Wondrium is removing some titles to make way for exciting new releases. On November 9, an assortment of third-party videos will leave the streaming service. Here’s what to watch before they go. […]
After the big bang, our universe was very different from what it is now, but it started changing rapidly. For example, many types of particles existed then that don’t exist now. […]
We almost know everything about what happened after the big bang, but we can’t study what happened before the event because our laws of physics don’t work at the densities matter had at the time. […]
The inflation of the universe after the big bang was so rapid that in a fraction of a second, particles that were an atom’s width apart from each other were suddenly thousands of light-years away from each other. […]
What we call electric power is voltage multiplied by current. In order to have electric power available to our plugs, we first have to generate it. And our ability to generate electrical energy really means that we convert it from another form of energy. […]
Magnetic fields aren’t visible to us. But if we wanted to see one, it’s as easy as pouring iron filings over a magnet and seeing how they line up from one end of the magnet to the other. […]
We use generators to get the electrical current we need. Generators are what are used to convert other forms of energy into electrical energy. […]
Leonid Brezhnev’s standing in party circles rose after Stalin’s death in 1953. The Brezhnev era was one of the most stable eras in USSR history. However, the country did have its economic problems. […]
Following the deaths of several senior party officials, 52-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen to lead the Soviet Union. He initiated a restructuring of the Soviets’ centrally planned economy and removed the rigid limitations of state censorship. […]
In May 1990—two months after Mikhail Gorbachev had been named president of the Soviet Union—Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Republic, the state’s largest political entity. And if the two men had ever been allies, they weren’t any longer. […]
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