Math
What is a limit?
This is the quantity represented by displacement divided by time
What is velocity?
A substance is considered "basic" if its pH value is above this number.
What is 7?
This is the powerhouse of a cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This astrophysicist and science communicator runs Hayden Planetarium and hosts COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey.
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
This first-person pronoun is, in math, the square root of negative one.
What is i?
This physicist and astronomer's work on galaxy rotation rates provided the first serious "proof" of dark matter.
Who is Vera Rubin?
This scientist discovered iridium and polonium, and pioneered the study of radiation.
Who is Marie Curie?
Photosynthesis occurs in this organelle.
What is a chloroplast?
If you accidentally refer to this university's property as "campus", someone will quickly correct you that it is in fact called this instead.
What is grounds?
This Greek intellectual is considered the first known female math teacher in history, and developed the concept of conic sections.
Who is Hypatia?
These subatomic particles come in flavors such as top, strange, and charm.
What are quarks?
This second lightest gas has the lowest boiling point of any element.
What is helium?
These compounds, which are exclusively left-handed in living organisms, are called the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
This "human supercomputer" coordinated the development of computational methods for space launches at NASA.
Who is Dorothy Vaughn?
Emmy Noether pioneered this field of mathematics.
What is abstract algebra?
In general relativity, physicists make the joke that c - hbar = 0, because important physical constants are set equal to this value.
What is 1?
This explosive material trinitrotoluene has this more common name.
What is TNT?
This marine biologist and conservationist realized the dangers of pesticide abuse and DDT, helped create the Environmental Protection Agency, and wrote Silent Spring.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This is the number of planets in the solar system.
What is 8?
This function is the generalization of the factorial to non-integer numbers.
What is the gamma function?
In general relativity, this mathematical object describes all of the geometric and causal structure of spacetime.
What is the metric?
This is the most abundant greenhouse gas.
What is water vapor?
This DNA sequence is the promoter region of eukaryotes, and tells enzymes where to start DNA transcription.
What is the TATA box?
The ball form of this weather phenomenon is also known as kugelblitz.
What is lightning?