… Italy. Galileo was the first of seven children of Vincenzio Galilei, a trader and Giula Ammannati, an upper-class woman who married below her class. When Galileo was a young boy, his father moved the family moved to Florence. Galileo moved into…

… the labels at the grocery store to determine if they are made of recycled products. I think it also safe to assume that you've simply tossed a candy bar wrapper into the trash bin without hesitation (some of you don't even make it that far! You have…

… number of physicists have been contributing to the growth of a new field for scholarly inquiry: the learning and teaching of physics. We have by now a rich source of documented information in the many published reports of this research. At this point,…

… to disprove existing theories and establish proven facts in their place. Such is the case with Francesco Redi, an Italian physician and naturalist. He was born in 1626, in Tuscany, Italy, where theory, rather than fact, dominated much of the logic used…

… the separating of volatile organic compounds. It involves a sample being vaporized and injected onto the head of the chromatographic column. Gas chromatography is used to do many things in today's scientific life. It is used in drunk-driving breath tests…

… onshore and offshore wind power could in principle be built up to meet at least 10% of the UK's demand for electrical energy by the year 2015. This paper gives a brief discussion on the possibilities of achieving this goal. Executive Summary …

… of Taurus, the last weeks of a stars life were drawing too close. Having a mass of at least 8 times that of our Sun during its main sequence life, this star's death resulted in a magnificent supernova. Yet, it wouldn't be until about 6,500…

… Today's desktop personal computers, or PCs, are many times more powerful than the huge, million-dollar business computers of the 1960s and 1970s. Most PCs can perform from 16 to 66 million operations per second, and some can even perform more than…

… Disease is a disease affecting the nervous system, specifically a defect in a gene located in the brain. The gene is called huntingtin of unknown function and it affects a loss of cells in the brain that are control movement and mental abilities.…

… with a disease that is incurable? I'm not just talking about cancer, or AIDS, I'm talking about rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. These are the diseases that do not get national attention in the media everyday. These diseases…