Showing posts with the label Science & Research

How an Ancient Piece of Earth Rock Ended Up on The Moon

Oct 11, 2022

The six Apollo missions that landed on the moon from 1969 to 1972 brought back several hundred kilograms of rocks from the lunar surface. Sc...

How Rubber Ducks Are Helping Scientists Chart The Oceans

Apr 2, 2021

In early January 1992, the container ship Evergreen Ever Laurel departed Hong Kong for Washington. Among the millions of things that Ever L...

Johann Josef Loschmidt And Avogadro’s Number

Feb 22, 2021

Johann Josef Loschmidt is a name that might not ring many bells, yet everyone who took chemistry in junior college had surely come across Lo...

Pitch Drop Experiment: The World’s Longest Running Lab Experiment

Dec 17, 2020

The pitch drop experiment began in 1927 when Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, set out to dem...

OncoMouse: The Mouse That Disrupted Science

Jun 17, 2020

In 1988, the US Patent Office awarded for the first time in history a patent for an animal to the Harvard University. The U.S. Patent Numb...

Meteor Burst Communication

Sep 16, 2019

Everyday billions of space rocks crash into the earth’s atmosphere and disintegrate before they reach the ground. This produces two main eff...

The World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber

Dec 6, 2018

At the 6,400-acre Plum Brook Field Station complex near Sandusky, Ohio, stands five large test facilities operated by NASA to test various a...

Honoring Animals Used in Research And Testing

Jan 8, 2018

The United States’ National Academies of Sciences estimates that as many as 22 million vertebrate animals are used every year in the United...

The Electronic Ears That Listen to Secret Nuclear Tests

Dec 29, 2016

Twenty years ago, the world's first Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) of 1996, that prohibits nations from conducting any kin...

Campbell–Stokes Recorder: A Simple Device That Measures Sunshine

Oct 28, 2016

This crystal ball located outside Darwin Airport Meteorological Office, in Darwin, Australia, doesn’t look into the future, but provides inv...

The Elusive Gigantic Jets of Lightning

Sep 2, 2016

The most common kind of lightning observed from earth discharges from cloud to cloud or from clouds toward the ground. The more elusive form...

Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops

Aug 13, 2016

Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...

Satellite Images or Microscopic Photos?

Feb 3, 2016

While going through my daily reading list, one particular image posted on the Tumblr blog Daily Overview, which publishes high quality satel...

The First Flower Blooms in Space

Jan 19, 2016

A bright orange zinnia has grown for the first time in space, in zero gravity, and without soil. The zinnia, an edible flowering plant, was ...

Bacterial Art on Petri Dishes

Oct 8, 2015

The American Society for Microbiology launched its first ever Agar Art contest, inviting microbiologists to unleash their hidden creative ge...

Body Farms: Outdoor Research Facilities for Studying Decomposing Bodies

Aug 7, 2015

Less than forty years ago, our understanding of how the human body decomposes was limited. Much of what was known came from ancient studies ...

The Surreal World of Neutrino Detectors

Jul 27, 2015

Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles which make up the universe, but not in the way electrons, protons and neutrons are. These par...

3D Art Exhibition Allows Blind People to ‘See' Masterpieces by Touching Them

Mar 11, 2015

The Prado Museum in Madrid has open up a new exhibition called “Touch The Prado” that invites blind and partially sighted people to touch an...

Researcher Grows Microscopic Flowers by Controlling Crystallization

May 31, 2013

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have found a way to shape microscopic crystals into complex and beauti...

Astronaut Sandra Magnus Cooks in Zero Gravity

Sep 13, 2012

Food for astronauts working aboard the International Space Station usually come precooked and packaged in such a way so that it can be eaten...