In this 2014 film, theoretical physicist Kip Thorne advised on the science of black holes, resulting in one of the most realistic depictions of a black hole on screen
What is Interstellar?
This part of the brain is primarily involved in processing musical sounds and patterns
What is the auditory cortex?
Muscle stiffness, tremors, slow movements, and impaired balance, primarily affecting older adults
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
The measure of the disorder or randomness of a system
What is entropy?
This force is like that friend who gives you that much needed reality check and makes sure you’re grounded no matter what.
What is gravity?
This 1993 film, based on Michael Crichton's novel, used the idea of extracting dinosaur DNA from preserved mosquitoes to bring dinosaurs back to life.
What is Jurassic Park?
This type of musical instrument produces sound primarily through the vibration of air columns.
What is a wind instrument?
Memory loss, confusion, difficulty with language, and personality changes, especially in the elderly.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
The point at which the Gibbs free energy change (ΔG) is zero for a reaction.
What is equilibrium?
This term refers to the highest point of a wave, whether it’s sound, light, or water.
What is the crest?
This 1985 movie features a scientist who creates a timetraveling DeLorean car, allowing characters to travel to the past and future
What is Back to the Future?
This mathematical ratio describes the relationship between frequencies of notes in a musical scale, commonly seen in the octave.
What is 2:1?
Tiredness, pale skin, and dizziness caused by a deficiency of iron in the diet.
What is anemia?
The process used to remove hard water ions using a sodium-based resin.
What is ion exchange?
This principle states that an object submerged in a fluid experiences an upward buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object.
What is Archimedes’ Principle?
This 1984 movie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, imagines a dystopian future where machines have taken over, with an iconic AI system named Skynet.
What is The Terminator?
This term describes the highness or lowness of a sound and is determined by the frequency of sound waves.
What is Pitch?
Weak bones, frequent fractures, and bowed legs due to a lack of vitamin D
What is rickets?
In an esterification reaction between acetic acid and ethanol, this sweet-smelling compound, found in some fruity scents, is formed
What is ethyl acetate?
Gaming for multiple hours not only drains you out but also heats your phone up, this phenomenon in Physics is explained by a term which describes how energy gets lost in various forms.
What is energy dissipation
In this 1999 film, Keanu Reeves’ character learns the truth about reality from a "red pill," sparking a journey to uncover the world of human-machine interaction.
What is The Matrix?
This phenomenon occurs when a vibrating string produces harmonics at integer multiples of its fundamental frequency.
What is resonance?
Severe fatigue, joint pain, butterfly-shaped facial rash, and photosensitivity.
What is Lupus?
Marie Curie isolated this radioactive element in 1898 from uranium ore, making it the first element discovered that exhibited strong radioactivity.
What is radium?
It is impossible to exist both in bed and at school on a Monday morning at the same time, but in the world of quantum mechanics, this mind-bending idea suggests that particles can in fact be in two places at once.
What is superposition?