Many students have been taught that prepositions are never left behind a sentence or a question. However, there is no rule which states this. There are some cases where we need to put a preposition at the end of a sentence or a...

Welcome to our video series titled "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today.



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The financial crisis that ran from 2007 to 2009 has been called a "Minsky Moment," meaning it offered a much-needed reminder to all economists of Hyman Minsky's neglected dictum that "capitalism is essentially a financial system."...

A University of Florida team is starting to gather real-time data on the impact of waves and rising water on bridges during hurricanes. Unlike studies that rely on tests in wave laboratories, this research will use data...

New paper proposes megalodon may have gone extinct due to supernova explosion

Learn how to pronounce 'university' in this word of the week. Look out for the Flap T!

Dr. Bryan Ripley Crandall is Director of the Connecticut Writing Project and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions at Fairfield University. His scholarly work includes the teaching of writing,...

In this week's episode we discover a protein that could someday eliminate malaria, lear about microbes battling it out in Antarctica, explore super Wi-Fi that uses UHF channels and virtually unwrap a 1500-year-old scroll.

Scientists have found that the flu vaccine is less effective for people with excess weight. <br/>

Michael A. Pope works in Department of Defense schools for military families. He is a middle school educator at Zama Middle High School, Yamato, Japan, with multiple certification in middle school Science, History, Mathematics, Gifted...

Rebekah Modrak is a writer and interventionist artist whose artworks resist consumer culture. Re Made Co. (remadeco.org) poses as an online “company” to recreate actual company Best Made Co. (seller of $350 luxury hand-painted axes) by...

Matt is an animatronics expert, who works on the Star Wars films. In his spare time he builds things like this hexapod robot. He explains some of the challenges he faced in building it. This video could be used to prompt a lesson on...

Voltage to Electric Field in Three Dimensions

New research from the University of Tasmania has found that seabirds are becoming smaller in size due to their consumption of plastic.

How does diversity arise? Does it make a system more productive? How does it impact the overall strength of a system? Does it make a system prone to large events? These are some of the questions Scott Page, professor of complex systems,...

In NSF Science Now 59, we explore using virtual reality for memory recall; teenage emotion overload, and finally, we examine the role dopamine plays in forming episodic memories. Check it out!