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Spring STEM Guide

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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. billion people living without access to safe water. International Astronomy Day (7th May).

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To boldly know what no one has known before

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Department of Physics and Astronomy. Astronomy and Astrophysics. ABOUT ASTRONOMY. Astronomy is something that surely interests all of us to some degree and is a field that is ready for new discoveries. WHAT DOES GAIL FIND MORE REWARDING ABOUT HER RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY? EXPLORE CAREERS IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.

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

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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. The highlight of my career actually has nothing to do with astronomy! I think there are parallels between art and astronomy.

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15 Best Enrichment Activities For Kids

The Maker Mom

Photography Learning photography has been made super accessible to children due to the technological advancements with phones and tablets. Astronomy Astronomy brings the wonders of the universe down to Earth for children to study closely. Kids can begin to learn as early as age 4, and it often becomes a lifelong hobby for many.

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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. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. When I was younger, I always loved math and science.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

And for AIs we’re providing a variety of tools —like immediate computable access to documentation , and computable error handling. There’s a public Prompt Repository that so far has several hundred curated prompts. is experimental access to multimodal LLMs that can take images as well as text as input. In Version 14.0

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Leading Through Innovation: Celebrating Black STEM Leaders

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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.