Paper Airplane Flight Challenge - Science Friday
WEBJun 18, 2021 — Paper Airplane Data Collection Worksheet. Before we start building, we need to prepare to test all of our designs. Find a space in your home where paper airplanes can fly safely. Grab a ruler and use tape to mark every 12 inches along the floor. Use the Paper Airplane Data Collection Worksheet to record the distance of multiple airplane flights.
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WEBSep 27, 2024 — Surgeon General Takes On Parental Stress And Mental Health. In his latest advisory, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy adds parents’ wellbeing to his agenda of improving the nation’s mental health. Science Friday is your trusted source for news and entertaining stories about science. It's brain fun for curious people.
How Sexual Intercourse Was Invented, 385 Million Years Ago
WEBJun 3, 2022 — Our oldest evidence of penetrative intercourse is about 385 million years old and comes in the form of fossilized remains of the way too aptly named Microbrachius dicki. I know. I know! But believe it or not, M. dicki got its rather pointed moniker from Scottish baker-turned-botanist Robert Dick in the nineteenth century. Mr.
Seeing The Patterns In Sound - Science Friday
WEBNov 7, 2016 — Vibrations of D. Credit: Louviere + Vanessa. In the late 18 th century, German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni demonstrated how vibrations could be used to create striking imagery. By spreading fine sand across the top of a metal plate and running a violin bow alongside, Chladni showed that the sand would settle into distinct patterns, …
The Awesome Energy Of The Sun - Science Friday
WEBOct 27, 2022 — Download a poster based on this video.. The Sun’s Electromagnetic Radiation . The heat, light, and radiation that come from the sun are all examples of electromagnetic radiation.Unlike forms of energy that need to move through matter (like sound), electromagnetic radiation can travel through the vacuum of space, without other …
Why Are Honeycomb Cells Hexagonal? - Science Friday
WEBSep 1, 2017 — Scientists use their observations to make sense of the world we live in. When scientists come across a phenomenon and are puzzled by what they observe, such as the hexagonal shape of a honeycomb cell, they will often ask questions and try to understand the phenomenon by forming a “claim.” You have made several observations of …
What Makes The Human Skeleton Unique? - Science Friday
WEBMar 7, 2019 — What those early apes didn’t have, however, was a foot suited for extended periods of walking upright. Their foot, so far as we can tell from the sparse human fossil record and our living ape relatives, was more like a hand, with curled toes and a sole that resembled a palm, the big toe jutting off to the side for opposable grasping.
Where Does The Sand On Our Beaches Come From? - Science Friday
WEBJul 29, 2021 — The Sands Of Earth, And Beyond. Sand from Isla Chora on the Pacific coast of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. This beach sand is derived from stream and marine erosion. Under the microscope, you can better see barnacles shards, bivalve shell fragments, and flecks of porphyritic basalt. Credit: Robert Maronpot/Magnified Sand.
Listen To The Sounds Of Space - Science Friday
WEBMar 24, 2023 — A team of researchers are taking data from a variety of telescopes and assigning them sounds, creating song-length sonifications of beloved space structures like black holes, nebulas, galaxies, and beyond. The album, c alled “ Universal Harmonies ” ai ms to bring galaxies to life and allow more people, such as those who are blind and low ...
Podcasts - Science Friday
WEBScience Diction. From the people who make Science Friday, we bring you Science Diction, a bite-sized podcast about words—and the science stories behind them.Hosted by SciFri producer and self-proclaimed word nerd Johanna Mayer, each episode of Science Diction digs into the origin of a single word or phrase, and, with the help of historians, …