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Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computablecomputation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core function is SolarEclipse.

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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. International Astronomy Day (7th May). International Astronomy Day is a worldwide event which is observed annually on the 7th May. International Women’s Day (8th March).

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STEM in Science Classrooms – Difference Between Science and Technology

STEM Education Guide

Although it can merge with other fields such as engineering, technology is generally used to describe computer-related jobs. Computer programmers code the software for the engineers to plan. Children may also be interested to learn that video game developers and designers are also classified as computer scientists.

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The Past, Present and Future of Women in STEM

PCS Edventures

They studied arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, and some nuns even studied herbal medication and wrote books on the natural world (Pak, 2018). Some notable women, such as Émilie du Châtelet and Caroline Herschel, were celebrated for their works in mathematics and astronomy, paving the way for future women in STEM (Ferry, 2019).

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Leading Through Innovation: Celebrating Black STEM Leaders

STEM Education Guide

Throughout his career, Dr. deGrasse Tyson’s research has focused on cosmology, stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, bulges, and stellar formation. In 1962, Johnson manually confirmed complex orbital equations that had been created and implemented by a worldwide network of computers.

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21 New STEM Picture Books to Use in Elementary Classrooms

Science and Steamteam

While reading this book, students will learn fun facts about AI (programming computers to be smart) and participate in some fun little experiments. Chinese American characters try to figure out how everyone can have equal portions of buns served at a birthday party. STEM Concepts: Astronomy, perseverance. Bicycle: Eureka!

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We’ve worked very hard to make its design as clean and coherent as possible—and to make it a timeless way to elegantly represent computation and everything that can be described through it. Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5 Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5

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