Zero is an extremely hard concept to understand. Quantities of things—whether they are bundles of fruit, communities of people, or blocks of wood for construction—are vital to our livelihood. But nothing, as far as...
Shaking Up Guinness Drinkers: Why a Martini Glass May Be Best for the Brew
(Article from Livescience.com, Rachael Rettner)
Beer connoisseurs would certainly give you an odd look if you imbibed your Guinness from a martini glass.
But one mathematician says this actually might be the best glass to serve Guinness in because it allows the beer's bubbles to settle faster.
William Lee, a professor of mathematics at the University of Huddersfield in England, has studied the unique flow of bubbles in the creamy stout, and recently weighed in on which type of glassware would hypothetically be best to serve the famous Irish beer in.
"People think that the Guinness glass is designed to optimize the...
Cranberries, With a Side of Science
Halloween Science Connections!
Source: Science Buddies
As Halloween approaches, there are a number of ways you can tie science in with activities and projects that let kids get hands-on with things slimy, ghoulish, gross, light-up, or glow-in-the-dark. For the trick-or-treat crowd, there are plenty of candy-themed experiments to help kids whittle down—or statistically analyze—some of their All Hallows' Eve loot, too!
Browse the following list of inspired Halloween science activities and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) connections to bring science to life for your kids and students this October:
- Boba Spherification: The Science of Juice-filled Caviar: use spherification...
Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to 3-D snapshots of life’s atomic details
Winners are recognized for their roles in developing cryo-electron microscopy
By: Carolyn Gramling and Laurel Hamers
October 4, 2017
Source: Science News
An imaging technique that freezes tiny biological objects such as proteins and viruses in place so that scientists can peer into their structures at the scale of atoms has won its developers the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Joachim Frank of Columbia University and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, won for their contributions to the development of...
