What does irrigation have to do with climate change? Possibly a lot. According to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, irrigation has increased agricultural productivity by an amount…
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…
…science: more data leads to better models, leading to more accurate predictions of the future. Learn about how scientists use new data to make better models of Earth’s future climate…
…Tautz at Würzburg University found a new type of role known as the heater bees. The heater bees are responsible for maintaining the temperature in the hive where young bees…
…The temperature differential during that last warm period was much smaller than it is today, when Antarctica is a frozen tundra. New research suggests that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC),…
In the past two days the New York Times has provided readers with six fascinating articles and discussions about online learning. One set is called Room for Debate: Can Young…
…the basis for life in our solar system. New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on April 4, 2011, shows that complex organic solids were…
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…
The new issue of @Concord includes articles on the PCAST report, fourth grade students learning about evolution, quantum chemistry activities, IR imaging technology, UDL, and more. Read the Newsletter Subscribe…
…free of charge. We will soon announce a contest to create new activities incorporating graphs, for use in mathematics, science or social science classes. Stay tuned for more information about…