How to Photograph a Meteor Shower?
Taking photographs of a meteor shower can be an exercise in patience as meteors streak across the sky quickly and unannounced, but with these tips – and some good fortune…
Article Type: Science
How a 19th Century Math Genius Carl Friedrich Gauss Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice?
We’ve all been there. You pick up a slice of pizza and you’re about to take a bite, but it flops over and dangles limply from your fingers instead. The crust…
Everything Worth Knowing About The Periodic Table
Learn all about the 118 combinations of protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up our world. Whether hung on classroom walls, put up in dorm rooms or screen-printed on T-shirts,…
Math of the Penguins
Animals have evolved to protect against the cold in myriad ways. Whales insulate with blubber. Bison congregate near geothermal springs. Black bears shelter in caves. And emperor penguins, facing Antarctica’s…
How the Brain Creates Personality: A New Theory
It is possible to examine any object—including a brain—at different levels. Take the example of a building. If we want to know whether the house will have enough space for…
A Peek into Einstein’s Zurich Notebook
In the half century and more of Einstein’s work in science, one discovery stands above all as his greatest achievement. It is his general theory of relativity. In it, Einstein found…
To Your Brain, Listening to a Book Is Pretty Much the Same As Reading It
As is required of all women in their 30s, I am in a book club. At the first meeting of this group, one poor unsuspecting woman mentioned that she had…
First Children Are Smarter—but Why?
“Those born earlier perform better in school”—and according to a new study, it’s because of the parents. Moms and dads simply go easy on their later-born kids, according to data analyzed…
Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks
ON APRIL 1, 1994, PAUL Butcher, then the director of Colorado Springs parks department, received a chilling phone call from a frantic staff member. She told him that Balanced Rock—a 290-million-year-old…
What Is the Sun Made Of and When Will It Die?
If and when physicists are able to pin down the metal content of the sun, that number could upend much of what we thought we knew about the evolution and…
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