STEM
Breakthroughs
Breakthroughs
This renewable energy source harnesses power from the Sun to generate electricity.
What is solar power?
This element, essential for all known life forms, is the basis of organic chemistry.
What is carbon?
This blocky survival game features a material called “Redstone”, which mimics real-world electrical circuits.
What is Minecraft?
In experiments, this type of control ensures that no unintended variables affect the outcome.
What is negative control?
Investigating how cells communicate, divide, and regulate gene expression gene expression is central to this area of research.
What is Molecular and cell biology?
This NASA program successfully landed humans on the Moon in 1969.
What is Apollo?
This calculus concept describes the behavior of a function as it nears a certain point, used to define the derivative and integral.
What is a limit?
This long-running animated show features an evil scientist grandpa and his anxious grandson traveling across dimensions.
What is Rick and Morty?
This technique is used to measure the absorbance of light by a sample to determine concentration.
What is a spectrophotometry?
Analyzing rock formations, plate tectonics, and Earth’s history is a focus of this scientific discipline.
What is Geology?
This scientist’s polio vaccine helped nearly eradicate the disease worldwide.
Who is Jonas Salk?
In optics, this law is used to describe the relationship between the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction.
What is Snell’s Law?
This 2014 Christopher Nolan film, known for its accurate portrayal of black holes and relativity, was based on physicist Kip Thorne’s work.
What is Interstellar?
This term describes an experiment in which neither the participants nor the researchers know which group is receiving the treatment, reducing bias.
What is a double-blind study?
Studying how humans interacts with technology, organizing digital information, and developing search algorithms are key aspects of this field.
What is information science?
The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964 provided strong evidence for this cosmological theory.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This language, developed by Guido van Rossum, is known for its readability and used in data science.
What is Python?
This cryptid, supposedly living in the Pacific Northwest, has been scientifically proven to exist.
What is Bigfoot (or Sasquatch)?
This type of engineering testing method applies a force to a material to measure its ability to withstand stress.
What is tensile testing?
This field is often the most widely publicized and mainstream field of study in pop culture.
What is astrophysics?
The invention of this software architecture in the 1990s revolutionized the internet, enabling dynamic web pages and applications.
What is JavaScript?
In neuroscience, this term describes the process of strengthening synaptic connections between neurons.
What is long-term potentiation (LTP)?
The “Schrödinger’s cat” paradox is frequently referenced in pop culture and comes from this branch of science.
What is quantum mechanics?
This technique is used to determine the presence of specific proteins in a sample of antibodies.
What is a Western blot?
Designing and optimizing hardware systems, microprocessors, and embedded systems are key areas of this field.
What is computer engineering?