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Why do some people always get lost?

Popular Science 16 Apr 2024
Men and women also were equally adept at pointing to out-of-sight locations, they reported in Topics in Cognitive Science ... Research by Newcombe and her then graduate student Steven Weisberg underscores the importance of such mental maps in navigation.
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New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space

Phys Dot Org 16 Apr 2024
In a paper published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, researchers describe how they explored the complex breccia of the Winchombe meteorite ... 10.1111/maps.14164 ... Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
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Where to go after the Oak Lab in Grounded

Games Radar 15 Apr 2024
Afterwards, head back to 3 and start climbing upwards, through the Spiderlings, and take a zipwire (very short, there's barely space for it) on the map to a small, higher lab.Raw Science Lab.
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Lima Public Library Book Reviews

Lima Ohio 13 Apr 2024
Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science ... On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of ...
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Read an exclusive excerpt from Why We Die by Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Hindustan Times 12 Apr 2024
... who also wrote science fiction ... Mapping all the neurons in a brain is an emerging science called connectomics ... Even if we could develop such a map, it would not be nearly enough to simulate a brain.
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Week in art: NoBo Art District member show at the Bus Stop gallery and other ...

Daily Camera 12 Apr 2024
... and present cartography, on display until May; 9 a.m., Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library (Benson Earth Sciences building), 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder; free; colorado.edu/libraries.
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Nothing is everything: How hidden emptiness can define the usefulness of filtration materials

Phys Dot Org 11 Apr 2024
... professor Ying Li, is the first to integrate materials science and a mathematical concept called graph theory to help image and map out the random placement of these voids within filtration materials.
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Local students win Congressional App Challenge with innovative bathroom finder app

AM New York 11 Apr 2024
First place winners Rachel Wu of Fresh Meadows, Yuan Gao of Flushing and Eugene Xu of Bayside are all seniors in the Bronx High School of Science, a prestigious specialized high school with a focus on STEM.
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Hundreds of Colorado students step into the shoes of first responders

CBS News 09 Apr 2024
Soon after, fire science and EMT students arrived ... "We're putting evidence markers down, we're photographing stuff, we're drawing it on a map with a key," said Christian Jobson, a Forensic Science student.
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Peregrine falcons expose lasting harms of flame retardant use

Phys Dot Org 09 Apr 2024
Last year the Green Science Policy Institute released a map of more than 150 species of wild animals across every continent contaminated with old and new flame retardant chemicals ... Environmental Science & Technology.
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OSU campus, Kinney field, College of Wooster draw crowds to to watch solar eclipse

The Daily Record - Wooster 09 Apr 2024
A few minutes of darkness in the middle of the day drew hundreds of visitors to The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), Monday to celebrate the total eclipse of the sun.
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Charting the night sky with exascale computers

Phys Dot Org 08 Apr 2024
Simulations use observational data from telescopes that map the current sky to test various hypotheses about how the universe evolved. The DOE's Office of Science supports a number of telescopes that take huge amounts of data.
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Where to find solar eclipse glasses at the last minute: Libraries, stores, more

Detroit Free Press 08 Apr 2024
Check this map to see which Michigan libraries received eclipse glasses through this effort ... Michigan Science Center ... “The Michigan Science Center currently has eclipse glasses on sale for $2 per person,” she said.
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What do Taiwan's (and Himachal's and New York's) earthquakes teach us about our preparedness?

Hindustan Times 07 Apr 2024
Perhaps a gentle reminder that history can repeat itself! The science behind earthquakes ... A tectonic activity map of the earth of the last one million years created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre.(NASA/WikiCommons).
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A total eclipse is more than a spectacle. So I’m on the road to see ...

The Los Angeles Times 06 Apr 2024
Eclipses were once crucial in producing more accurate land and sea maps, and they inform solar science to this day ... the 2024 path of totality onto a detailed map of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
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