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ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge: A tough task for the student teams

ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge: A tough task for the student teams

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Teide volcanic peak on the island of Tenerife acted as a mock-up of the Moon landscape last week, with eight European student teams tuning, testing and driving their lunar rovers in preparation ...





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NASA looking for fastest moon wheels

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 15, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The U.S. space agency has set April 4-5 as the dates for its 15th annual Great Moonbuggy Race for high school and college teams.


NASA Challenges 350 Rocketeers Nationwide to Aim a Mile High

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities -- 37 teams nationwide -- to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects.


High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object

High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient.


High school students' paper published in prestigious college math journal

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

A paper written by four students from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey, entitled Ethanol: Not All It Seems To Be has been published in the January 2009 issue of The Mathematical Association of America's ...


Cornell University chosen to build Nanosat-4 Flight experiment

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 03, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Cornell University student team and their CUSat nanosatellite design has won the University Nanosat Flight Competition Review (FCR). This win moves the Cornell team on to build the Nanosat-4 flight experiment for the ...


In race to predict protein structure, computers take lead

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A flood of data is emerging from genome research, including sequence data on proteins. To help science keep pace with this flow of knowledge, computer scientists, biophysicists and biochemists across the world have been developing ...


Send in the robots -- Robot teams handle hazardous jobs

Electronics / Robotics

created May 02, 2007 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Searching buildings for weapons of mass destruction and supply routes for improvised bombs are extremely dangerous but important jobs. That's why Scott DeLoach is working to create robots and robot teams to handle these and ...


Hertfordshire team wins Humanoid Simulation League in Robot Football Cup

Technology / Engineering

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Bold Hearts, a student team from the University of Hertfordshire, has just won the Humanoid Simulation League in the Robocup German Open 2009.  The team is now preparing for the Robocup World Championships in Austria, ...


Cooperative learning methods top list of effective approaches for secondary mathematics

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cooperative learning methods have been found to be most effective in raising the math scores of middle and high school students, according to a comprehensive research review by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's ...


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Odds are, seedings don't matter after Sweet 16, professor says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For budding "bracketologists" busily weighing picks for their annual March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois professor has some advice on how to pick winners: In the later rounds of the tournament, ...



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