…heats the Earth and makes it habitable for us. So when the Sun is more active, the Earth should get warmer, right? Wrong. New research, recently published in Nature, shows…
…feature the Blueprint Wizard, which automatically deconstructs a 3D structure into 2D pieces, figures out which pieces are on the same 2D plane, generates a layout of all the planes,…
…saltwater is denser so molten freshwater from the ice cube cannot sink, even if it is colder. Somehow, saltwater provides greater buoyancy. Figure 4 shows that sixteen minutes later, the…
…Irrationality as they solve puzzles involving poetic meter, parts of speech, the number system, pi, and much more. A tool for interdisciplinary learning of middle school content, Lost in Lexicon…
…people learning to solder, and of all ages and genders. As far as technology goes, I loved the booth from NYC Resistor, especially the prepared piano and the hacked slot…
…infrared camera. The infrared camera, in just one simple shot, captured the salient and subtle details that reveal very complex physics, which I still do not understand. What is the…
…they did not expect the temperature at the tip to be so high, the students were fully aware of the convection effect, because they cut some slits at the bottom…
…freely available for education, such as Jmol, PyMOL, QuteMol, and Visual Molecular Dynamics, to name a few. All of these tools present wonderful graphics for showing molecules in 3D. When…
…only a decade ago. There are, of course, some debates going on among CPU designers whether to make a personal computer something like a shiny iPhone box, or to make…