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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. 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.

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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. It’s no surprise that Mary Jackson was so dedicated to youth and public service. While working as one of only four Black physicians in Chicago, he also supported the Equal Rights League.

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Bending Space-Time: General Relativity

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Citing his law of inertia, he soon developed a mathematical relationship between any two objects and discovered that the force of attraction is equal to G*M1*M2/R^2, where M1 and M2 are the two objects , R is the distance between the objects’ centers of masses, and G is the universal gravitational constant. 2022, November 27). Faller, J.

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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. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. Maps are very powerful.

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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. Once a month, different researchers from the institute explain their research to the public in an accessible way that everyone can understand.

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

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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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