Online Journal Combines Teaching Math And Studying How Students Learn Science Daily
When instructors at Bronx-area community colleges applied for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how students think about fundamental concepts of calculus, they hoped to gain a better understanding of how college students learn mathematics. During the 4-year project, the teacher-researchers integrated ongoing research theories with classroom teaching. As a result, their project
How Plastic Solar Cells Turn Sunlight Into Electricity Science Daily
A new analytical technique, featured on the cover of this week's issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B, could lead to the development of cheaper, more efficient solar cells. The information that this technique provides is a critical step in the development of a new class of solar cells, which promise significant savings in production costs compared to conventional silicon-based cells.
Catching up with 2 of the Lansing Banfields The Ithaca Journal
Pat Banfield is the proud mother of six adult children: William, Carol, Terry, Sally, Robert and Donald. They have followed careers in accounting, opera, set painting, aeronautics and planetary science. Quite a diversified group of siblings.
Finding Buried Craters on Mars Universe Today
Regions of Mars explored by Mars Express. Image credit: NASA/JPL Click to enlarge Many photographs have been taken of Martian landscapes, but now spacecraft are beneath the surface to see what's buried underground. Researchers used instruments on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter to detect ancient impact craters beneath the smooth surface of Mars' northern hemisphere. Some of these craters
Self-assembling Nano-ice Discovered -- Structure Resembles DNA Science Daily
UNL chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng and his team discovered double helixes of ice molecules that resemble the structure of DNA and self-assemble under high pressure inside carbon nanotubes. This discovery could have major implications for scientists in other fields who study the protein structures that cause diseases such as Alzheimer's and bovine spongiform ecephalitis. It could also help guide those
Insights gained on the properties of water UPI
HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A Finnish study shows droplets of sulfuric acid and water can be cooled to minus-140 degrees Celsius and then re-heated without any ice formation.
Engineering award named The Iowa City Press-Citizen
A student-operated business at the University of Iowa known as OMR Sensors Inc. is the winner of the 2006 Hubert E. Storer En-gineering Student Entrepreneurial Start-up Award.
Geologists Finding a Different Mars Underneath AstroInfo
Quelle: NASA/JPL
Onalaska root canal pro to head Wisconsin Dental Association Holmen Courier
Eva Dahl, Onalaska endodontist, assumed presidency of Wisconsin Dental Association for last month. Photo by Adam Bissen Eva Dahl, the Onalaska endodontist who became president of the Wisconsin Dental Association last month, isn’t a stranger to leading dental organizations.
Even small regional nuclear war can have disastrous global affects, say nuclear scientists ANI via Yahoo! India News
Washington, Dec 12 (ANI): A team of scientists from UCLA, the University of Colorado at Boulder and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, have said that even a regional nuclear war could devastate large cities and disrupt the global climate. According to them, even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce "as many direct fatalities as occurred during all of World War
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