SCIENCE

This year, mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at 11:06 PM EDT, when the vernal equinox will occur. The primary reason for the change in seasons lies in Earth’s axial tilt. As our planet orbits the Sun, its axis remains tilted at an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees relative to its orbital plane.
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Niffler, an African penguin at the Greensboro Science Center, will be competing in Penguins International’s March of the Penguin Madness competition to determine the world’s favorite penguin. The official title for winning the competition is “Peng Win Champion” The winner will be immortalized in the Iceberg Hall of Heroes.
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Elephant seals are great divers: they can dive as deep as 6,560 feet (2,000 meters) Each time the seals surface, the device connects with the satellite, the data they’ve collected is triangulated, and the scientists can review it on a web page. The researchers are also looking to get more information about the area, known as the Almirantazgo Fjord, west of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego.
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Students first took the online science test in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic forced an interruption of testing in 2020. Beginning in 2025, performances by district, school and student groups will receive one of five dashboard colors, designating the lowest (red) to the highest performance (blue) Each color reflects two factors: how well students performed in the latest year and how much the score improved or declined from the previous year.
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2 years ago Read more at The Almanac Online

In his Critias dialogue, Plato claimed that the metal was mined in many parts of the continent and that its buildings – including a Temple of Poseidon and royal palace – were coated in it. It is perhaps unsurprising, therefore, that orichalcum has been at the heart of the centuries-old search for the drowned continent. In late 2014, a diver named Francesco Cassarino discovered 40 ingots of a mysterious metal nestled within
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2 years ago Read more at indy100

Japan’s Antarctic expeditions have been conducting scientific research on the continent. It is hoped that by elucidating the mechanism by which the ice sheets are melting, we will become able to predict future sea level rises and climate change. This is because the majority of Antarctica’s ice lies in East Antarctica.
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2 years ago Read more at Nippon.com

Students at Douglas S. Freeman High School may be the first to grow oyster mushrooms in moon dirt for NASA’s international Plant the Moon Challenge. Students can choose which plant they want to grow in the moon dirt, also known as “lunar regolith,” and when brainstorming for the project, senior Jailyn Pipes said, they didn’t want to be “boring” and grow something simple like potatoes or tomatoes.
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2 years ago Read more at Henrico Citizen

Researchers are looking for a specific type of extraterrestrial dust: cosmic spherols. These tiny particles, which most likely come from comets and asteroids, are tiny, between 50 microns to two millimetres in diameter. The particles are easily contaminated, which could compromise their use in research.
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2 years ago Read more at The Guardian

Aquaman is a member of the Justice League, a crime fighting alliance of heroes committed to protecting Earth from threats great and small. In his natural oceanic environment, Aquaman can breathe underwater, manipulate water with his mind, and communicate with aquatic animals. Dolphins have been found to use names, individualized vocal calls that correspond to an individual’s identity.
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Wilmette Junior High’s team won three competitions (Disease Detectives, Tower and Reach for the Stars) As a result, 12 different individuals earned at least two medals for their performances. The school district describes science olympiad as a co-curricular educational program that strives to ignite the passion for science, medicine and engineering in young minds.
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2 years ago Read more at Record North Shore