Science Education - Page 13

October 21, 2015

Ask a science teacher: What makes ice float?

Why is ice, which is water in solid form, lighter than water in its liquid form? Something must be happening to water when it freezes.

October 21, 2015

Ask a science teacher: What makes the colors in fireworks?

There is much chemistry and physics in fireworks; the color of fireworks, for one thing, is all in the chemicals. Your basic fireworks have been around for hundreds of years.

October 21, 2015

World's thinnest glass shatters records -- by accident

It's an earth-shattering record. At just one molecule thick, researchers at Cornell and Germany's University of Ulm discovered the world's thinnest sheet of glass -- by accident.

October 21, 2015

Texas teen takes home $100G science prize

A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for scientific work that could help driverless cars and robots navigate around obstacles.

October 21, 2015

US science to plunge off fiscal cliff?

The American science programs that landed the first man on the moon, found cures for deadly diseases and bred crops that feed the world now face the possibility of becoming relics in the story of human progress.

October 21, 2015

Artificial muscles built from 'carbon yarn'

Muscles made from twisted strands of carbon yarn were able to pull more than 100,000 times their own weight in recent tests.

October 21, 2015

British, Japanese scientists win Nobel medicine prize

British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells

October 21, 2015

One mom's mission to encourage girls in science

Kelly Mathews is on a mission — to get more girls interested in STEM.

October 21, 2015

Obama gets first 3D-printed presidential portrait

To his list of firsts, Barack Obama can add that he was the first U.S. President to have himself scanned and 3D printed.

October 21, 2015

How to make a digital human brain

Futurists warn of a technological singularity on the not-too-distant horizon when artificial intelligence will equal and eventually surpass human intelligence.