clhs sciblog

Not many people consider cars and stars to be similar, but did you know they are?  It’s true!  Just like cars, stars move.  Some stars move faster than others just like how some people drive faster than others.  In this case there is a specific star called “Alpha Camelopardalis”, or Alpha Cam.  This star is [...]

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How many planets are there?  Can you name them all?  Maybe you’d start by saying, “Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,” Then you would say,”So that’s eight planets.”  The truth is there are actually over 500 planets!  The characteristics of planets are simple.  It must orbit the sun.  It must be large enough [...]

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Physicist Jerry Ross who builds and test aircraft at Princeton’s plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey doesn’t spend lot of time thinking about art. When he heard about Princeton’s “Art of Science” contest, he thought about glowing plumes streaking out  of his ion thrusters in a new light. Plasma technology allows satellites and spacecrafts  to maneuver. [...]

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Scientists in Europe have recently used lasers in labs to condense water molecules to form clouds. They have also reproduced this feat in the skies over Berlin, Germany. The lasers work by getting rid of the electrons in the atoms in the air, forming hydroxyl radicals. These form particles which are the base of water [...]

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A study done at Brigham Young university proved that washing your hands has a psychological effect on your body. If you make a decision that you feel you are regretting, they simply suggest you just wash your hands. It’s called the “MacBeth Effect” because in Shakespeare’s MacBeth, Lady MacBeth scrubbed her hands after committing a [...]

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It has been discovered that monitoring quakes from moving magma in active volcanoes can help to accurately forecast an eruption.  The magma inside of a volcano is the main thing that indicates when an eruption will happen.  It was discovered that the time between the beginning of the pre-eruption of a volcano and the actual [...]

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I guess many people watched movie “Avatar”. We all know that it is illusion and fantasy. Creating those realistic looking illusions is the job of the film’s cast and crew. To make  color look the same throughout a film, scenes look real, and reproducing highlights and shadows fifteen scientists and engineers worked on it and they [...]

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Stephen McNutt was studying seismic data from a 1992 volcanic eruption, and noticed strange spikes in the data. He figured out it was picking up lightning strikes, so now he had to get help from physicists studying lightning. They set up special devices that picked up lighting data around a volcano that was acting up [...]

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According to a study done by a Professor at UC Santa Cruz and a graduate student from Italy, predicting volcanic eruptions can be very simple. Inside volcanoes magma flows through. If the volcano has been dormant for a period of time, the magma is thick and full of silica. The slow-moving magma pushes against and [...]

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