Blogs about Science

1. Introduction In our previous analysis, we tested the lithium levels of ten American foods. All ten foods were found to contain levels of lithium above the limit of detection, but some foods contained a …

The Republican vice-presidential nominee made some remarks a few years ago about non-parents (“We are effectively run in this country . . . by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their …

Before your read this, I suggest you read post 24.5. In post 24.5, we saw that the displacement, x, of a damped simple harmonic oscillator is given by equation 1. Here t represents time, dx/dt …

The Pope of Physics is a 2016 biography of Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), written by Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin. Segre's uncle Emilio was a student of Fermi's in Rome, whereas Hoerlin's father knew Fermi from …