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Home Ent May 3, 2016

Kid-friendly Fable tablet comes to public schools, will hit stores in March

When long-time educator Janice Gauthier looks back on her years as a middle and high school English teacher, she said she wishes she had access to the kinds of technology — like tablets — that are currently playing an increasingly larger role in classrooms across the country. Now, as Director of Curriculum and Development at Everett Public Schools in Everett, Mass., Gauthier has been able to oversee a pilot program from Massachusetts-based consumer device company Isabella Products Inc. that has placed Fable, a new browser-free and child-friendly tablet, in one of her school’s classrooms. 

Physics May 2, 2016

CERN in a shoebox? Tiny particle accelerators are coming

Scientists could soon develop particle accelerators that can fit into a shoebox, experts say

Science Education May 2, 2016

Next Higgs? Atom smasher probes highest energies yet

Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher have made a precise tally of the jumbled cascade of particles produced when two proton beams are smashed together.

Science Education May 2, 2016

16-year-old's DNA experiment will fly in space

A 16-year-old New York City-area student will one day see her DNA experiment launched to the International Space Station.

Biology May 2, 2016

High temperatures make some lizards change sexes

When some lizards can’t take the heat, they change sexes. In a recent study published in Nature, researchers in Australia revealed that rising temperatures are causing male Australian Bearded Dragons to change into females when developing in the egg. Not only that, but they make better mothers, laying more eggs than naturally born females.

Science Education May 2, 2016

Error in golden ratio at exhibit? Museum now says it's right

A Boston science museum that praised a teenager for catching a mistake in the golden ratio at a decades-old exhibit now says it wasn't an error after all.

Science Education May 2, 2016

Google 'Doodle' celebrates Sally Ride, 1st American woman in space

Google has paid tribute to America's first woman in space with a series of five animated "Doodles" appearing on its website today, May 26.

Biology May 2, 2016

Art and technology battle autism through MSSNG project

 On May 6, the typical stylish New York City gallery crowd mingled and gawked at art lining the walls of the Betaworks studio gallery in the city’s Meatpacking District for The MSSNG Lab, an invitation and one-night-only art installation and auction. What separated this from similar art events in the city? Well, for one thing, biochemist and fine art photographer Linden Gledhill was stationed center stage on a platform staring down a microscope as a screen projection on the wall showed in real-time the microscopic images he was analyzing.

American Innovation May 2, 2016

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow winners head to Washington, D.C.

High school freshman Bela Reyes-Klein said she was overwhelmed with pride when she found out that she and her fellow teenage engineers from Galena High School in Reno, Nev., were one of five groups to win the national Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. The competition, designed to encourage students and teachers throughout the country to use STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) projects to solve problems facing their communities, announced the five winning schools in April. On April 29, students and teachers from the winning schools – which won a combined $2 million — will attend an awards luncheon in Washington, D.C.

Science Education May 2, 2016

For Earth Day, Levi Strauss & Co. wants consumers to pledge to wash less

Did you know that about 3,800 liters of water are used over the course of the lifetime of a pair of jeans? What about this statistic – consumer care, like washing, contributes 37 percent of the roughly 74 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted during a pair of jeans’ use. The figures come from a recent Levi Strauss & Co. study on the impact that jeans have on the environment, an update on a similar 2007 report from the company. The goal was to shed light on the fairly large-scale impact that wearing a pair of jeans – something most people just take for granted – can have.

Science Education May 2, 2016

Super species: Animals with extreme powers invade museum 

The astonishing tardigrade — a microscopic animal that looks like a cross between a bear and a cushy pillow — can survive for 10 years without water, endure boiling temperatures and withstand the radiation, weightlessness and iciness of space