Sean O’Donnell is a member of the white fang club — which is to say that he’s one of a group of biologists whose been bitten by a venomous snake and lived to tell the […]
Category: Science & Technology
Virtual Reality Brings Students to the Crime Scene
A man breaks into a 28-year-old woman’s home and rapes her. When you arrive at the scene to investigate, you find the door unlocked, a roll of duct tape in the bedroom and the woman’s […]
ICYMI: Ghana’s Bird Population Plummets as Loggers Raze Rainforest
Ghana’s lush rainforests are some of the most beautiful — and rich in biodiversity — in the world. Until recently, nearly 200 species of birds have thrived in the shady understory layer between the canopy […]
It’s Not ALL Smoke and Mirrors: Going to the Movies With Visual Effects Pros
If you’ve ever wondered—perhaps even out loud, in the middle of a rather intense scene, in an exceedingly crowded movie theater—how the production crew pulled off a particularly visually stunning effect, now is your chance […]
Building a Video Game Showdown for Vets on CBS Sports Network’s ‘Triumph Games’
On Veterans Day, CBS Sports Network will unveil “Triumph Games” a seven-day competition pitting 12 military veterans head-to-head in challenges of mind and body. Among the challenges are a triathlon, an obstacle course, a car […]
Drexel Snapshot: Designing and Building Philly’s First Public Boathouse
During the summer, as part of Drexel’s Engineering Projects in Community Service program, students from Drexel’s College of Engineering worked with students from the community to design and build a public boathouse and a floating […]
Turning Social Media Data Streams into Interactive Art
Imagine this: you walk into your closet in the morning and a device on the wall notifies you that the weather is a bit blustery outside. So you put back the T-shirt you were planning […]
Drexel Snapshot: A New Way to Look at Research
This is an enhanced dual-overlay map showing more than 18,000 publications by 3,790 authors at Drexel University and the 68,263 references from which they draw information (click on the image to take a closer look). […]
Putting the Brook Trout Back in Brooktrout Lake
Once teeming with enough fish to earn its name, Brooktrout Lake – when surveyed in the 1980s – was found to be fishless. The lake, described in 1894 as a place where “crystal depths swarm […]
Quick Take: Facebook Adding ‘Dislike’ Button—Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
“I doubt it will cause [Facebook users] to start wantonly disliking pictures of their friends’ babies, dogs, cats and cooking experiments. I suspect it will mainly be used to express mild disapproval, or to express […]