DailyDirt: Looking For Science Projects...

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Thu, Jan 26th 2012 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Lots of companies are trying to encourage budding scientists to test out their wacky ideas. We've covered some of the more well-known contests before, but here are a few not-as-widely-publicized challenges for young scientists out there.

BioCurious and Assay Depot have a opened up a challenge asking for testable hypotheses and research plans that could be tested at a community laboratory or posted on Assay Depot's online marketplace for scientific research. A 1-2 page proposal is due by April 15th, 2012, and winners will be selected in May. [url]
The American Chemistry Council recently stopped accepting submissions for videos that explain how chemistry can help create energy solutions. Science geeks might want to make friends with more videographers for other contests like this... [url]
The YouTube Space Lab was looking for some suggestions for space experiments to be done on the International Space Station. The winners will be announced on Feb 21st, and the experiments will be streamed on YouTube when they're performed. [url]
To discover more interesting science-related stuff, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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Filed Under: challenges, contests, international space station, research, science
Companies: american chemistry council, assay depot, biocurious, youtube

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Anonymous Coward, 26 Jan 2012 @ 5:42pm

NASA has been trying to crowdsource space experiments for DECADES...
NASA's been asking kids for science experiment ideas to put into space for decades, and it makes me think that there's a surplus of experimental time on space stations... why else would they allow useless kid experiments to be done by highly trained astronauts? Where is all this research published? The journal of cute kid ideas?
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ced1106 (profile), 26 Jan 2012 @ 5:50pm

BioCurious Meetup Group
Here's the link to the BioCurious Meetup group, which includes their direct URL: http://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/
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abc gum, 26 Jan 2012 @ 6:31pm

Re: NASA has been trying to crowdsource space experiments for DECADES...
"why else would they allow useless kid experiments to be done by highly trained astronauts? Where is all this research published? The journal of cute kid ideas?"

This may be incorrect, but I will assume you are serious.

Why is it that you think only adults have original, creative and worthwhile thoughts? Do you have any empirical evidence to support this claim? If so, please share, I'm sure everyone would be interested in your presentation.
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Michael Ho (profile), 26 Jan 2012 @ 11:34pm

Re: NASA has been trying to crowdsource space experiments for DECADES...
I remember NASA asking for project ideas in high school... I think it would be really cool if NASA kept all the submissions somewhere -- not only so that they didn't get the same experiments submitted every year, but also so that future students could build off the shoulders of [giants?] other teenagers....
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 26 Jan 2012 @ 11:50pm

Scientific Theories: They Say You Can�t Prove A Negative ...
... but I�ve never come across a proof of that.
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