…roughly the same amount of sea level rise caused by melting glaciers and icecaps outside of Greenland and Antarctica and 25% of the total sea level rise per year! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923142503.htm…
…All they need to do now is find stars that have planets that have at least one moon. “When they’re found, we’ll be ready to weigh them,” said Kipping. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015140801.htm…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/164/ Science is about facts and evidence. There is a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. You can explore with our models how carbon…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/402/ The permafrost line is shifting. It may be slow by tornado-chasing standards, but it’s shifting. A study earlier this year from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada…
…society… Learn more about how carbon dioxide and global warming in our “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?” investigation. Read the full article from Popular Science at: http://www.popsci.com/bown/2010/innovator/cement-thin-air…
Mashable.com included the Concord Consortium’s free, open source software on it’s in its December 16th list of favorite online resources for science teachers. View the full list on Mashable.com…
…help us to better understand our own planet and the wide variety of organisms with which we share it. Read about the discovery at: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/gliese_581_feature.html Learn how scientists find new…
…accessibility for certain subsets of the population, items based on UDL principles help all people. In science software, UDL features—such as textto- speech, glossaries, coaches, scaffolding, Smart Graphs* and Smart…
…online so that it could be modified. PCAST also recommends that a mission-oriented organization be created to implement its recommendations—not the Department of Education, which is not allowed to, or…
…carbon dioxide emissions to accelerate the warming process. Read the summary at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100309083700.htm. Learn how albedo affects global temperature with our models in the “What will Earth’s climate be in…