I'm fascinated with the advances in metamaterials, which have largely focused on man-made nanotech materials. Peacock feathers and butterfly wings are some naturally occurring biological metamaterials.



I'm wondering about biological acoustic metamaterials. Could toothed whales' fatty melon lipid structures actually be an… Continue

I've reserved at booth at the San Diego Science Festival Expo http://www.sdsciencefestival.com/ Apr 4, 2009 to conduct an experiment called "The Science of Happiness" http://cosmosresearch.ning.com/forum/topics/the-san-diego-happiness. The Expo is expected to draw at least 30,000 young people to 250 hands-on science activities and seeks to increase the level of science awareness in our younger generation. The Cosmos Research Center is a children's science center, its Galactic Headquarters are… Continue

A recently published National Academy of Science report says:



"Each year, tens of millions of Americans, young and old, choose to learn about science in informal ways -- by visiting museums and aquariums, attending after-school programs, pursuing personal hobbies, and watching TV documentaries, for example. There is abundant evidence that these programs and settings, and even everyday experiences… Continue

Darwin taught us all about the survival of the fittest - the "fitness function" by which life has evolved over the past 4 billion years or so. However, we are the first generations of the first species to reach a point of intelligence that we can understand and affect our own evolution. This is not your grandfather's evolution. The birth control pill in the 60's allowed us shift our species' hormones and triggered a sexual revolution. Our understanding of DNA and the human genome… Continue

The Willow Grove Elementary School in Santa Luz (Poway school district) had a Family Science Night Nov 14, 2009 that drew about 750 people to 8 tables of hands-on science experiments.



Lead by Event organizer Dr. Tanya Moreno, PTA Chair Zoom Duong, and Principal Cindy De Clerc:



We had tables the physics of spinning chairs, dropping balls, extracting DNA, aerodynamics, polymers, fluorescence, a microscopic look at frogs eggs and embryos, and of course,… Continue