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Instilling in children the importance of science and research and teaching them to think scientifically.
Archimedes and Specific Gravity… Archimedes (Archimed), who lived in the 3rd century B.C., was a good engineer and physicist as well as a good mathematician. Inventions such as the Archimedes Screw (Coctilias), which is still used in Egypt to raise the waters of the Nile for irrigation purposes, the hydrostatic…
The circumference of the Earth was measured a very, very long time ago — in the 3rd century BC. How do you think they might have done it back then?” About 2,250 years ago, Alexandria in northern Egypt was one of the most important centers of knowledge in the ancient…
Question 1: What is the purpose of seal whiskers? Many animals, like seals, have whiskers made of keratin, a type of protein, just like our hair and nails. By studying the structure of these animals’ whiskers, we can learn how much nutrition and environmental conditions affect their bodies. Researchers who…
Plants are an integral part of our culture and lives. Besides consuming them as food, we also use materials derived from various plants in the production of medicine, cosmetics, dyes, tools, and other goods, as well as in construction. This relationship with plants is very old, even dating back to…
Oh, this boundless power of imagination!… Oh, this technology!… It seems there’s nothing that can’t be done when people come together!… Just like this robotic flower garden… This image shows a robotic flower garden featured in a design exhibition in the USA in 2003. The robotic flowers were designed by…
Alexander Alekhin was a master chess player who played an offensive game. He was the “world chess champion” consecutively from 1927–1935 and 1937–1946. He made significant contributions to the chess world by writing chess books in which he analyzed his own games. Alexander Alekhin was born in Moscow in 1892.…
Consider a building under construction. You can imagine that the building consists of walls, and that the walls are made of bricks. Going into a little more detail, we see that the bricks are made of clay, and that the clay consists of small particles. So, what are clay particles…
The Aztecs were a civilization that settled in Central America 800 years ago. In the 1320s, they founded the great city of Tenochtitlan (pronounced “te-no-chit-lan”) on the islands in Lake Texcoco. By the 1500s, they had become a large and wealthy empire. However, after a while, the Spanish invaded this…
How about we do some daydreaming? Imagine you have a time machine. One that moves very fast and can take you to the past! Where would you want to go with this machine, to what time period? How about the era when the first humans lived? And wouldn’t it be…
We want to introduce you to a very, very special number. This number, called “Pi,” means a great deal to a mathematician. Pi is used to calculate the area and volume of circular objects. Without Pi, for example, we wouldn’t know how many cubic meters of water a swimming pool…