Overview: Physical Sciences 2000 B.c. to A.d. 699
When did the study of physical science begin? The Sumerians, who created the first civilization in Mesopotamia around 3200 B.C., were ruled by a relat...
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Overview: Physical Sciences
700-1449
The year 700 was a turning point in history because it marked the beginning of the medieval era. In the west, small European kingdoms began to unite into larger on...
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Overview: Physical Sciences 1450-1699
The Medieval Foundation
Medieval science and intellectual thought were based not on direct observation and experience, but were heavily influenced by the Aristote...
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Overview: Physical Sciences 1700-1799
Overview
During the 1500s, Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) proposed that Earth orbits around the sun rather than vice versa. Copernicus's ...
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Overview: Physical Sciences 1800-1899
The end of the eighteenth century found two basic Newtonian ideas triumphant. Scientists carefully experimented with natural phenomena and measured important feat...
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Overview: Physical Sciences 1900-1949
By the dawn of the twentieth century, more than two centuries had elapsed since the publication of Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) Principia, which set forth th...
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Overview: Physical Sciences 1950-Present
The Legacy of 1900-1949
In the first half of the twentieth century, modern physics emerged out of a watershed of theory and discovery concerning the realm of t...
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Marie Curie's work in radioactivity changed the way scientists think about matter and energy and led to advancements in the treatment of disease. With her fellow scientist and husband, Pierre Curie...
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Albert Einstein is probably the most influential scientist and greatest physicist of the twentieth century. He revolutionized our ideas about time and space, and he is best known for his theory of ...
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Forces can't be seen, but without them, nothing around us would happen! A force is a push or pull that usually causes movement. Friction is a force that opposes motion and slows things down or stop...
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Marie Curie's work in radioactivity changed the way scientists think about matter and energy and led to advancements in the treatment of disease. With her fellow scientist and husband, Pierre Curie...
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Albert Einstein is probably the most influential scientist and greatest physicist of the twentieth century. He revolutionized our ideas about time and space, and he is best known for his theory of ...
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Forces can't be seen, but without them, nothing around us would happen! A force is a push or pull that usually causes movement. Friction is a force that opposes motion and slows things down or stop...
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The basic principles of mechanical engineering are Isaac Newton's three laws of motion regarding force, acceleration and deceleration, and actions and reactions. Working with these basic rules, tod...
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Light and sound are two of the most important ways to understand the world around us. The sun is Earth's main source of energy and light. Light bounces off objects and travels to our eyes. Our eyes...
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There are 90 different elements, like the oxygen that we breathe, that can be found in nature. When two or more elements combine, they are held together by a chemical bond and form a compound. In 1...
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Everything around us is made up of matter. Understanding how matter can change properties, and how the position of molecules determines the state of matter, helps explain everything from energy to ...
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Everything around us is made up of matter. Understanding how matter can change properties, and how the position of molecules determines the state of matter, helps explain everything from energy to ...
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Planck studied physics, the science of matter and energy. He wound up making big discoveries in the area of thermodynamics, or the study of heat and how it moves. Planck won the Nobel Prize for his...
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Planck studied physics, the science of matter and energy. He wound up making big discoveries in the area of thermodynamics, or the study of heat and how it moves. Planck won the Nobel Prize for his...
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Atoms are the building blocks of everything around us. Inside the atom is the nucleus, with protons and neutrons. But there are even smaller particles that make up protons and neutrons, called quar...
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Atoms are the building blocks of everything around us. Inside the atom is the nucleus, with protons and neutrons. But there are even smaller particles that make up protons and neutrons, called quar...
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Energy is all around us-humans use energy, machines use energy, and heat and power use energy. Energy is found in many forms and there are many energy sources. People are working to develop new, re...
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Energy is all around us-humans use energy, machines use energy, and heat and power use energy. Energy is found in many forms and there are many energy sources. People are working to develop new, re...
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Isaac Newton is considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. His work changed the way humans understand astronomy, physics, math, and more. He is probably most famous for three laws ab...
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Isaac Newton is considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. His work changed the way humans understand astronomy, physics, math, and more. He is probably most famous for three laws ab...
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Electromagnetism is the combined power of electricity and magnetism. Almost everything we do-from watching television to using a computer-is affected by electromagnets. In the 1830s, scientist Mich...
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Electromagnetism is the combined power of electricity and magnetism. Almost everything we do-from watching television to using a computer-is affected by electromagnets. In the 1830s, scientist Mich...
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Thomas Edison's inventions changed the world. His most famous invention is the light bulb, but he also invented generators and the power grid. Edison holds 1,000 patents-the record for the most new...
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Thomas Edison's inventions changed the world. His most famous invention is the light bulb, but he also invented generators and the power grid. Edison holds 1,000 patents-the record for the most new...
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Robert Fulton is best known for inventing the first successful steamboat, but that is just one of his many accomplishments. Fulton was an inventor, artist, statesman, mechanic, and engineer who use...
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Robert Fulton is best known for inventing the first successful steamboat, but that is just one of his many accomplishments. Fulton was an inventor, artist, statesman, mechanic, and engineer who use...
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Scientists who have studied light and sound over the last few centuries invented many things that we still use today. Thomas Young, for example, proved that light moves in waves and invented prescr...
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Scientists who have studied light and sound over the last few centuries invented many things that we still use today. Thomas Young, for example, proved that light moves in waves and invented prescr...
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Geneva (dpa) - The United Nations climate panel was founded in
1988 to investigate the risks of global warming. The body was
tasked with gathering, assessing and presenting ...
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STOCKHOLM, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Scientists must break through
the boundaries between disciplines and nations to find solutions
to some of the great unanswered questions, some of 2007's Nobel
prize wi...
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(Corrects 7th paragraph in Dec. 7 story to clarify the
Institute for Advanced Study is not affiliated with Princeton
University.) By Sarah Edmonds STOCKHOLM, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Scientists must brea...
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Rising global temperatures could melt Latin America's glaciers within 15 years, cause food shortages affecting 130 million people across Asia by 2050 and wipe out Africa's wheat crop, according to ...
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Washington (dpa) - The fourth Assessment Report of the United
Nations' Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) lists the
causes and results of global warming with g...
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Washington (dpa) - The fourth Assessment Report of the United
Nations' Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) lists the
causes and results of global warming with g...
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The Scottish life sciences community is greatly enriched by its ability to attract talent from all around the world. The web site www.talentscotland.com|~
, created by Scottish Enterprise, acti...
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If Congress again takes up divisive immigration reform this summer, tech firms hope that one of their pet issues -- hiking temporary visas for highly skilled foreign workers -- is included.High-tec...
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The seven astronauts who make up the crew of space shuttle Endeavour have been fitted together and then rearranged repeatedly since they were first selected in December 2002.Two astronauts who were...
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Overview: Physical Sciences 2000 B.c. to A.d. 699
Science Readers: Physical Science: Marie Curie
BACKGROUND: The IPCC and the UN climate survey
