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The Science of Dragons
DreamWorks is expanding its How to Train Your Dragon franchise into games that teach kids about science and technology.
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Teachers TryScience
Teachers TryScience is a web site for teachers. This site provides free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). What’s more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices.
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Pluto and Charon: New Horizons’ Dynamic Duo
A high-contrast array of bright and dark features covers Pluto’s surface, while on Charon, only a dark polar region interrupts a generally more uniform light gray terrain.
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The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries
We have a rare chance now, with many teachers near retirement, to prove we’re serious about education. The first step is to make the teaching profession more attractive to college graduates.
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Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics
Everything you need to know about a famous imaginary cat in a box.
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The Mind-Bending Science of Awe
Awe is not an everyday emotion. You don't wake up awestruck. A satisfying lunch doesn't leave you filled with awe. Even a great day is unlikely to leave you in a state of jaw-dropped, consciousness-opening fear and trembling. Perhaps that's why, up until about ten years ago, psychology "had surprisingly little to say about awe," wrote Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt in a 2003 paper. The two psychology professors aimed to outline the key qualities of an awe-inspiring encounter.
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How do we know that evolution is really happening?
The idea that species gradually change over many generations is the cornerstone of biology. This is how we know it's true.
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What is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
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Chemistry Career Advice
Today's student presentation comes from Drew and Matt at Penn State. Both are soon-to-be graduates, but Drew is a chemical engineer, and Matt is a chemist.
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Scientists replicated 100 recent psychology experiments. More than half of them failed.
Replication is one of the foundational ideas behind science. It's when researchers take older studies and reproduce them to see if the findings hold up. Testing, validating, retesting: It's all part of the slow and grinding process to arrive at some semblance of scientific truth. Yet it seems that way too often, when we hear about researchers trying to replicate studies, they simply flop or flounder. Some have even called this a "crisis of irreproducibility."
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has a warning for politicians who cherry-pick science
Danthropology
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What has science ever done for us? The Knowledge Wars, reviewed
Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty's new book explores why so many people today selectively reject science, and in the process gives a behind the scenes look at how science really works.
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Growing Doubt: A Scientist's Experience of GMOs
''I now believe, as a much more experienced scientist, that GMO crops still run far ahead of our understanding of their risks.''
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How Scientific American makes its infographics
Flip through the pages of a scientific journal and you’ll find numerous figures, charts, and diagrams visualizing important scientific discoveries. But interpreting those visuals may leave you scratching your head. It’s important to remember that scientists present their data in ways that their fellow scientists can comprehend.
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Why There Will Never Be Another Einstein
No modern scientist comes close to Einstein's moral as well as scientific stature
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Science Knowledge Quiz
Who developed the polio vaccine? Does water boil at different temperatures based on altitude? Which is the hottest of Earth’s three layers? Take our science quiz and see how you compare with Americans overall.
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Just 6% Of Americans Got All Of These Basic Science Questions Right. How Well Will You Do?
A new survey of general scientific knowledge among the American population, designed by Pew Research Center, found that just 6% of participants scored 100%. How well can you do? If the quiz won't load for you, you can take it here.
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The Science Quiz
Test your knowledge of last week's hottest science news!
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3000 years old forgotten Science of Lucid Dreaming & Transcendental Consciousness
“We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up, sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (20th century)
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