The Science Spot: Career Links

The Science Spot: Career Links:

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Baseball: From pitch to hits | Science News for Kids

Baseball: From pitch to hits | Science News for Kids: "When the bat hits the ball, the ball goes flying. A lot happens in that split second, as energy is transferred from the player to the bat, and then to the ball. "

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Maths and Stats by Email | Minimal surfaces

Maths and Stats by Email | Minimal surfaces: " Feral fences foster furry friends    

Take two pieces of string of equal length. Take one piece and create a square. Cut the other piece in half and make two squares. Now imagine these pieces of string are fences, kilometres long. The fences protect a reserve of endangered bilbies from feral foxes and cats. So, if you have money to build fences, what’s better: one enclosure, or two?"



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Science by Email | Supercomputer, Tree biscuits

Science by Email | Supercomputer, Tree biscuits: "News: All the Raijin  
   

Australia’s most powerful supercomputer – Raijin – has been officially launched. Imagine arming the population of Earth with calculators and setting them to work for 20 years. Raijin is so fast it could complete the same number of calculations in one hour!
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Maths and Stats by Email | Following rules

Maths and Stats by Email | Following rules: "The maths of lab-grown livers  
   

Scientists researching liver disease need a lot of liver samples for experiments. As such, it would be useful to be able to grow liver tissue in the lab. A new simulation, written by mathematician Thomas Brown, could help make lab-grown liver samples a reality."

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Science by Email | Clocks, Mummification

Science by Email | Clocks, Mummification: " Ticking away  
   

It’s a question that millions of people ask every day: ‘What’s the time?’ Knowing the time is an essential part of everyday life and important to scientific research as well.

Depending on their field of research, scientists are interested in time in different ways. A chemist might study what happens in the first second of a chemical reaction, while an astrophysicist might be interested in the origins of the Universe, billions of years ago. Regardless of what they’re studying, scientists often need good ways of measuring time."

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Camels linked to mystery disease | Science News for Kids

Camels linked to mystery disease | Science News for Kids: "A mysterious and deadly virus has sickened 94 people — killing 46 — in parts of the Middle East, Europe and northern Africa. A new study finds that camels (the one-humped type) may have introduced the new disease to people.

The germ responsible is a virus that lives in people’s lungs, throats and noses. Scientists recently named the disease it causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS."

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Science by Email | Neanderthal tools, Flower pressing

Science by Email | Neanderthal tools, Flower pressing: "News: Not so primitive Neanderthals  
   

What’s your name? No, not your personal name – your species name. You and every other person on the planet are from the same species: Homo sapiens, or modern humans. Today, we are the only human species, but this wasn’t always the case.
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Google Doodle kitty honors physicist Erwin Schrodinger | Internet & Media - CNET News

Google Doodle kitty honors physicist Erwin Schrodinger | Internet & Media - CNET News: "The man who tried to explain some of the enigmas behind quantum mechanics has earned a Google Doogle.
Born on August 12, 1887, physicist Erwin Schrödinger won the 1933 Nobel prize in physics for his contributions to the often bewildering area of wave mechanics. But Schrödinger is probably best known for his weaving a tale about a theoretical cat in an attempt to describe the paradox of quantum physics."

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A lost frog in the lost world?

A lost frog in the lost world?: "Ecotourism and Conservation -- Can it work? In the context of a study in the forests of Central Guyana, a team of scientists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Dresden investigated this very question and by chance found a previously undiscovered species of frog that only exists in a very confined area of the so-called Iwokrama Forest."

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'Beetle in spider's clothing:' Quaint new species from Philippine Rainforest Creeks

'Beetle in spider's clothing:' Quaint new species from Philippine Rainforest Creeks: "For biologists it is an easy matter: spiders have eight legs and insects have six. This fact is important when beholding and recognizing the tiny new species of Spider Water Beetles from the Philippine Island of Mindoro discovered by researchers of the Ateneo de Manila University."

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Raytheon’s MathMovesU: Making Math and Science Fun for Middle Schoolers

Raytheon’s MathMovesU: Making Math and Science Fun for Middle Schoolers: For use in the classroom and at home! STEM games and challenges for middle school students!

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Middle School Math Games

Middle School Math Games: Fun math games for grades 6-8!

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Science by Email | E-skin, Potatoes

Science by Email | E-skin, Potatoes: "

Stethoscopes, thermometers and X-rays are all used by doctors to find out what’s going on inside the human body. In the future, instead of bulky and sometimes uncomfortable equipment, an electronic skin might monitor your vital signs."
Read more about how scientists are solving this issue and try this month's at-home experiment!


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Science Update: The Science Radio News Feature of the AAAS

Science Update: The Science Radio News Feature of the AAAS: " Podcast for 2 August 2013 - NATURE & HEALTH - Scientists look to the oceans for new antibiotics. The full moon affects sleep patterns. And, how paleo is the so-called "Paleo" diet? Also: How apes remember events."

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Population Clock

Population Clock:
US Census bureau population clock!
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About CalPhotos

About CalPhotos: "CalPhotos has been on the web since 1995 and was one of the first online image databases specializing in natural history subjects. The database currently contains 395,602 digital images of plants, animals, and other natural history subjects, along with descriptive information including scientific and common names, location and dates of photos, and other information provided by the person or organization that contributed the photos. Around 2,000 new photos are added each month by a variety of organizations and individuals that have registered with CalPhotos. CalPhotos receives more than 120,000 specific queries per day, and serves more than 1 million images per day, as of early 2008. (Details about current usage are available here.)
The taxonomic and geographic information that accompanies the photos, along with the annotation system, which allows experts to review identifications for the photos, result in a uniquely useful database for scientists, students, and other people interested in natural history. In addition to numerous ways to search the photos, common and scientific name browse lists and photo thumbnail browse lists add functionality for people searching for specific photos or taxa via web search engines, and make browsing easy and user-friendly."

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Cornell Lab Bird Cams | Virtual Bird Watching at its Best

Cornell Lab Bird Cams | Virtual Bird Watching at its Best:

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Botanical Record-Breakers (Part 2 of 2)

Botanical Record-Breakers (Part 2 of 2):

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What bug is this? - Amateur Entomologists' Society (AES)

What bug is this? - Amateur Entomologists' Society (AES):

If you have found an unknown insect (or other invertebrate) and would like to identify it then the AES can help you.

There are roughly one million described species of insect and experts estimate that there are probably another five million speciesthat are yet to be identified. If you combine that total with the millions of species of invertebrate that are not insects (e.g. spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, ticks etc.) you'll realise that no one person can ever be an expert in any more than a relatively small area.

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