SCIENCE

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati hosted a Science and Maths Olympiad. Over 1.14 lakh students from 3,828 schools across Assam participated. The Olympiad comprised two phases: an OMR-based physical pen-paper test.
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1 year ago Read more at The Indian Express

Descendants’ union donates science equipment to public secondary schools in Apomu. The equipment are for Physics, Chemistry and Biology practicals in the schools. ADU President-General appreciated Oba Kayode Adenekan Afolabi.
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1 year ago Read more at The Nation Newspaper

Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, learn about the science of self-compassion each day in April. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below.
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1 year ago Read more at Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Stephen Benkovic The Chemistry Building houses more than 85 research laboratories and was constructed in 2004. He was among the first scientists to hypothesize conformational changes outside the enzyme’s active site were necessary for achieving maximal catalysis.
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1 year ago Read more at ASBMB Today

Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, found that the more urbanized the person, the less cellulose-degrading bacteria found in their gut. The findings were published in Science. Gutted After gathering microbial samples from participants, the researchers analyzed the genomes of the bacteria.
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1 year ago Read more at Technology Networks

A partial solar eclipse, even one with the sun 99 percent obscured, won’t incite the same intensity of awe, wonder, shock or — for some — the irrepressible desire to scream. A partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marry him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane. Advertisement The sun and the stars and the planets do not, under normal circumstances, share the same sky.
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1 year ago Read more at The Washington Post

New research that focuses on the brains of grandmothers shows the exact psychological bond between grandma's and grandchildren. Grandmothers were more excited than my bridesmaids, grandmas Grandmas more emotionally connected to their grandchildren When grandparents play favorites: Parenting advice from Care and The Science Behind the Bond Between Grandma and Grandchildren.
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1 year ago Read more at Reading Agency

A partial solar eclipse, even one with the sun 99 percent obscured, won’t incite the same intensity of awe, wonder, shock or — for some — the irrepressible desire to scream. A partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marry him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane. Advertisement The sun and the stars and the planets do not, under normal circumstances, share the same sky.
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1 year ago Read more at The Washington Post

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Douglas Preston and Lionel Shriver The last remaining free city of the Forever Desert has been besieged for centuries. I love the sound of Scott Alexander Howard’s debut The Other Valley, set in a town where its past and future versions exist in the next valleys over, and of Sofia Samatar’s space adventure The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain. The Morningside by Téa Obreht In a catastrophic version of the
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1 year ago Read more at New Scientist

Grade 9 student Nia Smith is one of two finalists from the 4-H Canada Science Fair to be selected to participate in the prestigious 2024 Canada-Wide Science Fair. Her project “Seed Starting for a Home Hydroponic System” delves into the science of hydroponics. She compared four different mediums for starting seeds.
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1 year ago Read more at DiscoverWestman.com