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7 Popular Science Museums

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Science museums from all around the world capture and document this knowledge allowing anyone interested in learning about science, to access this wealth of knowledge and learn about major achievements and milestones that got us where we are today. The Museum of Natural Sciences contains several galleries and sections.

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How to Celebrate National STEM Day

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National STEM Day encourages children of all ages to pursue their interests and explore future careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students interested in science could make a volcano with baking soda, while students who want to pursue technology could try making a coin battery.

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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I also enjoy meeting my laboratory members every morning to discuss our research projects and science in general.” If there is a local gardening group, botanical garden or horticultural society in your area, contact them to see how you could get involved to learn more about plant science. Jong’s top tips 1.

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The Northern Lights Explained

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Seattle, WA The Northern Lights are the dazzling colored lights that occur in the night skies of the northern hemisphere. This phenomenon is also called Aurora Borealis after the Roman goddess of morning, Aurora, by Galileo Galilei in 1619.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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From miniscule sub-atomic particles to gargantuan black holes, the world of science deals with a dramatic range of sizes. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Professor Michelle Peckham Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds.

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

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But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world. So, for example, in the late 1700s the French balloonist Jacques Charles (1746–1823) noted the linear increase of volume of a gas with temperature.

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