2006 Posts

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December 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Antibiotic resistance: How do antibiotics kill bacteria?
31: Bald Eagle Carry a Fish Over Manhattan
30: Northwest FIRST Robotics Competition
29: Mixing Memory: Coolest Experiment
29: Brain Research on Sea Slugs
28: Robot Heading for Antarctic Dive
28: Delaying the Flow of Light on a Silicon Chip
27: Engineering Education Advocate
26: Single Gene Could Lead to Long Life
26: Knowledge Is Power – Teaching Math
26: Engineering Basketball Flop
25: So, You Want to be an Astrophysicist?
25: State Foster Science for Future Jobs
24: Getting Students Hooked on Engineering
23: Smallest Known Living Organisms Found – 200 nanometers

23: Jetson Jetplane
23: Science and Engineering Search Engine
22: Batfish Key to Keeping Reefs Clean
21: Photos of Mason Neck State Park
20: UK Science and Research Funding
20: Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds
20: $25 Million for Marquette College of Engineering
20: Mind controls body in extreme experiments
19: Nanotechnology Education
18: Bed Bugs, Science and the Media
18: How Do Wii Game Controllers Work?
17: Arteriovenous Malformation Explanation
17: Google Patent Search Fun
16: Diabetes Breakthrough
16: Sea Slug Photo Gallery
16: Baseball Pitch Designed in the Lab
15: Mexican Engineering Brain Drain
15: The Magnetic Fridge
14: The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science
14: Big Big Lions
13: USA Still Leads In Innovation
13: Scientists Building a Safer Mosquito
12: Ageless Turtles
12: Micro-robots to ’swim’ Through Veins
11: Physics Concepts in 60 Seconds
11: Diving Mandarin Ducklings
10: How Does the Immune System Remember
10: Fun Fungi
10: Flushed Drugs Pollute Water
09: Ocean Warming’s Effect on Phytoplankton
09: Arctic Sharks
08: Physicists Find Long Sought Particle
07: Water flowed ‘recently’ on Mars
07: Why Insects Can’t Fly Straight at Night
06: Increasing American Fellowship Support for Scientists and Engineers
06: What Graduates Should Know About an IT Career
06: Disrupting the Replication of Bacteria
05: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science
04: Indian Institute of Technology Thoughts
04: Google’s Start by Brin and Page
04: Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships
03: Computer Image Tagging
03: Anti-microbial ‘paint’
02: Electricity Savings
02: Open Source for LEGO Mindstorms
02: China’s Science and Technology Plan
01: Building minds by building robots

November 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Finding Dark Matter
30: Shuttle Computer Not Designed For New Year While in Flight
30: Misleading headline of the week
30: Commercial Carbon Nanotubes
29: Ancient Greek Technology 1,000 Years Early
29: Cool Mechanical Simulation System
28: Designed Experiments
28: NSF: Girls in Science and Engineering
28: Improving Elementary Science Education
27: NASA Tests Robots at Meteor Crater
27: 13 things that do not make sense
27: NSF Undergraduate STEM Scholarships
26: Tree of Life
26: NSF Engineering Education Program Grants
25: More Nutritious Wheat
25: Report on Use of Online Science Resources
24: H5N1 Influenza Evolution and Spread
24: National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
24: Using Viruses to Construct Electrodes and More
23: Engineered Art
23: New Understanding of Human DNA
22: A Robot to Clean Your Room
22: Be Thankful for Marine Algae
22: Research on Reducing Hamstring Injuries
21: The Best Science Books
20: Science Saves Driver from Ticket
20: Are Our Vegtables Less Nutritious?
20: 100 Innovations for 2006
19: Lifestraw
19: Far Eastern Leopard – Rarest Big Cat
18: Leadership Initiatives for Teaching and Technology
18: What is an Extremophile?
17: Illusion of Explanatory Depth
16: Nanotechnology Experiment Accidentally Discovers Forger Fix
16: Inquiry-Based Engineering Education
16: Why Desktop Linux Will Not Take off
15: Ancient Crash, Epic Wave
15: Wireless Power
15: Global Engineering Education Study
14: How flowering plants beat the competition
14: Prochlorococcus
14: Teaching Ideas
13: Nanoscale Images Using an X-ray Laser
13: Nanotechnology Research
12: Science and Engineering Graduate Data from NSF
12: Old Viruses Resurrected Through DNA
11: Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2006
11: World Robot Olympiad
11: Microbe Food
10: Regular Exercise Reduces Fatigue
10: Australia Student Formula One Engineering Competition
10: Sea Urchin Genome
09: Engineering Outsourcing Effects
09: How Brain Resolves Sight
08: The Silent Aircraft Initiative
08: Microbes on Earth
06: Web Science
06: Video Goggles
05: Physicists Observe New Property of Matter
05: Student Algae Bio-fuel Project
05: Fishy Future?
04: Google History
04: Programing Bacteria
04: The Next Generation Internet
04: Flying Luxury Hotel
03: Brain in a Dish
03: Engineers and the Making of the 20th Century
02: Civil Engineering Challenges
02: Medical Buckyballs
02: How Many Engineers?
01: Energy Efficiency of Digestion
01: Virus may be eating your brain

October 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: SMART Fellowships
31: Bacteria in Food Increasingly Dangerous
31: MRSA Vaccine Shows Promise
30: Satellite Tracker from NASA
30: Diversity In Engineering – Canada
29: Educating Scientists and Engineers
28: 60 Acre (24 hectare) Spider Web
27: Residence Halls for Engineering Students
27: High Pay for Engineering Graduates
26: Student Loan Forgiveness for Teachers
26: Sick spinach: Meet the killer E coli
26: iWoz
25: New Visualization of the Periodic Table
25: Erasmus Mundus Scholarships
24: Why does orange juice taste so bad after brushing your teeth?
24: Lab on a Chip Blood Tests
23: Natural History Museum Wildlife Photos of 2006
22: Antibiotic Research
22: More Great Webcasts: Nanotech and more
21: Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
21: Life Untouched by the Sun
21: String Theory is Not Dead
20: Science and Engineering Internships for Summer 2007
20: Engineering Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak
19: Cancer-Killing Virus
19: CDC Urges Increased Effort to Reduce Drug-Resistant Infections
19: Possibilities Ahead for Engineers
18: Open Access Engineering Journals
18: The Emperor of Math
17: K-12 Engineering Education
17: Singapore Engineering Week
17: Inside Live Red Blood Cells
16: MIT Faculty Study Recommends Significant Undergraduate Education Changes
15: Google India Looking for Engineers
15: Inventor for Hire
15: China Robot Expo
15: The World’s Smallest Genome
15: Hawaiian Jellyfish
13: Science Fair Project on Bacterial Growth on Packaged Salads
13: NSF $76 million for Science and Technology Centers
12: China’s Gene Therapy Investment
12: Green Energy
11: Autonomous Flying Vehicles
10: Gel Stops Bleeding in Seconds
10: Jaguars Back in the Southwest USA
10: Data on Grad Students
10: Google Gadget Awards
09: Why the Frogs Are Dying
09: Innovative Science and Engineering Higher Education
09: Science and Engineering Degrees – Career Success
08: Researcher Provides Undisclosed Data to FDA
08: 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
07: Engineers Save Energy
07: Another Strike Against Cola
07: RI FIRST
06: UK Young Engineers Competitions
06: $10 Million X Prize for DNA Decoding
05: Teleportation Science
05: Academic Positions in Singapore
04: Monarch Travels
04: Nobel Prize in Chemistry – 2006
03: Discoveries by Accident
03: 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
02: 2006 Nikon Small World Photos
02: What Kids can Learn
02: 50 New Species Found in Indonesia Reefs
01: Science Blogging Conference in NC
01: Google 2007 Anita Borg Scholarship

September 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: More Great Science Webcasts
30: Artificial Corneas
29: UC-Berkeley Course Videos
29: Nanoparticles to Aid Brain Imaging
28: 5th State of Matter
27: Open Science Computer Grid
27: Math, Marketing and Medical Studies
26: 500 Engineering Jobs for Texas
26: Matter to Anti-Matter 3 Trillion Times a Second
26: Hypoallergenic Cats
25: Engineered Ice Cream
25: UTexas: Engineering Career Podcasts
24: Japan Project X: Innovators Documentaries
23: New NRC Report on k-8 Science Education in the USA
23: Math for America
22: 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
22: China Invests More in Science and Engineering
22: Protein Knots
22: Purdue Graduate Fellows Teach Middle School Science
21: Yale to Provide Videos of Courses Online
21: Sports Science Open Access Journal
21: How Does a Missile Turns in Flight?
20: String Theory
20: Engine on a Chip – the Future Battery
19: 340 Years of Royal Society Journals Online
19: 2006 MacArthur Fellows
17: Engineering the Future Economy
17: Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk?
16: Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology
16: UW- Madison Wins 4th Concrete Canoe Competition
16: Manipulating Carbon Nanotubes
15: Middle School Engineers
15: Inspiring Students to be Engineers
15: Google Computer Science Scholarship Program
15: Planet, Less Dense Than Cork, Is Discovered
14: Engineering Jobs in Mexico
14: Turning Trash into Electricity
13: Engineering Delivery Systems to the Brain
13: Security of Electronic Voting
12: The man who saved geometry
12: MIT’s molecular sieve advances protein research
12: NSF: The Art of Engineering
11: Clean Water Filter
11: Bringing Eye Care to Thousands in India
10: Millennium Technology Prize to Dr. Shuji Nakamura
10: Bacteria Power Tiny Motor
09: Student Design and Engineering Web Community
09: How Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life
08: Young Innovators Under 35
08: The Inner Life of a Cell – Animation
08: Wind-Powered Water Heater
07: Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
07: Nanoscientists Create Biological Switch
06: Work for Stephen Hawking
06: ‘Virtually untreatable’ TB found
05: Most Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered
04: Higher Education Worldwide
04: Open Course Ware from Japan
04: Great Nanotechnology Overview
03: Engineering Student Contest Winners Design Artificial Limb
03: Nobel Laureates Speaking to High School in Japan
02: Oliver Sacks podcast
01: Electrical Engineering Future

August 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Engineered Immune Cells Shrink Tumors
31: Excercize and Learning
30: Ocean Power Plant
30: Wakamaru Robot
30: Proton Treatment Could Replace x-ray
29: IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program
29: Science of the High Jump
28: Open Access Legislation
28: Cancer cell ‘executioner’ found
28: Beneficial Bacteria
27: Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program
27: Research Career in Industry or Academia
27: Civil Engineers: USA Infrastructure Needs Improvement
24: Open Access Education Materials
24: Scientific Innovation and Economic Growth
24: Extreme Engineering
23: Wind Power
23: Nanocars
23: Automatic Cat Feeder
22: Electricity from Bacteria and Wastewater
22: Giant Wasp Nests
21: R&D Magazine’s 2006 Innovator of the Year
21: $75.3 Million for 5 New Engineering Research Centers
21: Diplomacy and Science Research
21: Voyager 1: Now 100 Times Further Away than the Sun
21: Fun k-12 Science and Engineering Learning
21: Robots Sharing Talents
20: What do Science and Engineering Graduates Do?
20: Spider Thread
20: Problems in India’s Education System
19: Altered Oceans: the Crisis at Sea
19: The World’s Best Research Universities
18: Tracking Narwhals in Greenland
18: Student Design Competition for Sustainability
18: Science Education in India
18: Math and Science Teacher Shortage
17: Chinese Engineering Education Shortfalls
17: Drug Resistant Bacteria More Common
17: Google Tech Webcasts
16: 20 Scientists Who Have Helped Shape Our World
16: Sea “Spiders” Suck on Prey
16: Brain Development Gene is Evolving the Fastest
16: Science Opportunities for Students
15: What Are Flowers For?
15: Engineering at Home
15: Robots Wrestling, Students Learning
15: PoincarÃ© Conjecture
15: USA Governors Promote the Value of Science Education
14: Feed your Newborn Neurons
14: Electrical Engineering Student
13: Promoting Science and Engineering
13: Van Gogh Painted Perfect Turbulence
12: Math and Science Challenges for the USA
12: MIT’s Energy ‘Manhattan Project’
12: Science and Engineering in Global Economics
12: Engineering Projects in Community Service
11: R&D Spending in USA Universities
11: More Unmanned Water Vehicles
11: Ginko Cells Host Alga
11: Girls in Science and Engineering
10: Anita Borg Scholarship – Australia
10: $40 Million for Engineering Education in Boston
10: Economic Benefits and Science Higher Education
09: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
08: Interview of Steve Wozniak
08: Recapturing R&D Leadership
07: Kayak Robots
07: The Web is 15 Years Old
06: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
06: Underwater Robots Collaborate
06: Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowships
06: Diversity Focus
05: Incredible Insects
05: The Woz Speaks
03: Solar Tower Power Generation
02: Write on Water
02: How Google Earth Is Changing Science
02: Internship with Bill Gates

July 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Summer Health Tips
28: NASA Robotics Academy
28: Excellence in K-12 Mathematics and Science Teaching
28: Cat History
27: 2006 MIT Engineering Systems Conference
26: Kyoto Prize for Technology, Science and the Arts
26: NSF Undergraduate Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
25: Engineering Resources for K-12 Teachers
25: How do antibiotics kill bacteria?
25: Beyond Genetics in DNA
24: Survey of Working Engineers
24: USA Engineering Jobs
23: Bye Bye British Bees – Too
23: Reducing Risk of Diabetes Through Exercise
23: Molecular DNA Switch Found to be the Same for All Life
22: Wild Tiger Survival at Risk
21: A plane You Can Print
20: A New Ocean?
20: A New Engineering Education
19: Primary Science Education in China and the USA
18: Robot Learning
18: Berkeley and MIT courses online
17: Evolution in Darwin’s Finches
17: Science 2.0 – Biology
17: NSF Funds Center for Quality of Life Technology
16: Engineers in the Workplace
16: Semiconductor Paint
16: CERN Tour webcast
16: Lucrative college degrees
16: Food Health Policy Blog
15: Annals of Mathematics
15: Bacteria Living in Glacier
14: China Builds a Better Internet
14: Bacteria Sprout Conducting Nanowires
14: Genetically Engineered Machines Competition
13: Meerkats Teach Their Young
13: Google Jobs in Michigan
12: Google Tech Talks
12: Safe Water Through Play
12: Women for Science
11: New Engineering School for England
10: Bye Bye Bees
09: Weekly Science Podcasts
09: Bonobo’s Using Language?
09: Cash Awards for Engineering Innovation
07: Open Access Article Advantage
07: Classic Botanical Illustrations Presented Poorly
07: The Future of Science
06: Singapore Supporting Science Researchers
06: China challenges dominance of USA, Europe and Japan
06: The Brine Lake Beneath the Sea
06: Princeton Center for Innovation in Engineering Education Blog
06: 50 Top Science Blogs
05: Wind Power Technology Breakthrough
04: Toyota Robots
03: How to Win a Graduate Fellowship
02: Psychology Experiment
02: Scientists and Students
01: The Future is Engineering
01: Global Share of Engineering Work

June 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Ants on Stilts for Science
30: Reforming Engineering Education by NAE
29: Birds Fly Early
29: Tour the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Lab
28: Swimming Robot Aids Researchers
25: Large-Scale, Cheap Solar Electricity
25: Open-Source Biotech
25: Another Article on Engineering Shortage?
24: Bacterial Evolution in Yogurt
23: Science, Engineering and Technology Graduates Paid Well
23: Britain’s Royal Society Experiments with Open Access
22: Science, Education and Community
21: K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs
21: The Art and Science of Imaging
21: Drilling to the Center of the Earth
20: Rare “Rainbow” Over Idaho
19: Artic Seed Vault
19: Bill Gates Interview from 1993
19: Robot Football (Soccer)
19: Gecko Tape
18: MIT Hosts Student Vehicle Design Summit
18: Malaysia Looking to Learn from India
17: Scientific Illiteracy
16: Electronic Stability Control Could Prevent 33% of Crash Deaths
16: NSF Engineering Education Grants
16: Lego Learning
14: Two Butterfly Species Evolved Into Third
14: NSF Engineering Division is Reorganization
14: Engineering Education: Can India overtake China?
13: Biological Molecular Motors
12: Canadian Association for Girls In Science
12: Ventless Clothes Dryers
11: International Fulbright Science and Technology Award
11: Re-engineered Wheelchair
10: Science and Engineering Podcasts
09: The Science of the Football Swerve
09: Recharge Batteries in Seconds
09: Art of Science 2006
08: Strawjet: Invention of the Year
07: Engineering Education Program for k-12
05: k-12 Engineering Education
04: Basic Science Research Funding
04: Applied Research
03: k-12 Science Education Podcast
03: Balloon Molecules
02: $100 Laptops for the World
02: Cancer Scientists Find Worm Link

May 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Middle School Students in Solar Car Competition
30: China and USA Basic Science Research
30: Google: Artificial Intelligence
29: Ocean Life
27: Report on K-12 Science Education in USA
26: Improving Undergraduate Science Education
25: Olin Engineering Education Experiment
25: Harvard Elevates Engineering Profile
24: Seeing Machine from MIT
24: House Testimony on Engineering Education
24: Microsoft Wants More Engineering Students
23: Donald Knuth – Computer Scientist
23: Golden Buckyballs
19: Mexico: Pumping Out Engineers
18: Entirely New Antibiotic Developed
18: Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
17: Science Education and Jobs
17: Scientific Misinformation
16: The Economic Benefits of Math
15: Nanoscale Fractal Molecule
15: Universities Focus on Economic Benefits
14: Middle School Math
14: Shortage of Petroleum Engineers
14: Science and the City
13: Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Awards
11: Art of Science at Princeton
11: Demystifying Technology for High School Students
10: Top degree for S&P 500 CEOs? Engineering
10: Engineering the Boarding of Airplanes
09: Graduate Scholar Awards in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math
08: Nanowired at Berkeley
08: What Makes People Successful?
08: Science Update Podcast
07: Electron Clouds
05: Score One for Sports Science
03: America’s Technology Advantage Slipping
03: Invention Machine
02: USA Innovation Lead Challenged
02: Mistake Driven Engineering
01: Wallaby Milk Cure
01: Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton

April 2006
Detailed Monthly Archive

29: Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
21: Study on Minority Degrees in STEM fields
19: How a Microwave Heats
18: Antibiotic Discovery Stagnates
18: What’s so Exciting About Engineering?
17: Feynman on Discovery
16: Solar Eruption
16: 10 Science Facts You Should Know
15: Nanospheres Targeting Cancer at MIT
15: Science for Kids
14: Technology Education: USA and India
13: Science Education in the USA, Japan…
13: National Conference on Service Learning in Engineering
12: Singapore woos top scientists with new labs
11: Rube Goldberg Devices from Japan
11: Great Moonbuggy Race
10: Sports Engineering
10: Companies Hunting for Engineers to Fill New Jobs
09: Nobel Laureate Discusses Protein Power
07: $1 Million Each for 20 Science Educators
07: Google Announces 2006 Anita Borg Scholarship Winners
07: Virus-Assembled Batteries
06: Nanotech Product Recalled in Germany
05: NASA Engineering Challenges
05: Why Schools Don’t Educate
04: Are Antibiotics Killing Us?
03: Organs Engineered in a Lab
01: Cheap Drinking Water From Seawater
01: Science Education in the 21st Century

March 2006
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February 2006
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January 2006
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