Author Archives: Amanda Leigh Mascarelli

Science fairs: Teaching students to think like scientists

By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / October 5, 2011
Samantha Rowland

If you grew up learning that science is a class where you memorize clunky, four-syllable words and follow instructions straight out of the lab manual, raise your hand. That’s just the kind of thinking that Len Kenyon is working to …

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An enemy in the cave

By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / June 7, 2011
Most of the little brown bats in this photo are dead from white-nose syndrome. This Lackawanna County, Pa., mine is one of many sites in the United States and Canada contaminated with the disease.

Bats under attack from a fungus send scientists searching for clues to solve a deadly mystery

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A very good blast from the past

By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / October 27, 2010

And into the future: New, cool stuff that lasers can do

Posted in Physics