After the attacks of 9/11/2001 the federal government implemented new policies intended to protect people and institutions in the United States. A surprising policy requires education researchers conducting research under…
…a young bee will perform once it matures. In the IR video, heater bees’ thoraxes also appeared to be warmer, agreeing with what I observed using my IR camera for…
…Bannasch from the Technical Education Research Center developed the first educational temperature grapher. This software was developed for the Apple II computer and was part of the National Science Teacher…
…sense of touch. As heat transfer is invisible, the tactile experience is all they have. Now, what if the heat transfer process can be visualized? In other words, what if…
…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),…
Q. What brought you to the Concord Consortium? A. In 1999, I was doing my postdoc in biophysics research in Europe. At that time, Java was the hottest new programming…
…in Science Magazine Read the background story from AAAS about the Molecular Workbench creator. The Concord Consortium, located in Concord, Massachusetts, is a nonprofit educational research and development organization dedicated to…
…teaching nanoscience and nanotechnology be quite challenging. This chapter presents lessons learned through the research, development, and classroom implementation of educational nanoscience simulations using the Molecular Workbench (MW) modeling software….
Concord Consortium’s senior research scientist Andy Zucker says that improving education is not rocket science – it’s much harder than that! Read the latest article by the author of Transforming…
…has inspired scientists to invent nanotechnology that is based on self-assembly. Ab initio simulations of self-assembly involve many atoms and take a long time to run. For intermolecular self-assembly, most…