Electric eels and origami inspired scientists to create a soft battery that could revolutionize soft robotics. Here’s what you need to know.
Hot and Cold water sound different? Hot and cold water sound different when being poured. It's actually noticeable to the human ear if you pay attention. Water changes viscosity (aka its thickness or stickiness) depending on temperature. Long story short, the colder the water, the higher the pitch, whereas pouring something hot like, oh, say..coffee...is going to have a lower, more comforting pitch.
Hand in molten lead experiment.
Making Grey Tin
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Metallic tin can be converted to an allotrope known as grey tin. In this video Cody from the youtube channel Codyslab showsn a timelapse of the process and gives an explanation as to how it happens.
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The triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.
Marie Curie
To celebrate International Women's Day, we're taking a look at two time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie.
Curie was a successful physicist and chemist, who conducted research into radioactivity.
In July 1898, Curie announced she along with her husband had discovered a new chemical element, polonium. At the end of the same year the Curies announced they had discovered another, radium. These discoveries earned Marie her first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. She received her second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.
''Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas'' - Marie Curie.
check out more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/curie_marie.shtml
John Hopkins University verifies research carried out by students in Scoil Mhuire CS.
Furthering showing the significance of the "highly commended" research carried out by 5th Year students Grainne Lawlor and Enya Nordon as part of their BT Young Scientist projects in 2017 & 2018 in conjuction with Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Tecnology, John Hopkins University USA have recently published research which shows toxic heavy metals in e-cigarette vapour.
This research confirms that found by Grainne and Enya during their research with Trinity College. The research published by John Hopkins University also suggests that a newer coil may be contributing to the levels of these metals, research also identified by the girls from Scoil Mhuire.
The pair continued their research in 2017 and presented findings on the origin of these metals in the vapour as well as the level of oxidative stress caused by the e-cigarette vapour on lung cells.
Well done girls!
To read about the research by John Hopkins University- please click on the link:
www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/toxic-heavy-metals-found-in-e-cigarette-vapour/
This research confirms that found by Grainne and Enya during their research with Trinity College. The research published by John Hopkins University also suggests that a newer coil may be contributing to the levels of these metals, research also identified by the girls from Scoil Mhuire.
The pair continued their research in 2017 and presented findings on the origin of these metals in the vapour as well as the level of oxidative stress caused by the e-cigarette vapour on lung cells.
Well done girls!
To read about the research by John Hopkins University- please click on the link:
www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/toxic-heavy-metals-found-in-e-cigarette-vapour/