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Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
Publikováno v:
Science. 363:1382-1385
The prized assets of the remote Nilpena cattle station in Townsville, Australia, aren9t actually cattle: They9re fossils, the weird forms of Earth9s first multicellular creatures, which lie exposed and motionless on the hillside like some open-air di
Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
Publikováno v:
Science.
Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
How were Ned Kelly's bones finally identified? What makes cockroaches some of the most successful creatures on the planet? Could some obscure bacteria finally rid the world of dengue fever? How did infant reflux become the disease of the moment? From
Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
The year 2001 marked more than just the beginning of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey, it marked the beginning of the genome era. That was the year scientists first read the 3 billion letters of DNA that make up the human genome. This was followed by
Publikováno v:
American Educational Research Journal. 33:261-295
This article explores the way in which scientific literacy has been defined, justified, and operationalized in current proposals for science education reform. We argue that, although the vision of scientific literacy reflected in reform proposals is
Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
Publikováno v:
Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 33:345-368
Interest in including ideas about the nature of science in instruction and research has led to the realization that, in addition to developing courses which offer students experience with science practice, it is important to understand the ways in wh
The impact of scienceware and foundations on students' attitudes towards science and science classes
Autor:
Steven J. Stratford, Elizabeth Finkel
Publikováno v:
Journal of Science Education and Technology. 5:59-67
In this paper, we describe changes in students' ideas about science classes, attitudes about science, and motivations for studying science, in a classroom designed to support projectbased science learning. Using a survey designed to provide a measure
Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
Publikováno v:
Science. 292:624-626
Despite a tide of data suggesting that mitochondria are primary in triggering programmed cell death, a small minority of researchers argues that the primary apoptosis signals route directly to enzymes called caspases without first involving the mitoc
Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
Publikováno v:
Science. 290:255-257
Academic scientists are hoping that two new reports calling for increased funding of research and education and an improved climate for commercializing new technology will finally boost an R&D budget that has been stagnant since 1996. One report argu
Autor:
Elizabeth Finkel
Publikováno v:
Science. 286:2256-2258
BIOMEDICINEThe notion that drugs and radiation kill cancer cells by causing them to self-destruct has guided drug searches for the past few years. But some cancer experts aren't convinced that this is the case, at least not for solid tumors such as c