From Rawstory: https://bit.ly/2H2FU2w This link is no longer available, please see the Phys.org story on plastic-consuming bacteria! https://phys.org/news/2016-03-newly-bacteria-plastic-bottles.html

From RESET Volunteer Rich Repplier: It’s not generally known, but two speakers can be connected together without any electronics or an energy source of any kind, and the result is a telephone. Whichever speaker is spoken into, generates electricity that drives the other speaker (which converts the electricity back into voice). 5th-graders love talking to…

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Big news: evidence that there’s liquid water on Mars “right now” https://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8384337/mars-water-liquid-curiosity    

Report from RESET Volunteer Beverly Yett: The two things the students seemed to be most excited about were the facial reconstruction and what they called the bird beak experiment.  This was a bit of a diversion for me but I wanted to demonstrate both biodiversity and adaptive changes to the environment. The students made “cootie catchers” a simple origami form…

Volunteer Leanora Hernandez responds to an inquiry from Volunteer Bob Hauptman about this past semester’s Curiologie program at Shaw Center City public Charter School in NW DC, below. If we have a Saturday meeting with a full class of 20+ students, we usually break the kids up into five groups of 5-7 students with 1-2…