A new Web site permits you to hurtle asteroids and comets into the Earth to see what havoc you can create. The cool thing is that it uses an impact…
At the NSDL Annual Meeting last week, we got to see the usual great lineup of opening and closing speakers. One of the regulars by now at this meeting is…
Figure 1. An IR image of a freshwater cup and a saltwater cup after an ice cube was added to each. Will an ice cube melt faster in freshwater or…
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein Science should be taught as a verb, not only as a noun. Doing science is a compelling and effective way to…
For a while I have been asked whether or not an MW simulation can be made to run directly within a browser page instead of a pop-up window. Several collaborators…
Infrared (IR) imaging is a technique for seeing heat based on detecting thermal radiation (mostly IR) an object emits. It used to be a very expensive tool only affordable to…
The behavior of a house losing or gaining thermal energy from the outside in a 24-hour cycle, when visualized using Energy3D‘s heat flux view, resembles breathing, especially in the transition…
It is hard for students to associate chemistry with beauty. The image of chemistry in schools is mostly linked to something dangerous, dirty, or smelly. Yet Dr. Yan Liang, a…
We are excited to introduce the *beta version* of Tectonic Explorer, our newest Earth system model, developed by our GEODE project. Tectonic Explorer features a complex system of interacting tectonic…
Technology allows us to record almost everything happening in the classroom. The fact that students’ interactions with learning environments can be logged in every detail raises the interesting question about…