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Oscilation
Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples of oscillation include a swinging pendulum and alternating current.
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OCT 20, 2017
Earth & The Environment
It might be news to you that environmental disturbances and climate patterns like as El Niño can be influential e
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 26, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Sometimes people criticize the coined term, “global warming,” because not everywhere is experiencing the so-
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 03, 2017
Plants & Animals
Desert lizards may be able to teach us a thing or two about digging into loose sandy environments, such as at the beach
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 21, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Ocean temperatures are rising at alarming levels in the Gulf of Maine, which sits just north of Rhode Island. Studies fr
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 28, 2017
Videos
Current dryer technology has been around for ages, and drying machines use heat as a means of removing all the excess wa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 08, 2017
Microbiology
When bacteria live in communities, they begin to exhibit interesting behavioral patterns
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
There exists a type of star so rare that only 7 of them are known to exist in our Milky Way galaxy, and one of those was
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 22, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported that sea ice around Antarctica reached its lowest month
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 24, 2017
Plants & Animals
While there are many signs that climate change is bad for the planet, yet another reason might have just recently been d
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 20, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The cells of organisms move through growth stages, duplicating DNA and eventually dividing, and control of that cycle wa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2016
Neuroscience
When there are stressful situations, the common advice to “just breathe.” As it turns out, that advice is sp
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 08, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Quasars are really interesting celestial bodies that scientists still don’t fully understand because of how diffic
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 06, 2016
Videos
Timing is everything right? Well, in every day life, if a watch or clock loses a little time or gains a few minutes, it'
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 01, 2016
Microbiology
All animals host a community of microorganisms in their gastrointestinal tracts, and there has been a lot of research in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2016
Neuroscience
It’s not quite Christmas Eve yet, but everyone has heard the line from the holiday poem “ while visions of s
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 03, 2016
Neuroscience
When a person sleeps, the brain is still very hard at work. Everything that someone sees, does or learns in the average
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 31, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Black holes are a gray area in physics that we’re just barely beginning to understand. They are difficult to obser
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 24, 2016
Videos
In cancer treatment, there is often more than one treatment or drug being given. The name of the game is to kill cancer
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 13, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Josh Willis of NASA explains the thermodynamic process of sea level rise, explaining how water takes up more room as it
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 02, 2016
Neuroscience
“Beam me up, Scotty!” That’s something we are more used to hearing on Star Trek as opposed to in
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 04, 2016
Earth & The Environment
When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in Earth’s atmosphere that cause imperceptible changes in
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 19, 2016
Cancer
A thin, stretchable film that coils light waves like a Slinky could one day lead to more precise, less expensive monitor
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 06, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Until recently astronomers thought only a small percentage of stars have strong magnetic fields, but a new way to probe
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 16, 2015
Microbiology
Bacteria reproduce in a number of different ways. Some of the more unusual methods include budding and baeocyte fo
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans