Evolution explains how all living beings, including us, came to be. It would be easy to assume evolution works by continuously adding features to organisms, constantly increasing their complexity. Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Some dinosaurs evolved wings and began to fly. Others evolved wombs […]
Year: 2020
Unborn Baby Sharks Will Swim Between Uteruses to Devour Their Brethren
As macabre as it seems, it’s not exactly a secret that in some species of shark the unborn dine on their siblings while still developing in the womb. But it turns out we don’t know the half of it. A novel kind of ultrasound device has provided biologists with a […]
The arrival of the laptop in the classroom and parental mediation
Postcard dating from 1910 featuring the utopian vision of schools in the year 2000. Credit: Villemard, 1910 – Chromolithography Paris, BNF, Postcards A study by Carme Bach, a lecturer with the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at UPF, and Cristina Aliagas, a lecturer with the Faculty of Education at […]
An Inclusive Vision of Math
I spent last weekend the way I spend a lot of weekends: singing Protestant hymns at the top of my lungs with friends from around the country. Sacred Harp singing is an a cappella hymn tradition that has a long history in New England and the rural south and is […]
Straight Up Conversation: Panorama CEO on Measuring College, Career, and Life Readiness – Rick Hess Straight Up
Aaron Feuer is co-founder and CEO of Panorama Education, a Boston-based education and technology company whose college- and career-readiness tools, school climate surveys, and social-emotional learning assessments are currently used each year to support the success of more than 10 million students in 11,500 schools. Joining a passion for education […]
Harvey Fineberg Named Chair of Standing Committee Requested by White House in Response to Coronavirus
March 6, 2020 Harvey Fineberg Named Chair of Standing Committee Requested by White House in Response to Coronavirus WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today that Harvey Fineberg, former president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) and current president of […]
Join the Space Debris Training Course 2020
Agency 05/03/2020 783 views 13 likes Space debris is a hazard to our satellites and spacecraft as well as a contributor to near-Earth space pollution. To help raise awareness of this issue, ESA’s Education Office is organising the third edition of ESA Academy’s Space Debris Training Course. The Space Debris […]
ESA Academy’s Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Communications Training Course 2020 gives students new perspectives
Company 06/03/2020 forty six views one likes 30 Bachelor, Grasp and PhD students from 11 different ESA Member and Affiliate States have properly done the fifth version of ESA Academy’s Ladybird Manual to Spacecraft Communications Education System. Having location amongst eighteen – 21 February 2020, and hosted at ESA Academy’s Education and Mastering Centre, […]
Do We Really Need to Send Humans into Space?
What upcoming lies ahead for individuals in area? Final year, the fiftieth anniversary of the very first moon landing located a host of private and governmental jobs that intention to send out astronauts much past the near-Earth orbits that have constrained human area exploration because 1972. China, which landed the […]
Diving Suit Stops Workers from Playing Cards under Water
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Your back pain may be due to evolution and spine shape
Image: SFU postdoctoral researcher Kimberly Plomp examines a vertebrae. check out more Credit score: Simon Fraser College The cause of back ache can be linked to humanity’s evolutionary earlier, in accordance to new analysis from a team of bioarchaeologists at Simon Fraser College, the College of Liverpool, and the College of […]