Articles in the Category: Math
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Science of..., Video on 02 15th, 2010 | No Comments
The Science of…The Winter Olympics
San Francisco Bay area teachers are using the 2010 Winter Olympics to teach kids about math and science.
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation teamed up with NBC Learn — the educational arm of NBC News — and the National Science Foundation to provide free lesson plans and video clips....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments
2012 Hoax Debunked
2012 is becoming the conspiratorial talk of the town. And a new Sony Pictures disaster movie by the same name only seems to be confusing matters. NASA even posted a Q & A page on its Web site.
Here’s the gist of the kitchen sink hoax. It starts with the end of the Mayan calendar, adds a mystery...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Geology, Math, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 5th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Mt. Blanc Gets a Height Check
Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps is standing tall — all 4,810.45 metres of it. That’s only 45 centimetres less than when it was last measured four years ago, but three metres above the height French schoolchildren have long been taught. Scientists carried out new measurements in...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Math, SciClips, Uncategorized on 10 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Puzzle People Make Math Magic
Brilliant minds have been challenging people to embrace math for centuries. But one man made recreational math fun and has been inspiring legions of followers for decades.
His name? Martin Gardner. This mathemagician has been transforming frightening formulas into fun.
But recreational math doesn’t...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biochemistry, Health and Medicine, Math, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, SciLebs, Science & Entertainment, economics on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Ig Nobel Prizes Irreverent in Science
While most serious scientists are wringing their hands, wondering who will win the Nobel prizes, a different group of scientists is celebrating the lighter–but just as bona fide–side of science.
The 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony shined a silly look at science at Harvard last...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, SciClips, Space, Video on 08 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Turning the iPhone into the SciPhone
Just over a year old, the Apple iTunes App Store is churning out–or rather independent developers are–applications to calculate tips, find restaurants and even play countless games. But there is little for the science-interested smart phone users.
Oh sure, among the tens of thousands of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Featured Articles, Math, SciClips on 08 4th, 2009 | No Comments
Puzzling Math
For 35 years, the Rubik’s Cube has been puzzling people and teaching science. Starting with its inventor, Erno Rubik, first used his “magic cube” to demonstrate three-dimensional design to his architecture students.
Now mathematicians across the world are employing the brightly-colored...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Dinosaurs, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 06 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Georgia Girls Shine as Stars of Science
Summer is no time for idle minds. About 70 Georgia girls are getting a crash course in crime scene investigation, astronomy, dinosaurs and chemistry, neuroscience, computer science and mathematics.
The goal of the Women in the Sciences summer camp is to interest young women in pursuing careers in science.
Other...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, RawAudio, SciClips, Space, The Brain on 06 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Science For All
In a move to take science from the lab and place it in the public square, the World Science Festival is about to start its second year of inciting curiosity.
REALscience talked with organizer and physicist Brian Greene to hear what we can expect at this year’s festival.
Photo: Physicist and Co-Founder...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Science Fair Season
Science is in the air across the nation as students showcase their discoveries, research projects and compete for scholarships. The biggest science and engineering fair is underway in Reno, Nevada.
Visit the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to learn more.
Students from all over the Pacific...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Math, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Counting Casualties in the Math Wars
The battle line in the math wars separates reform math from traditional. It pits new, fuzzier, inquiry-based learning against rote memorization of fundamental math facts. And, it’s been boiling in school districts across the country for over 30 years.
The latest battleground is Seattle, WA, where...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Math, SciLebs, Video on 04 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Dr. Stephen Hawking Seriously Ill
Famed mathematician Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is seriously ill, Cambridge University said Monday.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Math, SciClips, Video on 04 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Catch the Geocaching Wave
Technology and treasure are pushing people to get out and explore parks, mountain peaks and back alleys in cities. It’s all part of geocaching, a nine-year-old GPS adventure game that is becoming a popular global sport.
And, while geocaching has its roots in navigation and exploration it is backyard...
Pi Gal
Kurt Godden is a General Motors in an Operations Research scientist with a daughter who loves pi. Not the kind with berries or cream. But the number that starts with 3.14….and goes and goes and goes. Here she recites the first 500 numbers of pi but she memorized the first 2,000 digits.
Let’s...
Mysteries of Math
Dr. Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, loves numbers and sees them everywhere, in nature and in the cosmos.
But where does math, the complex language of numbers come from? Has it always been there for us to find or is mathematics just another human creation?...
Math Teacher Sells Ad Space on Tests
When faced with a shortfall in his copying budget, math teacher Tom Farber decided to pay for the paper he puts his calculus tests on by selling ad space on them.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Engineering, Math, SciClips, The Brain on 11 26th, 2008 | No Comments
Six Degrees of Internet Black Holes
Hidden Metric Space, courtesy of CAIDA, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego.
Scientists are worried that the Internet is becoming a clogged superhighway, complete with bottlenecks where information seems to disappear.
These electronic misfires are called Internet black holes. And, they seem...
Counting on Number Sense
1, 2, 3, 4, how do you improve your math score? Well, start by getting good at estimating numbers of objects in groups. New research shows that good “number sense” translates to higher standardized math test scores.
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10-year-old Science Whizz
Just as school is getting ready to start, here’s a story from across the pond that will make you want to pick up some light reading for your ,. A ten-year-old Manchester, England boy (and his mother) both received a B grade in science. The pair took the equivalent of the science SAT and passed...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Math, SciClips on 06 18th, 2008 | No Comments
Natural Beauty
Spirals on a Conch Shell
Sometimes the world seems too complex to be natural. But scientist continually prove that nature is both complicated and natural.
From a butterfly’s wings to the perfect spirals of a seashell, it’s all just patterns. Now new research is showing how cells migrate–also...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Math, SciClips on 05 9th, 2008 | No Comments
Game for a Cure
Human Fyn protein, courtesy of University of Washington
A group of scientists is banking on the world to help solve some big diseases. Cures to finding proteins to stop cancer, Alzheimer’s or HIV may lie in global game players.
A new online videogame project, called FoldIt is looking for players...
Musical Math
Courtesy of Lukesh
Every musical note strikes a mathematical chord. And, now a group of scientists has found some complex shapes in the music even before geometric mathematicians can describe them.
In this week’s issue of Science magazine three music theorists describe the advanced geometry...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Engineering, Environment, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast on 12 31st, 2007 | No Comments
Year in Review
2007 was a big year for science—and REALscience. From weird weather events to extraordinary discoveries in space, the year was full of all kinds of science. It was the beginning of the International Polar Year. Global warming dominated the news. Science was under political attack. But the biggest...
