Welcome to Ununoctium (Element 118)
Just a quick article that I had to post. The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Heaviest known element created Ever since I learned about basic chemistry, I’ve had an unnatural affection for the...
View ArticleInvisibility & Cloaking Experiment Successful
Any fan of Star Trek knows all about “cloaking” technology. Well, we’re one step closer as of yesterday. LiveScience.com – Scientists Create Cloak of Partial Invisibility Interestingly, while...
View ArticleMentos & Diet Coke Rockets
How is it possible that I have not made one of these before? Diet Coke & Mentos Rocket on YouTube Based on the well known Diet Coke & Mentos experiments… just do a search for “diet coke mentos”...
View ArticleDiamond is NOT the Hardest Material (Who Knew?)
News flash. Two years late. Diamond is not the hardest known material. There are at least three known substances that are harder: Rhenium Diboride, Ultrahard Fullerite and Aggregated Diamond Nanorods....
View ArticleUnderstanding the Nature of Glass
This is from over a month ago, but there was a wonderful article for all the closet material scientists out there in the New York Times on Glass a few weeks ago. Here is an except: It is well known...
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