Emma DeVine BS’19, MAT’21 teaches hands-on science in her classroom, including the study of the metabolism of the fruit fly. DeVine introduced fruit fly experiments to her students after her experience with the Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern Summer Research Program. It’s not unusual to find Emma DeVine BS’19, MAT’21 collecting water samples […]| News Center
This glossary provides definitions and audio clips to help you learn and pronounce even the toughest science terms.| Science News Explores
In the permafrost of Siberia, a discovery of a mummified juvenile sabretooth (Homotherium) cat has been made, frozen for over 35,000 years.| Promega Connections
I realised just now that I entirely forgot (it seems) to post about an episode of PBS' show Nova called "Decoding the Universe: Cosmos" which aired back in the Spring. I thought they did a good job of talking about some of the advances in our understanding that have happened over the last 50 years (the idea is that it is the 50th anniversary of the show) in areas of astrophysics and cosmology. I was a contributor, filmed at the top of Mount Wilson at the Observatory where Hubble made his famo...| Asymptotia
This essay is reproduced here as it appeared in the print edition of the original Science for the People magazine. These web-formatted archives are preserved complete with typographical errors and available for reference and educational and activist use. Scanned PDFs of the back issues can be browsed by headline at the website for the 2014 SftP conference held at UMass-Amherst. For more information or to support the project, email sftp.publishing@gmail.com| Science for the People Archives
Understanding the significance of science education in transforming society and promoting scientific literacy.| Observatory - Institute for the Future of Education
In his September 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American Michael Shermer avers that when women are educated and have access to birth-control technologies, pregnancies and, eventually, abortions decrease| Michael Shermer