SCIENCE

Expand Sky and Space Weekends at Museum of Discovery and Science Kids can suit-up for an otherworldly adventure during MODS’ Sky and space Weekends. Learn rocket basics, build a LEGO® moon base, discover space station secrets and take a cosmic journey in the MODS planetarium. For young astronauts (ages 0-6), craft a spacecraft and create a moon phase necklace.
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2 years ago Read more at The Boca Raton Observer

Severe Weather Awareness Day will be held at the Science Spectrum & OMNI Theater on Saturday, Mar. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Activities will include hands-on weather experiments for kids of all ages, live weather science demonstrations with electricity and lightning simulators. Storm Chasing and Emergency response vehicles will be on-site and available for all to see. The National Weather Service (NWS) office that serves the South Plains area will also be in attendance
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The afternoon conference talk on Thursday addressed the shift in contemporary science doc filmmaking away from overt didacticism. The panel brought together Jessica Harrop, an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and founding member of Sandbox Films (“Fire of Love”), Alex Villard-Faure, commissioning editor at ARTE and French filmmaker Marius Léna.
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2 years ago Read more at Variety

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM)-based science fun takes up three floors. The non-profit, educational organization dates back to 1960. Since then, it has served as a science and art museum.
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2 years ago Read more at WTNH.com

Sixth grade science teacher Savannah Perkins said she would no longer be teaching science because too many students were reading below grade level. The decision meant half of the sixth graders at Rocky Mountain Prep-Federal would finish the year without taking their scheduled semester-long science class. Become a Chalkbeat sponsor She declined to detail which middle schools cut science class and which cut social studies classes.
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2 years ago Read more at Chalkbeat

Wichita State University’s Dr. Nickolas Solomey and graduate student Kelly Kabler agree. Good ideas, they also agree, must be grounded in science. Amazon has teamed with researchers to run models on the possibilities for blocking the sun.
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2 years ago Read more at Wichita State University

The Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair was Friday in St. Paul. They created their own “Fantastic Bioplastic” which can break down in nature. Paige and Adam Jacobson plan to continue their STEM studies after high school.
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2 years ago Read more at WDIO

Biomedical Sciences club brings STEM activities to elementary students. Lianna Marilao always liked science, but it wasn’t until she was in college that she realized scientific research was something she could do as a career. In February, the BSGSA brought Microscopy Lab Kits to the Salvation Army’s North Mabee Boys & Girls Club afterschool program.
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2 years ago Read more at Oklahoma State University

Local students got to end school week on a scientific note by enjoying Field Trip Day at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Hands-on activities ranged from DNA extraction from strawberries to learning about biology through virtual reality.
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2 years ago Read more at WABI

A newly described species of proto-amphibian that lived 270 million years ago has been named after Kermit the Frog. The skull was first unearthed by Nicholas Hotton III, a paleontologist and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Scientists think that the animal likely resembled a stout salamander and used its longer snout to "snap up tiny grub-like insects.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com