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"These robots, made of carbon fiber, are just six inches long and don't weigh much more than an iPod Nano. Hardware on board measures pressure, temperature, humidity, location and time, all to help predict the trajectory and intensity of hurricanes. Since just one of these robots isn't nearly enough to get a good sense of a hurricane, they're designed to be used in swarms of tens or hundreds, collecting massive amounts of data while creating their own autonomous network."

"tour the Large Hadron Collider and other CERN experiments in 360-degree photo panoramas online. Virtual visitors can "walk" through a tunnel housing part of the collider's 27-kilometer-long particle accelerator. Or you can explore brightly painted particle detectors such as the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment,"

Research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students.  Play free multi-player and single-player games

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Projects - lists and links to a number of grant funded projects

Math Future, http://www.naturalmath.com which is an organic and extensive community of math educators and students, online and locally.

"In a Finding Your Science video, Dr. Gee discusses the deep learning principles found in many video games of today. He argues that human beings have a very strong, innate instinct for learning, just as we have a strong instinct for reproduction. Gee goes on to say that traditional schooling inadvertently suppresses this instinct in many ways."

"University of Florida's list of Science Games for Children, lists several online-only games that teach basic science principles."

"10 Teams Officially Registered for 2011 CAFE Green Flight Challenge The CAFE Foundation has completed Design Review and registration for 10 teams to compete in the 2011 flight competition. These teams include one major university and are from states all across the USA. Their sizes vary widely, as can be seen in the table below. As hoped, teams will campaign with a wide range of energy sources; mogas, diesel, bio-diesel, hydrogen and electricity. The qualifications of the team leaders and members are very impressive."

"We are educators and we have a big responsibility towards what and how we teach .Part of this responsibility is the sound integration of technology into education .The backbone of this technology is search engines and the king search engine for scholars and internet users ,in general, and according to the latest websites rank statistics is Google "

"detailed post about most if not all the search tips you need to master Google search techniques."

"About GRAIL MoonKAM GRAIL MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is GRAIL's signature education and public outreach program. It is led by Dr. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, and her team at Sally Ride Science in collaboration with undergraduate students at the University of California San Diego. "

"scientists at Dalhousie University, concludes that there are about 8.7 million species on Earth. The team analyzed the numerical relationship between species, genus, family and order in well-studied life-forms and used that pattern to estimate the number of species in categories of life that haven't been well studied. Some scientists argue that that almost surely underestimates some lesser-known classes of life. Only some 1.25 million species have been described in the 253 years since Linnaeus devised the method we use to name them. This means that if there are, indeed, roughly 8.7 million species over all, nearly 90 percent of the species on Earth have not yet been discovered and described. "

" to design and develop well-engineered assessment tools to support US schools in implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS). Tools for formative and summative assessment that make knowledge and reasoning visible, and help teachers to guide students in how to improve, and monitor their progress. These tools comprise: * Lesson Units for Formative Assessment: some focused on math concepts, others on non-routine problem solving - 20 per grade for Grades 7-12. * Professional Development Modules: to help teachers with the new pedagogical challenges that formative assessment presents. * Summative Assessment Task Collection: to illustrate the range of performance goals required by CCSS. * Prototype Summative Tests: designed to help teachers and students monitor their progress, these tests provide a model for examinations that may replace or complement current US tests."

"The relativistic motion of clocks on board GPS satellites exactly accounts for the superluminal effect in the OPERA experiment, says physicist Ronald van Elburg at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, The Physics arXiv Blog reports."