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Talia Milgrom-Elcott is building a coalition of the willing, an army devoted to bringing thousands of educators to the classroom
April 15, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
The Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum gives high school students an inside look at collections, labs and the people who run them
April 15, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Education reformer and Amplify CEO Joel Klein explains how tablets in schools will revolutionize the classroom experience
April 12, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
From corporate donations to workplace restrictions, what’s taught in the classroom has always been influenced by American industry
April 15, 2013
| By Dana Goldstein
A new portable schoolroom boasts environmental features that will save money and create a space more conducive to learning
April 11, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
The FDA is investigating whether doctors aren't getting enough training before they start using machines to do surgery. Is the "wow" factor to blame?
April 15, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Researchers hope to design a new bedbug eradication method based upon a folk remedy of trapping the bloodsuckers as they creep
April 09, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
The courts have failed victims of violent crimes, according to one Fordham law professor, but does that mean that vengeance is justified?
April 08, 2013
| By Amy Crawford
They're still a threat to bats and birds and now they even have their own "syndrome". So, are there better ways to capture the wind?
April 05, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Using droplets coated in oil as "ink," a 3D printer can construct a network of synthetic cells that mimics brain and fat tissue
April 04, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Scientists keep learning new things about food all the time, from the diet power of olive oil's aroma to how chewing gum can keep you away from healthy foods.
April 02, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
They're the biggest innovation in higher education in years, but are they a threat to small universities and community colleges?
March 29, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
What does it mean to be “addicted” to your favorite team?
March 26, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Should sending "Thank you" emails and leaving voice mails now be considered bad manners? Some think texting has made it so.
March 25, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
The recent book On Borders features the work of photographers who captured images of boundaries both literal and metaphorical
April 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
Capable of carrying 66 tons of cargo, the Aeroscraft could bring airships back to the skies
April 2013
| By Mark Strauss
The non-governmental organization concedes it sometimes pays a moral price to save lives
April 2013
| By Guy Gugliotta
In Los Angeles, an anthropologist is using equations to teach police about how street gangs operate
April 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
The promise of oil has heated up a global argument over the Arctic’s true borders
April 2013
| By Amy Crawford
It’s never been easy, but drones and cybersystems are making it more difficult than ever to decide which servicemen are deserving of what
March 15, 2013
| By John Sotham, Air & Space magazine
When an algorithm-driven light show took over the Bay Bridge last week, it was the latest example of how much technology is transforming how cities look.
March 14, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
A look at the space shuttle toilet and "the deepest, darkest secret about space flight"
March 13, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
More and more scientific research is showing that sleep is more important to our state of mind--and body--than we ever could have imagined.
March 08, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Research shows that cities can cut emissions by 70 percent; check out the ones striving their hardest to curb their carbon appetites
March 07, 2013
| By Claire Martin
Actually, fairly smart. And we're only seeing the first wave of smartwatches, with Apple expected to enter the fray as early as this year.
March 05, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
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