Jan 13 Health Reform: Changing the Game for Pediatric Cancer Patients? By Jason Kane // It looked like someone was hurting Cooper Cochran. The bruises seemed to be everywhere when Cherie Trout picked up her two-year-old from daycare one day. Then came the fevers and distended stomach. And finally, test results: He had… Continue reading
Jan 12 Giant Galaxy Cluster, Blue Stars and Cosmic Explosions Scientists have found the biggest distant galaxy cluster ever seen, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile. Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes et al, Optical: ESO/VLT/Pontificia Universidad. Catolica de Chile/L.Infante & SOAR (MSU/NOAO/UNC/CNPq-Brazil)/Rutgers/F.Menanteau, IR: NASA/JPL/Rutgers/F.Menanteau. Continue reading
Jan 06 The Education Conversation We look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations. [View the story "The Education Conversation" on Storify]… Continue reading
Jan 05 Honey, I Blew Up the Ants Workers, soldiers and supersoldiers mingle in this ant colony. Photo by Alex Wild at alexanderwild.com. Updated: 6:30 p.m. ET | In 2006, while collecting ants on an abandoned property in central Long Island, biologist Ehab Abouheif of… Continue reading
Dec 23 The Education Conversation We look at what's happening in the world of education as seen on Twitter, video and other digital destinations. View the story "The Education Conversation" on Storify]… Continue reading
Dec 22 The Science of Snowflakes, and Why No Two Are Alike Peer through a magnifying glass at a snowflake, and you'll see an ice creation more elaborate than anything Martha Stewart could cut from folded paper. So what's behind the snowflake's unique and elaborate shape? The snowflakes that settle… Continue reading
Dec 16 Behind the Numbers: Why Dropouts Have it Worse Than Ever Before Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images. A new dropout crisis study reveals staggering statistics on economic gaps between those in Chicago and around state of Illinois with and without high school diplomas. Earlier this week, our friends over at… Continue reading
Dec 15 Spacecraft Snaps Giant Asteroid Vesta Up Close In mid-July, NASA's Dawn spacecraft swung into a yearlong orbit around Vesta, the second-most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since then, it has been snapping pictures of the protoplanet's rugged surface and beaming them… Continue reading
Dec 13 Singer Anthony Hamilton Encourages Teens to Stay in School According to the Children's Defense Fund, more than 400,000 children are registered in the foster care system in the United States, and less than one in four are adopted each year. 26,000 of these young people age out of… Continue reading
Dec 08 The Art of the Science Tattoo EmbedVideo(2142, 482, 304); It all started with a summer pool party and a Harvard neuroscientist who prefers to be called Bob. Bob -- aka Dr. Sandeep Robert Datta -- was splashing around the pool with… Continue reading