These virtual experiments are optimized for high school students, but anyone can learn the basics of materials science and engineering. They simulate basic materials experiments used by scientists and ...

We will look at a very easy experiment that provides lots of information about the strength or the mechanical behavior of a material, called the tensile test. The basic idea of a tensile test is to ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics experiments ... repeated story in all of science, Newton is said to have ...

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Once the experiment was done ... Andrea Tamayo is a Fall 2024 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor degree in microbiology and a master's degree in science communication.

Made with support from Taighde Éireann/ Research Ireland we have free Primary School Science classroom resources with 20 lesson plans to accompany the experiments in the show. Here, we will share ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

And, COP16 will tackle questions like who should profit from non-human DNA, and who is responsible for financing critical conservation projects ... from the week in science, including an ...

Since its proclamation by UNESCO in 2001, World Science Day for Peace and Development has generated many concrete projects, programmes and funding for science around the world. The Day has also ...

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy background. Now a newly published algorithm might change all that, and ...

Scientists who question the validity of animal experiments are warning that medical ... the response from the dean of science at one university was: “You’ve got to be kidding me.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...