Home

science research??????

Aug 24, 2007 by sam m | Posted in Other - Science

i am going to be enrolled in a 3 year science research class in my highschool. i was wondering if anyone has interesting areas of research. my first choice was testing the effects of cannabinoids on multiple sclerosis, but medicinal marijuana is illegal in NY. i am really interested in the central nervous system, but anything that deals with science would work.

There are few uninteresting areas of research. Lean toward what interests you. You'll be limited by the scope of the class, but not necessarily by the facilities of the school. No one will let you take apart their nervous system and play with it. But if there's a university nearby, even a small one, check out the faculty and see if anyone is doing research that would interest you. They might be willing to take you on as a volunteer. That was a great opportunity for me, and I even got to tell them a couple of things they hadn't thought of. It's probably your best chance for anything anatomical. Maybe there's even a research hospital nearby.

Science Research!?

Jul 29, 2008 by Violet | Posted in Homework Help

Science Research?
I'm a sophmore in highschool taking a 3 year course starting next year. I need to select a (specific) science topic to research over this period to be decided by the end of the summer. We must have articles selected on the topic as well. It's totally open - you can select what ever topic you'd like. The problem is - I don't even know where to start! I have access to different sorts of school based search engines, but I'm still kind of at a loss. I want to have an interesting topic, not one that everyone is going to do because our projects at the end of the 3 years will be submitted to the Intel Science Talent Search. I'm considering doing something concerning Behavioral Genetics, however it's a very popular topic right now - not to mention highly controversial. I could really use some help, any adivice would be appreciated.

We just had an earthquake here in California. I think something about earthquakes would be interesting. Perhaps predicitability or what actually causes them. Most people don't get the concept.

Dr. Kate Hudson is the expert and the "spokesperson" from the Cal Tech seismographic labs. She has her own website, just type in her name. She gives her email address on the website.

I'm sure she would answer any questions you have and/or direct you to good web sites.

Google Science Communication Fellows Workshop: Search/Research as a Literate Skill

Google Science Communication Fellows Workshop Search/Research as a Literacy Flip Presented by Daniel Russell, Consumer Experience Researcher, Google ...

Westinghouse Elevator at UH science & research building

Riding elevators at UH Science and Research construction at University of Houston, TX

Computer Science Research at Lawrence University.mov

Lawrence University students Sam Estrem and Colin Potts are working with Associate Professor of Computer Science Kurt Krebsbach to demonstrate new ...

New mathematical model aids Big Bang supercomputer research ...

by BJS

Scientists have made many discoveries about the origins of our 13 billion-year-old circle. But many orderly mysteries stay put. What precisely happened during the Big Bang, when straight away evolving earthly processes set the spot for gases to put up stars, planets and galaxies?

Now astrophysicists using supercomputers to simulate the Big Bang have a new precise avenue to unravel those mysteries, says Daniel Reynolds, associated professor of mathematics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Reynolds collaborated with astrophysicists at the University of California at San Diego as part of a Patriotic Science Grounds concoct to simulate cosmic reionization, the in unison a all the same from 380,000 years to 400 million years after the corner was born.

Together the scientists built a computer exemplar of events during the "Base Ages" when the first stars emitted emission that altered the abutting situation, enabling sunlight to unfashionable through. The conspire tested its example on two of the largest existing NSF supercomputers, "Ranger" at the University of Texas at Austin and "Kraken" at the University of Tennessee.

The new precise paragon closely couples a myriad of somatic processes remaining during cosmic reionization, such as gas motion, emanation transport, chemical kinetics and gravitational acceleration due to act clustering and brown consequence dynamics, Reynolds says. The key characteristic of the miniature that differentiates it from competing industry is that the researchers focused on enforcing a very orderly coupling in the representation between the unconventional solid processes.

"By forcing the computational methods to tensely tie these processes together, our new replica allows us to sire simulations that are exceptionally unerring, numerically permanent and computationally scalable to the largest supercomputers at one's disposal," Reynolds says.

Reynolds' exact research was published as "Self-In accord Settlement of Cosmological Shedding-Hydrodynamics and Chemical Ionization" in the "Scrapbook of Computational Physics."

Read more...