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The museum of Science and Industry will launch an online site devoted to these unseen treasures from the institution's permanent collection. In the 90 years since Chicago's museum opened its doors in late 1933, the institution has hosted more than 190 million people. The permanent exhibits include present-day favorites, like the full-sized German World War II sub, the Coal Mine, Colleen Moore&#X27's Fairy Castle, an elaborate dollhouse created by the eponymous
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The near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a surprising reservoir of a mineral called magnesium phosphate. These bright-white particles sprinkled in a sea of Bennnu's dark rocks is a rare find in the astromaterials, scientists say. The samples also show the widespread presence of glycine, the simplest amino acid and a crucial ingredient of proteins.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

Valdosta State University College of Science and Mathematics will host Science Saturday: Imagine, Design, and Build in Nevins Hall. Science Saturday is a fun-filled and educational opportunity for everyone to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Attendees of all ages will have an opportunity to learn about the Valdesta skies and how to write computer programs, have fun with puzzles, make a comet and trick a computer.
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2 years ago Read more at ValdostaToday.com

Join the West Virginia Local Science Engagement Network and WVU Science Policy Organization for a fun, three-part event series on improving science communication skills. Attendees will hear from seasoned tale tellers and learn how to communicate complex scientific ideas in a clear and engaging way. An open mic event will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 25 at a location that is to be determined later.
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2 years ago Read more at WVU ENews

EVs house a wide range of different molecules within them, including proteins, nucleic acids and lipids that can influence the behavior of the receiving cell in some way. This can either be for good, such as coordinating the activity of immune cells, or bad, like promoting the spread of cancer. Electrophoresis is regularly used for separating proteins and other biomolecules. To resolve this issue, Levent Yobas and his colleagues at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have now come up with
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2 years ago Read more at Wiley

SMV'sVirginia C. Ellett Deputy Director for Education Timshel Purdum and her team sought out ways to connect those families to the Science Museum of Virginia. Each library branch in Richmond, Powhatan, Petersburg, and Williamsburg was given a bright orange, plastic family pass to check out. You don’t have to be a parent or guardian to take advantage of the passes either.
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MOLLY CROCKETT: We are at a crossroads around how we decide what science is and how we proceed in the endeavor of knowledge production. MESSERI: Being skeptical about AI doesn’t require being a hater of AI in science and technology. I’m excited about AI and its potential for science, but it is always human-driven.
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2 years ago Read more at Scientific American

The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, is designed to “touch the sun” as NASA puts it. It will make its closest pass, coming within 3.8 million miles of the surface. Advertisement The solar wind is protective, too, because it limits the impact of cosmic rays. Scientists have been trying to solve the coronal heating problem for decades.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

The term “big science” was first used in 1961 by physicist Alvin Weinberg. It’s hard to dispute the “bigness” of projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Apollo space program, the European nuclear research facility (CERN) and its particle accelerator. The question is whether privately backed companies working in sectors such as fusion can make it on their own.
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2 years ago Read more at Madison.com

The National Researcg Council of Italy study reported in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture about whether expectations about product quality, in this case good wine, would impact the “pleasantness” of an experience. Five wines were trialled, two of which were “faulty” and three which were high-quality samples, on 50 consumers in an “arousing context”.
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2 years ago Read more at The Drinks Business