Math & Science Library

In the world of science, generations can pass before the truly monumental breakthroughs occur. Even when these events happen, most people can only take the word of others that what happened was phenomenal. As Americans celebrated an event that happened 236 years earlier, in France, scientists celebrated something a bit older still.

This is a video how global population grows.

The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right. Getty A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets. I learned that the "best of the best" tend to share the following eight core beliefs.

A new robot arm controlled by thoughts in the brain could transform the lives of people whose bodies are paralysed. The technology at an American university means for the first time in years a lady whose arms didn't work has been able to feed herself a drink.

Leon Esterowitz began his academic life as an English major because of his love of literature, but found himself drawn into physics, and ultimately a decades-long career in engineering. That career helped guide the development of the first medical lasers and night-vision technology, helped develop novel biophotonic medical diagnostic techniques. He now guides research on biophotonics - a field of research that uses light to observe and manipulate tissues and cells - for a program he created more than ten years ago for the National Science Foundation.

As part of its Battery 500 project - an initiative started by IBM in 2009 to produce a battery capable of powering a car for 500 miles - Big Blue has successfully demonstrated a light-weight, ultra-high-density, lithium-air battery. In IBM's lithium-air battery, oxygen is reacted with lithium to create lithium peroxide and electrical energy (pictured above).

Gapminder Desktop New: Gapminder Desktop allows you to show animated statistics from your own laptop. In short: Use Gapminder World without internet access. Save a list of your own favorite graphs. Updates automatically when new data is available. Click here to learn more & install Handouts & Lesson plans (PDF) Interactive presentations (Flash, PowerPoint etc.)

Gapminder is used in classrooms around the world to build a fact-based world view. On this page we feature quality examples & resources.

MATHCOUNTS offers fun and engaging programs that get middle school students excited about math. These programs include the MATHCOUNTS Competition Program, the MATHCOUNTS Club Program, and the MATHCOUNTS Reel Math Challenge.

A K-12/university partnership committed to democratizing computer science.

Stephen Dubner: Hey everybody. Happy Christmakwanzaakkah, and thanks for downloading the Freakonomics Radio podcast. Our last episode was about "weird recycling" -- reusing stuff that most people didn't think was reusable. Today, we're taking our own advice. This episode is an encore of a show we did a while back, which we thought was worth updating.

President Obama's recent declaration of an "all-of-the-above" energy policy during his State of the Union address received many cheers here at Consumer Energy Alliance. For years, our organization has advocated for a balanced energy policy that embraces a "we need it all" approach; focusing on choosing winners and losers in the energy space does little to advance a reasonable policy that allows for affordable energy now and in the future.

Interactive education. For every platform. At Desmos, we let all of the devices in the classroom work together - from Interactive Whiteboards, to laptops and tablets, to smartphones. With our software, anyone can build rich content that plays in any browser, on any device.

A 12-hour middle school math game that gives purpose and meaning to the subject for life.

Imagine Education builds rich, story-based math games- learning environments- where students ask questions about math with a natural curiosity that forms their relationship to the subject. Students meet math with authentic purpose, where it is embedded and contextualized in a story coherent with the content, fundamentally creating the foundation to not only math, but learning in general.

This is a video describing a scientific process within use of systems and models. The importance of understanding these two components in science and theory is applicable toward gaining better organization. Organization is key when it comes to dissecting elaborate processes and making sense of them in order to come to conclusions from evidence.

BANGOR, Maine - The shortage of experts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is very real in Maine as it is across the United States, a fact which has led to calls for action everywhere from the White House to the Maine governor's mansion. This has led to the proliferation ...

great video on math

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators.

Lots of great programs, initiatives, and resources, including educ courses