SCIENCE

Enviro-Champs is a group of 15 citizen scientists in KwaZulu-Natal province. Their community water monitoring programme has managed to prevent raw sewage from flooding into rivers. By 2021, similar intiatives had started up in other parts of South Africa.
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2 years ago Read more at The Conversation

Russell “Buzz” Wincheski ’90, M.S. ’96, Ph.D. '99 is described by NASA as a leader in “the development of multiple eddy current and carbon nanotube-based sensor systems” For his contributions in the field of physics and his work on such projects, he was recently inducted into the 2022-2023 NASA Inventors Hall of Fame. He has maintained connections with William & Mary by working with physics students and serving on Ph
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2 years ago Read more at William & Mary

Palaeontologists, it was thought, hadn’t found, nor would they ever find, the so-called ‘missing link’. In 1908, amateur antiquarian Charles Dawson claimed to have unearthed a candidate fossil cranium at a gravel-pit near Piltdown in Sussex. Further excavations, by him and Arthur Smith Woodward of the British Museum, produced an ape-like jawbone and crude tools.
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2 years ago Read more at Irish Examiner

Students from schools across Ireland participated in the 2023/2024 mini Scientist competition. The event marked the culmination of a nationwide competition that began in September 2023. This year, over 6,800 students from 94 schools in 18 counties participated.
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2 years ago Read more at Ireland Live

ESB Science Blast is a STEM-focused educational programme involving whole classes investigating the science behind simple questions. The Dublin event took place over four days in RDS Simmonscourt, from March 4 to 7, and included a lá speisialta do Ghaelscoileanna agus do scoileanna Ghaeltachta. Strong themes emerging from schools this year included climate change, biodiversity, the impact of fast fashion and questions related to physical and mental health.
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2 years ago Read more at Westmeath Independent

This unique hybrid study-and-travel scholarship offers a $5,000 academic scholarship in addition to a $1,000 travel stipend to IFT FIRST: Annual Event and Expo. To be eligible for the Academic and Travel Undergraduate Hybrid Scholarship, applicants must demonstrate a commitment to the science of food, meet a minimum grade point average of 3.0. The scholarship is open to candidates anywhere in the world.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Andrew Griffith also addresses Michelle Donelan libel scandal, university finances and visa concerns. Griffith said the government will be looking for the next leader of UK Research and Innovation from the “widest range of backgrounds”
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2 years ago Read more at Research Professional News

researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles built a soft adhesive patch that they say can turn throat movements into speech. It converts the motion of users’ larynx into electrical signals and these signals are processed by a machine learning algorithm that will use them to generate speech, according to a paper published in Nature Communications. The patch works with an accuracy of up to 94.68 per cent.
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2 years ago Read more at The Indian Express

Dr. Jitendra Singh released a report titled ‘A decade of Science & technology Panorama for Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ today at Vigyan Bhawan. The report encapsulates a decade of relentless dedication and remarkable strides in the realm of Science and Technology. He categorically mentioned that India is ready to take up a leadership role in emerging science andamp; technologies and the world is looking towards us to become a beacon.
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2 years ago Read more at Daily Excelsior

India's sustained efforts in science and technology, particularly in fields such as infrastructure, defence, energy sector and heavy industries. The prime minister said the government has also implemented far-reaching reforms in the education sector to instill a scientific temperament among the youth.
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2 years ago Read more at Deccan Herald