Science Stories

14/04/2026

Gravity pulls me down, friction spins my life together.😂

13/04/2026

13/04/2026

If a solution has more hydrogen ions → lower pH → more acidic
If it has fewer hydrogen ions → higher pH → more basic.

(approximate ranges)

12/04/2026

Take a look at some of them when they were young. These girls would grow up to become women who changed the world.

In the family photo, Marie Skłodowska Curie is pictured with her two daughters Eve and Irène. When she was older, Irène discovered artificial radioactivity and was awarded a Nobel Prize like her mother.

May-Britt Moser is photographed in a red dress when she was six. She would later discover the brain's positioning system.

Gertrude Elion is a happy five-year-old in the last picture. She went on to save millions of lives with her pioneering drug treatment.

12/04/2026

Close-up time-lapse microscopic movie showing hematopoietic cells moving about and generating colonies in surrounding cell layers. The pictures were automatically taken every 8 minute by Biostation IM (Nikon Instruments, Tokyo, Japan).

Author(s): Niwa A, Heike T, Umeda K, Oshima K, Kato I, Sakai H, Suemori H, Nakahata T, Saito M
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Title: Time-lapse microscopic movie showing the morphological change in a single colony (hematopoietic differentiation)
License: CC BY 2.5
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A-Novel-Serum-Free-Monolayer-Culture-for-Orderly-Hematopoietic-Differentiation-of-Human-Pluripotent-pone.0022261.s002.ogv