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Creative mathematical tasks contribute to deeper learning in mathematics
Press Release Working with creative mathematical tasks is important for pupils both to reflect on mathematics as well as for their subsequent test results. Being faced with creative tasks during […]
A quantum theory for thrones fans
Sydney University‘s delightful video in which academics predict who is going to win the Game of Thrones based on their disciplinary knowledge and understandings has had 62,500 Facebook likes, 900 […]
Institutionalizing creationism
by Michael Baltzley on Science 10 Jun 2016, Vol. 352, Issue 6291, pp. 1285-1286 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7386 Biology faculty who teach evolution at U.S. colleges and universities often worry about the […]
Dawn of the quark ages
by Michael Brooks from NewScientist 3024, 6 june 2015 Ask them to name their heart’s truest desire, and many a science nut might say the answer to life, the universe […]
Nobel Prize 2015: Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”. via nobelprize.org
Nobel Prize 2015: Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura “for thier discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused […]
Sink holes and dust jets on comet 67P
by Paul Weissman from Nature 523, 42–43 (02 July 2015) doi:10.1038/523042a Analyses of images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft reveal the complex landscape of a comet in rich detail. Close-up […]
Bounty of dark galaxies found
from Nature 523, 9 (02 July 2015) doi:10.1038/523009b Astronomers have discovered more than 850 faint galaxies in a galaxy cluster that could be made mostly of dark matter. Using archived […]
From generation to generation
by Robert Kowalewski from Nature Physics 11, 705–706 (2015) doi:10.1038/nphys3464 A new measurement from the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider impinges on a puzzle that has been troubling […]
Dust-poor galaxies at early times
by Veronique Buat from Nature 522, 422–423 (25 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522422a Observations of galaxies that formed early in the Universe’s history reveal much lower dust levels than are found in […]
Evaporation drives engine
from Nature 522, 259 (18 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522259b An engine fuelled only by water evaporation can power a miniature car and lights. Ozgur Sahin at Columbia University in New York […]
Two-atom bunching
by Lindsay J. LeBlanc from Nature 520, 36–37 (02 April 2015) doi:10.1038/520036a The Hong–Ou–Mandel effect, whereby two identical quantum particles launched into the two input ports of a ‘beam-splitter’ always […]
‘Tatooines’ may be common
from Nature 523, 9 (02 July 2015) doi:10.1038/523009d Planets orbiting a binary star system — like Tatooine, the fictional home planet of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars — could form […]