by STEAM Team | May 10, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 03/05/2021 How does a photocopier work? Photocopiers utilize the principle of the photoelectric effect in which negatively charged electrons are attracted – and thus drawn to – a positively charged metal plate. Likewise, photocopiers use...
by STEAM Team | May 10, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 03/05/2021 Why does coffee (and sometimes tea) give us an energy boost? This is due to a drug within them called caffeine. Caffeine is a stimulant drug and works to do just that; it stimulates our nervous system, keeping our brains more alert and our...
by STEAM Team | May 1, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 30/04/2021 What is really at the end of a rainbow? If you were expecting a pot of gold, I’m sorry to disappoint, but what you’ll actually find at the end of a rainbow is nothing, mainly because they do not have an end. Rainbows, much unlike the...
by STEAM Team | Apr 30, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 29/04/2021 Have you ever wondered why the ocean is blue, while regular tap water is clear? The reason is that water absorbs long wavelengths of visible light (which include the ‘colors’ of red, orange, and yellow) much more than short wavelengths of...
by STEAM Team | Apr 30, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 28/04/2021 Have you ever wondered what enzymes do and why we need them? Enzymes are a special class of proteins. Their job, in a nutshell, is to make chemical reactions in cells go faster. They do this by lowering the activation energy for a reaction...
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