From cancer to quantum, teens’ scientific feats celebrated
Winners of the 2012 Intel ISEF show the promise of science for improving the world
New ways to detect cancer, search online social networks and link atoms using quantum physics took the highest honors this week at the 2012 Intel International [...]
PROBA-2:Proposals invited for the PROBA-2 Guest Investigator Programme
The Royal Observatory of Belgium is soliciting proposals for analysis of data from PROBA-2′s two solar observation instruments, SWAP and LYRA, under its Guest Investigator Programme. Proposals in response to this Third Call for Ideas [...]
Young scientists, inventors and mathematicians score big
Cancer sensor, a better way to search tweets, and quantum teleportation are among research highlights at a global high-school-science competition
Gordon E. Moore Award winner Jack Andraka is flanked by Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award [...]
A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results
Forlorn graduate students sometimes turn to a publication called The Journal of Negative Results.* In graduate student mythology, it’s the repository for toiled-over experiments that produced nothing — no effects, no detections, no differences, [...]
Richard Saunders at TAM 6 on Bringing Critical Thinking to Schools
Australian skeptic, podcaster, author, TV personality, and professional origamist Richard Saunders recorded at The Amaz!ng Meeting 7. Saunders discusses the origami Pigasus and dowsing as a model for teaching critical thinking to students.
Young scientists work together and win
Broadcom MASTERS, Robert Heckman, Justin Barber, Adriana Monzon, Alicia D’Souza, and Valerie Ding, finalists work together on a team challenge. Credit: Broadcom Foundation
Guests checking into the posh Palomar Hotel in Washington, D.C., [...]
NASA Announces Two National Student Science Competitions
NASA is offering students the opportunity to compete in two microgravity challenges: “Dropping In a Microgravity Environment,” or DIME, and “What If No Gravity?” or WING.
DIME is a team competition for high school students [...]
Who Said It: Gates or Jobs?
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have been battling each other for computer supremacy for about 25 years now. As far as we can see, neither has anything very nice to say about the other or his products. But at the end of the day, aren’t they [...]
The winners of NCSE’s bumper sticker contest
We asked you to submit your ideas for a new NCSE bumper sticker, to speak loud, speak proud, for evolution — and by golly you did.
NCSE (National Center for Science Eduction) headquarters was flooded with almost 550 entries from almost 150 [...]
Attention, teachers!
John Thomas Scopes
Three exciting opportunities for teachers for the month of October, in the form of two webcast symposia on human evolution and a chance to have a visit from the Darwin Day Roadshow!
First, Bones, Stones, and Genes: The Origin [...]
