This research team is sweating the small stuff -- in sweat! With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), device engineer Jason Heikenfeld of the University of Cincinnati and a multidisciplinary team are developing new...

NSF-funded research aiming to making it easier for humans to work directly with a robotic partner in applications such as physical therapy



Description: Northwestern University mechanical engineering professor Todd...

Brian Gravel is an assistant professor and director of Elementary Education in the Department of Education. Beginning in 2011, Brian and colleagues developed the Elementary STEM M.A.T. program, which prepares elementary school teachers...

In this episode, we learn about: an app designed to detect depression, walking efficiency and how babies learn from being surprised. We also explore how high-tech tools are helping researchers better understand how granular materials...

Science Now 33-In this week’s episode we learn about an app to detect depression, walking efficiency, how babies learn from surprise and finally we explore how high-tech tools are helping researcher better understand how granular...

As you can imagine, life is not very complicated for sea slugs. They use their brains mainly to find food, avoid becoming food and to reproduce. While the human brain and nervous system are wired with hundreds of billions of nerve cells,...

Killer Snails, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, is using a customized virtual reality (VR) game, BioDive, to develop an educational assessment tool that measures student learning in real-time.
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Discover the essential content marketing tools to supercharge your strategy in this insightful video. Explore a range of tools and technologies designed to enhance content creation, distribution, analytics, and optimization. Learn how...

Dopamine is a special chemical, neurologically speaking. The neurotransmitter is crucial for decision-making, learning, movement and more. Scientists know that varying dopamine levels affect neurons, but don’t yet have a method to...

It's called a wavemaker, and it's a honkin' 300 feet long and 12 feet wide. With support from the National Science Foundation, this huge new tool, the largest of its type in the United States, is helping scientists perform large scale...

Signaling across synapses--the tiny gaps between neurons, over a thousand times thinner than a sheet of paper--requires multiple molecules to work together. To learn how neurons communicate, and ensure they pass across the synapses at...

Multidisciplinary approach to developing next-generation space weather modeling tools, with the goal of a five-day forecast capability



Description: While Earth's weather reports center on precipitation,...

In this video, Jaime Casap, the global education evangelist at Google, discusses the evolving role of technology in education. He highlights how technology can support student-centered learning, leverage research on effective teaching...

Deliberate practice and purposeful reflection. These are the two most valuable tools for developing your skills.



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Deliberate practice and purposeful reflection. These are the two most valuable tools for developing your skills. Purposeful Reflection helps you figure out what you have learned.



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K-12 teachers often say to students, ""Put your thinking caps on,"" and one day, students might just do that for real. Vanderbilt University psychologist Geoffrey Woodman says that's because scientists are being equipped with more and...