Articles Tagged “science”
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ExxonMobil Foundation and Dr. Bernard Harris Announce 2011 Summer Science Camp Locations
ExxonMobil Foundation and Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr., the first African-American to walk in space, are partnering for the sixth consecutive year to provide more than 1,200 middle school youth with a fun, engaging math…
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First-ever images of planets orbiting distant stars win the 2009 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Two breathtaking discoveries – the first-ever image of multiple planets orbiting a star other than our own, plus separate research that directly detected a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut – won the 2009 Newcomb Cleveland…
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Computer simulations can be as effective as direct observation at teaching students
Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computers simulations as they do from direct observation, new research suggests.A study found that people who used computer simulations to learn about moon phases understood…
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Why some scientists choose a given citation and not others to include in the references of their scientific writings?
Why some scientists choose a given citation and not others to include in the references of their scientific writings is an issue which is not completely resolved, according to what could be determined in a…
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Spallation Neutron Source First Of Its Kind To Reach Megawatt Power
The Department of Energy’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), already the world’s most powerful facility for pulsed neutron scattering science, is now the first pulsed spallation neutron source to break the one-megawatt barrier. “Advances in the…