Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.” – Christiane Nusslein-Volhard It is no…

How many types of LEGO bricks can you see in the picture on this page? What are the different characteristics that define them? Suppose you were given the task of…

It is common knowledge that scientists understanding of the world is different from many people. A scientist tend to break apart (analyze) things into their smaller parts, and then study…

Suppose an iron sculptor melts iron by adding heat energy to it. You may think that he has changed the iron into a simpler substance. But the liquid iron he…

  Matter surrounds us, and chemistry is the science of matter and its interactions. Chemists classify matter as either a pure substance or a mixture. A pure substance is one…

Over the centuries, scientists have tried to explain what lies beyond what we can physically observe in nature by creating models. Quite unlike the famous fashion supermodels such as Miranda…

Some of the most useful and powerful properties of matter are those related to how and why matter changes. There are countless changes in matter that affect us every day:…

When you choose your clothes, your pots, or detergent, you are making choices based on the properties of matter. Through observation, scientists have found it useful to classify matter according…

Fireworks! Beautiful fireworks! On Canada Day when darkness falls, the night sky lights up with a shower of red, blue, green, and white flares, and the air crackles with sounds…

Hi everyone! Welcome to CHeMn-FUN. I am Charmaine Condappa and I am a science, technology, engineering and mathematics teacher working in a scenic First Nations community in North Canada. This…