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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's path to the Nobel prize was anything but smooth. He was nominated eleven different years for the prize and finally didn't win what you think that he did.

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Perpetual Motion: Start Building That Model For The Patent Office

These days, you aren't required to actually build a model any invention that you're wanting to file at the U.S. Patent Office except for one thing: a perpetual motion machine. And for good reason, it...

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Henry Mosely

He should have won a Nobel prize at the tender age of 26 when he introduced amazing physics insights to what exclusively had been a chemistry problem. But World War I intervened.

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Golden Rectangle

Some rectangles are really golden and we cherish them enough to carry them in our pockets or purse. But what did Pythagoras and his cronies have to do with this discovery? Let's dive in and explore on...

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Aging

In the Darwinian struggle for survival, why do some species age so much more quickly than others? Jerry and John slowly come to a quick conclusion. In dog years.

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Structural Color

You thought you learned everything you needed to know about color when mucking around with tempera paints in kindergarden. Not so. Nature has clever ways of revealing colors that we never imagined.

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IQ

What's your IQ? Afraid to ask? You won't be scared, though, to learn how the IQ score came into existence. Intrepid science explorers John Henshaw and Jerry McCoy travel back to 1899 as a French...

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Energy: How Many Scientists Does It Take To Change Light Bulb Behavior?

How many scientists does it take to change light bulb behavior? Two plus a spouse. Follow along as professors Henshaw and McCoy explore the topic of how energy affects your life.

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Planet Earth

Got your ticket for an interstellar vacation? That trip might be your last, depending on the destination. It turns out that there are very few places in the universe hospitable to lifeforms like us....

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The Metric System: What The French Revolution and the Dollar Bill Have To Do...

What do the French Revolution, the dollar bill, and the metric system have in common? A lot, it turns out, as revealed by our intrepid science explorers, Dr. Jerry McCoy and Dr. John Henshaw of The...

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The Placebo Effect: The Surprising Discovery of a Strange Influence

The placebo effect must be one of the strangest things to influence both man and beast. The fact that it can work, even though the person receiving the treatment knows that it's a placebo , is...

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Temperature: How Daniel Fahrenheit's Legacy Sets Us Apart From the Rest of...

We all have a sense of what's hot and what's cold and are able to translate that feeling to some thermometer number. But how did those numbers come about? And why is our temperature scale different...

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The Human Voice: How Can Something So Tiny Sound So Loud?

It's a miracle: a small flap of skin about the size of a dime or a quarter can produce sound which will fill a room when modulated by vocal folds and our body's resonant cavities. Professors McCoy and...

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AC / DC: The Inside Story On The Electric Power War

You'd think it would be a simple matter to generate electrical power and bring it into your home. Turns out that in the late 1880s, there was a War of the Currents between two titans of industry vying...

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Who Knew That a Giraffe's Heart Had Such a Big Job?

What can weigh more than 25 lb, measures about 2 ft, beats at twice the rate and has double the blood pressure of a human heart? Despite a popular myth, it isn't really big, but has a secret revealed...

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GPS and Einstein's Relativity

Did you know that your smartphone helps prove Einsteins theory of relativity? Its true, although were pretty sure Albert never imagined that his thought experiments would lead to a Global Positioning...

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