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Celebrating Math Awareness Month outside
Daily Science Activity for Sunday April 5, 2009The Daily Science Activity for April 5 is Springtime Math. This website that will help you to explore math outside. Activities include finding shapes and...
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Land Act signed by Obama establishes National Historical Park in New Jersey
Before leaving for the G20 conference last week, President Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. The Act designates more than 500,000 acres of wilderness in national parks such...
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Celebrate National Public Health Week with a prescription for survival
Daily Science Activity for Monday April 6, 2009The American Public Health Association has designated April 6 – 12, 2009 as National Public Health Week. Since 1995 National Public Health week has been...
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Avoiding the spread of an infectious disease
Daily Science Activity for Tuesday April 7, 2009The Daily Science Activity for April 7 continues the celebration of National Public Health Week by examining how an infectious disease can spread...
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Philadelphia Science Weekend: April 10 - 12, 2009
It’s Button’s 8th Birthday Bash Celebration from April 4th – April 19th. You don’t have to worry about what to get for a 3000 pound Nile Hippo who has everything. Instead you get to...
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University of Pennsylvania BLAST telescope uncovers hidden galaxies
PHILADELPHIA –- In a paper published in the current issue of Nature, a group of scientists led by physicists from the University of Pennsylvania describes hidden properties of distant “starburst”...
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Celebrating National Public Health Week with Kids Health in the Classroom
Daily Science Activity for Thursday April 9, 2009The Daily Science Activity for April 9 continues the celebration of National Public Health Week with a new online resource for educators.KidsHealth in...
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Amateur fossil hunters discover 'Tamba Dragon' an important link in...
As reported in this week’s issue of Science, what began as an outing for two elderly Japanese men has led to the discovery of a rare fossilized skeleton that may fill in an evolutionary “missing link...
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Are grades suffering because of Facebook?
Ohio State University doctoral student Aryn C. Karpinski conducted a study that shows College students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade point averages than students who...
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America's "first dinosaur" on display in Philadelphia until May 3
Hadrosaurus foulkii doesn’t have the name recognition of a Tyrannosaurus rex, but this dinosaur made a profound impact on our view of dinosaurs today. Hadrosaurus is a hometown hero with literally...
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Celebrating National Environmental Education Week with activities on...
The study of environmental health takes a holistic view on the range of factors in the interaction of humans with their surrounding environment. According to the World Health Organization,...
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Examining air quality for national environmental education week.
Air quality has a dramatic affect on the health and well-being of all people. Anyone that has asthma or seasonal allergies has experienced what happens when air-borne materials interfere with...
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Amateur naturalist discovers and names new species of lichen after President...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Kerry Knudsen, a curator at the University of California Riverside Herbarium discovered the new species of lichen during a survey on Santa Rosa Island, California in 2007. He “made...
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Proposed rules may remove some limits on human stem cell research.
On Friday the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a draft of Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research. These new guidelines are in response to President Obama’s executive order 13505 removing...
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Stem Cells: Part 1. The collision of science and politics
COMMENTARY: In March 2009 when President Obama signed the executive order reversing limits on federal support of embryonic stem cell research, he followed through on a pledge to separate science and...
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Stem Cells: Part 2. Basic concepts of stem cell science
COMMENTARY: The structure of the body is made up of by billions of individual microscopic cells that work together to complete the functions necessary for life. Many cells of the adult body are...
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Stem Cells: Part 3. Current views on cell replacement therapy
COMMENTARY: Proponents of stem cell research proclaim the potential that stem cells have in the treatment of a wide range of diseases. But what is the basis of these statements? In essence, why does...
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COMMENTARY: Medical science has made astonishing advances in the use of cell, tissue, and organ transplants in the treatment of disease. However the lack of available donor organs and limitations in...
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Stem Cells: Part 5. The ethics of stem cell use
COMMENTARY: In our modern society, scientific advancements can directly influence individual’s lives. However, the speed at which new technologies is developed and implemented often outpaces societal...
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Stem Cells: Part 6: Medical Tourism: seeking cures around the world
COMMENTARY: In a 2008 Survey of health Care Consumers completed by Deloitte it is becoming clear that medical tourism, patients traveling to a new location for the purpose of obtaining quality health...
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