The other day I heard a CNN news-reader, during the time when readers don't read, but speak for themselves, say right after a story of the October 15th big Hawaii earthquake: "My, what a strange place for an earthquake to take place!" So much for earth science...
The other day I heard a CNN news-reader, during the time when readers don't read, but speak for themselves, say right after a story of the October 15th big Hawaii earthquake: "My, what a strange place for an earthquake to take place!" So much for earth science...
The short answer is yes. Here's a longer answer. In 1986, Richard Rhodes published the Pulitzer Prize book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb giving us a sweeping account of the making of the first atomic bomb, including who and how they did it. Image: The Making of the...
John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and George F. Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics. They will split the $1.3 million prize. They headed a team of scientists and engineers who developed the COBE...
An interesting article caught my attention as I was scrolling through the New York Times online. It was entitled Emblem of the West is Dying, No One Can Figure Out Why. The emblem? The Aspen Tree. Image: A Stand of Aspen Trees Image: Aspen Leaves One of the most...
Perhaps one of the important trends over the past 20 years in science teaching has been the “science and social responsibility movement†which resulted in programs that have impacted K-12 schools, not only in the US, but in many countries around the world....
