Physical Science

Double Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie was born on November 7 1867 in Warsaw. The youngest daughter of teachers Bronislawa and Vladislav Sklodowska was born into a Poland occupied by three different countries, Prussia, Austria and Czarist Russia. Warsaw was…
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In the early 1970’s the words “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.” introduced episodes of the ‘The 6 Million Dollar Man’. Rebuilding people by replacing lost limbs with mechanical parts was science fiction at that time but…
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an eminent British-born astronomer and astrophysicist. She wrote many books, papers and monographs on astronomy and astrophysics, and she received many accolades for her scientific work and research into the composition, evolution, magnitude and distance of stars. Cecilia…
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Black Holes are one of the most powerful and amazing phenomenons that can happen in space. They have such a strong gravitational pull that anything they suck in has no chance of escaping. Black Holes suck in things like matter….
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Classical mechanics was Isaac Newton’s 1687 vision of the world: indestructible matter conducted the forceful energy exchanges propelling the ‘great mechanical machine’ of the universe.   Definitively disassembled for inspection and precisely observed, measured and weighed with certainty, scientists would be…
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Most of the science that gets reported in the media is directly to do with life: genetic engineering and the science of preventing illness and disease; GM crops and the science of improving food supplies; climate change and the challenge…
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Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation: Their Difference and Possible Health Consequences Radiation is a type of energy that is everywhere anytime. It can be in the form of waves or particles and may come from sources that are either natural or…
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Lasers are often thought of as either toys or science fiction, but the laser is actually a very important tool for scientists, and increasingly important in everyday life and industry. This history from the theoretical foundations created in 1917 to…
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Studying the laws of physics begins at a very young age. Many young students begin the study asking questions why it is important to study certain topics in school. Students believe that many of the things they study in school…
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In the 20th century, the invention of the airplane forever changed the way people moved from place to place across the world.  Offering a fast, convenient mode of transportation opened up commerce and travel on a scale previously undreamt of. …
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