Google Announces Nine New Lunar X Prize Teams
Odyssey Moon’s business plans are actively in development for a series of missions to the Moon during the International Lunar Decade in support of science, exploration and commerce. Their Google Lunar X PRIZE craft is titled “MoonOne ...
Science magazine declares ethanol worse for the Earth than fossil ...
According to the Science article which, admittedly, posits an extreme scenario, it would take 423 years to even out the carbon debt if Indonesia's peat lands were converted to palm oil fields. The research is starting to give some ...
Lunar X Prize Competitors Announced
Today at a press conference at Google's Mountain View, California headquarters, the X Prize Foundation announced the 10 official competitors for its $30 million Google Lunar X Prize. It will not be an easy thing to win. ...
Raising Science Literate Children
To be science literate means knowing how to ask questions, and to be flexible in thought. To look deeper than face value, and see what's going on in those gears behind the facade. To identify assumptions and be ready to let go of them ...
O'Reilly Introduces Mathematica-based Online Math Classes
American math and science education is a mess. I know a guy who came to America after going to school in the basements of bombed out buildings during the Lebanese civil war. He was better prepared for college than American high school ...
Of Honeybees and Haagen-Dazs
If the bees keep dying, this precious ice cream's future is at risk. Oh yeah, also the rest of our nation's food source. Scientists still are unsure what caused the massive decline in bee populations last year. ...
NWDA Event - BA Festival of Science
NWDA Event - BA Festival of Science, The BA Festival of Science, which brings over 350 of the UK's top scientists to discuss the latest developments in science with the public at a different UK location each year, will be coming to ...
Wired Science video on Maker Faire
Wired Science came to Maker Faire in Austin in October 200y. Here's the video segment. Link.
Description of Computer Science Higher Education in Sub-Saharan ...
To create skilled graduates who can build and shape locally relevant technologies, higher education institutes in Africa must have Computer Science (CS) education programs that meet local needs, for example, to satisfy the demand for ...
My science experiment
Is an open thread. Well, it can't be any worse than any of these. Release the electroworms!