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Feed SubscriptionAn Entertaining Way to Turn a Profit: Arizona Pro DJs
Will Curran turned his passion for entertaining and music into a successful one-stop shop business for teen events. Will Curran loves music. He also loves to entertain.
Read More »Crystal erbium compound offers superior optical properties, can enhance energy, computer, lighting technologies
Arizona State University researchers have created a new compound crystal material that promises to help produce advances in a range of scientific and technological pursuits.
Read More »No extraordinary effects from microwave and mobile phone heating
The effect of microwave heating and cell phone radiation on sample material is no different than a temperature increase, according to scientists from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, in Tempe, as published in a recent issue of EPJ B.
Read More »Gig.U Is Now in Session
The U.S. notoriously lags other countries when it comes to Internet speed. One recent report from Web analyst Akamai Technologies puts us in 14th place, far behind front-runner South Korea and also trailing Hong Kong, Japan and Romania, among other countries.
Read More »Knewton’s "Adaptive Learning" Technology Spreads to Tens of Thousands of Students at ASU, Penn State, SUNY, More
At the Venture Capital in Education Summit yesterday, Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , announced the first big partnerships that will have tens of thousands of students trying the adaptive learning platform he's been building for the past five years. What he calls a "data interoperability engine" promises to take any kind of educational content, break it down and present it to students at exactly the sequence and pace they need, while giving detailed feedback on performance to both students and professors. "We can classify students by ability level down to the concept,"
Read More »Star athlete ends career on fear of concussions
Arizona State University player Steven Threet leaves football; He says since 4th concussion he's endured headaches every day
Read More »Paul Davies: Physics Could Help Fight Cancer
“Only 10 percent of people die from primary tumors.
Read More »Trailblazing Leader: The First Woman to Run an Air Campaign
Meet Air Force Major General Margaret Woodward , Joint Force Air Component Commander for Operation Odyssey Dawn. Woodward, the commander of the German-based 17th Air Force, is in charge of the U.S. airstrikes in Libya and the first woman in U.S.
Read More »From One Physicist to Another: Lawrence Krauss Reflects on the Life and Work of Richard Feynman
Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from QUANTUM MAN: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (W. W
Read More »Book illuminates life, legacy of physicist Feynman
From childhood sweetheart to quantum electrodynamics, the life and scientific contributions of the legendary Richard Feynman, a physicist of mythic hero status, are given a new and stimulating perspective in a book by Arizona State University professor Lawrence M. Krauss.
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