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Astronomers vs. Kids available now
EU-UNAWE is delighted to announce the release of a brand new educational tool: Astronomers vs. Kids! The two new videos have been created specifically for use by educators, to help introduce the hottest topics in astronomy to the classroom, answer the most fundamental questions about the universe and incite a passion for astronomy in curious young students.
Contact: Pedro Russo
russo@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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The secret lives of bubbles
A froth of soap suds, a handful of shaving cream or the mass of bubbles that sits on top of a freshly poured soda -- all of these things are foams or foam-like materials. They all have complex dynamics too, since the individual bubbles that make them up are constantly growing, popping and shape-shifting.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Rising from ashes
Like the legendary phoenix, a number of Earth-like planets have been spotted rising from the ashes of a pair of burnt-out stars, many light years from our solar system. Observations show that these planets probably get their rocky material from nearby asteroids which were torn apart by the stars' strong gravitational fields! The pulverized material would have been pulled into a ring shape surrounding the retired stars and within this disc, brand new planets formed!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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With heart cells, middle schoolers learn the hard lessons of science
The drug trial is not off to an auspicious start. The cells are not cooperating. "My control is a beater, but right now my other ones are not," observes Morgridge Outreach Experiences assistant coordinator Irene Landrum as she works under a lab hood manipulating plates of cardiomyocytes, the workhorse cells of the human heart. "Let's get these guys warmed up. If they're too cold, they can stop beating."
Contact: Jeffrey Steele
jdsteele@madison.k12.wi.us
608-442-2973
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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I can see your halo
The universe is enormous and full of empty space. Yet somehow, despite all this empty space, galaxies crashing into each other is a fairly common sight. One such collision has been caught in this cosmic picture; which shows the enormous cloud of hot gas surrounding two large colliding galaxies called NGC 6240.
Contact: Megan Watzke
mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu
617-496-7998
Chandra X-ray Center
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Robotic flies take to the skies
The common house-fly is one of nature's most agile fliers, capable of dodging flyswatters and carefully landing on flowers that are blowing in the wind. Now, researchers have designed a small, flying robot -- about the size of a house-fly -- that can execute the same tricky maneuvers.
Contact: Science Press Package Team
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Cloudy with a chance of star birth
There's no atmosphere in space. This means that there is no weather; no cool breeze, no torrential rainfall and definitely no snow ... but there are clouds. "Nebulae" are clouds of gas and dust in space. These clouds come in many different varieties: some are the remains of dead stars, while others are areas of vigorous star birth. This new space picture includes a number of different types of nebula, take a look and find out more.
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Plastic problem payoff for STEM savvy students
Extraordinary problem-solving and creativity earned 29 high school students from Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania top honors -- and top dollars -- in the 2013 Moody's Mega Math Challenge, a math modeling contest organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and sponsored by the Moody's Foundation.
Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
karthika@siam.org
267-350-6383
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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The warped fabric of our universe
Have you ever wondered why people on the other side of the world don't fall off? In the 17th century, a man called Isaac Newton came up with an answer: "gravity," a force that attracts all bodies that have mass. But, more recently, Albert Einstein came up with another idea for what gravity is. He suggested that it's actually the curving of the fabric of the universe, known as "spacetime," around objects. Is he right?
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Probing and proving gravity theory
Scientists have identified a neutron star, the densest kind of a star in the universe, which has helped them prove Einstein's theory of relativity in a place it's never been tested, a new study in Science reports.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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