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The Science Festival at Aberystwyth University
Around 1250 pupils from schools across mid and west Wales are expected to visit the popular annual event. The interactive stands were built by staff at Aberystwyth University’s departments of Life Sciences, Computer Science, Geography and Earth Sciences.
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RBSE 10th Social Science Paper Analysis 2024
Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan (RBSE) is responsible for conducting the RBSE 10th Board Exams 2024. Students will get details such as the overall difficulty level of the question paper, section-wise challenges faced by students, types of questions asked in the paper, and a lot more. At the same time, students can also know what experts opine about the difficulty level.
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The Science of Carbon Capture - The False Promise of Carbon Capture
In the March, 2024 edition of Scientific American Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes wrote on the False Promise of Carbon Capture. She concluded that yearly costs, extrapolated from Iceland's Orea plant, would be about $6 trillion to capture the annual U.S. output of CO2.
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Drinking Bird Generator Could One Day Power Your Watch and Phone
Scientists in Hong Kong and China have used the famous toy to develop an engine capable of using the power of water evaporation to generate electricity. The new method works by converting the energy produced by the bird’s characteristic back-and-forth movement into electrical power. It’s a process that has provided amusement to generations of children and adults alike.
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The Ingredients for a Margarita Cocktail in Space
Scientists say they have found the ingredients for a margarita cocktail in space. This work builds on previous Webb detections of diverse ices in a cold, dark molecular cloud. These and other molecules detected by Webb represent key ingredients for making potentially habitable worlds.
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Strandline Beetle Project - Helping the Strandline Beetle in England
The strandline beetle, measuring approximately 20mm, is typically found on sandy beaches often located near sand dunes. It prefers to spend day time in hiding beneath beach debris, utilising natural and unconventional items such as driftwood, plastic drums, and fishing crates.
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Read more at Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News
The World’s Toughest Row
Lauren Shea, Chantale Bégin, Isabelle Côté and Noelle Helder rowed into Antigua on Jan. 20, 2024. Each woman had a shift of two hours of rowing followed by 2 hours of rest alone in the tiny cabin. After the sun set, the women squinted at spotlights pointed at them by race officials and struggled to stand up straight.
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Snakes Are a V12 Lamborghini
Scientists generated a comprehensive evolutionary tree of snakes and lizards. They found that snakes experienced a burst of innovation early in their history. Early snakes had vestigial limbs, with the oldest-known fully limbless snake living around 85 million years ago.
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Subduction Invasion in the Atlantic Ocean
Subduction zones are regions where one tectonic plate dives under another, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The zone under Gibraltar has been inching westward for 30 million years. Its movement appears to have stalled in the past 5 million years, leading some to believe it's inactive.
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How to Get the Best Night's Sleep
To celebrate World Sleep Day, here's our science-based guide to getting the best slumber you can – from varying sleep with the seasons to taking inspiration from the past. Across the world, people are struggling with insufficient sleep, and on a global scale, it has even been called an epidemic. There are some simple adjustments – both psychological and physical – that might help to improve the quality of your sleep.
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