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Teaching intangibles with technology
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Teach students some facts, and they learn for one exam at a time. Teach students to think and they learn how to learn for the rest of their lives. Ambitious work from European and Israeli researchers is making it easier to ...
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College Board weighs online science labs
Oct 20, 2006 |
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The College Board is studying whether virtual science labs are acceptable for Advance Placement coursework for U.S. high school science students.
Mobile math lab for cell phones created
Jul 10, 2007 |
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Israeli scientists have developed a mobile math lab application for cell phones, providing students with experiential, interactive ways to learn math.
HP Labs award will lay groundwork for next generation computers
Sep 17, 2008 |
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While most personal computers today can process a few hundred thousand calculations per second, computer scientists are laying the groundwork for exascale machines that will process more than a million trillion ...
Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, study
Jul 04, 2009 |
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The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says "baa."
Seeing a fabulous vision of the future
Sep 16, 2009 |
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It was a harmonic convergence of scheduling that found me spending six solid hours with some of Silicon Valley's brightest minds. Without giving it much thought, I committed recently to a morning of meetings at Hewlett-Packard's ...
Researchers rapidly turn bacteria into biotech factories
Jul 26, 2009 |
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High-throughput sequencing has turned biologists into voracious genome readers, enabling them to scan millions of DNA letters, or bases, per hour. When revising a genome, however, they struggle, suffering from serious writer's ...
Ebola virus disarmed by excising a single gene
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Jan 21, 2008 |
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The deadly Ebola virus, an emerging public health concern in Africa and a potential biological weapon, ranks among the most feared of exotic pathogens.
Researchers double cell phone memory through software alone
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 27, 2007 |
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Cell phones are increasingly sophisticated -- sporting such features as cameras, music players, games, video clips, Internet access and, lest we forget, the capability to phone someone -- but these features come at a price: ...
NASA holds module naming competition
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2006 |
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NASA is asking U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade to help name the next U.S. International Space Station module.
Team develops solar-powered laptop for Tanzanian students
Dec 20, 2007 |
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For a team of Penn State engineering students, the challenge wasn't getting laptops to Tanzanian students, but how to power those machines.
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