have opened up a world of fantasy to generations of fans. Producers told viewers of exploring new worlds and boldly going “where no man has gone before”. Perhaps that is why scientists are so enamored…
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The Schroedinger equation is a quantum mechanical differential equation that describes the energetics of atoms and molecules.  In addition, its solution of atomic and molcular wavefunctions gives the shape and energy of the various atomic and molecular orbitals of the molecule under investigation. The Schroediger…
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Alchemy has been much romanticized, and much superstition has sprung up around it. The reality of alchemy is that while the Dark Ages of science swept over Europe, leaving the populace ignorant at best, Eastern scholars in the modern day…
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When Sputnik 1 was launched into orbit in 1957, it soared up into a pristine environment. Now, after more than half a century of rockets, space stations, and artificial satellites, that situation has changed, with scientists claiming that it is…
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Besides the obvious facts regarding the most recently discovered fourth state of matter, explained in J.G.R.’s “Yes” article on, Plasma… Try to clear your mind and imagine for a moment the vastness of our universe, which the world’s top scientific…
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