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STEM Career Spotlight: Women In STEM

Accelerate Learning

But today, women in STEM are breaking barriers, shattering glass ceilings, and achieving incredible accomplishments that are changing the world. From molecular biology to nuclear physics, women scientists are making significant contributions to our understanding of the universe, and it's about time we celebrate their achievements.

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Playful Pedagogy: Gamer Types and Board Games for Inclusive Learning

ED Surge

For instance, it may be beneficial for educators to think of their students in terms of a modified version of Bartle’s gamer types: Hunter, Socializer, Explorer and Achiever. The Achiever aims to earn badges and showcase accomplishments. The hunters and achievers enjoyed the game and even stayed after class to keep playing.

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Can behavioural interventions improve biological health outcomes?

Futurum

Living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods increases stress, limits physical activity and increases sedentary behaviour, which influence biologic CVD risk factors.” This intervention involves teaching nutrition education, physical activities, stress management techniques and coping skills to perimenopausal Latinas.

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Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics

Futurum

Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics. Dr Daniel Terno and his team at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, are building a framework of characteristics that can be used to search for black holes in the Universe, but their findings may challenge our understanding of the fundamental laws of physics.

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STEM Calendar for the Month of May for Educators Everywhere

STEM for Kids

Astronaut Day: Astronaut Day celebrates the bravery and achievements of those who venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere to explore the cosmos. From Thomas Edison’s light bulb to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, inventors throughout history have transformed our world through their ingenuity and problem-solving skills.

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Top Science Internships

Career in STEM

An internship is the perfect first step in achieving your dream career. The Wistar Institute’s Summer Research Program in Biomedical Research The Wistar Institute’s research program helps high school students interested in biology and biomedical theory gain a deeper understanding of these fields. Have a science internship to share?

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

And one of the stunningly beautiful things—at least for a physicist like me—is that the same phenomenon that in physical space gives us gravity, in branchial space gives us quantum mechanics. It’s because we’re observers like us that we perceive the laws of physics we do. Human minds who think alike are nearby. But what about AIs?

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