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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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The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. In high school, I focused on math and science as my main interests were in geometry and biology.

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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. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale?

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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). He immediately notes that “the total permutability measure of two bodies is equal to the sum of the permutability measures of each body”.

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