May

6

Nature’s Scitable

May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at Nature Publishing Group with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students. Future [...]

May

4

ScienceWatch: The Hottest Research of 2007-08

May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

ScienceWatch: The Hottest Research of 2007-08. ‘It’s time again for Science Watch from Thomson Reuters to take its annual look back at the hottest of recent research. The first table below lists the researchers who, during 2008, accounted for the the highest numbers of Hot Papers published over the preceding two years. The second table [...]

Apr

13

Science NetLinks

April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Science NetLinks is part of Thinkfinity, a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and 11 premier educational organizations. The Thinkfinity partners include the AAAS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic Society, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers [...]

Dec

5

United Nations University Our World 2.0 Beta

December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Our World 2.0 is brought to you by the United Nations University and asks the question: What can we do when faced with complex, inter-connected and pressing problems like climate change, oil depletion and food security?
In responding to these challenges, innovation will be the key. This webzine and series of video briefs will report on [...]

May

1

Telegraph: Top Ten Greatest Experiments

May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top Ten Greatest Experiments. ‘George Johnson celebrates the great thinkers whose home-brewed experiments transformed our world: A few years ago, while reading stories about superstrings vibrating in 10 dimensions or quantum computers solving problems in parallel universes, I began to feel nostalgic. I love these grand speculative theories and admire their creators, but sometimes the [...]

Jan

22

TEAM 0.5: The World’s Most Powerful Microscope

January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World’s Best Microscope. ‘TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope capable of producing images with half angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom has been installed at the Department of Energy’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at [...]

Jan

16

Scientific American on Science 2.0: An Experiment

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not.
‘Welcome to a Scientific American experiment in “networked journalism,” in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form.
The article is a particularly apt candidate [...]

Jan

16

Touch the Invisible Sky: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers. ‘At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
Touch the Invisible Sky is a 60-page book with color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies [...]

Jan

11

Journal Citation Impact Forum

January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Thomson Scientific Launches Journal Citation Forum Dedicated to Discussion About Citation-Based Research Evaluation: From H-index to Impact Factor, Citation Impact Forum Hosts Expert Commentary and Scholarly Discussion About Citation-based Research Evaluation.
‘Thomson Scientific announced on January 8 the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based research [...]

Jan

7

International Year of Planet Earth

January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

International Year of Planet Earth. ‘The International Year of Planet Earth aims to ensure greater and more effective use by society of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal of helping to build safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe is expressed in the Year’s subtitle ‘Earth science [...]

Jan

2

Scientific American: Top 25 Science Stories of 2007

January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top 25 Science Stories of 2007. ‘A year of discoveries, close calls, tragedies and triumphs in review.’

Jan

2

Online Seminar: Five Ages of the Universe

January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Five Ages of the Universe at Fathom (University of Michigan). ‘Travel through time from the moment of the “Big Bang,” before time and space separated, to a dark, starless universe over 10100 years from now when individual atoms can be larger than our galaxy.
University of Michigan physicist Fred Adams and NASA astronomer Greg Laughlin offer [...]