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Wood particleboard furniture is affordable and generally easy to assemble, but particleboard is often held together with ...

For decades researchers have been exploring how to store data in glass because of its potential to hold information for a ...

PFAS, or "forever chemicals," are commonly used in consumer products and industrial processes because of their useful ...

Discovered method for long-term storage of blood plasma Organized America's first large-scale blood bank Dr. Charles Richard Drew broke barriers in a racially divided America to become one of the most ...

Photography allows us to capture light as fixed images. You have probably seen many photographs in your life in all forms. They may have been print photos, pictures in magazines, or digital photos on ...

Most ways of collecting images are based on the contact of light with materials. Film cameras catch images on light sensitive film that is developed into pictures using special processes. Digital ...

All matter is made of very small units called atoms. Atoms are so small they cannot be seen using a regular microscope. Scientists have discovered a way to “see” atoms using a special instrument ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a way to investigate the surface features of some materials. It works by “feeling” or “touching” the surface with an extremely small probe. This provides a ...

The first Pinhole camera (Camera Obscura) was used to trace an image. Camera Obscura is used to make an image on metal plates coated with chemicals. This was when the first permanent photograph was ...

In the early days of photography, people used much simpler cameras. These cameras could “capture” images and focus their light onto light-sensitive material called photographic film. To take a picture ...

Photography uses light to make a chemical change and create an image. The Anthotype/Sun Print activity in this issue of Celebrating Chemistry (located on pg. 11) is an example of a chemical change ...