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Science Corner – The biggest ice cube in the world
January’s column was about snowflakes. This one is about an ice cube, a huge one called – wait for it – IceCube. Each side...
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Science Corner – Stardust in the snow
As I write this story in mid-December there is no snow here – probably a trend – but people around me are singing “Let...
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Science Corner – The sparkles on the roof
One night in 1939 Professor Pierre Auger’s daughter asked him, “Papa, what are you doing?” In French, of course.
“I’m studying the sparkles on the...
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Science Corner – Hydrogen, helium, lithium – energy!
Lithium is in the news. The 2019 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for transforming our lives and helping to...
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Science Corner – Nothing does not exist
That title is another way of saying: “There’s no such thing as an empty box.” Let’s try to make one with a “thought experiment.”...
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Science Corner – Welcome to the dark side
There’s something strange out in space. Scientists know it’s there, but not what it is. We know about visible stars and planets, gas and...
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Science Corner – The miracle of carbon
Carbon is necessary for all life. If the element carbon did not exist, scientists believe the universe would be sterile, no life anywhere. Among...
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Science Corner – One small STEM for a man, 50 years ago
“Thousands upon thousands of years ago, at the dawn of human history, Stone Age men gazed at the Moon and wondered just what it...
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Science Corner – Know your elements? 150-year anniversary of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table
Once upon a time long ago, philosophers thought that the material world, including themselves, was made of just four simple elements. For the Greeks...
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Science Corner – Can you see a black hole?
One hundred years ago this month, the astronomer Arthur Eddington and a colleague went to an island off the coast of Africa to photograph...
