A new sports car, made by Tesla Motors, is a tribute to Nikola Tesla, the most famous person few have heard of.
The car, which can go zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds is completely electric. It doesn't use a drop of gasoline. The sports car also doesn't lose power in altitude. It retails for $128,000.
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We are excited to announce our third partnership with SONIC Drive-In restaurants, SONIC Sliders 2. Starting in November, the books are available at a SONIC Drive-In near you. This time around, our Science Editor collaborated with SONIC to produce four, all-new Science Sliders as part of the SONIC Wacky
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Earthquakes have been in the news a lot recently. It’s scary for children to watch the news and see the mass destruction, death and rubble caused by a quick shaking of the earth. From the damage in Haiti to Chile and most recently in Turkey, earthquakes occur across the globe.
The surface of the Earth is made up of many puzzle pieces, called tectonic plates. The pieces move and slide along each other all the time. The places where the plates meet are called plate boundaries. An earthquake happens when two plates slip past one another on one of these boundaries, also called a fault line. Most earthquakes occur along these fault lines.
The boundaries of the plates are rough and get stuck while the rest of the plate keeps moving, causing stress on the plate. Once the plate has moved too far, the stuck edges become unstuck along the fault and the boundary area moves suddenly, causing an earthquake.
The location directly above an earthquake is called an epicenter. The place below the earth’s crust where the earthquake actually starts
Believe it or not, snowboarding is a study in potential and kinetic energy. The athletes who maximize both kinds of energy are the ones on the medal podium at the Vancouver Olympics.
Twelve years ago, snowboarding made its debut as an Olympic sport. The sport isn’t just about crazy lingo, going fast and jumping high. The athletes use the laws of gravity to build speed and keep their balance. They also use physics to gain speed and height in jumps.
The physics of snowboarding uses dynamic balance. When the snowboarder is in motion moving up and down the ramps, their balance is different than if they were just going down a slope.
As gravity pulls the snowboarders down the halfpipe, they gain speed. At the same time, they are being pushed against the sides by contact forces.
Snowboarders push back against the G-forces and build speed by pumping their legs up and down. By standing up against the extra forces in the curve, snowboarders add to their kinetic energy – the energy of motion. It gives them the speed
A new sports car, made by Tesla Motors, is a tribute to Nikola Tesla, the most famous person few have heard of.
The car, which can go zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds is completely electric. It doesn’t use a drop of gasoline. The sports car also doesn’t lose power in altitude. It retails for $128,000.
Tesla came to the United States in 1884 from Croatia. He wanted to harness the power of Niagara Falls. Tesla began working in Thomas Edison’s lab in New Jersey and began improving upon Edison’s line.
Tesla was looked upon as an insane person, as he spoke of transmitting pictures, wireless electricity and transmitting electricity. But he was way before his time. He is credited with several inventions that we could not live without today – AC power, an electric motor, radio
Written by Susan Wells, MommyBlogger at SteveSpanglerScience.com
“Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the…Shorty Awards” – The New York Times
The Shorty Awards celebrate the best people and organizations on Twitter. They are supported and judged by the Twitter community who picks the nominees and votes on them. Winners in 27 categories will be announced in New York in March.
We are proud to announce that our own Steve Spangler has been nominated in the #science category for a Shorty Award.
If you’d like to vote for Steve, go to the Shorty Awards website and send the tweet out for @stevespangler. Or you can send a tweet straight thru your Twitter account. The tweet must say:
“I nominate @SteveSpangler for a Shorty Award in #science because…”
The “because” part is the most important piece. You must add a why Steve is deserving of this award or the vote will not count.
Our own Julie Gintzler (follow @juliegintzler) is on hand in Danville, Illinois for a new Guinness World Record attempt for 2,500 MENTOS® powered soda geysers. The event organizers contacted Steve Spangler Science in their initial planning stages to see if they could gain some tips and tricks from our past MENTOS geyser records. When you’re attempting a geyser launch this big, you need a great trigger device… and that’s a perfect job for our Geyser Tube.
Be Amazing! Toys, the distributor and of Steve Spangler’s Geyser Tube toy, supported the event with the donation of the Geyser Tubes toys. “When Steve contacted us about the event and asked for Be Amazing! Toys to partner with him and share in our support, we were excited to participate,” said Marc Greenberg, Vice-President of Marketing at Be Amazing! Toys. “We know first hand the amount of effort it takes to pull off a Guinness World Record, and using the event to support Shaken Baby Syndrome is a great combination.”
A large crowd of people from Danville, Illinois came out this morning to have some fun and to support Reagan’s Rescue
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Launch a MENTOS® soda geyser 30 feet in the air with the Geyser Tube. The Geyser Tube™ is a loading tube for the now famous Diet Coke geyser powered by MENTOS®.
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If you have a Geyser Tube you know how addicting that wild eruption can be. Now we have the perfect way for you to share the soda spray with everyone you know!
