Do you think cheerleaders are airheads? Think again. Many of the women you see dancing on the sidelines during games also have degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
We all know what heat feels like, but what does it look like? Armed with disposable cameras, a group of seventh-graders in Phoenix set out to document the summer heat. (photo by Gissel Marquez)
At ASU, Bert Jacobs studies how to fight viruses with biological tools. But every summer, he travels to Africa to fight one virus--HIV--with a different weapon: education.
To receive a U.S. patent, an invention must be considered new, useful, and non-obvious. You cannot patent inventions that are already widely used or described, that have no useful purpose, or that would be obvious to anyone with ordinary skill in that art.
In 1492, the Niña, Pinta, and the Santa Maria set sail during the peak of the hurricane season. Amazingly, Christopher Columbus and his small fleet did not come across a single hurricane. How could that happen?