Category: Science
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Element Friday: Hydrogen
Hydrogen, the first element on the most beautiful table of all, the periodic table of elements. At the beginning of the Universe, also known as the Big Bang, the Universe comprised mostly two elements, one of which was hydrogen. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe. It makes up seventy-three percent of the…
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Appreciating the Science and Side Stories in Oppenheimer
IsotopesThe star of the movie, aside from the obvious titular character, Oppenheimer, is the use of isotopes. The very much talked about uranium-235.An isotope is a variation of an element with a different number of neutrons. Since an element’s identity and chemical properties lie in the number of protons, adding neutrons changes the mass of…
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The Road to the Atom Bomb: The Joliot-Curies
“The first unquestionable proofs of the transformation of elements into different chemical elements have been provided by the study of the phenomena of radioactivity” -Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Just the Tip of Particle Physics: Quarks
Welcome to lies by omission, brought to you by the little faith in our educational system. You know which kind of lies I’m referring to, those similar to the ones your partner doesn’t tell you, so technically, they aren’t lying? Yep, that’s it. How can we truly be excited when we hear scientific breakthroughs, such…
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Homo sapiens sapiens…
In all the galaxies of all the universes (if you subscribe to M-theory, AKA String theory), we found ourselves here as the apex predator on Earth’s planet. Well, it really does boggle the mind that things could have ventured differently by only minor evolutionary derailments and misadventures in Earth’s History to be something completely different,…
The Homo Sapien Sapien 