Articles in the Category: Physics and Chemistry
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Geology, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 03 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Chile’s Quake of the Century
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the city of Concepcion, Chile over the weekend is the largest recorded quake in 50 years. Though more people were killed and left homeless after the Haiti earthquake in January, this quake was about 500 times more powerful.
Cameras captured the earthquake...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 02 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
Fixing Food with Science
Cookbook author David Joachim shows how his book The Science Of Good Food can fix most any kitchen mess. And in this video you’ll learn how to turn a basic custard into a delicious orange flan.
Joachim says you can turn to the book when you are baking a cake and something goes wrong. He’ll...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Science of..., Video on 02 15th, 2010 | No Comments
The Science of…The Winter Olympics
San Francisco Bay area teachers are using the 2010 Winter Olympics to teach kids about math and science.
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation teamed up with NBC Learn — the educational arm of NBC News — and the National Science Foundation to provide free lesson plans and video clips....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments
The Love Hormone Field Test
It’s a rare occasion when a scientist can test a theory outside the confines of a laboratory. So when Paul Zak got a call from New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes to take her blood at her wedding, he just couldn’t say no.
Dr. Zak is an ocytoxin researcher who studies social indicators of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011
The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs.
Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Geology, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Uncategorized, Video on 01 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Scientists Return to Haiti to Study Quake
A group of geoscientists from leading research universities just received a grant to travel to Haiti to study the aftermath of the 7.0 Haiti earthquake that devastated the capital of Port-au-Prince on January 12.
Led by Eric Calais from Purdue University, the team will take measurements of the changes...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 01 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Building a Potato Powered Calculator
Long a science fair project staple, this potato powered calculator is easy to recreate yourself. Batteries not necessary.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Endangered Species, Global Warming, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video, Weird Weather on 01 13th, 2010 | No Comments
Cold Snap Masks Global Warming for a Minute
Much of the country and for that matter the Northern Hemisphere has been locked in an icy weather pattern that sent records tumbling and even forced Florida produce growers to seal oranges and strawberries in ice to protect them from frigid temperatures.
Some scientists are saying this is yet another...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 31st, 2009 | No Comments
Fizzy Science of Champagne
For centuries, champagne makers considered pent-up carbon dioxide a hazard that could make their bottles explode. But the bubbles are so pleasing to the palette, it’s no wonder 322 million bottles of champagne were sold world-wide last year. WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz reports.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Space, Uncategorized on 12 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Final Frontier Goes Commercial
There are growing signs that outer space is going to become the domain of private enterprise. Since the U.S. space program began, it has been largely controlled by the federal government. But that’s all changing.
The first spaceport just broke ground in New Mexico. The first commercial spaceline...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 11 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Team Science Started the Internet and Powers the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider, a $6 billion particle accelerator, is so large that a recent status report lists 2,900 authors. Robert Lee Hotz reports on how the project is a prime example of how scientists are inventing new ways to foster teamwork through the Internet and shared databases around the world.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Moon Water Found–Now What?
Moon Water, courtesy of Babaloo.
After a lackluster lunar blast that was barely visible, scientists worried there might not be water on the moon. But after analyzing the mountain of preliminary data, NASA confirmed there is water–in the form of ice–just below the surface of the lunar poles.
This...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Climate Deniers Turn Up Heat on Science Societies
Scientists within the most venerated science organizations in the United States are mounting rebellions against those organizations and their somewhat unified policy on the science of climate change–that it is real and being driven by human activities.
A group of several hundred of 47,000 physicists...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Ecology, Global Warming, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Teachers off to Antarctica
Gary Wesche is counting the days. It’s down to 14 now before he heads to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition. KMBC’s Bev Chapman reports from St. Regis Catholic School in Kansas City.
Wesche’s expedition to study ice sheets is organized by PolarTREC where you can follow Gary’s...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments
2012 Hoax Debunked
2012 is becoming the conspiratorial talk of the town. And a new Sony Pictures disaster movie by the same name only seems to be confusing matters. NASA even posted a Q & A page on its Web site.
Here’s the gist of the kitchen sink hoax. It starts with the end of the Mayan calendar, adds a mystery...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video on 11 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Beer’s Organileptic Chemistry
Beer has been flavoring human culture for at least 9,000 years. During that time, the rich brew has transformed and evolved to satisfy the complex palates of the time.
Now, science is a driving force in making beer. And, understanding some of the chemistry can refine color, aroma and flavor.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Geology, Math, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 5th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Mt. Blanc Gets a Height Check
Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps is standing tall — all 4,810.45 metres of it. That’s only 45 centimetres less than when it was last measured four years ago, but three metres above the height French schoolchildren have long been taught. Scientists carried out new measurements in...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 3rd, 2009 | 7 Comments
Exoplanet Name Game
Most people don’t realize that since the advent of high-powered telescopes and a new method in planetary detection called radial velocity, over 400 new planets have been spotted orbiting distant stars. And it all began in 1995.
Now with new planet discoveries growing interest in finding Earth-like...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Backyard Science, Books, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Wind on 10 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
They call William Kamkwamba “the boy who harnessed the wind.” At 14, after dropping out of school, the African boy in a rural Malawi village taught himself how electricity works, and built a windmill from scraps and pieces of a bicycle.
Now 22, Kamkwmaba has a book, detailing how he built...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Science & Entertainment, Uncategorized on 10 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Balloon Boy Takes Us All for a Ride
The man behind the recent hoax captured our attention but smeared amateur science in the process. Fame-hungry Richard Heene used his son and some faked backyard science to launch his reality TV career.
Most people thought it was highly unlikely that a 40-pound boy stowed away in the balloon and floated...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 10 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Moon Plume Kicks up Scientific Data
Cabeus Crater, impact zone for LCROSS mission
When NASA smashed an expensive satellite and rocket into the moon, many people wondered why the space agency would do such a thing.
Then on October 9, with hundreds of thousands of people watching, the big plume of dirt and ice that would indicate a successful...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Global Warming, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 10 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Arctic Tipping Point on the Horizon
Evidence of global warming is hitting the Arctic harder than anywhere else. The rate of climate change is twice that of the rest of the world.
And, now scientists are discovering the Arctic region plays an important role in capturing atmospheric carbon, both in the ocean and on land.
But that delicate...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud
Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah
A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...
