Peer pressure and gender. This science fair project was done to determine which gender is more affected by the influence of peer pressure.
The experiment was done by posing some simple questions to participants in a group setting. Male participants are more affected by peer pressure than female participants. Peer Pressure. The Trump Administration Is Scaring Scientists So Much That They're Running For Office. Charlotte strolled through Central Park, the filtered sunlight dancing along the path before her.
Taking her time, occasionally stopping to admire a newly blooming tree, she spoke evenly, authoritatively. "… include the department heads and copy the primary stakeholders," she said, stretching to smell a Magnolia blossom. Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs created endless night and 18-month winter as it rained fire. It is a vision of hell on Earth.
The sun disappeared behind a cloud of smoke that encircled the planet, turning day into night and causing temperatures to plummet as fire rained down from above. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the massive asteroid that struck the planet 66 million years ago – wiping out the dinosaurs and many other species in the fifth mass extinction of all life – set off earthquakes, giant tsunamis and volcanoes. Even after the dust cleared nearly two years later, chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere would have wrecked the protective layer of ozone so that the sun’s rays would have irradiated anything left alive by the strong ultraviolet light. State Dept. science envoy resigns with letter that spells out 'Impeach' This Man Searched for the Yeti for 60 Years—and Found It.
Man who lives alone in the woods has recorded 40 years of important data on snow. In a ghost town in the one of the coldest places in the US, lone resident Billy Barr has spent 4 decades recording snowfall … to the enormous delight of scientists.
Four new elements on the periodic table now have names. It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements.
This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the names of the four new elements, whose existence was first confirmed to the public back in January. Nettie Stevens discovered XY sex chromosomes. She didn't get credit because she had two X’s. At the turn of the 20th century, biologist Nettie Stevens was driven to solve a scientific mystery that had perplexed humanity for millennia.
The mystery was so simple but daunting: Why do boys become boys and girls become girls? 15 Adjectives You Never Knew Applied to Numbers. Upside-down lightning and mystery blue glimpses caught on film. ESA/NASA/Iriss/DTU Space By Andy Coghlan It’s the ultimate light show that happens above clouds during thunderstorms.
Weird lights up to a dozen kilometres long called blue jets, mysterious blue blobs called glimpses and upward slithers of red light called C-sprites have all been recorded from the International Space Station. 10-Year-Old Wins PhD Level Fellowship for the Best Reason - Motto. The Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship boasts of bringing together “bright young minds” and granting them the resources to achieve great goals.
Scientists Develop Material That Absorbs CO2 From the Air. 4 1ShareNew Trying to tackle the 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide that we release into the air each year is a tall order, but Klaus Lackner of Arizona State University’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions thinks he has a solution.
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If you're familiar with Betteridge's Law of Headlines, you probably know where we're going with this already. But still, as long as I can remember, people have told me that glass is indeed a liquid, but a supremely viscous, slow-moving one at room temperature. Zooniverse - Real Science Online. Solve Puzzles for Science. International Women's Day: Five female scientists you probably haven't heard of - People - News - The Independent. Their only common characteristic? They are women, and their appearance on the walls marks International Women’s Day. Science Fairs Aren't So Fair — Atlantic Mobile. These K-12 events are hardly more than a competition among over-involved parents. As a parent of two elementary school-aged kids, I know spring is approaching when my Facebook feed fills with desperate pleas for more time, calls for patience, and questions about the locations of retailers selling tri-fold posters.
Yes, it’s science-fair time. Last year, one mother’s satirical science-fair poster titled "How Much Turmoil Does the Science Project Cause Families? " went viral as parents around the country vented their anger toward this most frustrating of school assignments. Science-fair angst has even made it into children’s literature, with myriad books about stressed-out kids and failed projects. Sat-navs and mobile apps 'threaten map-reading skills' - BBC News.
Map-reading skills are under threat because of a growing reliance on smartphones and sat-navs, experts say. The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) said increasing dependence on technology means people are losing the ability to find their way by traditional methods. The RIN wants schools to encourage the teaching of basic map-reading because few pupils can read one.
Its president, Roger McKinlay, said society is "sedated by software". Top 10 Science Stories of 2015. It’s been a busy year for scientists: medical breakthroughs; newly discovered human ancestors; genes and neurons; Earth’s troubled species; and enticing findings from Mars, Pluto, and beyond. Here are 10 science advances that made a big impact in 2015. After a 9.5-year, 3-billion-mile journey, NASA’s intrepid New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto in July, sending back high-resolution images of the dwarf planet and its moon, Charon. At its closest approach, the craft passed within 7800 miles of Pluto’s surface—close enough to reveal bizarre ice mountains and vast, crater-free plains, seemingly divided into “cells” dozens of miles wide. There’s evidence of geological activity within the last 100 million years—a mere eye-blink compared to the age of the solar system—which came as a surprise to scientists, who imagined Pluto to be a geologically “dead” world.
Charon, meanwhile, has cliffs that run for hundreds of miles, and canyons more than six miles deep. Berger et al. ineLife. These women are turning science into cash - Feb. 26, 2016. Yes, engineering is their passion. Exclusive: Marvel launches program for girl scientists. "Captain America: Civil War" stars Elizabeth Olsen and Emily VanCamp introduce the Marvel "Girls Reforming the Future Challenge" program. Cartography: Flattening Earth. Gizmodo. Animagraffs - Animated infographics by Jacob O'Neal : Animagraffs. Frontiers for Young Minds. Some spiders can sail across oceans, scientists say. Here's Why Scientists Are Giving Honeybees Tiny 'Backpacks' Stephen Hawking's big ideas ... made simple - animation. Scientists use tiny technology to help explain bee die-off.
LONDON -- Honey bees help produce about a third of America's food supply. But last year, nearly half the bees in the U.S. disappeared -- a problem being felt across the Atlantic as well. What's Quicksand? - How Quicksand Works. PassPub_0511.pdf. World's Strangest Natural Wonders. Ever played the game of Twister on water? A Simple Experiment That (Finally) Explains Just What Gravity Is. Science for Kids - Fun Experiments, Cool Facts, Online Games, Activities, Projects, Ideas, Technology. Google science fair. Try Science. Banana Scientist Video. Kid Scientist better than Adult.