University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Given the difficult-to-digest subject matter in many STEM classrooms, educators have customarily relied on traditional lecture-based educational methods where they spend class time walking through content and then assign homework problems to supplement that learning. Liberal arts classrooms, on the other hand, often invert that structure. They task students with learning the material from a

Scientists have devised a technique to sort out which heart cells can replicate and which cannot, a critical step toward treatments that may one day help the heart heal itself after injury. The method, published in the journal Circulation Research, removes a significant roadblock to developing ways to regrow healthy cardiac muscle tissue, a feat not currently

UBC research shows world’s monitored seabird populations have dropped 70 per cent since the 1950s, a stark indication that marine ecosystems are not doing well. Michelle Paleczny, a UBC master’s student and researcher with the Sea Around Us project, and co-authors compiled information on more than 500 seabird populations from around the world, representing 19

A failsafe track switch designed to eradicate a 200-year-old problem on the railway has been created by engineers at Loughborough University. The breakthrough technology known asRepoint is a robust and reliable points mechanism, which will improve safety, reduce maintenance costs and boost capacity on the railways. Supported by the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board

New Zealand’s largest online social gaming company SmallWorlds has raised $38,000 for earthquake relief by selling limited edition ‘virtual goods.’ 6197 players of the game from around the world purchased a special cape for their game character to wear to show their support, with all proceeds going to the International Red Cross. This is the

GPs could soon offer their patients free smartphone apps to help with managing health conditions The Department of Health says its initiative is the “next step” in the drive to give patients more control over their own health. The apps could help diabetics keep a check on their blood sugar and patients monitor their own blood

Now you can lease a cell phone and sell back your used clothes to the original brand that made them. Are we finally moving towards a zero-waste economy? The circular economy, in which companies move from a system of waste to one of reuse, has been gaining in popularity for years. A new report claims that

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in targeting and killing a single bacterial species (E. coli) without causing harm to the surrounding community of commensal bacteria in a simulated small intestinal microbiome using a cocktail of viruses (bacteriophages). The study proved that this approach is as effective in killing the targeted E. coli

At altitudes of just a few hundred feet, they can peer down on enemy troops below while remaining practically invisible. What amounts to serious scientific research could, at first glance, be mistaken for students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville letting off a little stress with radio-controlled helicopters. On a recent sunny, humid day,