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Elliot Stead and Jacksun Engler represented MVRHS at the Massachusetts Region V Science and Engineering Fair. Region V is the largest educational region in the commonwealth, encompassing schools in 75 cities and towns.
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2 years ago Read more at Martha's Vineyard Times

Bolei Zhou is an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. The award includes a five-year, $587,000 grant to support his work in embodied artificial intelligence. Findings from this research will have applications in fields such as autonomous driving, household robots, digital animation and video games.
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2 years ago Read more at UCLA Newsroom

On April 8, 2024, parts of Ontario, Québec, the Maritimes and Newfoundland will see a total solar eclipse of the sun. This ephemeral daytime darkness can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Our reactions to eclipses have evolved, driving us to better understand the solar system and the universe at large.
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2 years ago Read more at The Conversation

Art is no stranger to the laws of mathematics, says Gabriel Urrutia Galaz/Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Art and science are often perceived as mutually exclusive fields; artists and scientists could not be more different. Modern science is also helping us uncover the secrets of art history.
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2 years ago Read more at Varsity Online

Computer Science celebrates achievements as Binghamton University’s largest academic department President says computer science is one of the two strategic growth programs. Students include 697 undergraduate students, 685 master’s students and 81 PhD students. Student news ColorStack — a national organization dedicated to increasing the number of Black and Latinx computer science graduates that go on to launch rewarding careers. Beatrice Arana ’24 was inspired by the other women in the CS Department when pursuing her degrees.
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2 years ago Read more at Binghamton University

An LC-130 Hercules assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing sits on the ice runway near the United States’ main operating location in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, on Nov. 11, 2023. From October 2023 to March 2024, 366 Airmen assigned the wing transported 2.2 million pounds of cargo, 1,500 passengers and 68,000 gallons of fuel. Operation Deep Freeze is a joint service, inter-agency mission
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2 years ago Read more at DVIDS

Menopause evolves in toothed whales, like orcas and belugas, by lengthening their lives without changing how long they can reproduce. That allows older females to care for grandchildren without competing with their own daughters and sisters, a new study reveals. This is a piece of work that very much needed to be done," Megan Arnot , an evolutionary anthropologist at University College London, said.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

Nano-thin semiconductor fibres can be woven into fabrics using existing methods. These include a smart beanie, a sweater, and a watch that can detect and process signals. The fibres were 30 times tougher than regular ones. They were tested in a washing machine ten times.
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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert

a university of Arizona-led study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life. This question has been the subject of intense scientific research for decades. The RNA world hypothesis is based on an interesting feature of modern biology, which is that of the four major categories of biomolecules – amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids.
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2 years ago Read more at University of Arizona News

I argue that historical experiences with state-led labor conscription play a key role. In the early twentieth century, Latin American governments conscripted unpaid Indigenous labor to build infrastructure. Community leaders threatened by this conscription were more likely to mobilize their communities to resist it.
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2 years ago Read more at Political Science Now