Driving less, biking more, paying attention to vehicle fuel efficiency, and looking for economical transportation options are all worthy endeavors, especially right now.  American’s love affair with cars, however, and their utility as a platform for studying environmental engineering challenges is far from over. Two springtime events–the Indiana Super Mileage Challenge and the 2009 Green […]

Tom Henderson has been teaching high school physics since 1989. ComPADRE, NSDL’s Physics and Astronomy Pathway hosts a popular online physics tutorial that Tom Henderson developed to help high school students at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois on the Physics Classroom web site. Physics Classroom resources contain a tutorial with built-in self-assessment tools […]

ComPADRE, NSDL’s Physics and Astromomy Pathway announces the Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) Collection of web-based resources for teachers and students of statistical and thermal physics. The resources in this Collection include curricular materials, theory, problems, and simulations on topics ranging from thermal equilibrium to the Ising model. The STP Collection is organized by topic […]

Science360, published by the National Science Foundation (NSF), aims to deliver the full-spectrum of what’s new in global science to everyone who has ever wondered what’s going on in scientific research and discovery.  The news service gathers news from wherever science is happening–scientists, college and university press offices, popular and peer-reviewed journals, dozens of National […]

An understanding of mathematics may be considered essential for an educated person today, but many Americans seem almost allergic to math. While there is much discussion about the importance of mathematics to scientific research, engineering, and technological innovation, the performance of American math students on international assessments is below that of math students in many […]

Imagery has the power to communicate volumes, sometimes in a surprisingly economical way. Edward Tufte, author of Visual Explanations points out in the introduction, “Those who discover an explanation are often those who construct its representation.” The 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, […]

Public health and safety, security, sanitation, logistics, and operations are just a few of the buzz words around Washington D.C. this week as the 44th President of the United States is sworn in on January 20, 2009 in front of crowds that have been estimated to grow to three to five million people. Among the […]

The Engineering Pathway (EP) has launched an Engineering and Computing Education news service–a continuous feed of user-submitted items, featured on the EP homepage, parsed by discipline and displayed on EP disciplinary community pages. The entire feed is available on the News in Engineering Education page. All registered users of Engineering Pathway are invited to submit current news related to Engineering, Computing and Technology […]

Every Friday NPR radio talk show host Ira Flatow brings listeners interesting and sometimes surprising science tidbits on Science Friday. The show airs at 2:00 p.m. EDT, but can also be heard online anytime. This week’s offerings include  Mystified, Solve it With Science, a look at a new book, 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With […]

Winter officially begins during the third week of each December in North America. This calendar event known as the solstice is marked as the sun briefly “stands still” as its position in the sky reaches the greatest distance from the earth. This celestial alignment is experienced as the shortest day of the year by people […]