SCIENCE BOND

When the sky is blue and clear it is because molecules in the air reflect blue light from the sun more than they are reflecting red light. The sun has all the colors of the rainbow in it; when reflected through a prism or these little molecules, you see different colors. All those colors you see in the sky are based on this principle. So just like when you shine a white light through different angles of a prism, the molecules reflect different colors when the sun is lower in the sky, such as sunset when you see the red and oranges. At sunset, the blue is then out of your line of sight.  This can be a very deep subject. You have to understand prisms and even which kinds of molecules reflect the different colors. So many really technical things to consider. In about 1859 man named John Tyndall took steps in the name of science to explain the sky's color. He proved that light passes through clear fluid and acts like a prism by polarizing the light with specific qualit...

Antimatter is a shadowy mirror image of the ordinary matter we are familiar with.  For the first time, scientists have measured the forces that make certain antimatter particles stick together.  The findings, published in Nature, may yield clues to what led to the scarcity of antimatter in the cosmos today.  It remains one of the big challenges of scienceAihong Tang, Brookhaven National Laboratory.  The forces between antimatter particles - in this case antiprotons - had not been measured before. If antiprotons were found to behave in a different way to their "mirror images" (the ordinary proton particles that are found in atoms) it might provide a potential explanation for what is known as "matter/antimatter asymmetry".  At the beginning of the Universe, the Big Bang produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. But that's not the world we see today: instead antimatter is extremely rare. Some phenomenon must have led to the overwhelming dominance...