An Electron Riding a Light Wave Captured on Tape

You have learned of atoms in your chemistry class, and how they are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. You were taught that electrons were really tiny. So tiny in fact that a droplet of water weighs about a billion, billion, billion times more than an electron. Electrons are so inconceivably small that some people think that it would be impossible to take their pictures

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Care For a Glass of Pee?

Each of us is a walking pharmacopoeia. At least that is what urinophiles or people who drink their own urine, think. They believe that we all carry a wonder drug in our bladders, and that is our urine.
It may not be very enticing for some, but there are those who actually drink their urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes.


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Clean Clothes, Warmer Earth

Washing our laundry is necessary, but we may not know how doing the laundry can harm the environment. A washing machine consumes lots of electricity and water to clean a load of clothing. On average, washers consume 40 gallons per load, making them one of the largest water users in the house. Dryers, on the other hand, consume about 1,000 kilowatt hours per household of energy annually. This energy contributes up to 2,224 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere.

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Disposing Nuclear Waste The Safety Way

A typical 1000-megawatt thermal nuclear reactor produces about 30 tons of spent fuel rods in a year of operation. Add to that other incidental waste materials like clothes, filters, and many others. These waste can remain dangerous for tens of thousands of years.

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How to Spot a Fake Photo

We used to say that “to see is to believe.” These days, when almost anything can be made look photorealistic, that quaint expression lacks the sincerity it might have once had. Con you really trust the images you see on magazine covers, on television, and on the Web?

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Let There Be Light in Medicine

Light is so common that we often take it for granted. Yet without it, our world would be nothing but a cold, dark, lifeless matter. Light from the sun makes the earth warm enough for life. It also makes green plants grow. Plants are food for animals. Plants also give off oxygen that you breathe in the air. Dead plants provide fuel that we use for energy. Plants that died millions of years ago turned into coal and oil that people now use to make the heat and electricity.

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Lightning Strikes The Same Place Twice

It gave life to Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. It fueled Marty Mcfly’s time-machine in the movie, Back to the Future. The Romans believe that Jove, the King of the gods, used lightning to punish wrongdoers and change the outcome of wars. His favorite bird was said to carry his thunderbolts of wrath. Other cultures spoke of a thunderbird responsible for thunder and lightning. For many years, lightning has undoubtedly sparked our imagination.

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