The science nerds in middle and high school were an inscrutable bunch. They were the first to figure out how cool it was to mix certain chemical compounds together to lead to a minor explosion. They actually enjoyed dissecting and…
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Back in the 1960s, famous science fiction author Ray Bradbury penned a short story about a little girl named Agatha whose mother had tragically died. Agatha’s father, knowing that his daughter needed a mother, went out and got an “Electric…
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The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, was launched by NASA in 2001 and stationed 1.5 million kilometers outside the Earth’s orbit. The instrument scans the sky every six months to create a “microwave map” of the universe. This allows…
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We began rapidly burning things. Luckily for the whales, crude oil was discovered. Or is it worse for the whales in the long run, because climate change fueled by non-renewable energy has changed all of earth? No matter how you…
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Falsification is the action of disproving a proposition, hypothesis, or theorem. It is not falsification but FALSIFIABILITY that is one of the important principles undergirding scientific progress. Falsifiability — also called refutability and testability — is the logical possibility that…
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The Question About Energy! Have you ever wondered what would happen if suddenly we had no reserves of crude oil? Well, this is what the world will be facing in the not too distant future, even if we discover more…
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A clock is something some of us wish had never been invented. The shrill whine, beep, or ring, of our morning alarms however is just a more recent adaptation of ancient clocks. Nature invented “time telling”, by making the sun,…
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Popular Science has featured an Invention Awards for five years. This year’s ten top inventions, according to Popular Science, are carrying on the tradition of past awards years. The inventions highlight genius, creativeness, care for people and the planet and…
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TO THE POINT OF CORRECTIONIt may seem a paradox, but despite the word falsification, it is through this, those who have a better knowledge of what the science is within this classification of the matter at hand is, will always…
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What an arrogant thought; us being alone in the Universe. When one considers the creation, rise and evolution of life on our planet, a few things should spring to mind. First might be what a wild, unlikely chain of events…
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