Wetter not Necessarily Better in Amazon Basin
June through September is the dry season for the Amazon Basin of South America. Yet the basin's dry season may be getting uncharacteristically wetter, according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. That's news that could affect all of us, no…
Continue reading →
More science facts
Geology
Pointing North
The needle of a compass is a small magnet, one that is allowed to pivot in the horizontal plane. The needle…
Astronomy
Keeping Your Balance for Good Science
Around the 20th to 22nd of March, the Sun will have reached an astronomical location that is used to mark the…
Biology
Left Nostril Right Brain
A recent experiment performed by researchers at Philadelphia's Monell Chemical Senses Center, probably the…
Physics
The Fourth State of Matter
There are three classic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas; however, plasma is considered by some…