Recently, the Edinburgh International Science Festival has marked its 19th anniversary around April of this year. It’s a science festival that’s annually held in Edinburgh, Scotland for 12 days in April. The festival from what I read isn’t limited to…
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BA is the shortened term for the British Association for the Advancement of Science or BAAS. It was a society founded by William Vernon Harcourt in 1831. After growing tired and jaded with the Royal Society of London for the…
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In the history of human observation, there has been no scientifically verified, publicly acknowledged sighting of either extra-terrestrial or meta-physical phenomena. None. Conspiracy theorists will argue that officials will never acknowledge such sightings for fear of public unrest. I beg…
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Energy. The world knows how to create it and hungers for it. The great challenge over the past 100 years is how to effectively store it. While battery storage has come a long way since 1900, the improvements during the…
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What is embalming? Embalming is one of the many processes in which a body is kept preserved after death. There are many reasons why people choose to embalm, and many circumstances in which people would be embalmed. There are many…
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To understand what causes airplane turbulence, it must first be defined. When two different air masses, which have separate pressures, are disrupted for whatever reason, air turbulence will result. Combine an aircraft traveling through this atmospheric inconsistency, and you’ve got severe…
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AP reports that thousands of pieces of correspondence between some of the world’s leading climate scientists were stolen from the unit at the University of East Anglia and leaked to the Internet late last month. Skeptics of man-made global warming…
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A science gift can be an amusing and educational gift for your tween during the 2009 Christmas season. There are many choices that you have in this, and they range in price and area of interest. The following are some…
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Logic in science has an ancient lineage; Aristotle was the world’s first formal logician (he invented classical deductive logic) as well as one of the best early philosophers of science. He took the rational metaphysical ideas that Plato presented and…
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In the essay On the Uncertainty of Science written by Lewis Thomas in 1980 the main focus is on the human species and the evolving science around them. The author explains that over the past three hundred years science has…
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