Under the Swiss Alps this week beams of protons known as Hadrons circled the 27 kilometers of the most powerful particle accelerator (the CERN Large Hadron Collider) in the world for the first time. As those protons begin to collide scientists expect to learn more about dark matter and how mass exists. This NSDL resource […]

On Thursday, July 31, 2008, Digital Promise, a fund to keep America competitive in this digital century by transforming education, workforce training, and lifelong learning, was passed by both the U.S. House and Senate as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. It is expected to be signed into law by President […]

Issue Five of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears magazine, Water, Ice, and Snow, uses the polar regions to better understand the water cycle as well as states and changes of matter. While the weather at the beach may be steamy right now, the August issue looks at the cool blue and white of forming, moving and melting glaciers, […]

NSDL has streamlined collection browsing at NSDL.org to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. Browse collections alphabetically or through subject gateways that include: Biological and Health Sciences; Engineering, Computing, and Technology; General Science and STEM; Geosciences; Mathematics; Physical Sciences; and Social Sciences. Within each of these broad categories, users may browse by […]

A new National Science Digital Library (NSDL) scholarly publication, Classic Articles in Context (CAC), was launched in April 2008 with an atmospheric science theme: “Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming: A Selection of Key Articles, 1824-1995, with Interpretive Essays.” Each issue of Classic Articles in Context presents significant scientific questions of the Twentieth Century […]

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) has been a functioning digital library since 2002 when, among other developments, the Nova Scotia Drama League agreed to transfer the “NSDL.org” domain name. During the Education session at the recent Joint Conference on Digital Libraries on June 17, 2008, Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University, chaired a series of […]

The Open Source Physics (OSP) project and the ComPADRE digital library are pleased to announce the creation of a new web-based collection of OSP resources. The OSP Collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and […]

Last week in Seattle The Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) division of Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference featured a presentation from NSDL’s Physics and Astromony Pathway (comPADRE) PI Bruce Mason who teamed up with NSDL’s science librarian blogger Pat Viele. Mason and Viele co-presented a poster about comPADRE, and also later at the Physics Round Table discussion where […]

Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, a collection of essays edited (in the “Wild, Wild Wiki”) by Robert Cummings and Matt Barton, is described as, “An indispensable and engaging guide to using wikis in the classroom.” A look at the table of contents includes titles that range from, “Wiki Justice, Social Ergonomics, and […]

A peek into the dynamic and growing blogosphere at NSDL is a look into a living library packed with people, ideas, opinion, thought-provoking dialog and fascinating resources. This wealth of information contributed by NSDL communities of practice that represent multiple STEM disciplines is available to add to your summer reading list. A quick overview […]