Science ABC

There’s no better way to foster interest in science and chemistry than seeing it in full, dazzling action. Most of the time, kids and young people wouldn’t really be all that interested in how chemistry works. They wouldn’t be particularly bothered about the different reactions you can get out of two different chemicals interacting with [...]

This is the first post in a series about types of galaxies; today, we’ll be finding out more about Seyfert galaxies. This galactic type has been described for the first time by Carl K. Seyfert in 1943, who noted that their central regions have peculiar spectra with notable emission lines. Basically, what makes them special [...]

Paracetamol or acetaminophen (going by trade names such as Tylenol, Panadol, Efferalgan, and many more) is one of the most common and effective drugs out there. You’ve almost certainly took it at some point in your life, your parents have, your friends have, I don’t think I know more than a few people who never [...]

You’ve heard it since you were a kid – water doesn’t have a taste, a smell, or a color. But as science goes to show, that’s not quite right. While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, water’s tint becomes bluer and bluer as its thickness increases. Blue water You’ve seen it in [...]

Florida’s sinkholes are all over the news: a new sinkhole opened up in Seffner, Fla., the same town where a sinkhole swallowed a man just days ago. This is the third (reported) sinkhole in the Florida town in a month. So let’s take a little time to answer a few questions, like what are sinkholes, [...]

Iapetus is the third largest moon of Saturn, with a radius of about 42% that of our moon, and a mass that weighs up to only 2.5%. But Iapetus has a number of shocking features, unique throughout the entire solar system. The Walnut Moon This is the equatorial ridge that  runs along the center of [...]

As you may or may not know, we’ve launched a new section of our website: Science Questions and Answers – a section aimed at you guys, where you can ask all questions science-related, and share your knowledge with others. We’re still in the beta version, but please, feel free to ask away – we’ll do [...]

Every medical practitioner took an oath and swore to provide the best kind of care and service to people above all else – the Hyppocratic oath. Because of this, doctors and medical experts continuously study the human body and other, related subjects to further understand different diseases and treatment and improve as time passes. We [...]

If we ask the question today, ‘what is science?’ it quickly becomes apparent that the answer has changed through history. When Aristotle was searching through the nets of the fisherman on the coast of Lesbos, and deciding that sharks and rays were seemingly of a different family to fishes, and that they were different again [...]

The researchers of the Columbia University Medical Center discovered a nice revealed a nice little nugget of information that will probably astonish most of our male (and probably female) readers. The male fertility is determined partially by the bones. How exactly does this work and how does this effect us? Well, they’ve discovered that the [...]