Light from the sun comes in many colors, including colors we can see and some we can’t see. And just like sound waves or waves on the water, light travels in waves. Each color has a different kind of ...

We need supercomputers because scientists are doing really awesome work that requires lots of computing time. For some of this work, if we weren’t using supercomputing to break up tasks and make ...

— James Webb, Mineral Point, Wis. A Chuck DeMets, professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Most earthquakes occur when a geological fault, a fracture within the Earth’s crust, ...

The Kuiper belt, named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper, is a massive, icy region of our solar system that exists just beyond the planets. Actually shaped more like a doughnut than a flat belt, the ...

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A Faith Fitzpatrick, research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Wisconsin Water Science Center: It basically takes four things to make a waterfall. The first one is, of course, water. Second ...

A Jim Lattis, director of the UW Space Place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in both size and composition. Some contain hundreds of millions of stars ...

In terms of temperature, sound waves move faster in warm air and slower in cold air. So as sound moves through the atmosphere, some parts of the wave will be moving faster than the rest. For example, ...