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Engage students with investigations that explore the science behind real-world problems.
Review previous episodes of this popular PBS series on HHMI's Online Companion to the show.
Learn about groundbreaking work in the epidemiology of cholera at BioInteractive's virtual museum.
Listen as former HHMI president Tom Cech interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson from PBS and the Hayden Planetarium about his career looking at the sky.
In 1855, surgeon John Snow, using a simple map, identified contaminated water as a source of cholera—marking a milestone in epidemiological history. More recently, HHMI Investigator Mercedes Pascual used mathematical models to reveal that complex climate patterns influence the incidence of infectious disease epidemics. Read the May 2009 HHMI Bulletin article to learn how Pascual discovered that cholera epidemics in Bangladesh vary in accordance with sea-surface temperatures 10,000 miles away in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The image below, which shows the correlation between sea surface temperature anomalies in January and cholera cases in September in Matlab, Bangladesh, helps demonstrate her findings.
At Cool Science, we entertain questions of all kinds (Ask a Scientist). We encourage young scientists to get their hands dirty-virtually (Curious Kids). We offer high school and college students new approaches to cutting-edge science topics (BioInteractive). We provide educators with a host of innovative resources they can use in their classrooms (For Educators). We reveal what it takes to become a scientist (Becoming a Scientist). And we showcase an undergraduate science discovery project that may one day change the way science is taught (SEA).
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Illustration: Climate Research, Vol 36: 131–140m 2008
The Science Education Alliance adds another 12 institutions to its membership.
Watch the 2008 Holiday Lectures on Science. On-Demand Webcast now available.
HHMI researchers track down the genes responsible for establishing the characteristic swirl of a snail shells.
If hands-on is the way to teach science, hands-on in a real scientist's lab has got to be ultimate, right?