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Science in a second language Sixth- and seventh-graders at Albany International Center showed off their knowledge of the scientific method (and the English language) on Thursday at the school’s Science Symposium. Top projects will advance to the citywide Joseph Henry Science Fair next Friday at The College of Saint Rose. You can see a Facebook photo album from Thursday’s event.
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2 years ago Read more at City School District of Albany

Photo by Josh Kline Associate Professor of Psychology Jeremy Loebach demonstrates that when he cups his hands backwards over his ears, it’s harder to detect where a sound is coming from. The Science of Sound event provided participants with new understandings of the physics behind sound, the biology of hearing, and the history of audio recording.
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2 years ago Read more at St. Olaf College News

Zacchaeus Wallace has been named an Honorable Mention recipient for the 4th annual cycle of the Rising Black Scientist Award. Through a partnership with the Elsevier Foundation, this is the second year the awards have been expanded to include the physical, earth and environmental, and data sciences. Wallace and three other honorable mention recipients were also recognized with $500 each.
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Les Roberts is an Epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He has taken part in the field measurement of mortality in crises including Rwanda 1994, more than 30 health Zones in the Democratic Repoublic of Congo 1999-2002, Iraq 2004, Zimbabwe 2007, the Central African Repbulic 2009, 2018, and 2014. In the months since, the world has been taken aback by the number of deaths reported out of Gaza: 1,200 in a day, Oct. 7
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Patrick (Andrew Riddell) hasn’t left his apartment in over a month, working remotely and ordering delivery food. When offered a miracle new app called Refresh, he jumps on the opportunity. Overnight, his life becomes a video game in which he is a triumphant He-Man instead of a loser.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Insurance broker Lockton announced a collaboration initiative with the food science company Campden BRI to support the food and drink industry. In recent years, the food industry has faced a myriad of threats from supply chain disruption and spiraling costs to the impact of inflation, scarcity of crucial resources, labor shortages, and changes in both regulations and consumer demands. The first of those initiatives is a new position paper that seeks to address the growing global problem of food fraud.
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2 years ago Read more at Insurance Journal

The State Department unveiled its 2024 cohort of science envoys to represent U.S. scientific interests and advance international partnerships. The new cohort brings expertise in data science, nuclear engineering and physics, geosciences, and oceanography. The program was established by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010, and has since included a total of 30 scientists.
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2 years ago Read more at Government Executive

The 2024 Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, hosted March 5-6 at University of California, Merced, brought together National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Geological Survey, National Forest, state, local, and other resource managers and scientists. The conference was brought to UC Mercend this year with the help of SNRI and UC-Mercer Natural Reserve System Yosemite and Sequoia Field Stations. More than 200 attendees representing 11 state, federal and local agencies, 18 non
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Olivia Dimmer High school juniors from Our Lady of Tepeyac High School in Little Village had the chance to shadow and learn from Feinberg scientists. More than 30 students from the all-girls school were matched with female scientists and gained hands-on skills conducting experiments in the lab. Twenty female Feinberg researchers and investigators participated in the event.
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2 years ago Read more at Feinberg News Center

Geologists found signs of some of the earliest known earthquakes in 3.3 billion-year-old rocks. The rocks provide early evidence of plate tectonics, which explains Earth's crust as split into large plates that glide across the mantle.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com