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Spring STEM Guide

How to STEM

It’s all about celebrating women’s achievements, raising awareness against bias and taking action for equality. British Science Week provides a platform to stimulate and support teachers, STEM professionals, science communicators and the general public to produce and participate in STEM events and activities.

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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

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LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). PROFESSOR RAJA GUHATHAKURTA Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz, USA. . Amanda talks about her astronomy work to a class of school students over Skype. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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Talk like a geographic information systems expert Cartography — map making Environmental justice — ensuring equitable access to the environment for all people. The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. Maps are very powerful.

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Leading Through Innovation: Celebrating Black STEM Leaders

STEM Education Guide

His frank and jocular demeanor and engaging writing style help make science accessible to a wider audience. Throughout his career, Dr. deGrasse Tyson’s research has focused on cosmology, stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, bulges, and stellar formation. It’s no surprise that Mary Jackson was so dedicated to youth and public service.

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Examining the extremely small

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A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. It was an interest in astronomy that inspired me to study physics and become a spectroscopist. Once a month, different researchers from the institute explain their research to the public in an accessible way that everyone can understand.

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We can also take a single video and “summarize” it as a series of video + audio snippets, chosen for example equally spaced in the video. We’re also doing things like brightness equalization and lens correction, as well as blending images across seams. But if you’re doing astronomy they can really matter. And in Version 13.0

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Kelvin’s ideas about the inevitable dissipation of “useful energy” spread quickly—by 1854, for example, finding their way into an eloquent public lecture by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894). Helmholtz had trained as a doctor, becoming in 1843 a surgeon to a German military regiment.

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