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 […]

Portable media devices such as iPods are changing the way people learn. Educational podcasts allow educators an easy way to keep current on research and materials for teaching. NSDL on iTunesU has new podcasts on climate change and other episodes in the Beyond Penguins and Polar Podcasts. Also new on NSDL on […]

Ice and snow come to mind for most people when conjuring up mental pictures of the polar regions. The idea that plants grow in harsh arctic and antarctic environments seems unlikely, but Antarctica is home to two species of plants while at the opposite end of the earth, over a thousand plant species grow on […]