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Nuffield Research Placements: How Year 12 Students Can Get Involved

All About STEM

Nuffield Research Placements are a fantastic opportunity for Y12 students to apply skills and knowledge learned at school and work alongside researchers and industry professionals. The Nuffield Research Placements programme provides engaging, hands-on research projects, where Year 12 students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation through a.

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How do Root Modules Form?

Smore Science

Plants need products derived from nitrogen; however, they cannot use free nitrogen in the air. How do they solve this issue? One of the best events in nature is when two different organisms team up and look out for one another. This is referred to as symbiosis. Plants like peas team up with a soil bacterium called Rhizobium. These bacteria can use nitrogen from the air to make compounds that plants can use, using enzymes.

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El Nina and La Nina

MooMoo Math & Science

In 1998 Kenya, Somalia, and California had record rainfall resulting in all kinds of problems like flooding. At the same time, Indonesia had the worst drought on record. In the south pacific 16 cyclones occurred compared to the average of 8. Why all this extreme weather? El Niño. El Niño is a climate pattern that takes place in the South Pacific. It takes place roughly every 2 to 7 years.

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How Does Optical Fiber Work?

Smore Science

Light is the fastest thing in the universe. Why not get light to piggyback data, and make the internet faster? This is where optical fibers out“shine” other methods. Imagine you are in a room, and it has open doors and windows. Now you stand at the center of one of the walls and throw a ball in a way that it hits the adjacent wall and bounces to the next wall, and this goes on forever.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Fossa

STEMe

Houston, TX There are several wildcats around the world. An outstanding one among them is the Fossa (Cryptotecta forex)! This wild cat type animal is actually related to a mongoose and a civet. It has a wild cat body and a monkey tail. Wondering why this is a weird fusion? Let me walk you through their evolution. Fossa is a mammal with cat behavior.

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2022

ED Surge

All last year, you read, and we tallied. Now we’re ready to reveal the top higher education stories that EdSurge published in 2022, based on their popularity with you, our readers. We’ll do this countdown style, starting with number 10 and working our way to the top article of the year. As these headlines reflect, the last 12 months brought uncertainty, speculation and innovation to higher education.

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Learning to learn data science, part 1: Beginner’s mind

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This is a reprint from a series of posts I'm currently doing on data science in teaching, over at Medium. Beginner’s mind is the concept of approaching life with fresh eyes and a clean slate and no pretension of expertise. When it comes to learning data science, that’s easy for me, because I had no actual expertise to begin with when I started learning the subject in earnest this past summer.

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Do Our Genes Determine What We Eat?

STEMe

Mays Landing, New Jersey Everyone’s heard the common saying “you are what you eat”. Research says that may actually be true. Currently, the data from a preliminary study that involves more than 6000 adults has found that taste-related genes may play a role in determining what someone chooses to eat! This study shows that genetics might be tied to perception of all five tastes-sweet, sour, bitter, salt, and savory- and how they are related to consumption of food groups as well as cardiometabolic