matter
What’s Causing The Universe To Expand?
We've all heard that the Universe is expanding, but why is it expanding? What's the force pushing everything outwards? If…
Where Have All the Pulsars Gone? The Mystery at the Center of Our Galaxy
The galactic center is a happening place, with lots of gas, dust, stars, and surprising binary stars orbiting a supermassive black…
Higgs Boson Physicists Receive 2013 Nobel Prize
That was fast! Just one year after a Higgs Boson-like particle was found at the Large Hadron Collider, the two physicists…
Subatomic Particles
[/caption] Not long ago, scientists believed that the smallest part of matter was the atom; the indivisible, indestructible, base unit…
What are Photons
[/caption] When we think about light we don't really think about what it is made of. This was actually the…
What Is An Electron
[/caption] What is an electron? Easily put, an electron is a subatomic particle that carries a negative electric charge. There…
States of Matter
Solid, liquid, gas … those are the states of matter we're thoroughly familiar with, but what makes for a state…
How Many Atoms Are There in the Universe?
It's no secret that the universe is an extremely vast place. That which we can observe (aka. "the known Universe")…