Materials Science Development 2/8/2021
Manganese could make luminescent materials and the conversion of sunlight more sustainable
Sounds like an interesting development. You can read more on Science Daily [2]. I think the significant part of this discovery is that Manganese [2] is cheaper and more readily available. Please feel free, to open a thread on Discourse [3] in order to discuss further.
Links
1 Main Article
2 Royal Society of Chemistry – Manganese
3 Discourse
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#Science,#ScienceDaily,#Materials,#Managnese,#Liminescent,#Sunlight,#Chemistry
The Importance of Small Objects: Exocomets
This is the August public lecture from the Space Telescope Science Institute
#Science,#Space,#stsci,#Telescope,#Astronomy
How to Hunt for Distant Worlds
Since the discovery of the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star in 1995, more than 4,000 exoplanets have been found. These widespread planetary systems confirm that our solar system is just one of many in our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of such systems provided intriguing insights, challenging our perspectives about how planetary systems form and evolve. But how do astronomers search for these exoplanets and what can we find out about them? Join Dr. Rickman as she describes the scientific hunt for these distant worlds.
The lecture starts at about 13:30 minutes in after all the news updates.
Host: Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute
Recorded live on Tuesday, June 1, 2021
More information: www.stsci.edu/public-lectures
Very interesting lecture, some of this has been talked about before however it is always good to listen to different explanations of the same topics. The upcoming JWST is hopefully going to open up a lot more discoveries.
The lecture makes reference to the discovery of the moons around Jupiter with the first telescope. Which really puts in to context how quickly things have moved on. First exoplanet was found in 1992, but only recently has the number found increased.
Links at the end to the zooniverse project, two of these projects are to do with searching for exo-planets so this gives citizens a chance to take part (and get cited) in real research.
#Space,#Science,#Telescope,#TheHuntForDistanceWorlds,#STSCI,#stsci
FutureLearn course
I am just starting “Astronomy and Space Physics: Teaching Secondary Science”. This is to help me gain more familiarity on what is taught in secondary school science. Hopefully I can find employment to support the curriculum in some capacity.
It is important to be 'pro-active' in this, gain new skills and show you are willing to learn, develop and research content.
I feel that I have a lot to offer, so hopefully I will be able to make a positive contribution one day.
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#School,#Education,#UnitedKingdom,#Science,#Physics,#Space
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Open Insulin
If anyone tells you that there is nothing interesting on the Fediverse, then they probably have never used it. I found this earlier,
The Open Insulin Foundation is a non-profit creating the means for communities in-need to have local sources of safe, affordable, high-quality insulin.
I feel this project is well worth checking out and if possible supporting. Lets help more people world wide and reduce the medical divide that is clearly happening.
This was posted by Hacker News Tooter
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#Science,#Medication,#Insulin,#OpenInsulin
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Biotechnology Definition
As I have been making posts on the various webinars I have been attending. I decided to make a post to point to the definition of Biotechnology. This is for informational reasons. Included links to a few forms too.
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#Scismic,#BioTechnology,#Science,#Biology,#Research
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Physics on the curriculum
Just been looking through my Physics world [1] article archive and came across this from August 2020 [2]. This is looking at how Physics is taught, the lack of recent discoveries included in the curriculum and how this could be linked to a lower interest in studying Physics further.
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#Science,#Physics,#Education,#UK,#Curriculum
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Standard Cosmological Model
This was posted to Twitter earlier by Peter Coles [1]. Interesting blog post about the Cosmological model [2], a link to a paper on arXiv [3]. I have also started a discussion on discourse [4].
A few interesting ideas presented here. The nice thing about these papers is that you can then look at references and find a whole new set of papers go read through on related subjects. You sort of fall down the rabbit hole with this.
All we need now is a club similar to CoderDojo where we can get together and discuss. Would need to be open to ALL ages though. This is something that my Study Support group could do though.
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1 Peter Coles
2 Blog post
3. arXiv Paper
4. Discourse post
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#Science,#Physics,#Astronomy,#Cosmology,
#StandardCosmologicalModel
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Translate Science
Another interesting project that I found on Mastodon. This is translating academic and science texts to different languages.
I have replied to their Mastodon post and also mentioned the Africa Wiki project / contest. As the two projects could complement each other if there are articles on Wikipedia about African Scientists and contributors to science. Ensure these articles on Wikipedia are also translated. But also perhaps translate associated Science texts too.
Of course it is all down to the number of people who have the skills are willing to share these skills.
From a personal viewpoint, I really feel employers MUST recognise these contributions. They are valuable to the projects but also help people develop important skills such as remote collaboration.
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#Science,#Academic,#Text,#Papers,#Translation
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