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Though I don’t always cover science news on this blog, it is something I love to do because it keeps my imagination for the future of science alive. Some weeks when I’m hoping to cover recent science news, I struggle to find anything I want to write about. Then, other weeks I find so much that I want to write about that I can’t settle on one news story. This week, I ran into the latter situation. Two stories in the news this week made me giddy with excitement, and I couldn’t just decide to talk about only one of...

This week, I read a fascinating article on the NSTA Blog about how some schools are shaking up their science fair programs. Many schools are aiming to incorporate interdisciplinary approaches to learning in order to improve creativity and involvement with both the community and their own projects (parents, it’s your kid’s time to learn!). The ideas I read about in the article (which I will discuss later, don’t worry) led to me learning about a newer movement in education that I had never heard about: STEM to STEAM. Behind this movement is the argument that the addition of an “A”...

I was walking in a park this last weekend, and I saw somebody flying their drone around. This isn’t exactly an uncommon sight these days, but it struck me as something totally unfamiliar on a personal level. Though they have their roots reaching back to the US military’s Kettering Bug in 1918 or Nikola Tesla’s radio-controlled boat in 1898, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, as the cool-kids call them) are still relatively novel to the general public. This, however, doesn’t seem like it will be the case going forward as the commercial drone market in the US is anticipated to...

While planning this week’s blog, my head has kind of been in two different places. On one hand, I found some intriguing research relating to the relationship between technology and kids that I had spent some time reading up on and was planning to write this blog post about. On the other hand, my plans were at least partially dashed when I got home from work and read about NASA’s Curiosity Rover finding seasonal methane patterns and organic molecules in the bed of a dried-up crater lake on Mars. So, to appease both sides in my internal struggle, I’m going to discuss...

Hi, all. Today I wanted to try a little something different for our blog. Recently I was uploading our Electrode Disc Set product to our online store, and I realized that the instructions for its use are rather generalized. I thought it would be a cool idea to come up with and share some experiments that are possible with it. This exercise is two-fold. For one, it will provide you with a jumping-off-point on how to use this product. Secondly, however, I want this to illustrate that many items are able be used to investigate various scientific principles. Though we...