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The Bumblebee

David R. Brooks

Dr. David R. Brooks of Drexel University captured the accom -panying images of bumblebees visiting flowers at his rural Pennsylvania home. More

Forrest Mims' World of Science
by Forrest M. Mims III

Editorial:
Reporting for The Citizen Scientist
by Forrest M. Mims III

Wanderings with Ralph Coppola

Backscatter. Views and responses from TCS readers.

Eye on the Sky: The December Sky by Paul Curtin

Eye on the Sky: The November Sky by Paul Curtin

Response to "Questions and Answers about Climate Change" by Forrest M. Mims III

Kevin T. Kilty

"What is going on here?" asks Forrest Mims (Editorial, TCS, 11 March 2005). Why do countless web sites all appear to present unbalanced views of climate change?". More.

Papalotzin Follows the Journey of the Monarchs

Elmer A. Sperry Inducted into Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame

William Lear Inducted into Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame

Yuri Artsutanov and His 1960 Space Elevator Proposal in Pravda

Roger G. Gilbertson
Mondo-tronics, Inc.ged.

Yuri Artsutanov of the Leningrad Technological Institute proposed a space elevator concept 45 years ago in "To the Cosmos by Electric Train" More

The Quest for a 21st Century Prototyping Board

Andrew Yaung and Neal Greenberg, Co-founders and inventors of SchmartBoard

In 2003 while servicing companies with electronic engineering and prototype manufacturing services, we noticed that companies were spending too much time and money perfecting circuits for new products. More

Mystery Geomagnetic Event Observed Around the World

Craig Young
Director, Crystal Lake Observatory

The geomagnetic observatory at Munich Germany, a member of the Crystal Lake Observatory worldwide amateur online Geomagnetic Observatory Network (GON), captured the magnetic disturbance shown in Fig. 1 on 8 October 2005 at 1900 UTC. More.

The scintillation of zinc sulfide exposed to a radioactive source was first discovered by William Crookes in 1896. He built a simple device, which he later named the spinthariscope, based on this principle. On 15 May 1903, the apparatus was first shown to the British Royal Society. More.

Updated 18 November 2005
 
 

In 1992 and 1994 two discoveries were made that have had a major impact on the scientific community. These finds, the Schaefer and Hebior mammoths, were discovered and excavated in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, through the efforts and skills of a number of individuals. More.

Sideways Gravity in the Basement: Norman Scheinberg's Cavendish Experiment

John W. Dooley,

Physics Department, Millersville University

Norman Scheinberg is a professor of electrical engin- eering at The City College of the City University of New York. He built a Foucault pendulum in his basement just to see if he could get it to work. More

   
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