September+HMT

9-22-14


 * Science Discovery**

My Science Discovery for this week is about gravity and water. I thought of using gravity because when I had took a drink of water in a plastic cup I had realized that when you tip the cup the water moves to the rim of the cup. Have you ever wondered why when you jump you come back down, or water looks for the lowest surface? It's gravity's fault. We need gravity or everything in the world would float and it would be chaos. I was taking a drink of water last night and noticed the water was traveling up the cup. Turns out, the water was not traveling up the cup, it was leveling out. When you tip a glass full of water, the cup is not level, so the water tries to level out, looking like it is moving upward.

9-15-14


 * Science Discovery**

My Science Discovery for this week is about truffles. My dad and I were talking about them I wanted to learn more. Truffles are a type of fungi that grow on the root of a tree in the ground. There are a lot of different kinds of truffles with different names and colors. To find truffles, you will need a pig or a truffle dog. It is risky to use a pig because they most likely will eat the truffles.Now, people are training dogs to look for truffles.Truffles have a certain scent that pigs and dogs can smell. Why would you want to look for truffles? Well, truffles are worth a lot of money as big as your fist.you can get around $250,to $450 for a single truffle.