Now, thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, Cool Science is expanding to include other Merrimack Valley cities and towns, the Worcester metropolitan area, Topeka, Kan., and the Kansas City metropolitan area, which includes Kansas City, Mo. That way, researchers can test whether it's equally effective in another region with different extreme weather concerns
"It's Cool Science on steroids," says Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier , associate professor of education and co-principal investigator on the grant
Cool Science began in 2012 as a research collaboration between Lohmeier, the late Assoc. Prof. of Education David Lustick and Bob Chen, a professor of oceanography who was just named interim dean of UMass Boston's School for the Environment. Stephen Mishol, an associate professor of art at UMass Lowell, joined the project first to help judge the artwork, and then later as a co-principal investigator.
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How to Cool a Planet With Extraterrestrial Dust - The New York Times
A study published Wednesday in Science Advances offered a compelling exception to that rule. A team of researchers led by Birger Schmitz, a nuclear physicist at Lund University in Sweden, found that a distant, ancient asteroid collision generated enough dust to cause an ice age long ago on Earth. The study lends new insight to ongoing efforts to address climate change
Earth is frequently exposed to extraterrestrial matter; 40,000 tons of the stuff settle on the planet every year, enough to fill 1,000 tractor-trailers! McKinnons give $3 million to expand science at SFI | Santa ...3 - million - expand - science -sfi Sonnet and Ian McKinnon are generous and long-time supporters of SFI science and education January 12, 2018 In one of the largest gifts in the nonprofit's history , Ian and Sonnet McKinnon have donated $3 million to expand fundamental research at the Santa Fe Institute .!! But 466 million years ago, a 93-mile-wide asteroid collided with an unknown, fast-moving object between Mars and Jupiter! Amazon contributing $3M to Seattle U's Center for Science ...www.geekwire.com ...3 ...science ...Amazon is making a $ 3 million contribution toward Seattle University's new Center for Science and Innovation — a push that will help the school expand opportunities in computer science and...!! The crash increased the amount of dust arriving on Earth for the next two million years by a factor of 10,000. Dr. Schmitz, Dr. Heck and their team found that the dust triggered cooling in Earth's atmosphere that led to an ice age.
Cool Jobs: Poop investigators | Science News for Students
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Introducing in fimo. This new scientific term describes experiments done on feces. The term, based on the Latin word fimus , meaning "dung," was introduced this past April in the journal Gastroenterology (GAS-troh-en-tur-OL-oh-gee)
Patricia Yang studies fluid mechanics — the science of moving fluids — in animals at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta! Alexandria Expands With C6M Buyout in Stanford Research Park finance.yahoo.com /news/alexandria- expands ...Alexandria Real Estate Equities ARE recently announced the buyout of 3160 Porter Drive, a 92,000 rentable square feet (RSF) redevelopment project in Stanford Research Park, for C6 million . The ...!! Coming from a family of scientists, "I knew what it was like to have a lab coat and work in a clean lab," she says. But she was looking for a different way to do science! Heffernans expand fellowships with additional $3-million ...expand ...3 - million -gift A new $ 3-million gift to the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering builds on their passion for entrepreneurship . This latest gift expands post-graduate fellowships and brings the Heffernans' giving to the Faculty to a remarkable $ 9.6 million .!! The answer came on a trip to the zoo. She accompanied her advisor, who was studying how animals urinate. "I thought, 'This is a fluid mechanics problem that I can solve,' At the same time," she notes, "I saw animals pooping and thought there were probably some similarities there, as well."
Keeping cool with quantum wells -- ScienceDaily
Consumers love portable electronics. But as smartphones, tablets, and laptops become smaller and more powerful, the possibility of overheating becomes an ever more pressing concern. Currently available fans are noisy, bulky, and have moving parts that can fail. Now, scientists at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo have introduced a new, solid-state solution made from semiconductors that could be easily made directly into smart phones or laptops.
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Cannabis Meets Biochemistry and Neuroscience In Entrepreneurial Business | KPCW
Cool Science Radio welcomes guest Andrew Mack, the founder of OLO, a modern day cannabis company based in Richmond, California. Recreational marijuana isn't legal in the great state of Utah but we wanted to shine a light on OLO's unique scientific approach to cannabis products. To go beyond simple strains, OLO has assembled a team of biochemists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and cannabis experts to apply their expertise to develop, analyze and extensively test new products.
Getting Ready for the 2019 Nobel Prizes | Inside Science
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(Inside Science) -- It's almost time for the world of science to turn its eyes to Sweden for the announcements of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry, and the excitement and speculation are building. On Oct. 7, Inside Science will distribute the first of several news stories related to this year's science Nobel Prizes. We will publish stories summarizing the science behind each prize soon after each announcement, followed by additional stories related to the prizes throughout the week
And we've already posted two stories as we prepare for next week. In The Face of the Average Science Nobel Prize Winner, Yuen Yiu used an online tool to make a composite visage for winners of each of the three prizes that we'll be covering. Take a look to see the (lack of) variation. In Nine Nobel Prize Predictions for 2019, our staff highlights three top contenders in each category -- from optogenetics, a light-based technique used to improve our understanding of the brain, to the detection of planets beyond our solar system.
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