Physical Science

The acute shortage of Acetonitrile is caused by a series of events that took place in the year 2008. The production of acetonitrile dropped significantly in China as they were busily involved in hosting the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. To…
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The Kepler spacecraft has discovered that one in five of stars similar to the Sun of the Earth’s solar system have planets similar to Earth. Scientists claim there are billions of planets that have the proper conditions for the support…
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You know about the blue moon, but a pink one? Yes, a pink moon will be featured on April 15 this year, along with a lunar eclipse. You’ve never seen a pink moon? Actually, you probably have; there was one…
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Messier 87, or M87, is a giant elliptical galaxy located about 53.5 million light-years from Earth. It is known for the supermassive black hole in its core and its exceptionally bright radio emissions. M87 is also known as Virgo A…
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Transition metals are a group of special metals that are located in the periodic table between the alkaline earth metals and the nonmetals.  They have unfilled d-shells with electrons.  By definition transition metals are those metals in the periodic table with…
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Thanks to Toshiba’s new generation of micro-nuclear reactors, the dream of some engineers may finally become a reality. No, the reactors aren’t small enough to fit into the DeLorean Dr. Emmett Brown drove in “Back to the Future,” but they…
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When you look into the night sky, you see the moon- large and brilliantly bright.  Have you ever wondered how it came to rest in the sky?  Scientists have a number of theories about the origin of the Earth’s lone…
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Did Stephen Hawking really claim there are no black holes? Science is a complicated, ever-changing discipline, as much as lay people like to imagine otherwise. Based on reason and logic, science seems like it should be absolute, but unfortunately those…
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Understanding net ionic equations in chemistry requires first understanding ionic exchange reactions, and in particular, precipitation reactions. Ionic exchange reactions, including precipitation reactions, take place in water, referred to in chemistry as “aqueous solution.” When an ionic compound is dissolved…
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It’s hard to imagine that something as large as a moon could be lost, but that’s exactly what happened to Naiad, Neptune’s closest moon. The 62 mile-wide moon went missing in 1989, shortly after it was discovered by the cameras…
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