SCIENCE

Fort Hays State University’s next Science Café will be held on Monday, March 18. This month’s presentation, “Snakes in jars: Using museum specimens to discover new species and test evolution,” is sponsored by FHSU’s Science and Mathematics Education Institute (SMEI). The event begins at 7 p.m. at The Venue in Thirsty’s Brew Pub & Grill, 2704 Vine.
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2 years ago Read more at Fort Hays State University

Colossal genetically engineer elephants with hair and other traits found on extinct woolly mammoths. They created elephant stem cells that could potentially be developed into any tissue in the body. For example, researchers could create abundant supply of elephant eggs.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Two consortiums of research institutions and other funders have been planning for years to build the Giant Magellan Telescope on a mountaintop in Chile. The Thirty Meter Telescope is expected to cost US$2.54 billion. Representatives for the Giants have not released a final cost estimate, saying it depends on factors such as scheduling, but other experts say it is likely to be at least $3 billion.
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Cree Carroll is one of the newest members of a prestigious and exclusive high IQ society called Mensa. Once a week, Cree can be found on his TikTok channel called 'Cree_TV" teaching science lessons to close to 16,000 followers. Cree has appeared in videos on science topics like matter and quarks.
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The annual Atlanta Science Festival (ASF) is scheduled for March 9 through 23. It is produced each year under the auspices of Science Atlanta, a nonprofit organization. The event is planned and organized in cooperation with a lengthy list of partners and sponsors.
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2 years ago Read more at Champion

The first-ever Climate of Hope conference helped arm science teachers with tools and lessons on how to take the emotion and politics out of climate change. Jeff Grant and Mike Heinz brought bright scientific minds together to arm teachers with knowledge and new hands-on classroom activities. They were also lucky to have glaciologist Richard Alley, who helped explain why ice cores are so important to understanding earth's history.
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In quantum mechanics, for example, a particle exists in a superposition of possible states all at once. At that point the possibilities collapse, and one physical state shows itself to the observer. In science the idea can be split into the quantum multiverse and the cosmological multiverse. It results in other bubble universes that have since expanded.
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2 years ago Read more at Scientific American

GS-100 is a recombinant AAV9 vector encoding the human NGLY1 gene. It has received orphan drug designation from the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicine Agency (EMA) The therapy also obtained the FDA’s rare paediatric disease designation in 2021 and fast track designation last year.
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2 years ago Read more at Clinical Trials Arena

Dr. Nitin Tanna and his family moved to Lancaster in 1972. By the end of seventh grade, he’d have a second place award from the Lancaster County Science Fair and a blossoming passion for scientific inquiry. He looks forward to returning to the fair this month as a judge.
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2 years ago Read more at LNP | LancasterOnline

Ward Melville High School in East Setauket has won first place at the Long Island Regional Science Bowl. The team consisting of Harry Gao, Michael Melikyan, Sean Skinner, Rithik Sogal and Anna Xing bested 29 others to take the top spot among high school groups in the “Jeopardy!”-style competition. It was held in February at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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2 years ago Read more at Newsday