News tagged with technical disciplines
Gender Schemas Affect Women in Science, Says Expert
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gender equity expert Virginia Valian discusses women's advancement in the STEM disciplines.
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Positive thinking, persistence pay off in job search: study
(HealthDay) -- A study that followed recently unemployed people for five months -- or until they landed a new job -- found that staying positive and being persistent helped people find work sooner.
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May 04, 2012 |
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Game theory, in the real world
For students in New York and Boston, who have a range of options beyond their neighborhood school, choosing a high school used to be a maddeningly complicated guessing game. In Boston, for instance, many students would list ...
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May 02, 2012 |
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Students to demonstrate smart camera trap at new engineering competition
(Phys.org) -- Forget about building a better mouse trap. University of California, San Diego sophomore Riley Yeakle and his teammates have come up with a better camera trap, and they will be facing off with ...
May 02, 2012 |
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Triple play for liquid probing: Technical advance allows researchers to watch liquid surfaces interact
(Phys.org) -- An ingenious technique, developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, enables real-time examination of molecular-scale interactions on liquid surfaces. This novel creation ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Study: Female students wary of the engineering workplace
Why don’t more women enter the male-dominated profession of engineering? Some observers have speculated it may be due to the difficulties of balancing a demanding career with family life. Others have ...
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Earth Institute researchers develop interactive map of NYC's energy use
Midtown Manhattan is red hot; Greenpoint a cool yellow and beige. It’s all a matter of energy: A new interactive, color-coded map created by a team at Columbia’s engineering school allows viewers to pinpoint and comp ...
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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New technique lights up the creation of holograms
Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (Japan) have developed a unique way to create full-color holograms with the aid of surface plasmons.
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Report seeks to integrate microbes into climate models
The models used to understand how Earth's climate works include thousands of different variables from many scientific including atmospherics, oceanography, seismology, geology, physics and chemistry, but few take into consideration ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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PhET simulations provide interactive learning tools
(PhysOrg.com) -- What causes a balloon to stick to a sweater? How do microwaves heat coffee? How is electricity generated from a bar magnet?
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application
Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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