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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 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

Now that we know why February is Black History Month let’s check out this list of impressive examples of what Black genius can accomplish in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). where he studied mathematics, applied mathematics, and marine engineering.

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STEM in Science Classrooms – Difference Between Science and Technology

STEM Education Guide

STEM, an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is an essential component of the educational experience. Although it can merge with other fields such as engineering, technology is generally used to describe computer-related jobs. Software engineers come up with new systems and programs.

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21 New STEM Picture Books to Use in Elementary Classrooms

Science and Steamteam

STEM Concept: Engineering and Technology. STEM Concept: Engineering and Design Process. STEM Concept: Engineering and Design. STEM Concepts: Engineering and Design Process, how the eye works. This is a true story of how an engineer, Joseph Bazalgette, dreamed up a way to clean up a river in 1858. For ages 4-8.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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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. Spectroscopy is universal and applicable to many different sample systems in life sciences, material sciences and engineering.