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Jetman flight at the Grand Canyon

"Amazing pictures from Switzerland show where "jetman" Yves Rossy gave this incredible flying display, using a tailor-made jet pack. The aviation enthusiast leapt from a helicopter and performed a series of aerial acrobatics above the Alps. He then joined two jet planes in a synchronized flight. To synchronise their flight paths the jets reduced their speed to 220 kilometres per hour (137 miles per hour), which put their engines at a point close to stalling. Rossy's previous aerial feats include flying the English Channel and looping the loop around a hot-air balloon."

Flying virtual airplanes | December 12, 2011 Fly To Learn and Build A Plane have joined forces to use STEM education software to build virtual airplanes. The program will culminate in an Aviation Challenge where students compete using their digital planes against one another in regional and national competitions."

On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

"For fifty years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has recognized the best infrastructure projects in the world with its annual Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) award. The most recent winner was China's Sutong Bridge, a nearly 27,000-ft.-long bridge that spans the Yangtze River, and boasts several engineering "firsts," but also provided a safer, more efficient alternative to the ferries that local residents were forced to rely on."

"Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computers simulations as they do from direct observation, new research suggests. See Also: Mind & Brain Educational Psychology Language Acquisition Space & Time Moon Pluto Computers & Math Computer Modeling Computer Science Reference Computer simulation Instructional design Computing power everywhere Local area network A study found that people who used computer simulations to learn about moon phases understood the concepts just as well -- and in some cases better -- than did those who learned from collecting data from viewing the moon."

"Art-inspired storytelling. Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing."

Find out from Dr. Marc how airplanes ever got off the ground in the first place.

"A Plethora of habitat websites and activities"

http://www.ted.com In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too.

"http://www.ted.com A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking: Why not build a plane that you can drive?"

"Molecular Workbench (MW) provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science. Hundreds of Free Simulations Explore physics, chemistry, biology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology with interactive simulations."

"Japan's Flying Sphere UAV (With Video) The Japanese Defense Ministry unveiled at a trade show the latest version of a small unmanned spherical aircraft that can take off with vertical thrust, fly horizontally, and roll controlled across the ground. It has also demonstrated (on video) that it can maintain its position in space autonomously, while being batted at with a hand. "

"More than 21 centuries ago, a mechanism of fabulous ingenuity was created in Greece, a device capable of indicating exactly how the sky would look for decades to come -- the position of the moon and sun, lunar phases and even eclipses. But this incredible invention would be drowned in the sea and its secret forgotten for two thousand years."

"A collection of web sites with thousands of free video lectures and related course materials, including many offerings from major universities. "

"As we approach the Mars rover Curiosity's landing Sunday night, we're having a lot of fun seeing all the promotions - there are all kinds of videos, museum exhibits and road shows to help explain what the newest interplanetary explorer will do. Below is a great new one from the American Chemical Society. Curiosity is a well-equipped geologist, traveling to Mars with a suite of tools to bake and pulverize rock, but it's also a trained chemist, capable of detecting the ingredients necessary for life as we know it. It's the first explorer to be able to do this. "

"GET STARTED WITH ARDUINO! Arduino is an open source electronics platform consisting of a simple microcontroller board and a development environment for writing software. It's a great way to get started with open-source electronics. Join in the projects!"

"What It Takes To Live Away From The Earth This educational video highlights some of the challenges faced by humans on space exploration missions and the technologies needed for living away from the Earth. Intended for grades 3-8, and for anyone curious about space exploration."

"My human body is acting as a wireless energy receiver which can supply enough electricity to light up this "White Led". The maximum energy transfer distance to the led is about 20" ( 50cm) and the total current generated is about 650 micro-amps...This experiment proves that the human body does pick up residual energy from our environment, just like a solar cell that coverts sunlight into electricity... "