Dr. Crystal Lantz is a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Elizabeth Quinlan at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a neuroscientist who studies how we see and how different experiences effect vision. (I’m not sure if you need this part) When I first saw a drawing of a brain cell, a …
Summer is almost here. If you are worried about the summer slump and already looking for ideas to keep your kids’ minds sharp and curious all through summer, STEM maker challenges are the way to go. These challenges are fun to do and help keep the kids engaged in scientific inquiry, creative thinking and problem …
Today we know that the continents used to be connected together as Pangaea. Just look at Brazil on a map, and it’s not hard to imagine it snuggled up into the curve of Western Africa. But in the 1920’s, geologists thought this idea was crazy. At this time, a young woman named Marie Tharp started …
Descending into the depths in the submersible Nadir off St. Peter and St. Paul’s Rocks. Credit: Novus Select Growing up in the Caribbean, I spent a lot of time at the beach with my family. It quickly became clear to me that there was so much we didn’t understand about the oceans, so I decided …
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