By Nina Peloso Every year before the NHL’s All-Star Game, players’ slapshots are ranked in the ‘hardest shot competition’. With the use of the slapshot, athletes are able to propel the puck to speeds of over 100 miles per hour. In 2020, Shea Webber took the title of ‘hardest shot’ at 106.5 mph. But the […]
The Impossible Invention: The Physics Behind The Airplane
Airplanes are a method of transportation utilized by millions daily, surely the science behind it is inarguable, right? Well, the answer is actually no. Although travelling by air has become a common luxury, the truth behind why airplanes can take flight is still debated amongst scientists across the world. Even with concrete, and widely accepted […]
Chaos Theory: Can the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings Really Cause a Tornado?
What do a double pendulum, weather patterns, and a population of rabbits have in common? According to American mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz, these peculiar topics might actually be pretty similar. Linked by the field of chaos theory, Lorenz proposed that the world isn’t as deterministic as we might think. What is Chaos Theory? Recently, […]
The Red Russian Victory Tank
What is the T-34? The year is 1941 and Operation Barbarossa is in full swing. Above all, this was an attempt by Nazi Germany to break their non-aggression pact and seize territory from the Soviet Union. However, the technological strides made over the course of the Second World War played a key role in how […]
C. S. Lewis and Multi-Dimensions
In the first book of C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed The Chronicles of Narnia series, the main characters Diggory and Polly find themselves in a strange wood. This wood, called the Wood Between the World, is filled with pools that lead to another world. By wearing a special ring, the children hop into the pool and […]