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For snow to fall, there needs to be moisture in the air and an atmospheric temperature at or below freezing. In general, snow will start sticking to the ground if the ground temperature is at least 41 F (5 C), otherwise the snowflakes will begin to melt. The intricate architecture of the snow is a key factor in the sound it makes when stepped on.
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas are disrupted when skies dim on April 8. They previously detected other strange animal behaviors in 2017 at a South Carolina zoo that was in the path of total darkness. The cause of the behavior is still unclear.
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2 years ago Read more at Hartford Courant

UTSA participated in a nationwide effort to build LightSound devices. They convert light into sound to make solar eclipses more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. On Monday, April 8, people from around the world will gather to experience this historic phenomenon.
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2 years ago Read more at The University of Texas at San Antonio

Governor's School for Science & Math was credited with the victory. Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. As for Buford, they now have a losing record at 3-4.
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2 years ago Read more at MaxPreps

We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the sweet stuff. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Michigan is fifth in maple syrup production in the country for 2023, producing an estimated 195,000 gallons. And before us, this Sugar Shack we use has been the home base for maple syrup for over 100 years. When the days start getting warmer, but the nights are still below freezing – usually around February and March - that daily temperature change causes gasses inside the
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2 years ago Read more at FOX 17 West Michigan News

Ron Kraus ’94 graduated from UMass Amherst with a BS in mechanical engineering. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Syner-G BioPharma Group. Kraus has dedicated his 25+ year career to the life science industry.
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2 years ago Read more at UMass News and Media Relations

I want to feel their million beats per second on my beard and lashes, reel from each swig, the dozen manic intervals, stomach a zoom to the forsythia. How can miniscule sipping, the sucking through a needle beak, fuel a miniature tyrant’s relentless burn? And how rapid the saturation of liquid sugar into blood, into wing muscle, into instinctual motive for a horizontal life?
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2 years ago Read more at Reformed Journal

blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface. They appear to commute back and forth to the sunny surface using springs where water bubbles up from hundreds of feet deep. Scientists described the unexpected discovery in a study published last month in the journal Ecology.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

More than 1,400 buildings belonging to 177 scientific institutions have been damaged or destroyed by Russia's invasion.Restoring these buildings will cost more than $1.21 billion - including $980.5 million for universities alone.Scientific infrastructure in the northern region of Kharkiv has been the most severely affected.
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2 years ago Read more at The Times of India

The Hawai‘i Keiki Museum is set to celebrate its grand opening on March 14 at 2 p.m. The museum connects learners to their island home by way of science. The first museum opened in Kailua-Kona in 2022, when most students were stuck at home, getting schooled by Zoom.
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2 years ago Read more at Big Island Video News