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On board Germany's Science Express (BBC Video)
Germany is using a specially modified exhibition train to showcase science and get young people across the country interested in science.
Learn the problems of food distribution
Play a game that teaches you all about food aid distribution. Each mission represents a part of the process of delivering food aid to an area in crisis. The final mission shows you how food aid can help people rebuild their lives in the years following a disaster.
Solve Puzzles for Science
Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.
WorldWide Telescope
WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.
The International Science Shop Network
Science Shops are small entities that carry out scientific research in a wide range of disciplines – usually free of charge and – on behalf of citizens and local civil society.
One giant leap for 'teddy-nauts'
Teddies were lofted into the stratosphere by Cambridge school children as part of a science project.
Indian satellite captured by Moon
India is well on the way to joining the select group of nations to place a spacecraft on the moon.
Seabed archaeology goes virtual
People will soon be able to operate their own virtual submersibles to explore hidden treasures at deep underwater archaeological sites.
SciVee
A site for sharing and posting science related videos. Enjoy!
The FQXi Inaugural Essay Contest
Write an essay on the theme: "THE NATURE OF TIME."
Brother, can you spare a galactic classification?
"Your job is very simple! All you need to do is look out for the features that mark out spiral and elliptical galaxies. In fact, as you're a human and not a computer, most galaxies should be easy to classify since they're obviously spirals or obviously ellipticals."
Help examine the "lost" JFK files
The Dallas News invites readers to examine a new batch of documents relating to John F. Kennedy.
Project Budburst
Join us in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your area through Project BudBurst! This national field campaign targets native tree and flower species across the country. With your help, we will be compiling valuable environmental and climate change information around the United States.
Science on a budget
Microscopes made from bamboo bring biology into focus
Launch your own space mission
An experiment can be flown into space, recovered, and provided back to young experimenters for as little as US$2000.
Can you write a better NASA slogan?
NASA recently changed its slogan in an attempt to better articulate it's role for the American people. WIRED magazine wants to know what YOU think the new slogan should be.
Science videos
ScienceHack is a video search engine for science videos.
WIKISKY
The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information about different space objects and astrophysical facts.
Cables to lay foundation for deep sea observatory
More than 900 kilometres of fibre-optic cable is about to become the backbone of the first real-time, cabled ocean observatory.
Radar reveals vast medieval Cambodian city: study
A medieval settlement surrounding Angkor, the one-time capital of the illustrious Khmer empire which flourished between the ninth and 14th centuries, covered a 3,000 square kilometer area. Pictures here
Apollo mission archives now digitized and online
Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and creating an online digital archive of all the original Apollo flight films. Through this online interface, users may browse through the archive and download any of the images.
The downside of diversity
A Harvard professor's research suggests that diversity can 'bring out the turtle is all of us' and that it may work to reduce civic engagement. The work is definitely worth a discussion about the study itself and how the issues it raises might be mitigated.
The Reading Experience Database
A database containing as much information as possible about what British people read, where and when they read it and what they thought of it will form an invaluable resource for researchers of book history, cultural studies, sociology and family history, to name but a few. You can participate by filling in a form.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range of human endeavor that exemplify the trimtab principle. Trimtabs demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change. Doing more with less.
Carbonated drinks industry and C02 production
Has anyone ever calculated how much C02 is released into the atmosphere via carbonated drinks? There are very few places left where one cannot buy a can of soda, and we know that global production of fizzy drinks is considerable. Does that translate into significant amounts of C02 release, both in terms of the dissolved gas in the drink itself and the manufacture and transport of same?
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Volunteers sought for 520-day Mars flight simulation
How good are you at staying sane? Does 520 days in a simulated Mars expedition module with five other crew members sound like a challenge? Then go for it, but beware, there are thousands of others who think they can make the grade too - and this isn't even a TV show, this is a real ESA project. Scientific experience, and a command of English and Russian are required.
Now you too can review patents
Help the US Patent Office find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications.
Face Research
FaceResearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the traits people find attractive in faces and voices.
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