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Some mosquitoes are able to avoid running into walls, even in complete darkness. Now, researchers have figured out how these pesky insects do this, and they’ve used that information to build a sensor that may one day help keep helicopters safe: fcld.ly/oo0iogh
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This is a selection of the thousands of native potato varieties that grow in Peru. What is evenmore interesting is that agronomists are looking to the ancestral knowledge of Peruvian farmers to identify genetic strains that can resist climate change buff.ly/2LjJzgH
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Though it sounds weird, the core of the Earth is about 2.5 years younger than the crust and this is due to gravitational time dilation, a consequence of General Relativity bit.ly/2BTTyW5 [gif: buff.ly/2YqNfW8]
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This week's virtual guest speaking line-up is below. Want to attend @TCWTitans? Fill out the quick form here: bit.ly/acpsVGS All talks are scheduled 12 - 1 pm. @ACPSk12 @AlexandriaSTEM @TCW_STEM @TCWHealthAcad
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Boredom is a key to creativity
During the 18 months of the Great Plague (1665-1666), Isaac Newton conceived calculus, set foundations for his theory of light and color, worked on laws of planetary motion, and legend has it, experienced his inspiration of gravity with the falling apple ow.ly/IBj350uke5T
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Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less politically polarized, and reported improved subjective well-being [study: buff.ly/2yl3JmE]
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The more you can see - the more new worlds you can explore. It's astonishing what we learn when new instrumentation lights the path -- especially in space.
Honey, I shrunk the microscope! 🔬
Results of a @Space_Station demo showed that a miniaturized fluorescence microscope can observe changes in living cells in microgravity. 🧫
Here’s what the station taught us in 2019: go.nasa.gov/2QizGRO
ALT Image of fixed macrophages using three chromophores created by the FLUMIAS-DEA miniaturized fluorescence microscope during a verification test. Image courtesy of: Airbus
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People often confuse the positions of knee and the ankle in most animals. Counscious of this, illustrator Satoshi Kawasaki imagined what would happen if human legs were drawn using animals' skeletons as a base.
[human -> dog -> horse -> flamingo]
source: buff.ly/2NSSWmX
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Overtone singing is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody buff.ly/2L1QE7d [source: buff.ly/2NgeLfd]
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Congrats to @TCWTitans teacher Ra Alim Shabazz & students for their performance in the We the People competition. The Parker Gray Squad won 3rd place & is headed to state finals! This is also the first year that T.C. has won two Best Unit awards. #TitansRising @TCWPrincipal
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Titan Robotics is having a fundraiser at Nando’s PERi-PERi @NandosUSA on King St. this Tuesday, November 5th from 6-9pm! Please tell the cashier you are with Titan Robotics when you pay. We hope to see you there!
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To reveal the folding mechanism of a ladybug's wings, researchers constructed a transparent artificial elytron from ultraviolet light-cured resin: this method revealed the detailed wing-folding mechanism occurring under the elytra [full paper and video: buff.ly/2OGQWkt]
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When Dmitrii Mendeleev proposed his periodic table 150 years ago, no one knew what was inside an atom. #IYPT2019
sciencenews.org/article/peri…
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The eerily beautiful growth of larvae into bees in this mesmerizing time-lapse video from photographer Anand Varma bit.ly/1O7yhVK
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Human brains reorganize experiences while resting to find new solutions
They observed that representations of the new objects were reactivated during subsequent rest. These ‘replay’ events occurred much faster than in their actual experience.
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Using various small-scale writing techniques to visualize the transition from the nano scale to the visible world using a penny. Photolithography is the foundation for most top-down fabrication of things like microprocessors bit.ly/2GtNFOZ
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“That was way more than I was expecting.”
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