Physics And Chemistry

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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, Science Ditty Friday, Scientainment, Space, Video on 01 27th, 2012 | No Comments

SDF: Science Rap Battle of History — Einstein v. Hawking

Editor’s Note: In 2012 REALscience rolled out a new feature — Science Ditty Friday. Each and every Friday we’ll compile a song (preferably with accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. And there will be a more detailed explanation of the science in the lyrics...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Backyard Science, Citizen science, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 01 24th, 2012 | No Comments

Big Solar Storm Brewing

As a precaution planes that travel over the North Pole are being rerouted. Satellites are bracing for a direct hit and technicians are watching energy grids with unblinking eyes. The reason for all the hub-bub is a big solar storm. The Space Weather Prediction Center issued a warning on Monday when...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 01 17th, 2012 | No Comments

IBM Cracks Atomic Hard Drive Code

Right now there are about one million magnetized atoms involved in one bit of information. A bit is defined as a variable that can have only two possible values, 1 or 0. In computing those values are interpreted as binary digits. And IBM just lowered that minimum threshold from one million to 12. For...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Scientainment, SciLebs, Video on 01 9th, 2012 | 3 Comments

Student Sings Science Project

Maggie Arias is on her way to becoming the next iTunes sensation. The Atlanta-area 6th Grader is not your typical pop princess though. She uses “thermosphere” in her song, Aurora, which pays tribute to the beauty and power of the Northern Lights. When her teacher asked each student to become...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Biology, Evolution, Featured Articles, Genetics, Physics and Chemistry, SciLebs on 12 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Rosie Redfield — Tyrant Queen of Science

Rosie Redfield is no shrinking violent. The outspoken University of British Columbia microbiologist always seems to have a wild hair about something. This year it ran the gamut from a fight over mailing flu cells to England using FedEx to her efforts showing scientific journals acting irresponsibly by...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Science & Religion, Video on 12 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Science Finds Shroud of Turin Wasn’t Faked

A new theory posits that an instantaneous light burst at the moment of Jesus’ resurrection left the imprint of his image in the cloth used to bury him. Just in time for what believers call a Christmas miracle, a team of Italian scientists has concluded that the cloth believed to hold the image...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Is Metal the New Building Block of Life?

The focus of Lee Cronin’s work is understanding and controlling self-assembly and self-organisation in chemistry to develop functional molecular and nano-molecular chemical systems; linking architectural design with function and recently engineering system-level functions.Lee Cronin's Lab Searches...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Computer Science, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 14th, 2011 | No Comments

New Newton Project Drops Online

Sir Isaac Newton wrote mainly in Latin and Greek, the languages of science at the time he made astonishing discoveries about the laws of motion and gravity. Now those numerous writings are being put online in new a collection of 4,000 pages, including his hand-annotated copy of Principia Mathematica.Principia...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 12 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Search Narrows for Particle to Explain All Mass

For physicists the search for the elusive subatomic particle that gives all things mass is tantamount to the search for the Holy Grail. That’s one reason why scientists call the much-theorized but never seen Higgs Boson the God particle. Now an update on research from the European nuclear agency...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Earth-like Planet Fuels Excitement for Space Exploration

The question is the subject of movies, science fiction novels and our own curious minds. Are we alone in the universe? Prevailing scientific wisdom says yes but more and more the answer appears to be no. With the advent of more sensitive cosmological equipment to scan the night sky, astronomers are...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Backyard Science, Citizen science, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Combustion Whoosh Bottle Experiment Done Right

Last week, a Minnesota science class got more than they bargained for when a combustible demonstration being done by the physical sciences teacher caught chemicals on a lab table on fire and burned several students, including 15-year-old Dane Neuberger. The burned student says, “I started screaming...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 5th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Help Name the New Elements

The latest additions to the periodic table of the elements finally have placeholder names. It was earlier this year when elements 114 and 116 were admitted onto the coveted list of elements. At the time they were referred to by their numerical Latin ununquadium and ununhexium. They might be called flerovium...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Arctic Region Warms into New Climate State

In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began monitoring the Arctic region, creating an annual report card to mark rapid change occurring there. Five years in and the news isn’t good. The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows that the entire region is changing dramatically. Ice, both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Inventions, Physics and Chemistry, Robotics, Video on 11 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Softbots Slither in Tight Spaces

(no audio to accompany video) After the earthquake in Japan or Haiti robots were pretty useless in sifting through rubble to find survivors. They also didn’t do well in off-road situations where the environment had shifted and they couldn’t maneuver over obstacles. But a chemist at Harvard...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Engineering, Inventions, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Quantum Levitation Hovers on the Horizon

Science has proven it’s possible to make the Back to the Future II hover board a thing of the future. But first scientists need to overcome the need to flash freeze the object in order to turn it into a superconductor, which makes quantum levitation possible.Team Demonstrates Quantum Levitation...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Inventions, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 11 10th, 2011 | No Comments

Bright Ideas Drove Invention of Mundane Things

Right now Steve Jobs is being remembered as the man who made technology personal and pleasing. But as time passes the iPod, iPhone and iPad will become part of our lives, no longer remarkable. This is the same journey that other inventions took, from bright, new concept to items in everyday use.iPad,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment

Climate Skeptics Confirm Global Warming

Global warming has become so politicized that many people forget there is science underlying the concept. The camps sort out like this. Climate scientists for the most part agree that the world is heating up thanks to man-made or anthropogenic global warming, largely caused by excess carbon dioxide...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Backyard Science, Citizen science, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 10 26th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Northern Lights Track South

Generally people in the far northern latitudes get to see the solar wind dancing with the magnetic field around Earth. But because of increased solar activity, the northern lights have been more visible further south, including Alabama, Georgia and even Florida. An automated NASA camera that takes a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Geology, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Scientainment, SciLebs, Space, Video on 10 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Music Meets Science in Biophilia

The voice of nature Sir David Attenborough is featured explaining Iceland musician Bjork’s latest venture — Biophilia. It’s part music album reflecting the connection points between sound, nature and technology. It’s an app for iPhones and iPads. It’s a creation generator...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Climate Change, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, Science of..., Video on 10 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Science of…Fall Foliage

For leaf peepers Fall is the time for the best leaves. They turn from bright green to yellow, then orange and if the conditions are right red and purple too. But what makes fall colors so spectacular? Science can explain. First just about everybody knows that chlorophyll gives leaves their green color....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Physiology, Scientainment, Video on 10 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Ig Nobel Prizes Take a Lighter Look at Science

Pee pressure, beer bottle-humping beetles and a wasabi-flavored fire alarm were among the top prizes awarded at Harvard University’s 21st Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, a more laid back version of the Nobel Prize ceremony. Nobel Prize laureates present the Ig Nobels to scientists and philosophers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 10 5th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Quasicrystal Discovery Wins Chemistry Nobel Prize

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” Until his 1982 discovery, Dr. Shechtman, who has joint appointments at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 10 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Three Capture Nobel Prize in Physics for Expanding Universe

For scientists it doesn’t get any bigger than the Nobel Prize. This year’s winners in the Physics category receive the honor for work they did on the biggest subject available to them or anyone — the universe. Three U.S. scientists are sharing the prize for their theory of a rapidly...

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