by STEAM Team | Jan 7, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 06/01/2021 What is the most efficient shape in the world? Is it a circle, a square, perhaps a triangle? Turns out, it’s a hexagon. Due to the hexagon’s ability to be tessellated in the most efficient, space conserving manner, it’s...
by STEAM Team | Jan 6, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 05/01/2021 Why do snowflakes have six sides? The answer is chemistry. Water, or H2O, consists of two hydrogens and one oxygen bonded covalently (sharing electron pairs). This structure allows water molecules to be polar, meaning they have a positive...
by STEAM Team | Jan 5, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 04/01/2021 Snowflakes are merely frozen water, right? Actually, wrong. Water, like many other substances, comes in both liquid and gaseous forms. However, it also has the ability to transition directly from its gaseous form (water vapor) to its solid...
by STEAM Team | Jan 2, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 01/01/2021 What is an antimatter trap? We already discussed what antimatter is (the opposite of matter that annihilates when it comes into contact with it) and that it may be useful as an energy source. But if antimatter annihilates into a burst of...
by STEAM Team | Jan 1, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 31/12/2020 What is antimatter? Sounds like a cool sci-fi term from a Star Trek movie, but it actually exists right here on Earth at a lab called CERN, or the European Organization For Nuclear Research. Antimatter is the exact opposite of matter: it...
by STEAM Team | Dec 31, 2020 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 30/12/2020 What is atmospheric drag? Also known as air resistance, it refers to the amount of friction something experiences as it moves through air. The faster an object moves, the more resistance it faces. The amount of drag is also due to the air...
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