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Congress passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2024 that cut NASA Science for the first time in a decade. This cut comes after five years of stagnant budgets that have not kept pace with inflation, leading to a $1 billion deficit from the agency’s peak funding year in 2020. The requested budget also proposes the delay and cancellation of various space science missions that are part of the roadmap laid out by the Decadal Surveys.
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7 months ago Read more at The Planetary Society

The Advocate Program offers professional development and support to educators around the country to support their efforts to provide opportunities to students in STEM. As part of this unique professional development opportunity, Advocates receive training and support from Society staff, peer mentorship, a stipend and a paid trip to Washington, D.C. Loree Harvey is now in her third year of the Advocate Program.
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7 months ago Read more at Science News for Students

Data science is a relatively young field, but it’s proving critical across multiple sectors, including e-commerce, healthcare and artificial intelligence. Data collection and analysis are major parts of data science and are necessary to develop large language models. Even outside of AI, just about every tech company uses some sort of data analysis to inform its products or operations.
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7 months ago Read more at Built In

First through fifth grade students from Freedom, Bishop, Hugh Bish, Cache, Cleveland, and Crosby Park Elementary came together to show off their science projects after excelling in their own schools. The elementary students were judged by Cameron University students.
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7 months ago Read more at KSWO

Invisible "global auroras have been covering Mars frequently over the past few months, according to data collected by a NASA spacecraft. The rise in these planet-wide light shows is tied to solar maximum , the peak in the sun's roughly 11-year solar cycle. Mars is often bombarded with high-energy radiation from the sun.
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7 months ago Read more at Livescience.com

Scientists hit water with lasers to measure the boundary between air and water. This could help us better understand Earth's atmosphere. Scientists have finally pinned down the precise thickness of the barrier between water and air.
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7 months ago Read more at New Scientist

In a study published in Nature last week, researchers from the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea detailed a new method of growing diamonds using a mixture of liquid metals. The researchers created a blend of gallium, iron, nickel, and silicon—then fitted it inside a graphite chamber that rapidly heated then cooled the metal. This new method is even faster than current lab-growing methods, which can take up to several months.
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7 months ago Read more at Fortune

Jorge Cham spoke to more than 500 elementary school students at Ada Givens Elementary School in Merced. The first gathering focused on his children’s TV series “Elinor Wonders Why” about a curious rabbit that goes on adventures with her friends to gain knowledge by questioning and exploring.
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7 months ago Read more at University of California, Merced

In December 2014, Dr. Stephen Coles passed away from pancreatic cancer. He chose to enter hospice care in Scottsdale, Arizona, that way, he could be close to the team of doctors who would remove and freeze his brain when he died. Alcor Life Extension Foundation The Patient Care Bay at Alcor holds a number of “Bigfoot” dewars.
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7 months ago Read more at Popular Mechanics

Princeton University computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor have published guidelines for the responsible use of machine learning in science. They say their work is an effort to stamp out this smoldering crisis of credibility that threatens to engulf nearly every corner of the research enterprise. A paper detailing their guidelines appeared May 1 in Science Advances.
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7 months ago Read more at Engineering at Princeton University