Sciences
Helium covers all major science disciplines from biology and earth sciences to physical sciences and social sciences. We also look at medical sciences and mathematics. Can we control the weather? Find out here.
Reactions regarding Pluto's reclassification
This epitomizes what true science is about: refining our knowledge to better understand nature. At first, only Pluto's motion across the sky was known. Then the size and distance were estimated. Then its moon was resolved and later the moon was shown to be a co-planet. Finally the sizes, masses, and location of Pluto and it co-planet were shown to be just two of many bodies in a belt of rocks at that
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Yes
by Mark Waybill
I have for a long time been aware that the phenomenon we know as climate change is to only a tiny extent
No
It is mind boggling to me that people believe that the global warming issue is being disproven. The science
Botany
- Oregon grapes: Identification and uses
- How to skeletonize a leaf
- Botany: The Portuguese chestnut (Castanea sativa)
- Save a tree's life: Don't peel bark
- Why plants and trees have sap
- The importance of epiphytes explained
- Why do plants usually have green leaves?
Mathematics
- Using practical and statistical significance in testing the null hypothesis
- What is simple linear regression?
- Kurt Godel's Incompleteness made easy
- The Euler-Mascheroni constant
- Understanding different base number systems
- How math is used to describe change
- Jean-Pierre Serre: A biography
Microbiology
- Blood agar (BPA) differential bacterial growth medium
- Bacteria endospore stain protocol
- What is microbiology
- The importance of microorganisms in the Earth's ecosystems
- Protozoa: What are suctorial ciliates?
- Saprophytes: Parasites living on animals
- Why algae, fungi and microbes are not considered plant life
Sociology
While everywhere else in the world bees are disappearing.... I have appearing bees!
One honeybee colony came to my land to live!
(I considered
by Ann E. Smith
As a popular 80s song proclaimed, "Everybody's working for the weekend." And to some degree, it's true. Many people kick off the weekend
by May Monten
Mood rings! Thinking about them is a blast to the past, evoking memories of a time of mini skirts, platform shoes, and big hair.
Did
Girls come in all sizes and shapes, some have flawless bodies, and most don't. The important thing about a woman's body is not how
Writing Assignments
- Surgery
- How surgeries are performed by Da Vinci Robotic surgical systems
- Fetal surgery: How and why
- A guide to societies for professional surgeons
- Anthropology (Other)
- Explaining critical perspectives in medical anthropology
- Archaeology
- Archaeological sites: Barlambidj
- Archaeological evidence of monkeys using hammers
- Stages and procedures of archaeological research
- How the field of archaeology evolved
- The most famous archaeological digs
- Cultural Anthropology
- A brief cultural history of American English
- Intellectuals: A comparison of cultural values and institutions
- How dance impacts culture
- The role of dance within native American cultures
- Indigenous economics and global economics: A comparison
- Physical Anthropology
- The essentials of physical anthropology
- The importance of anthropology advancements in 1903
- Mathematics
- Lagrangian mechanics: Brachistochrone problem
- The Euler-Mascheroni constant
- How to rate a statistical graph
- What is a bad statistical graph?
- Sciences (Other)
- One small step for man: Where were you when astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon? Please share your thoughts and memories of that day.
- Cultural depictions of dinosaurs
- Artificial intelligence robots from Japan
- Metalworking processes: What is the extrusion method?
- Metal working and manufacturing: What is the drawing process?
- Forensic methods of fingerprint detection
- History of the discovery of a dino-fish
- Christmas 2009: Science and discovery gift ideas for adults
- Christmas 2009: Science and discovery gift ideas for children
- Christmas 2009: Science and discovery gift ideas for teens
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- Anthropology (Other)
- Is cryptozoology a valid science?
- Archaeology
- Is Indiana Jones bad for archaeology?
- Mathematics
- Division by zero: Is it really impossible?
- Sciences (Other)
- Should scientists be allowed carte blanche in their experiments?
- Can we separate science from ideology?
- Does falsification provide the most accurate model of understanding for the progress of scientific knowledge?
