NASA has selected Nicola Fox as the new associate administrator for its Science Mission Directorate, who oversees more than 100 important missions and projects.
Fox previously headed up NASA's Heliophysics Division. In her previous role, one of the missions Fox oversaw was the Parker Solar Probe , the NASA spacecraft that orbits the sun closer than any previous craft.
Harvard physicist in search for 'alien artefact' that fell from space - Science News
Physicist Avi Loeb is pumping $1.5 million into an expedition to Papua New Guinea to search for the interstellar object which crashed into the ocean in 2014
A Pacific expedition is being planned by a prominent Harvard physicist to find what he believes to be an alien artefact which has fallen from space into the ocean.
Helping students understand the Nature of Science
The Nature of Science is what distinguishes science from other methods of knowing such as art, philosophy, or social science. The Nature of Science includes understanding that while scientific knowledge is based on empirical evidence, it is also subject to change based on new evidence.
There are many ways that students can learn about the Nature of Science, but research on student learning has shown that students develop this understanding best by actually "doing science" in the same way scientists do.
Ohio higher-ed bill would require instructors to teach 'both sides' on climate change - Ohio ...
Ohio college and university instructors could be barred from teaching climate science without also including false or misleading counterpoints under a sprawling higher education bill that received its first hearing last week.
The bill also includes provisions for annual reviews and reports, requirements for "intellectual diversity" in recruiting invited speakers, disciplinary sanctions for interfering with that diversity, a prohibition against faculty strikes, and more.
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