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A 3-D printer in every classroom
The 3-D printing company MakerBot has launched MakerBot academy, with the goal of putting a 3-D printer into every school in the United States.
- Computing
Cyber warriors
Contests where teens compete to keep computers safe from hackers are helping to train and grow the next generation of cyber defenders.
- Materials Science
Looking unbelievably cool
Everything above absolute zero gives off some heat. Usually objects radiate more heat — or energy — as their temperature climbs. But engineers now have created a material that sometimes appears to cool even as it is warming.
- Planets
The comet that came in from the cold
Comet ISON is hurtling toward the sun at breakneck speed. During this first (and possibly last) trip around the sun, it will either shoot back into space or be torn apart.
- Brain
Sleeping brains take a bath
During waking hours, litter builds up in the spaces between brain cells. A new study shows that during sleep, fluid from the brain and spinal cord takes out this trash.
- Earth
Water helped erect Iceland’s lava towers
Science pointed the way to understanding why these curious natural pillars form.
- Brain
In pursuit of memory
Why is granny so forgetful? Scientists must learn how the brain builds memories if they hope to figure out why recall fails in old age.
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2013 U.S. Report Card on reading and math
Today marks the release of the 2013 Nation’s Report Card, with data on how fourth and eighth grade students are doing in reading and math. What does it mean?
- Fossils
King of Gore
Paleontologists debut the oldest T. rex ancestor. Weighing as much as a car and longer than a two-story building is tall, this meat eater would have been one fierce predator.
- Planets
So many ‘Earths’
A new analysis suggests humans are not alone in the universe. Our galaxy alone may host billions of Earth-like planets, ones able to support life as we know it.
- Brain
One eye, 3-D
Most scientists think people need two eyes to see a flat image or movie in three dimensions. However, a new study suggests seeing in 3-D with one-eye is possible.
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Get out of the lab and into the classroom with a science education grant
Help bring science to the classroom, get kids interested in science, and show what a life in science, technology, engineering or mathematics is like. People in STEM careers are eligible for up to $15,000 in funding to create a volunteer program.
