Teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade across the U.S. are making the shift from teaching classes in person to teaching from a distance, which requires creating online assignments and activities to keep their students ...
Education
Apr 1, 2020
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On March 27, 2015, astronaut Scott Kelly rode a rocket to the International Space Station. Waving up at him from Earth was Mark Kelly, his mustachioed twin brother. While they were 400 vertical kilometres apart, NASA scientists ...
Space Exploration
May 25, 2018
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We made something of a splash with our recent article suggesting that gender gaps in student performance in physics could result from gender differences in urination practice (standing versus sitting).
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2017
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Pokémon GO has motivated its players to walk 2.8 billion miles. Now, a new mobile game from UVM researchers aims to encourage teens to exercise with similar virtual rewards.
Software
Jan 4, 2017
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For Charles Fancher, saying that physics is cool is an understatement. "I was hooked from the moment I took my first physics class in my sophomore year of high school," he said.
General Physics
Mar 21, 2016
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The quality of a homework assignment is important to student achievement, a Stanford scholar says.
Social Sciences
Oct 1, 2015
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When high school physics teacher Moses Rifkin wrote a recent blog post on "Teaching Social Justice in the Physics Classroom," he ignited a new round of conversation about white privilege and the kinds of skills scientists ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2015
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Each year, the American Physical Society prizes honor the world's leading physicists. This year, two of those coveted awards are going to researchers at the University of Florida.
General Physics
Oct 27, 2014
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Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax, which has already provided free textbooks to hundreds of thousands of college students, today announced a $9 million effort to develop free, digital textbooks capable of delivering ...
Software
Aug 21, 2014
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Two Dallas high school students discovered five stars as members of a Southern Methodist University summer physics research program that enabled them to analyze data gleaned from a high-powered telescope in the New Mexico ...
Astronomy
Aug 20, 2014
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