…With more sunlight hitting the Earth, the Earth warms up–faster than many scientists had initially predicted. Calculations by Jan Magnus, Bertrand Melenberg, and Chris Muris, econometricians at Tilburg University in…
…mysteries important not only to dragons, but to humans as well. What is QTL Analysis? Genetics, history, and environment shape who we are. Specific traits like height, skin color, a…
…heats the Earth and makes it habitable for us. So when the Sun is more active, the Earth should get warmer, right? Wrong. New research, recently published in Nature, shows…
…feature the Blueprint Wizard, which automatically deconstructs a 3D structure into 2D pieces, figures out which pieces are on the same 2D plane, generates a layout of all the planes,…
…Figure 1. Pure water, salt solution, and baking soda solution in three cups, alongside a Flir I5 IR camera. Infrared (IR) imaging allows you to see the temperature distribution of…
…saltwater is denser so molten freshwater from the ice cube cannot sink, even if it is colder. Somehow, saltwater provides greater buoyancy. Figure 4 shows that sixteen minutes later, the…
…Irrationality as they solve puzzles involving poetic meter, parts of speech, the number system, pi, and much more. A tool for interdisciplinary learning of middle school content, Lost in Lexicon…
…of the same species can differ, like puppies from the same litter. When students return to the model of the field, the plant offspring differ, too. (Behind the scenes, we…
…across oceans, and address individual student needs. It is these traits, far more profound than mere portability, that demonstrate the real advantages digital texts can offer. With this issue, we…
…per year. Amazon is hoping to capture part of the $5.5 billion textbook market with their Kindle reader. At the Concord Consortium, we welcome the interest in technology, but take…