17 Year Old May Have Discovered Way to Screen and Treat the Flu Posted: 5 months ago by deepcleanfun
It's not the long-sought cure for the common cold but a 17-year-old Ottawa high school student won a national science competition today by developing a novel way of identifying and perhaps even fighting flu infections.
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Resuscitation Science: Is There a Third State of Being? Posted: 8 months ago by deepchill
They call it resuscitation science. It's a new area of research at the University of Pennsylvania, where a Center for Resuscitation Science opened less than a year ago, and where the line between life and death is shifting.
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New legal threat to school science in the US Posted: 3 months ago by bingo
On the 28 June, The Science Education Act was passed as law in the State of Louisiana. This piece of legislature now allows teachers in this US state to present non-scientific alternatives to evolution, global warming and cloning – including ideas related to intelligent design. Opponents fear that Louisiana teachers are now free to present evolution and other targeted topics as matters of debate rather than broadly accepted science, and could have national implications.
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Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? Posted: 7 months ago by 2longdogs
Think you know a thing or two about science? Take our short quiz to determine if you'd pass an 8th grade science test.
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Has U.S. Science Lost Its Competitive Edge? Posted: 5 months ago by lsojunkie
How far has the United States risen above the gathering storm of global competition in science? Not nearly far enough, warned a succession of luminaries at a symposium held today by the U.S. National Academies.
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New british TV show teaches science in an exciting new way Posted: 7 months ago by LSOjunkie
What happens when you have physics and chemistry professors teach grade school science classes? A whole lot of fun.
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MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education Posted: 1 month ago by bernardblack
By 2010, Asia will have 90 percent of the world’s Ph.D. scientists and engineers. Today, when science is more important then ever, the US has fallen far behind. How can we recitfy this? Adam Savage has a few ideas.
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Homebrewed Science Posted: 12 months ago by 2manyusernames
A fellow Plimate, Snocrash, has a website called Homebrewed Science that you might find interesting.
It is a new community that encourages discussion and experimentation on science projects you can do at home. Read it for enjoyment, read it for education, check it out today.
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The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn’t know Posted: 2 years ago by cjmei
Do you know you can Hypnotize Chickens, you can have an erection once dead?...Stuff you may not have known about science and some of the crazy things you can do, things your body is capable of doing that you may not have known.
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Girls shatter glass ceiling at science competition Posted: 10 months ago by marli
Girls swept a prestigious high school science competition for the first time Monday, winning top prizes of $100,000 scholarships for their work on potential tuberculosis cures and bone growth in zebrafish.
It was the first time girls had ever won the grand prizes in both the team and individual divisions of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
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The Most Popular Myths in Science Posted: 2 years ago by Mershaullk
I knew some of these couldn't be true.
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Tony Blair Talks Science Posted: 2 years ago by sparky
Tony Blair talks to New Scientist magazine about science. He admits that he wasn't particuarly gifted at the subject at school, but that he sees it as vital to the UK.
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Gallery: Stunning visualizations of science Posted: 1 week ago by AutumnLotus
It's a feast for the eyes: the winners of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge have been announced.
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Beautiful nanotechnology images from the Science as Art competition Posted: 9 months ago by leopoldogolba
The 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting concluded in Boston on November 30. This was the first time that the popular Science as Art competition was held at an MRS Fall Meeting. Three first place and three second place winners were selected from the various entries. Some of the images are from the nanotechnology domain but most are micro-scale.
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REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction # 23 edited by Gardner Dozois Posted: 2 years ago by Jaxomlotus
Gardner Dozois' presents the twenty-third volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction, an anthology containing 30 stories from 2005.
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Science Fiction's Most Controversial Novel? Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Is Robert Heinlein's "Freehold" the most controversial? Or consider "Brave New World", "The Fountainhead", "The Left Hand of Darkness", "Dhalgren", Heinlein’s own "Stranger in a Strange Land". What say you?
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