…to thinking scientifically. And students are showing gains in pre-post measures. New research with automated scoring and feedback has increased the gains threefold. “We are not done yet!” Hee-Sun says,…
Programmable thermostats allow Energy3D to study the effects of human behavior on home energy use Blog Post
Figure 1 Energy3D Version 5.1 has incorporated a new feature: programmable thermostats (Figure 1). This allows users to add a programmable thermostat to each building in the design. Such a…
…are some demos: This new mechanism of publishing MW simulations provides an option for people who want to integrate MW simulations with their web applications, if they don’t mind the…
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…
…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!…
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…
…the research enabled by the technology, or demonstrating the usefulness of a new concept. However, the collection of technologies used in the project normally becomes a one-off: it is no…
…Boston A new feature has been added to Energy3D to visualize heat transfer across the building envelope using arrays of arrows. Each arrow represents the heat flux at a point…
…in love with it. Beautiful Chemistry represents an attempt that could inspire a whole new genre of high-quality educational materials based on breathtaking scientific visualizations. How about Beautiful Physics and…
…Name Proto-oncogene Wnt-1 Linkage map unknown Species Dracomimus familiaris Genome Coordinates 1: 70 Mbp At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, students are utilizing bioinformatics tools to build new drake…