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You may have seen the image above floating around recently. On first glance, you might have thought it was a smudge on your screen, or an image that wouldn’t fully load. While the photo may look unassuming, it is one of the most remarkable scientific feats of our generation. What you see is an image that many believed to be impossible to produce – a supermassive black hole. It represents the culmination of decades of scientific aspirations and years of collaboration among more than 200 international scientists working on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Since Einstein turned physics on its...

Since I visit a lot of places when I am researching for this blog, staying up-to-date, and feeding my curiosity, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of those resources with you so that you could maybe find another place on this enormous internet to make your life a little more interesting and educational.

While us at GSC love to bring you news on all the exciting things going on in the field of science, our aim as a company is to make science learning more fun and beneficial for both students and teachers alike. That is why we also take a deep interest in the field of education. Through my research into education’s ongoing evolution, I have written about phenomenon-based learning, adding “art” to the classic STEM framework, and how the engineering design process can be integrated into science education. For this week’s blog, I want to write about two new (to me)...

There is so much that we don’t know about the phenomenon of life. As someone who likes to imagine what might be out there in the stars, it’s easy for me to get wrapped up in dreams of alien life or other inspiring sci-fi ideas. More than a couple of my blogs in the past have included stories that sparked hope for finding alien life (read "Lake on Mars and Ancient Worms," "Exciting Advances in Biology, and Thoughts on Futurism," and "NASA's Latest Mars Discoveries and Technology's Role in the Lives of Children"). All this dreaming sometimes makes me overlook...

And we’re back! The end of the year was quite a busy time for me, and writing for this blog had to be pushed to the back burner. But the year is new and I’m ready to jump back into the blogging waters. For our first post back, I wanted to write about the crazy stories in science that caught my eye in the last three months (don’t think I stopped paying attention!). So, without taking up any more of you time, let’s see what you might have missed in the back-quarter of 2018 so that you’re all caught up...