Without us even noticing it, our brains are the ultimate multitaskers. The brain’s prefrontal cortex can tell us when it is ...

The answer could be a few different reasons. Your breath has a lot of carbon dioxide. When you blow, the carbon dioxide pushes oxygen out of the way and the flame goes out. Your breath blows away some ...

Carbon Dioxide Carbon dioxide is made from one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. The molecules of carbon dioxide are thoroughly mixed and dissolved into the water in the soda pop. When you open a soda ...

Stuff Your Kindle Day is back with a bang for fans of science fiction and dystopia books. Something Strange, hosted by Indie Author Central, is offering books from these popular genres for free.

If the science of climate change is settled, numerous aspects of the policy response remain murky – which is why the coalition Government is consulting the public. For example, economics.

Science students strut their stuffPhd student Michelle Khine, from UC Berkeley, tries to explain her microsystems design and integration research to mortals at an intern symposium at Sandia ...

That is the take-away message from Mark Miodownik's entertaining and informative Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World. Miodownik holds two titles at ...

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