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Innovation bytes: Video games and military usage

by Sara J. Martinez | Dec 5, 2011 | Education, National Security

How entertainment technology is helping service members and veterans through training, deployment and rehabilitation WASHINGTON — For one soldier, something as simple as rolling the dice in a game of Risk made the difference between a good and a bad day during...

Play responsibly: Guitar makers seek sustainable sound

by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 29, 2011 | Science + Technology

Next time you go to smash your guitar after a particularly rocking concert, realize that you may be destroying a section of a 250-year-old spruce tree, a rare cut of mahogany, or a slice of endangered Brazilian rosewood. Musical instruments don’t use much...

Panel: Experience enhances science, math teaching practices

by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 3, 2011 | Education, Science + Technology

WASHINGTON — Science, technology, engineering and math education in the United States should be improved not by changing the way it is taught, but by changing the way its teachers are educated, a panel of science professionals recommended to Congress on Thursday....

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by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 2, 2011 | Topics

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Orion spacecraft’s water landing test at NASA’s Langley Research Center

by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 2, 2011 | Science + Technology

Watch the second in a series of six Phase 1 water landing tests for NASA’s Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle. The data collected from these tests will be implemented in the final design of the spacecraft that will someday take astronauts to Mars.
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