Stories Written By: Michael Lampert

• 10.29.07

  Watermelon Thumping

  High School Students Use Soundwaves to Test for Sweetness Everyone has thumped a watermelon at some time in their life. Old timers will tell you that  a ripe one makes a deep thud, while others may tell you to listen for a resonating ping. As part o

• 10.15.07

  Constructing an Infrasound Detector

  High School Science Teacher Reports From the Island of Maio Some 300 miles off the West Coast of Senegal lies a very small, dusty island named Maio. It is here that Professor Michael Hedlin of the University of California at San Diego built an infrasoun