Winter is a time for removing snow, and one fail safe go to is ice. Every winter the road crews bring out the ice trucks to help make driving conditions safer. Homeowners, as well, may salt their drives and sidewalks to prevent injury and accidents on their properties. Sure, we could dust the road and …
How does a pH indicator work? Every one of us has come across a pH based experiment. My first one was the cabbage pH colour change when I was at a nerdy friend’s birthday party in 3rd grade. Most of us, though, are directed to dip the pH indicator strip into a liquid to see …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. The skies over Japan will light up with a spectacular display of shooting stars in 2019. Do we know this because scientists have studied the astronomical and atmospheric conditions? Nope. We know this because the meteor shower …
Have you ever wanted a home lab? If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent your life trying to make room for various things you want to do. In my world, science was no exception to the rule. I was usually trying to find space for some experiment or another. It’s a constant struggle, and one …
There are drawbacks, of course, to doing environmental experiments in a laboratory setting. Small-scale experimentation may not yield the same results as a large-scale, real-world experiment. In a sterile lab, scientists may not be able to predict the impact of other environmental factors. A more accurate way of conducting research would be to experiments in …
When headlines read that an industry was turned on it’s head or disrupted, if you will, it gets not only the public and the media fired up, but also re-energizes the industry in question. It’s not a new concept — after all, those in the renaissance of science and technology would have been hard pressed …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. These days, it seems like robots are taking everything from our cars to our day jobs. However, there’s one task they’ll never be able to take away from humans — IKEA furniture-assembling (or, at least not yet). In …
You and your friends might joke about a man or a woman at the bar “looking better” after a couple of drinks but did you know that there is some science behind these claims? A new study published in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism decided to take a look at how alcohol impacts perception. Forty students at …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. In the article “10 Scientific Ideas that Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing,” Annalee Newitz spotlights a few common scientific misconceptions. To halt the trend, learners need accurate information, in a way they can process it, at …
I have mentioned before that I’ve worked with bored teens and university students alike. I’ve even been a bored student in any given class. However, I’ve noticed that the way the material is delivered can make a huge difference. Presentation can make an already difficult class even more so, or it could make it far …