The BPP program, which is operating on a minimal budget, now has more than 800 online volunteers, ranging from ornithologists to amateur bird watchers to ordinary citizens looking to translate a piece of science history.
Gina Kolata looks at the science and history of America's love affair with exercise.
At her best, Ms Sobel blends together anecdote, science and history in a confection of elegant prose.
Multimedia mobile apps would enhance geography, science, history, cooking and so much more.
Museums in all 50 states, covering a wide range of topics, from art to science to history, will be participating in Museum Day Live!
In order to ensure the consistency of work, UNESCO created an International Task Force whose members represent different disciplines such as information science, history, anthropology and musicology.
Backed by their powerful subject associations, science, history, mathematics, languages and other subjects arrogate to themselves as much compulsory curricular time as they can manage, forcing everything else to the margins.
All three new tests will mirror the old GED in many ways: They will be five to eight hours long and cover the basic subjects of reading, writing, math, science and history.
With the support of teachers and the community, Van Bokkelen Elementary families have healthier lifestyles, students have strengthened their math, science, history and other academic skills, and the school has become the hub of the community.
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"Participation with environmental science and natural history has a long history, especially in Britain, long before it was termed 'citizen science', " project leader Dr Helen Roy, an ecologist from the CEH, told BBC News.
The Dana shares the same London street block at the Science and Natural History institutions.
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He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and in history from the University of Michigan.
The price makes the 14 May launch the single most valuable flight for pure science in the history of European space activity.
Derren Brown - The Experiments also won best entertainment, while Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret was named best science and natural history.
But the rewards of this book come when Mr Whalley ventures further than his two feet into literature, science and social history.
We may now be at a new stage in the history of science books.
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It has a long history of science and pioneering drug discovery and vaccine development.
It encompasses museums, shows and fairs and work to promote public understanding of the history of science.
His book was also shortlisted for the Dingle Prize, which honours publications about the history of science.
He's the author of Cancer Wars and a professor of history and science at Pennsylvania State University.
This approach has proved particularly fruitful in astronomy, a science with a long history of amateur contributions.
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But as is often the case with the history of science, the truth is a lot more complicated.
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These range from popular preschool programs such as Sesame Street to entire cable channels devoted to history and science.
This is an incredible treasure trove, both for students of current research and lovers of the history of science.
Hence, there is a need to teach the (whole) history of science rigorously and vigorously in the general curriculum.
Einstein, obviously one of the greatest creative lions in the history of science, was also a keen risk taker.
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To be sure, there have always been religious backlashes against science, all throughout history and in virtually every faith.
Over nine months, Celera has spearheaded one of the great discoveries in the history of science, the sequencing of the human genome.
Mr Gribbin's is an unashamedly old-fashioned approach to the history of science.
Last week, at Oxford's Museum of the History of Science Lemaire broke his own record for the task, taking it down to 77.99 seconds.
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