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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Climate Change, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Greenovation, Math, Politics, Science Policy, Solar, Video, Wave Power, Wind on 01 25th, 2012 | No Comments

State of the Union Skimps on Science

For those expecting President Barack Obama to expound on the accomplishments of his laundry list of science and innovation policy he outlined in last year’s State of the Union, there were a few nods to but no specifics in this third State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. As Forbes reported...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Math, Video on 01 19th, 2012 | No Comments

Multidisciplinary Math Nets Crafoord Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave an important math prize to two U.S. mathematicians for their pioneering work in harmonic analysis. Professor Anders Bjorner from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm says, “These are two of the best problem-solvers alive and even on an historic...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Computer Science, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 14th, 2011 | No Comments

New Newton Project Drops Online

Sir Isaac Newton wrote mainly in Latin and Greek, the languages of science at the time he made astonishing discoveries about the laws of motion and gravity. Now those numerous writings are being put online in new a collection of 4,000 pages, including his hand-annotated copy of Principia Mathematica.Principia...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Biology, Environment, Evolution, Greenovation, Inventions, Math, Plants, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 10 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Nature by Numbers

Nature has been doing things for billions of years without issue. Over time plants and animals have refined the way they live to reflect the optimal situation given the conditions they have to endure. This is the nature of evolution. The fittest survive but what fit means to nature may be different...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Diseases, Economics, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Math, Politics, Video on 10 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Earth Population: 7 Billion and Counting

Seven billion is a big number. It looks like this: 7,000,000,000. According to National Geographic magazine If you started counting out loud to 7 billion, it would take you 200 years. And, If you took 7 billion steps it would take you around the globe 133 times. By the end of October, that’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 10 5th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Quasicrystal Discovery Wins Chemistry Nobel Prize

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” Until his 1982 discovery, Dr. Shechtman, who has joint appointments at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Discoveries, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Math, New Species, Video on 08 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Millions of Species Yet to be Discovered

According to a new study it could take 1,200 years, 300,000 researchers and $364 billion to identify and catalog all the species on Earth. New research in the online journal PLoS Biology, a publication of the Public Library of Science uses a new way of calculating just how many plants and animals inhabit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Citizen science, Computer Science, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Math, Video on 08 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Project Shiphunt Puts Adventure in Science

What started out as an educational lesson turned into real-world adventure for five high school students from Sagniaw, Michigan. The students from Arthur Hill High School, near Michigan’s Shipwreck Alley on Lake Huron located two missing ships at the bottom of the lake. In a science outreach collaboration...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Math, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 08 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Charles and Ray Eames Power of Creativity

In 1978, Charles and Ray Eames, the husband and wife duo who are known for their mid 20th Century furniture, movie making and other design projects, decided to map the visible world. Their film, Powers of Ten showed the perspective of moving one order of magnitude every ten seconds. Beginning with a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Consumer Safety, Discoveries, Diseases, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Uncategorized, Video on 07 21st, 2011 | 1 Comment

Real Science and Girls Dominate Google Science Fair

Gender stereotypes about math and science abound. Boys are known for performing better in math and science while girls tend to excel in history and language arts. Though the U.S. still leads the world in scientific discovery and vision, another stereotype is that the U.S. education system is failing...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Inventions, Math, Politics, Science Policy, Video on 05 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Science Literacy Leads to Jobs

$Science Literacy Leads to Jobs$

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien sits down with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to discuss why learning math and science is the beginning of a chain that leads to job growth. Even if you don’t use your 10th Grade trigonometry skills in the real world, Dr. Tyson says just having learned the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Environment, Geology, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, Science Policy, Solar, Space, Video on 01 26th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Science Underpins Innovation in State of the Union

The 2011 State of the Union address, delivered by President Barack Obama, painted a solid picture of the future. Not surprisingly the President finds a secure and prosperous future filled with scientific and technological innovation. To create more jobs, he stresses better education including concentration...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Math, Video on 11 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Some People Can’t Get Enough Pi

An Ankeny, Iowa sixth grader surprised his teacher and his classmates when he took a classroom challenge to the extreme. During the annual memorization of pi — the non-repeating number that represents the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter — one student just kept going. The...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Math, Scientainment, SciLebs, Video on 11 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Danica McKellar says, “Kiss My Math!”

Getting girls interested in math and science can be a daunting task. But for child actress and star of the Wonder Years TV show Danica McKellar is working to excite girls about math and science. She’s written three books and now is teaming up with DeVry University to get girls to take a second...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Math, Plants, Scientainment, Space, Video on 08 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists are People Too

The race is on to humanize scientists. Mad, messy-haired white men in white coats in a dark, cold laboratory are out. Long distance running, singer-photographer, daredevils are in. These are the new faces of science. mechanical engineer and an all-purpose daredevil, Nate Ball is also an accomplished...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, 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 | 6 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 Discoveries, Geology, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 5th, 2009 | 4 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 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, Economics, Health and Medicine, Math, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Scientainment, SciLebs 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, Climate Change, Computer Science, Discoveries, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, 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...

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