Tag: STEM
Curved origami offers a creative route to making robots and other...
Hanqing Jiang, Arizona State University and Zirui Zhai, Arizona State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Building robotic...
Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show...
Kevin Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Evangeline Rose, University of Maryland, and Karan Odom, Cornell University
Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers....
Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on...
Mark French, Purdue University
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The Big Idea:
I’m part of a team of professors and high...
Why I’m teaching kids science through the sport of rowing
Elizabeth A. Barton, Wayne State University
I didn’t know what the world looked like at 5:00 a.m. until my son began rowing for the Detroit...
At these colleges, students begin serious research their first year
Nancy Stamp, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Rat brains to understand Parkinson’s disease. Drones to detect plastic landmines. Social media to predict acts...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden world through the eyes of butterflies
Adriana Briscoe, University of California, Irvine
An award-winning scientist and professor of evolutionary biology, Adriana Briscoe studies the evolution of vision in butterflies and how...
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
