Tag: Science
Did This Chemical Reaction Create the Building Blocks of Life on Earth?
How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to [more…]
Balloon to Fly During Solar Eclipse
The Great American Eclipse was a solar eclipse that passed nearly the entire continental United States back in 2017. While it might sound like a once-in-a-lifetime event [more…]
Radioactive Water Was Once a (Horrifying) Health Fad
Take a little time to watch the history of Radithor, a presentation by [Adam Blumenberg] into a quack medicine that was exactly what it said on the [more…]
Wind Tunnel Uses the Last Straw
If you watch the movies, there isn’t much to a wind tunnel. Just a fan and a tunnel, right? The truth is there’s a lot more to [more…]
RobotLAB Inks Landmark Robotics Partnership with American Samoa Department of Education
DALLAS, TX – RobotLAB, an award-winning robotics integrator that delivers impactful technological innovations and solutions for educators and business owners across the globe, has inked a momentous [more…]
Carl Sagan Detected Life on Earth 30 Years Ago—Here’s Why His Experiment Still Matters Today
It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using data from instruments on board NASA’s Galileo [more…]
That Coin Toss Isn’t Actually 50/50
A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results [more…]
Building a representative STEM pipeline needs to start in kindergarten
Stay up-to-date with the INNOVATIONSin K-12 Education Newsletter Sign Up Hidden Select the title describing your job function Hidden Where do you work? Hidden State Hidden Country [more…]
Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) Launches Sister Schools Program Across Four States and the Territory of Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) today announced the launch of the ALAS Sister Schools Program, a year-long partnership in which teams of [more…]
New Type of Ferroelectric Memory Constructed Using α-In2Se3 Material
The ferroelectrical properties of materials have found a variety of uses over the years, including in semiconductor applications. Ferroelectric memory is among the most interesting and possibly [more…]
Who Needs Sea Monkeys? Get PlanktoScope
Plankton are tiny organisms that drift around in the ocean. They aren’t just whale food — they are responsible for fixing up to 50% of the world’s [more…]
Sine-wave Speech Demonstrates an Auditory One-way Door
Sine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, [more…]
Scientists Unearth Brand New Links Between Genes and Disease in Our Blood
A blood draw is one the most mundane clinical tests. It’s can also be a Rosetta stone for decoding genetic information and linking DNA typos to health [more…]
Organisms Without Brains Can Learn, Too—So What Does It Mean to Be a Thinking Creature?
The brain is an evolutionary marvel. By shifting the control of sensing and behavior to this central organ, animals (including us) are able to flexibly respond and [more…]
Building a Human-Sized Pop-Pop Boat
Pop-pop boats are a neat little science teaching tool that many children end up playing with at some point or other. They’re normally sized to float around [more…]
Scientists Crack How Gravity Affects Antimatter: What That Means for Our Understanding of the Universe
A substance called antimatter is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. We know that every particle has an antimatter companion that [more…]
5 science and technology videos to get students talking
Key points: TED-Ed Lessons are short videos designed to engage students and stimulate critical thinking Here are 5 videos covering science and tech topics such as earth [more…]
Have We Already Recorded Proof of Alien Civilizations? There’s Only One Way to Know for Sure
My college laptop was slow. It didn’t help that the internet was too. Neither fact distracted me from two crucial tasks: downloading music and searching for aliens. [more…]
Most Parents Think Teachers Are Fully Prepared to Deliver Science of Reading-Aligned Instruction; Educators Are Less Optimistic
BOSTON – A national survey of over 800 U.S. parents[1] commissioned by Lexia, a part of Cambium Learning Group, and conducted online by The Harris Poll, found that [more…]
Electrostatic Generator Project Starts With Molten Sulfur
Although the basic concept of electrostatic attraction has been known since ancient times, it was only in the 17th century that scientists began to systematically investigate electrostatics. [more…]
Party Drug MDMA Inches Closer to Breakthrough Approval for PTSD
MDMA doesn’t have the best reputation. Known as “ecstasy” or “molly,” the drug is synonymous with rave culture: all-night electronic beats and choreographed laser shows. Still, it [more…]