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A new smart paint blends art and science
In a new study published in Advanced Science, researchers from Northeastern University led by Daniel Wilson have merged science and art when they developed a natural pigment-based coating that changes color in response to sunlight. “We can develop new optical materials and control strategies from scratch, but we can also learn a lot from the materials…
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A new smart paint blends art and science
In a new study published in Advanced Science, researchers from Northeastern University led by Daniel Wilson have merged science and art when they developed a natural pigment-based coating that changes color in response to sunlight. “We can develop new optical materials and control strategies from scratch, but we can also learn a lot from the materials…
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An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics
In October 2015 my time training mathematics teachers at a French high school in Port Vila, Vanuatu, was coming to an end. The principal invited me to share kava, a traditional drink in the country. As every social scientist in Vanuatu discovers, sharing kava is a fruitful opportunity for learning. This beverage, which is made…
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Look inside the teaching spaces at St Clare’s, County Leitrim
Meet Graham Hewston, who teaches at St Clare’s Comprehensive School in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim – a small town between Sligo and Enniskillen. He’s been teaching there for more than 30 years since graduating with a degree in natural sciences, followed by a higher diploma in education from Trinity College Dublin. The school was built over 50 years…
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Look inside the teaching spaces at St Clare’s, County Leitrim
Meet Graham Hewston, who teaches at St Clare’s Comprehensive School in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim – a small town between Sligo and Enniskillen. He’s been teaching there for more than 30 years since graduating with a degree in natural sciences, followed by a higher diploma in education from Trinity College Dublin. The school was built over 50 years…
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How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate? A long push for progress and energy to fuel it
Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For hundreds of years, people have shaped the world around them for their benefit: They drained lakes…
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How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate?
Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For hundreds of years, people have shaped the world around them for their benefit: They drained lakes…
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Artist uses Truckee River sidewalk poem to meditate on science, time, place
Between the Truckee River and asphalt roads that line its banks are yellow cursive scribblings on the sidewalk. The words go on for a mile, unfurling as a tale about time, change and place. It is a 5,000-word poem about water, and it is meant to prompt questions. This is not the type of poem…
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Artist uses Truckee River sidewalk poem to meditate on science, time, place
Between the Truckee River and asphalt roads that line its banks are yellow cursive scribblings on the sidewalk. The words go on for a mile, unfurling as a tale about time, change and place. It is a 5,000-word poem about water, and it is meant to prompt questions. This is not the type of poem…
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Do bond classifications help or hinder chemistry?
There is something strange about the chemical bond. It is very difficult to define in a more sophisticated way than as being the ‘glue’ that ‘binds’ atoms. And yet the bond is one of the most essential concepts in chemistry; without it one cannot describe how molecules are structured, nor explain how a chemical reaction…
