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• Drilling for Hot Rocks: Google Sinks Cash into Advanced Geothermal Technology
  Scientific American
  
  For $1 billion over the next 40 years, the U.S. could develop 100 gigawatts of electricity generation that emits no air pollution and pumps out power to the grid even more reliably than coal-fired power plants, according to scientists at the Massachusetts...  [view full summary]
  For $1 billion over the next 40 years, the U.S. could develop 100 gigawatts of electricity generation that emits no air pollution and pumps out power to the grid even more reliably than coal-fired power plants, according to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now Google.org—the charitable wing of the search engine giant—has chipped in nearly $11 million for this renewable resource: so-called geothermal power, or tapping the Earth's heat to make electricity.
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• New U.S. Research Center to Study Education Technology
  Education Week (requires registration)
  
  Congress has authorized a new federal research center that will be charged with helping to develop innovative ways to use digital technology at schools and in universities. The National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies...  [view full summary]
  Congress has authorized a new federal research center that will be charged with helping to develop innovative ways to use digital technology at schools and in universities. The National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies was included as part of the latest reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, approved last month.
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• Tongue's Sixth "Taste" Discovered—Calcium
  MSNBC
  
  The capability to taste calcium has now been discovered in mice. With these rodents and humans sharing many of the same genes, the new finding suggests that people might also have such a taste.
  The capability to taste calcium has now been discovered in mice. With these rodents and humans sharing many of the same genes, the new finding suggests that people might also have such a taste.
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• Six in 10 Minnesota Kids Come Up Short in Science
  Minneapolis Star Tribune
  
  Minnesota has long enjoyed a reputation as a nationwide leader in science education, but the results of a new test could cast a shadow on that image. Only about four out of 10 Minnesota students can be labeled "proficient" in science, according to results...  [view full summary]
  Minnesota has long enjoyed a reputation as a nationwide leader in science education, but the results of a new test could cast a shadow on that image. Only about four out of 10 Minnesota students can be labeled "proficient" in science, according to results released by the Minnesota Department of Education.
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