Pokémon-like card game can help teach ecology: UBC research
Credit: Megan Callahan Playing a Pokémon-like card game about ecology and biodiversity can result in broader knowledge of species and ...
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$4.6 million award creates program to train cybersecurity professionals
Program will address a shortage of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals and train students for careers in government agencies A five-year, ...
Do teaching and communicating about microfluidics advances need improvement?
A group of researchers is encouraging more sharing of ideas and activities for teaching about microfluidics and outreach efforts to ...
Can we make ocean water drinkable — and should we? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 8, 2019 - We need water to survive -- and Earth is covered ...
Our water cycle diagrams give a false sense of water security
Credit: Photo by Ben Abbott EAST LANSING, Mich. - Pictures of the earth's water cycle used in education and research ...
SpaceX launch puts UMass Lowell research into orbit
Instrument aboard DSX satellite to study 'killer electrons' LOWELL, Mass. - An Air Force satellite launched into orbit this week ...
Local solutions to global climate challenges — NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech With extreme environmental events, such as drought, coastal and river flooding, and wildfires, increasing in frequency, there ...
The chemistry behind black powder (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 -- Old-school gunpowder is really called "black powder," and it was ...
UTSA to research environmental comfort at the San Antonio Missions
Credit: Photo Courtesy of Marcus Huerta (San Antonio, June 25, 2019) -- Working with local architecture firm Ford, Powell & ...
Your brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept
Credit: Water tower at Olcott Beach, NY, by Ad Meskens; image was modified by Joshua S. Cetron and used under ...
NSF awards $4 million to the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
The hub builds data science partnerships to address societal challenges The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub has been awarded a ...
The secret of platinum deposits revealed by field observations in South Africa
Researchers uncover the way that platinum deposits form in the magma chambers of some of the worlds' largest platinum depositsCredit: ...
Frontera named 5th fastest supercomputer in the world
TACC's leadership-class system tops all academic supercomputers, achieves 23.5 PetaFLOPS on Top500 benchmarkCredit: Jorge Salazar, TACC The Frontera supercomputer at ...
What is the chemistry behind ringworm? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 13, 2019 -- Did you know that ringworm is not actually a worm? ...