Due to a power outage, all Monday, Oct. 7 classes on North Campus & in Durgin Hall are canceled effective immediately! Cool Science Expands with $3 Million NSF Grant - uml.edu www.uml.edu /News/stories/2019/ Cool - Science -Grant.aspx For seven years, the Cool Science program has shown that children's artwork is effective in teaching adults in the Lowell area about climate science. 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 .!! Check National Grid website for power outage updates.
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For seven years, the Cool Science program has shown that children's artwork is effective in teaching adults in the Lowell area about climate science.
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.
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Cool Jobs: Poop investigators | Science News for Students
Karen Chin studies fossilized feces to learn what dinosaurs ate and how they interacted with their environment.
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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! Cool Science program expands with $3 million NSF grant ...cool - ...expands - 3 - ...grant For seven years, the Cool Science program has shown that children's artwork is effective in teaching adults in the Lowell area about climate science. 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 .!! 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! 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 .!! 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."
Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
RNA has been synthesized in conditions that may have resembled those on the early Earth. Credit: Alamy
Now, Carell's team has shown how all nucleobases could form under one set of conditions: two separate ponds that cycle through the seasons, going from wet to dry, from hot to cold, and from acidic to basic, and with chemicals occasionally flowing from one pond to the other! Alexandria Expands With T6M 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 T6 million . The ...!! The researchers first let simple molecules react in hot water and then allowed the resulting mix to cool down and dry up, forming a residue at the bottom that contained crystals of two organic compounds.
They then added water back, and one of the compounds dissolved and was washed away into another reservoir! 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 absence of that water-soluble molecule allowed the other compound to undergo further reactions. The researchers then mixed the products again, and their reactions formed the nucleobases.
As the climate changes, is geoengineering worth the risks? | Science News
"We should investigate geoengineering in case we can't change our behaviors fast enough to ward off the worst of climate change," Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang notes on his campaign website. Yang's campaign, alone among the candidates, proposes funding large-scale government research into massive climate intervention projects such as giant solar radiation-reflecting space mirrors or seeding the ocean with iron to promote blooms of carbon-sequestering algae.
Not everyone is sure this is a good idea. When it comes to ocean seeding, for example, "there is considerable uncertainty and disagreement … whether this would do more harm than good," says David Karl, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Vast algal blooms could alter the geochemistry of the deep ocean, he adds. "It is with great caution that anyone should be deliberating altering the nutrient balance of the sea for any reason." Similarly, proposals to tinker with incoming solar radiation to cool the planet might significantly shift weather patterns and negatively affect crops.
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Getting Ready for the 2019 Nobel Prizes | Inside Science
Beginning early Monday morning, Inside Science will cover the three most anticipated science prizes of the year.
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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. We've compiled all of our Nobel Prize-related coverage here .
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.
Climate and Energy Experts Debate How to Respond to a Warming World - The New York Times
As energy demand rises around the globe, so does concern about climate change. The science seems clear: Ninety-seven percent or more of scientists active in the field are convinced the climate has been warming over the past century, the pace of warming is accelerating and human activities — particularly the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels — are a primary cause.
Many of these scientists also concur that the best option to mitigate the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change is to reduce the use of fossil fuels and speed up the transition to renewable forms of energy, such as solar and wind.
We asked experts in the energy and environmental fields whether they concur on the need for an urgent transition to alternative energy. And if so, how the energy industry can make that happen quickly enough to matter. We also asked energy executives how their companies would navigate such a fundamental change. The responses have been edited and condensed.
This is such a great point. If every single climate activist, scientist and communicator boycotted cars, planes, el… https://t.co/ZRGsMcpNSw KetanJ0 (from Oslo, Norway (via Australia)) Sun Oct 06 13:01:51 +0000 2019
An I'm just gonna preempt the complainers. No, it does not in any way take away from the cool science represented b… https://t.co/bRRYIGyvBa mbeisen (from 37° 14′ 6″ N, 115° 48′ 40″ W) Mon Oct 07 14:08:02 +0000 2019
one thing that is kinda cool about how our bodies sense oxygen is how conserved this is across species. another thi… https://t.co/cCiDQaGMAo meghas Mon Oct 07 15:34:05 +0000 2019
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