Professor Ashok Gadgil is conducting work that will help millions living in extreme poverty and dangerous situations, such as in Darfur refugee camps.
Starting in September of 2015, all fourth-grade students and their families will receive free admission to all federal lands and waters for the entire year.
Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion the night of April 20, 2010, we are all exposed to news about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in the newspaper, on TV, and on the radio. It is difficult for young and old alike to comprehend the extent of this disaster, especially when we are miles away from its direct effects. It is a complicated and even scary situation, especially for children.
The life zone, or habitable zone, of a star is the region around a star where there may be planets that could have liquid water and support life. The distance of that zone from the star depends on how big and hot the star is.
Delta was recognized for its involvement in classrooms, college programs, and professional development opportunities and for having a large impact on science education specifically in the elementary classroom.
To aid state agencies, public safety officials, K–12 teachers and students, and other decision makers in viewing weather information in a timely fashion on their personal computers, the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) develops easy-to-use visualization software and provides it free of charge for non-commercial use. OCS’s most recent weather data display tool is called WeatherScope.
In the FOSS Populations and Ecosystems Course for middle school, students use Mono Lake, an important alkaline lake, as a simple ecosystem case study. They study the functional roles of populations to construct a food web.
So, what happened to Pluto? Why was it "demoted" from being a full-fledged planet to the category of dwarf planet? Why do we now name only eight planets in the Solar System? And, why does it matter?
We experience the three basic forms of matter—solid, liquid, and gas— every dayas we go about our lives. But scientists have described other forms of matter that are unusual, to say the least. In January 2004 scientists produced a new form of matter. They call the new form "fermionic condensates."
A pond in Crofton, Maryland, has become the home of a non-native, predatory fish called the northern snakehead.