Lonny Lippsett -The source of the rain that filled your town reservoir, or flooded your nearby river, or never arrived to water your crops, is most likely the ocean.The ocean contains 96 percent of the free water on Earth, and it acts like a massive water pump. It is powered by heat evaporating water into water […]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today unveiled NanoSpace, an online “molecular theme park” populated with more than 25 games, activities, and animations to educate and excite young students about the world of atoms and molecules. From playing “Who wants to be a Quindecillionaire?” in H2OPark, to solving the Polypeptide Puzzler in DNA Land, to button-jamming on Electronz […]
Alex Philippidis- With the U.S. economy stuck in neutral, science issues haven’t been high profile in this year’s presidential campaign. Yet they haven’t been ignored by President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, judging from what they’ve been saying in recent months—most recently in answers to 14 questions released last week by nonprofit ScienceDebate.org. Those answers—as […]
Harold Levy - How foolish is it to think that in the age of Facebook, Google’s driverless car, and the Mars Rover that high school graduates can be considered “college ready” without having mastered even the most rudimentary science classes? A few days ago, the ACT, which tests 1.6 million students annually, reported that a paltry 31 percent of the test […]
Paul G. Harnik, Heike K. Lotze, Sean C. Anderson, Zoe V. Finkel, Seth Finnegan, David R. Lindberg, Lee Hsiang Liow, Rowan Lockwood, Craig R. McClain, Jenny L. McGuire, Aaron O’Dea, John M. Pandolfi, Carl Simpson and Derek P. Tittensor - Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at […]
Olsson C et al (Springer) - Social connection is a more important route to adult well-being than academic ability. Positive social relationships in childhood and adolescence are key to adult well-being, according to Associate Professor Craig Olsson from Deakin University and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, and his colleagues. In contrast, academic achievement appears […]
