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The three-day community open house event took place at various buildings on campus. Students, graduate students and research labs were at the Discovery Building on campus Saturday. Community groups that the event partners with were also in attendance.
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1 year ago Read more at WMTV

zoologists and animal behaviorists at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, documented how 17 different species reacted to the phenomenon during the “Great American Eclipse” of August 2017. The solar eclipse will take place Monday, April 8, blocking the sun for over 180 million people in its path.
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1 year ago Read more at New York Post

bacterial cellulose is produced by certain bacteria of the genus Komagataeibacter. Researchers grew this shoe from bacteria in a shoe-shaped mold. This stimulated the production of black pigment eumelanin.
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1 year ago Read more at IFLScience

Astronomers named it 1I/’Oumuamua, borrowing a Hawaiian word that roughlytranslates to “messenger from afar arriving first” Two years later, in August 2019, amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov discovered the only other known interstellar interloper, now called 2I/Borisov, using a self-built telescope at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea.
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1 year ago Read more at EL PAÍS USA

Nita A. Farahany will speak at 7 p.m. Monday in the Brown Ballroom of the Bone Student Center, 200 N. University St., Normal. Other programs scheduled for Science and Technology Week include Tuesday morning networking and lunchtime discussions.
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1 year ago Read more at The Pantagraph

IFT: What are the current and future trends in the beef industry? WALKER: We already have concentration and consolidation in the feedlot sector, but we also will have more concentration in the cow-calf sector. The beef industry needs to be at the table as opposed to being reactionary.
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1 year ago Read more at AgUpdate

MSEF Executive Director Helen Rosenfeld says many of them are picking big social issues to address. As for the middle school science whizzes, they will get a chance to show off their projects at Worcester Technical High School on May 11th.
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1 year ago Read more at iHeart

Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera (LSST) is the size of a small car and weighs around 3,000kg. It will be installed into the newly-completed Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile. Over the next 10 years will start to build an amazingly detailed image of the Southern Hemisphere sky. The camera will be able to image the entire visible sky every 3 to 4 nights.
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1 year ago Read more at BBC Science Focus Magazine

A partial eclipse, when you’re just outside the path of totality, is not 99.9 percent of the experience of a total eclipse. In 2017 parenting and science writer Melinda Wenner Moyer wondered if hauling her family 2,880 miles across the country to witness the eclipse would be a mistake. But let me make the case for the rest of us, the non–eclipse chasers, who are staying home.
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1 year ago Read more at Slate

A partial eclipse, when you’re just outside the path of totality, is not 99.9 percent of the experience of a total eclipse. In 2017 parenting and science writer Melinda Wenner Moyer wondered if hauling her family 2,880 miles across the country to witness the eclipse would be a mistake. But let me make the case for the rest of us, the non–eclipse chasers, who are staying home.
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1 year ago Read more at Slate