NYU students are trying new ways to put science on your lap. The online magazine Scienceline’s motto is “the shortest distance between you and science.” Now, with the release of its brand new iPad app, that distance just got a lot shorter.

Graduate students at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (full disclosure, I’m one of them) (Ed: Lena was a Spring 2011 intern) created the iPad app in their free time this past summer. The app displays 16 stories from Scienceline and is also packed with multimedia features designed especially for the iPad format, from slideshows to ti...