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In the wake of the Obama Administration’s unveiling of its “Educate to Innovate” campaign to revitalize education in the U.S., Mangahigh (www.mangahigh.com) today launches the first curriculum-focused, games-based learning site in the U.S. focusing on math for 11 to 16 year olds. The company also announced new social features, based on casual games models,...
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Imagine being able to fly inside weather fronts and jet streams, visualizing the atmosphere in ways that are not currently available, and in the process, learning things that would not have been apparent using conventional learning paradigms. Sound better than looking at weather images on a computer screen? Three Millersville University of Pennsylvania researchers...
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Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars. The new research focused on investigating alternate proposals for the creation of materials thought to be signs of ancient life found in...
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Global Imagination® today announced that President Obama was supported by a Magic Planet digital video globe when he unveiled the administration’s Educate to Innovate campaign, an initiative to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The Magic Planet, provided by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, served as an example of innovative...
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NASA‘s revolutionary planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been honored with the 2009 Best of What’s New Grand Award from Popular Science Magazine and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics Magazine. “The Kepler Space Telescope is a stunning new tool that has a very targeted mission: studying planetary systems,” the Popular Mechanics magazine editors...
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NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a “space elevator.” LaserMotive of Seattle was awarded the money after its performance in the Power Beaming Challenge competition, which was a demonstration of wireless power...
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Avatar was originally set for release on May 22, 2009 during filming, but the film was pushed back to December 16, 2009. This was done to allow more post-production time, and to also give more time for theaters worldwide to install 3D projectors In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is selected to...
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