For more than 100 years the safest, most effective, least expensive and widest-ranging drug known to man has been available to ease headaches, stop inflammation and lower fever.
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When speaking of mass extinctions we evoke a seriousness that transcends anything we have experienced in human history.
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Randomness might seem to dominate the world around us: falling leaves, the movement of trees in the wind, where the next raindrop will fall.
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As I sat in my kayak in Maunalua Bay in the muggy air and dwindling afternoon light last week, my thoughts focused on humidity.
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Some minerals have color because of what they do to light that passes through them or reflects from their surfaces.
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We use metals for so many different purposes that a list would go on page after page. The most common and most well known are iron and aluminum. It just happens that these are the two most abundant metals in Earth’s crust.
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Even with as much publicity as the current Puna eruption has garnered, there is still some misunderstanding about Kilauea Volcano’s eruptive behavior.
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The recent surge in debate among supposedly educated people about the shape of planet Earth is surprising, considering Eratosthenes, an ancient Greek scientist, measured its circumference 22 centuries ago.
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Thermonuclear reactions deep in the sun’s interior consistently generate the same amount of energy as 2.5 billion 500-megawatt generators, the largest on Earth.
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Is water at 200 degrees Fahrenheit twice as hot as water at 100 degrees Fahrenheit?
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The Science magazine event of the year was the collision of two neutron stars. This event, the first ever detected, produced both light and gravitational waves.
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Resonance is forced motion at a frequency near the natural oscillation frequency of a system.
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If the sky is not cloudy tonight and the air is not too cold, it might be worth a few minutes to have a look in the southern sky for the meteoric streaks of light from the Geminid shower.
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Diodes, like transistors and computer chips, rely on semiconductivity.
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Luigi Galvani discovered bioelectricity in the late 1770s when he began to experiment with muscular contraction of frog’s legs by electrical stimulation.
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Asteroids are common in our solar system, but astronomers have never seen one from outside the solar system, until now.
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Spin is in. Stars spin around supermassive black holes. Planets spin in orbit around the sun.
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Crystals are everywhere. With few exceptions the solid inorganic substances that make up our world are crystalline. This includes rocks, minerals, ceramics and metals.
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