Physical Science

The Robertson Panel, a secret study group of scientists and military personnel, were convened in the 1950’s by the CIA as a result of an incredible UFO flap that was besieging the USA at the time. The panel’s goal was…
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There are two main risks associated with using kitchen glassware for chemistry experiments.  The first centers on the type of glass itself, and whether it is appropriate for the experiment.  The second deals with the potential for cross-contamination between food…
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“Space, the Final Frontier….” says Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) as the opening of the famous Star Trek Series of the 1960s. What is interesting here is that man has had a desire to understand and…
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57 Alien Species: Are We Alone in the Universe? Sgt. Clifford E. Stone, U.S. Army (ret.) spent the majority of his life entangled in experiences, which we the general population consider alien. His exposure of these experiences to the public…
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Due to factors like air pollution and occasional improvements in navigational equipment, navigating by the stars is a dying art. Once commonly practiced, astral navigation was becoming passe by as early as the 3rd Century B.C.E. Still, navigation by starlight…
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UFO Travel Tunes We have been living in the midst of a pronounced invasion of the so-called UFO’s and we don’t appear to have gleaned a clue from the experience. I find that last fact to be more astonishing than…
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Astrobiologists are still searching for the smoking gun – the hard, irrefutable evidence that there were once not only the theoretical preconditions for life on Mars (what one might call circumstantial evidence of life), but that primitive life once existed on the…
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Fundamentally, it is a difference between how the electrical energy moves through the wires of a circuit. Simply said, DC, or Direct Current, moves in one direction through the wires, from point A to point B. On the other hand,…
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I teach high school science and over the years have come up with a number of favorite experiments. Seventh graders love high school labs. We have bunsen burners at every desk and if I let them, we would be lighting…
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Organic chemistry has long been notorious as one of the most difficult of undergraduate university classes; however, it is a very important field central to modern medicine and many of the biological sciences. Put simply, organic chemistry is “the study…
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