Science in Everyday Life

Now that everyone is at home and it is the summer holiday season, making giant soap bubbles are a great way to have fun and learn science…

It’s all because of two phenomena: scattering and absorption of light

The traditional view is solids can support stress —  you can walk on a solid, whereas liquids cant. Why is this? It’s because atoms in…

Gases contain molecules floating around and bumping into each other. Take air for example. Air contains mainly molecules of Nitrogen…

It’s one thing to say our parents are bananas, another to say they are literally a banana. How can we reconcile these two truths? For that…

You might think of solids as fixed objects with atoms fixed in place. However, atoms in solids keep bouncing off each other in the same…

You’ve probably learnt that solids have a fixed shape and volume whereas liquids only have the latter. But why is that? In this blog you…

Glass is called a supercooled liquid. How cool is that?