The Sugar Code: Representing Glycans
Hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers and blue moons, pots of golden rainbows and me red balloons! If you’ve ever eaten Lucky Charms cereal, you probably know this jingle and the tiny […]
Category Archives: Physical Science
Frosty the Microbe
‘Tis the season for stories of wintery magic. From Elsa and Frozone to their mythical grandfather, Jack Frost, there’s no cooler gift than the power to let it snow at […]
Cosmic Proportions
Everyone you’ve ever loved (or hated), everything you’ve ever held dear, every experience you’ve ever had – all of these have been confined to one tiny rock orbiting a giant […]
The EDGES Story: How Scientists Detected Effects of Light from the First Stars
In March 2018, a team of scientists led by Judd Bowman from Arizona State’s School of Earth and Space Exploration and Alan Rogers from MIT’s Haystack Observatory has done what […]
ER = EPR
Einstein is known for reshaping our conception of space and time and showing that this involved a re-imagining of gravity. This set the stage for the field of General Relativity, […]
What is Quantum Mechanics?
What comes to mind when you think about the word “physics?” You probably see yourself sitting in your high school or college Intro Physics course trying to memorize what seemed […]
The Origins of Rocketry
Curious about how rockets get into the sky? Join Graham as he discusses the origins of rocket engines and the history behind the technology that is still in use today. Sources: Robert […]
The Strangest Stars in Outer Space
Outer space is pretty weird. Ask anyone who has ever heard of a black hole or seen the movie Interstellar, and they are bound to agree. But those points of […]
Wait a Hot Minute!
What if I told you that the flow of time is an illusion due to our limited consciousness and that the only true distinction between the past and the future […]
Getting around space, Star Wars style?
Normally the scientific community takes a stab at making science fiction a reality. But, science fiction took a page from science this time around. Learn about how the ion engines […]
