Newton
What does Newton's First Law, the Law of Inertia, say?
A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force.
What is the unit of measurement for force called?
Newton
What is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center?
Gravity
Who invented over 300 uses for the peanut and developed methods to prevent soil depletion and advised prominent leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and President Teddy Roosevelt on agriculture and nutrition.
George Washington Carver
What color is the comet that expected to be the most visible to stargazers this week as it gradually passes Earth for the first time in about 50,000 years?
Green
What does Newton's Second Law, the Law of Force, say?
The amount of acceleration of a body is proportional to the acting force and inversely proportional to the mass of the body (the bigger something is, the more force is needed to move it)
The rate at which an object's speed is changing is called what?
Acceleration
What two things cause the force of gravity to be stronger?
Mass
Distance
Who was the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992?
Mae Carol Jemison
What movie star just had a newly discovered snake named for them?
Five species of previously unknown snakes with stunning eyes were discovered in jungle trees, and one was named after Leonardo DiCaprio.
What does Newton's Third Law, the Law of Action and Reaction, say?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
A push or pull that is applied to an object is called what?
Force
What measures the amount of matter in an object (anything you can physically touch)
Mass
Who leveraged her mathematical and programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth which was used as the foundation for the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
Gladys West
What was lost in Australia this week that prompted a frantic search?
A tiny, potentially deadly, radioactive capsule that fell from a truck has been found in Australia's outback following a frantic search along a huge desert highway.
Mining giant Rio Tinto issued an apology for the loss of the coin-sized silver capsule, which contains enough cesium-137 to send out 10 X-ray blasts every hour
What is a complicated gadget performing a simple task in an indirect, convoluted way called?
A Rube Goldberg Machine
What is the total or sum of all of the forces being put upon an object called?
Net Force
What measures the force of gravity pulling on an object?
Weight
Who was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. She worked closely with scientist Dr. Quentin B. Deming and their work opened up a new understanding of how foods and diet can affect the health of the heart and the circulatory system
Marie M. Daly
What did a scientist Accidentally Discover when testing a micro-CT scans for another project?
The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate - Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scans for a broader project.
"It had all these features, and I said to myself, 'Is this really a brain that I'm looking at?'" says Friedman from University of Michigan.
What fruit is normally associated with Sir Issac Newton
Apple
Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward.
When the Net Force equals 0 (zero)
What is the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution called?
Orbit
Who was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university and the sixth person of any race to receive a Ph.D. in physics from an American university?
Edward Bouchet
What is the Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System?
A 38-square-foot sail that's designed to deorbit satellites at the end of their lives --
a private space company in Germany has successfully tested a method to deorbit satellites at the end of their life to prevent them from becoming space debris in the first place.