…about the stars to fully describe the planets. Just as in all scientific fields, the latest breakthrough discoveries are always built on a strong foundation of basic research. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110151155.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110110-nasa-kepler-10b-new-planet-found-rocky-science-space/…
…values like the mean, which bounces around while the simulation is running. To learn more about CODAP, join our mailing list at groups.google.com/group/cc-developers or get the code at GitHub: github.com/concord-consortium/codap….
…can benefit. Inspiration from learn.knockoutjs.com Here at Concord I mostly do client-side web app development, and so recently I found myself surveying the new crop of client-side MVC libraries. I…
…of JavaScript is pretty amazing—from simple things like making images change on mouseover to becoming more of a full-fledged development language.” These days Ethan checks alistapart.com, awwwards.com, and Webdesigner News…
…Addison-Wesley. 2. National Science Education Standards, www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4962 3. See www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Homepage.html 4. Computational Experiments for Science Education, www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6037/1516.ful Charles Xie (qxie@concord.org) is the developer of the Molecular Workbench software. Robert Tinker…
…100 to be considered significant. http://www.xkcd.com/882 Scientists test their hypotheses multiple times to be sure of the significance of their results. Even though one test may reach a significant p-value,…
How can you tell what’s in the atmosphere of a planet that’s over one billion miles from Earth? Blog Post
…the measurement from that far away, it’s only a matter of time until we’ll be able to measure atmospheres of planets and moons outside of our solar system! http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20101126/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101128222041.htm…
…detect smaller and smaller motions will enhance the ability of instruments to detect smaller and smaller planets around other stars–perhaps even another “Earth.” Technological innovation is the only limit. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101128220203.htm…
…All they need to do now is find stars that have planets that have at least one moon. “When they’re found, we’ll be ready to weigh them,” said Kipping. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015140801.htm…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/164/ Science is about facts and evidence. There is a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. You can explore with our models how carbon…