Baseball Bat Physics
Try balancing a baseball bat on your hand. With some experimenting, you'll find that the bat stays up longer if you put the heavy end up. Why?
View ArticleDo Cats Rule While Dogs Just Drool?
In the contest of pet superiority - dogs versus cats - who knew that drinking method was even a topic?
View ArticleFloating at the Center of the Earth
Weightlessness is a concept we're all familiar with, in part because of all the coverage of space flight we have seen. Astronauts floating in the space shuttle, or floating around during space walks....
View ArticleCosmic Shatter
New calculations suggest the breaking up of neutron star crusts may be to blame for anomalous x-ray bursts.
View ArticleHow Does Your Body Know Which Way Is Up?
Your body uses three senses to keep you balanced--to tell you what's up and down.
View ArticleScientists Are Discovering New Exoplanets Every Week
Did you know it seems we're discovering a new exoplanet every week?
View ArticleHow Roots Know to Grow Down
Have you heard of gravitropism? It's the unique ability of plants to sense gravity, and respond accordingly. In other words, it's how a plant knows to point its roots downward. Learn more on this...
View ArticleHow Do Astronauts Go To The Bathroom In Space?
How do astronauts go to the bathroom in space? It may sound silly, but it's really a good question, because weightlessness does make a visit to the latrine a tricky proposition. Learn more on this...
View ArticleWhy Is Gravity Good For Us?
Anyone who spends an extended period of time in space faces serious medical problems due to the near total absence of gravity.
View ArticleZero Gravity, Does It Exist?
When astronauts orbit the earth, they're still subject to gravity, but they're moving sideways so quickly that even though they're being pulled towards the earth, they're not getting any closer to the...
View ArticleYears Ago, The Year Was 400 Days Long
Scientists have found fossil evidence from tropical corals that existed at that time, and they have about 400 daily growth rings per year.
View ArticleHas Earth’s Gravitational Pull Been Changing?
If the earth keeps accumulating mass, does that mean that the Earth's gravitational pull has been increasing?
View ArticleHow Rip Tides Got a Bad Rap
Rip tides have taken on mythical proportions as killer waves.
View ArticleSleeping In Space
Research has shown that people snore less in space. Could this have any ramifications has for us here on Earth?
View ArticleFloating Clouds
Despite weighing tons, clouds seem to free-float in the air. How do the billowy marvels stay up in the sky?
View ArticleAppalachian Bend
The Appalachian Mountain range has a strange bend in it caused by the gravitational pull of certain underground rocks.
View ArticlePlanets of Double Stars
ne would expect these planets to be found in circular orbits lined up with the sun's equator
View ArticleComplex Life and the Moon
Our moon stabilizes Earth's axis and makes for habitable conditions; but, scientists discover, life is still possible without moonlit nights.
View ArticleRunning Rings Around Us
Saturn's rings are made of the remnants of former moons that were destroyed in a collision.
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