Andee Rubin from TERC and I ended up on the same plane on the way to World Maker Faire. As we landed in LaGuardia on the shuttle from Boston, we…
They just measured relativistic effects between two atomic clocks differing by the speed of a fast bike rider and on length scales shorter than two feet. Boy, this world is…
Surface computing on human skin and walls? Microsoft LightSpace brings augmented reality to a new dimension Blog Post
…to be carried around the room. Projectors keep the virtual objects in sync with the real-world objects. So you can write a virtual note, carry it around, and “drop” it…
…and video snaps to refresh your memory or entice you to visit one of the world’s best science museums. (For the non-Flash version, check it out on our Flickr page.)…
…great learning in the process. With technologies like these, where sharing and reproducing real-world objects is as easy as clicking a mouse, students come immediately closer to the design and…
Photonics is a difficult subject because it involves electromagnetism that is basically an invisible and unintuitive world to many students. Yet this is a promising and thriving technical field where…
…that world is changing. A district might choose several chapters from one publisher and other chapters from a second publisher. From a third publisher, they might select a lab manual…
…design essentially causes the design to fall away entirely. It’s a fascinating world to live in when one realizes that the machine can be practically anything, and even the hardware…
…not enough long-term data for scientists to confirm this. And so the research goes on to study and better understand our ever-changing world. Learn more about climate change in our…
…we undertake by doing nothing? What risks do we undertake by completely changing the ways by which people travel around the world? What benefits do we gain from each action?…