…a report sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education: “New technologies thus bring the potential of transforming education from a data-poor to a data-rich enterprise. Yet while an abundance of…
Sencha has the latest on the new iPad’s HTML5 performance, and the verdict looks quite good: The iPad 2’s Mobile Safari browser is the best implementation of WebKit on a…
It seems counter-intuitive, but it seems that warmer summers actually slow the flow of Greenland’s ice sheets. A new study, published yesterday in Nature, explains how increased melting in warmer…
…from The Wall Street Journal about astronomers’ latest discoveries of new planets and how they’ll know if they’ve found a planet that can support life. The Search for Other Earths…
A new study from the University of Washington suggests that Earth’s temperature will keep increasing, even if all greenhouse gas emissions were stopped right now. Why? Because greenhouse gases will…
A new study from the University of Colorado suggests that 66% of Earth’s permafrost could disappear by the year 2200. And this could be really bad for Earth’s temperature. If…
…new questions. Can we generate similar enthusiasm among students, encouraging them to think critically about the data and evidence and arrive at answers even when 100% certainty isn’t possible? If…
President Obama praised the virtues of educational technology during a March 8 visit to TechBoston Academy, one of six schools in the New England area piloting the Concord Consortium’s Geniverse…
Nearly every day, newspapers report on new scientific breakthroughs. Scientists provide measures of their uncertainty in the results, expressed as a p-value. The p-value is a statistical measure of the…
…easier to do than conventional experiments. They provide more intuitive, richer results in a snap. Imagine how many other experiments out there that can be transformed by this new instrument!…