by Admin | Nov 12, 2020 | Articles
How can STEM education provide ‘light-bulb’ moments? Dr Liz Johnson is a STEM education specialist based at Southern Research in Alabama, USA. She implements an outreach programme that works to enhance 6th-12th grade STEM education and inspire young people to embrace...
by Admin | Nov 10, 2020 | Articles
Helping low income students become professional scientists The Physical Sciences Scholars Program has been established to help chemistry, geology and physics students at Bucknell University in the US make the transition to professional scientist. The programme is...
by Admin | Nov 6, 2020 | Articles
Modernising machine memory Our devices store certain data temporarily in hardware caches, which allow data to be accessed faster. However, the system does not work well for emerging applications and Professor Xiaochen Guo, of Lehigh University in the US, believes it...
by Admin | Oct 30, 2020 | Articles
The big shake: designing tall timber buildings that are resilient to earthquakes Six universities are involved in a collaborative research project to introduce a special type of resilient timber building across the USA. The NHERI TallWood project aims to prove that...
by Admin | Oct 28, 2020 | Articles
Mathematics: plane and simple Dr Sam Ballas is based at Florida State University in the US. His research focus is on geometry and surfaces, which is a branch of mathematics. Sam’s passion for the subject shows that although maths can be challenging, it can also be...
by Admin | Oct 23, 2020 | Articles
How augmented reality can help you learn trigonometry For many students, trigonometry is a challenging subject to learn as it requires strong spatial-visualisation abilities. Alongside a team based at Jackson State University in the US, Dr Wenya Xu makes the teaching...
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