October 21, 2015 During Girl Day, Raytheon hopes to inspire future female engineers On Thursday, young girls nationwide like Perez-Fiato will explore the possibility of a career in engineering. Through Girl Day, which is part of National Engineers Week, aerospace and defense company Raytheon is sponsoring 16 events at various Boys and Girls Clubs across the country. As part of this programming, these students will conduct experiments — like using heat from sun’s thermal and radiant heat to heat water — and meet with participating Raytheon volunteers, many of whom are female engineers.
October 21, 2015 Rare Stegosaurus skeleton to debut at London museum A rare skeleton of a nearly 10-foot-tall, 150-million-year-old Stegosaurus will be unveiled at the Natural History Museum in London next month.
October 21, 2015 Ask a science teacher: Why is snow white, and where does its color go when the snow melts? Snow is a bunch of ice crystals stuck together. It’s a very complex arrangement. To understand why snow is white, we must be familiar with what happens to light when it strikes any material.
October 21, 2015 America's rocketeers: Young geniuses could push the space race forward Elon Musk led the charge by privatizing space exploration. Now, a new cadre of rocketeers at hackerspaces, schools, and rocket clubs in the U.S. are ready to take the reins.
October 21, 2015 Research on dung beetles, people who think they're drunk among the 2013 Ig Nobel award winners People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive? Lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home? Yep, it's the Ig Nobel awards again.
October 21, 2015 Ancient microbes found in buried Antarctic lake Beneath the icy surface of a buried Antarctic lake, in super-salty water devoid of light and oxygen that is also cold enough to freeze seawater, researchers have now discovered that a diverse community of bacteria has survived for millennia.
October 21, 2015 First six students graduate from IBM's P-TECH school, will pursue STEM When Cletus Andoh, 17, graduates from the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn, New York, on June 2, he will have earned not just a high school diploma but also an associate degree. Even more impressively, Andoh – who will be the first person in his immediate family to graduate from college — accomplished what would typically be six years of schooling in only four years. During the typical time it takes for the average student to complete high school, Andoh graduated from college with honors, been accepted to – and will attend in the fall – Syracuse University, and completed an internship with IBM Research.
October 21, 2015 In the future, could brain imaging be used as legal evidence? Brain imaging can already pull bits of information from the minds of willing volunteers in laboratories. What happens when police or lawyers want to use it to pry a key fact from the mind of an unwilling person?
October 21, 2015 Deflate-gate: The science of underinflated footballs With the so-called “deflate-gate” controversy still swirling around the New England Patriots, experts have explained the science of underinflated footballs to FoxNews.com.
October 21, 2015 Mmm! Unraveling the chemistry of Christmas cookies It's Christmas cookie time, and everyone's got a recipe or two they swear by, whether their loyalties lie with frosted sugar cookies or gently spiced gingerbread
