by STEAM Team | Jan 22, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 22/01/2021 Is it possible for water to boil and freeze at the same time? Yes, yes it is. Most elements have something called a “triple point.” A triple point is a point where an element has the perfect level of pressure and temperature so...
by STEAM Team | Jan 21, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 20/01/2021 Stars are hot – incredibly hot. But did you know that they form from some of the coldest objects in the Universe? The massive clouds of gas and dust that form stars (called molecular clouds because of how we detect what’s in...
by STEAM Team | Jan 20, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 19/01/2021 Have you ever asked yourself where the elements displayed on the periodic table come from? The Big Bang created hydrogen and helium (plus some trace amounts of lithium and hydrogen and helium isotopes). With the exception of those...
by STEAM Team | Jan 19, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 18/01/2021 Did you know that humans emit light? We do – just not visible light. The electromagnetic spectrum (also EM spectrum) consists of many different wavelengths, and thus frequencies, of light. Shorter wavelengths have higher energy;...
by STEAM Team | Jan 9, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 08/01/2020 Quantum entanglement. Sounds like a pretty complicated concept, right? It turns out that the basics of quantum entanglement can be explained with three simple concepts. The first is the concept of superposition. In layman’s terms,...
by STEAM Team | Jan 8, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 07/01/2020 What does Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2 really mean? In the equation, E represents energy, m represents mass, and c represents the speed of light (a very, very large number). This equation is essentially telling us how energy...
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