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Germany’s Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, and Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan MP met at Imperial’s White City Deep Tech Campus yesterday to announce a new partnership. The Joint Declaration of Intent commits both countries to broadening and deepening their science and research ties.
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Dr Carol Davenport is Director of NUSTEM at Northumbria University. As part of the Royal Society scheme, Dr Davidnport and her peers have each been paired with politicians and spend time understanding each other’s working lives. The Royal Society Pairing Scheme has been running since 2001 and helps to build long term relationships between scientists and politicians.
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Over 500 projects from primary schools across the country, including three schools from Carlow, were showcased at this year’s sixth annual ESB Science Blast. The event took place over four days in RDS Simmonscourt, from 4th to 7th March, and included a lá speisialta do Ghaelscoileanna agus do scoileanna Ghaeltachta.
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India on March 11, 2024 marked a significant milestone in India's defence capabilities as it successfully conducted the first flight test of Mission Divyastra. The indigenously-developed Agni-5 missile, equipped with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology, demonstrated its prowess in deploying multiple warheads at different locations. R Sheena Rani led the missile project as programme director at the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL) of Defence Research Development Organisation
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FRANCE 24 The world's largest vaccine manufacturer in India will begin distributing a new malaria vaccine in Africa starting in May. The disease kills more than 600,000 people each year, 95 percent of whom are in Africa and mostly children.
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The Science Innovation Hub at UM Faculty of Science is hosting the Science Spark 3K Pitch Competition presented by the Bioscience Association Manitoba. This is your invitation to join us and cheer them on in this journey. The event is free but registration is required.
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Scientists have observed like charges attracting each other over long distances in an apparent contradiction of a fundamental principle of physics. First stated by French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb in the 18th century, "opposites attract and like charges repel each other' has become a familiar idiom. A team of researchers found that, in some liquids, the opposite is true: Like-charged particles in solution must also monotonically repel.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

Without action, parity is still half a century away. Without further accelerating gender parity, we will continue to lose valuable ground. At a time when academia faces some of its greatest workforce gaps in history, some of our brightest scholars are leaving institutions before reaching their full potential.
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2 years ago Read more at Nature.com

HAWC is the Canadian contribution to an international, NASA-led AOS mission. The climate satellite instruments supported by USask researchers will provide new data for scientists to better analyze and interpret factors contributing to climate change.
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We only have to compare mortality rates for the COVID-19 pandemic disaggregated by race, income, and other axes of inequality to recognize that we are not all in the same boat, despite experiencing the same storm. The fifth NCA contends with two truths that are increasingly being reckoned with in U.S. popular and academic conversations.
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2 years ago Read more at Canadian Manufacturing