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Mar 15 | News
Calculations are fine, but seeing is believing. That's the thought behind a new paper by Rice Univ. students who decided to put to the test calculations made more than a century ago.
Mar 2 | News
An Iowa State Univ. physicist, studies the mysteries of the neutrino, the elementary particle that usually passes right through ordinary matter such as baseballs and home-run sluggers.
Feb 12 | News
Olympic skeleton athletes will hit the ice next month in Vancouver, where one-hundredths of a second can dictate the difference between victory and defeat. Using flow measurements, a team from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, are employing science and technology to help the U.S. skeleton team trim track times and gain an edge over other sliders.
Feb 3 | News
Apparently, UVM mathematicians claim, the mysterious "3/4 law of metabolism"—accepted as gospel since 1932 as the exponent to describe the relationship between the size of all animals and their resting metabolism—is just plain wrong. Assuming a spherical cow shows, mathematically, a different ratio is at work.
Jan 6 | News
What exactly happened during the Big Bang, when rapidly evolving physical processes set the stage for gases to form stars, planets and galaxies? Now astrophysicists using supercomputers to simulate the Big Bang have a new mathematical tool to unravel those mysteries.
12/21/2009 | News
Researchers and curriculum developers from Georgia Tech are beginning a five-year, $3.5 million National Science Foundation study to discover how effective robotics and engineering design are at teaching eighth grade physical science content, and at increasing students’ interest and engagement in science, math, and engineering.
12/16/2009 | News
A new study co-written by a Univ.of Illinois expert in math education suggests that incorporating technology in high school-level geometry classes not only makes the teaching of concepts such as congruency easier, it also empowers students to discover other geometric relationships they wouldn't ordinarily uncover when more traditional methods of instruction were used.
12/14/2009 | RDBlog
I always thought of bacteria as being intrusive. The same goes for fungi. It seemed more of something that would infect the body instead of helping the body, or any field of science. It was why I wore shower shoes in college. However, the more I read on bacteria and fungi, the more I started to see the benefits that these micro-organisms have toward science.
12/10/2009 | News
Two Kent State Univ. professors are part of a team of researchers who recently uncovered a way to pack tetrahedra, considered to be the simplest shaped regular solids with its four triangular sides, more densely than ever before. The team has broken a world record for packing the most tetrahedra into a given volume.
12/8/2009 | News
Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famous Casimir forces that took place at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.