AAAS "Active Explorer" Project Turns Cell Phones into Research Tools for Students

A new education project from AAAS aims to prove that smart phones can be more than a classroom distraction. Instead, they can be a powerful tool for helping students and teachers collaborate on creative, hands-on science learning. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Grand Challenge: Confirming the Source and Motive of a Future Biological Attack

 If the United States was the victim of a biological weapon, how would the government determine the source of the attack? Not being able to answer that question is keeping leaders in the field of biosecurity up at night, experts said during a panel discussion at AAAS.  

By AAAS, USA.

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Science: "Attentional Shifts" Make It Expensive to Be Poor

James Baldwin wrote, “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” He was referring to high prices, but this statement could also describe the premise of a study in the 2 November issue of Science, which is that the poor often behave in ways that make it more difficult to climb out of poverty. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Norman P. Neureiter, a Leading Advocate of Science Diplomacy, Wins Austrian Cross of Honour

Norman P. Neureiter, acting director of the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy and a leading proponent of science diplomacy, has received a prestigious award from the Austrian government for contributions to the success of an international organization based in Vienna that addresses global challenges. .

By AAAS, USA.

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