We have a few new books in the store and they are mostly great books on how to do science projects on your own. Let’s start with Soda-Pop Rockets Now of course the book is title ‘Soda-Pop Rockets’ so naturally they show a Water Cooler bottle being launched on the cover! But honestly the majority [...]
We’re out at a trade show today so today’s entry will be a bit brief: Many folks have come up with ideas as to how ancient Briton’s moved the heavy stones that make up Stonehenge. Some of the theories make sense, but many of them are a wee tad…speculative, to be kind. Aliens, psychic powers, [...]
When you sell telescopes in a big city people do tend to ask what they can do to use their telescope despite the bright lights of the city washing things out. We have many hints, of course, but sometimes folks just don’t want o make much effort to view at all. In fact, instead of [...]
Ample Scientific is an excellent supplier of quality microscopes and laboratory centrifuges. They also come up with great product offers and this summer is no exception! With every purchase of an Ample Scientific DM-120 Digital Micro Centrifuge you will get a FREE TACH-S Digital tachometer! That’s a $99 retail value, FREE! The TACH-S tachometer is [...]
And with the landing of STS-135 the NASA Space Shuttle program comes to and end.The Space Shuttles served as the US’s space transport for over 30 years. Now the shuttles will become museum pieces in the California Science Center in L.A., The Smithsonian, The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, and [...]
We’re in the middle of a very nasty heat wave here in Philadelphia (where Spectrum Scientifics is based). Temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees (F) before the end of the week. One thing we have noticed in various accounts of the weather is that most forcasters and weather reports don’t really have an accurate [...]
One of our more popular products is the Zero Blaster and the Mini-Zero-Blaster. These are nifty ‘guns’ that shoot rings of smoke! Both of these toys work on the same idea – a vortex generator. Such toys have actually been made for ages (usually home-made versions, although Wham-O make an air blaster for a while) [...]
Neodymium is the 60th element on the periodic table and the primary material for high-power, Rare-Earth Magnets. These Neodymium magnets have about ten times the power of regular ferrite magnets. Of late, however, Neodymium has been undergoing some rather abrupt pricing changes. In the past, it was a moderately expensive element, which kept high power [...]
On July 16th the Dawn Space Probe will enter orbit of the Asteroid Vesta. It will begin to study it to determine if its present oblong shape was caused by impacts. If this is the case then Vesta may be a candidate for being upgraded from being an asteroid/minor planet to a dwarf planet, like [...]
Mirrors are part of most people’s everyday life, from the bathroom mirror, to a car’s rearview mirror, and so on. What most people may not realize is that there are more than one type of mirror, or at least more than one way for a mirror to be silvered. Most mirrors people use on a [...]
