…accepted, she sent in her deposit, even though she’d never visited the Ithaca, New York, campus, which she now describes as idyllic, especially in the winter. During her senior year…
…alerts when the ISS passes overhead Learning about how MiniPCR’s Genes in Space competition is bringing high school students’ experiments to the space station and how a new USB-stick-sized gene…
…of Kepler-10. Having this information made it possible to calculate the mass and density of its orbiting planet. Finding new planets is very exciting, but it’s far more exciting to…
…arose? A new 3-D model of early Earth suggests that the planet underwent significant changes–from very warm to very cold. Past models were one-dimensional–holding constant the amount of cloud cover…
New groundwater and soil moisture drought indicator maps produced by NASA are available on the National Drought Mitigation Center’s website. They currently show unusually low groundwater storage levels in Texas….
…a time when clock radios were quite a novel invention. The ability to wake to the radio instead of some raucous bell was an entirely new concept. And to a…
…that study, set up their model based on their expectations that global plant productivity would continue to increase, as it had in the 1980s and 1990s. A new study has…
As the 18th century British chemist Sir Humphry Davy put it, “nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.” True for infrared…
…know that the newest layers are on the top, and the oldest layers are on the bottom. But what happens when the bottom layers aren’t the oldest? New research in…
…technologies. One of the major take-aways from the talk (though there were many) was her profile of the new learner that they’re seeing emerge. They call this student the “free-agent…