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Meet Vertex science leaders from 2022: Derya Balata and Teame Araya

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Congratulations to Teame and Derya, Vertex’s New Senior Science Teachers! As they prepare to hit the books for their first year at the University of Massachusetts, let us introduce you to these two talented students who have each been selected to receive a four-year, full scholarship to pursue a STEM-related course of study. Derya Balata, future dentist  Derya was born and raised in Boston, while her family came from Kurdistan. She lives in Dorchester and graduated from the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. Growing up, she was always interested in science and biology – the study ofRead News

New program to support translational research in AI, data science and machine learning

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The MIT School of Engineering and Pillar VC today announced the MIT-Pillar AI Collective, a one-year pilot program funded by a gift from Pillar VC that provides seed grants for projects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science with the goal of supporting translational research . The program supports graduate students and postdocs through access to funding, mentorship and customer discovery. Administered by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, the MIT-Pillar AI Collective will focus on the market discovery process, advancing projects through market research, customer discovery and prototyping. Graduate students and postdocs aim to emerge from theRead News

The 2022 winners: Cool Science Image Contest

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The winners of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s annual Cool Science Image contest—including a quilt organized around a mathematical theorem, an image of tiny swimming plankton for their daily constitution, and lung X-rays rendered by artificial intelligence as classic works of art—are some of the most diverse representations of science in the 12- annual history of the competition. A panel of eight experienced artists, scientists and science communicators selected nine more images and videos based on aesthetic, creative and scientific qualities that distinguished them from numerous submissions. The winning entries show animal cells, crystal structure, quantum computing equipment and a broadRead News

Why do you love the music you love? Science weighs in

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Have you ever wondered why you like a particular song or genre of music? The answer may lie in your personality, although other factors also play a role, researchers say. Many people tend to develop their musical identity during adolescence, around the same time they are exploring their social identity. Preferences can change over time, but research shows that people tend to be particularly fond of music from their teenage years and more easily recall music from a certain age period – 10 to 30 years, with a peak at 14.

Scientists discover that chromosomes are fluid

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The study revealed that chromosomes are fluid, almost liquid, outside of their division phases. Chromosome manipulation in live cells indicates that they are fluid. Researchers from the CNRS, the Institut Curie and the University of the Sorbonne have succeeded for the first time in physically acting on chromosomes in living cells. They discovered that apart from the phases of cell division, the chromosomes are actually very fluid – almost liquid – by being subjected to different forces using magnets. The study was recently published in the prestigious journal Science. When not in their dividing phases, chromosomes are fluid, but notRead News

Science screams the humanity of the unborn whether Abrams likes it or not

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In one news cycle this week, we had two stories about babies in the womb garnering a lot of attention at the same time. Both relied on what science can tell us about the humanity of the unborn. The first was a good, witty segment on the Today Show. They discussed a recent study by England’s Durham University showing that babies in the womb prefer certain foods their mothers consume and have an aversion to others. A kicker? Babies express these preferences just like we do, with unmistakable facial expressions. The babies, seen on stunningly clear 3D ultrasounds, grimaced whenRead News

The College of Science’s J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series returns with an in-person live event

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The Virginia Tech College of Science’s J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series will host its first live, in-person conversation since fall 2019 on Thursday, September 29. The lecture will feature Ron Vale, vice president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and executive director of the Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. Vale will discuss “The World’s Smallest Machine,” an in-depth look at how the cells in every living thing have incredibly complex moving parts that operate similar to robots. Vale is also a professor emeritus of the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. The speechRead News

Bright Idea: Science Sun Camp Friday!

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Sun Camp FAQ Who is this for? All children in the United States and their sun-loving caregivers are welcome to join us as we build, experiment, and investigate using activities that bring the science of the Sun to earth. Not an expert in heliophysics? No problem! We’ll have weekly newsletters, detailed project guides, short instructional videos, Q&A sessions with real NASA scientists, outreach activities, and lots of tips to help youth feel successful and engaged. Do you have a group? Excellent! Clubs, scouts, after-school programs, libraries, museums, homeschool cooperatives, and other community organizations are welcome to join in the solar-poweredRead News

Congress is losing its science man

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Posted on September 23, 2022 at 06:15 Jerry McNerney likes to think about what’s next. Mathematics Ph.D. and former engineer co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Caucus and has spent most of his 16 years in Congress focusing on cutting-edge science topics. But the California Democrat said he didn’t go far enough to advance in the House. The retired member’s advice for the next generation of lawmakers in Washington? Figure out if you’re going to live here for 40 years or just 20 and plan accordingly. “That’s one thing that will help me,” he said. Wearing a solar system tie, McNerneyRead News

Pursuing a passion for science – away from education

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Brittany Leigh didn’t plan to become a communications scientist. He studied biological oceanography, focusing on viruses in marine organisms, during his Ph.D., then viruses in mosquitoes during his postdoc. For much of his early career, he envisioned himself on the professional path. “I was happy: one, participating in interesting science; second, the ability to talk to people about that science; and, third, being able to have the flexibility to create my own schedule. But during my postdoc, I realized that those fundamentals are not unique to being a professor,” Leigh said. At LifeSci Communications, Brittany Leigh can learn about newRead News

5 Hispanic Scientists Who Made Contributions to Science

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We may not always think about it, but scientific input has changed our lives. From new drugs to new technologies, science continues to shape our world. The things we take for granted may once have been the life’s work of a scientist who had to overcome adversity on the basis of gender or race. However, they persisted and communicated their ideas to the world. On the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Month, we present five Latin American scientists who have made an amazing contribution to science. 1. César Milstein (Source: Nishantadeb / Shutterstock) Born in Argentina in 1927, César Milstein’s parentsRead News

Control our minds and better science will follow

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The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the disproportionate burden that certain diseases and conditions – such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome and mental disorders – place on historically excluded, marginalized communities. It has also drawn attention to the negative effects of implicit prejudice and the social construct of race. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Maximizing Access Committee symposiums at Discover BMB in Seattle in March will examine the impact of implicit bias on science at the genomic level, including experimental design and data interpretation, and how they contribute to health differences. This topic is of particular importanceRead News

How science can save the world

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DURING a pandemic, scientists are becoming more prominent in the lives of ordinary people than ever before. And while covid-19 highlights the importance of the field to humanity, it also raises questions about the role of scientists in modern life. Host Alok Jha spoke with astronomer and cosmologist Martin Rees, one of Britain’s top scientists and former president of the Royal Society. His new book “If Science is to Save Us” argues that scientific knowledge can solve some of the world’s biggest problems, but it can also cause great harm. He tells us about the three “big catastrophes” that worryRead News

Governor Mills Announces New Initiative to Bring Mobile Computing Labs to All Schools in Maine | Office of Governor Janet T. Mills

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High-quality education in robotics, programming, coding and other key technologies is available to students across the country Governor Janet Mills today announced the launch of a new Maine Department of Education (DOE) initiative that will provide every Maine public school with a free mobile computer science lab. Funded by the Governor’s Education Emergency Fund, the effort will give all Maine students access to high-quality learning experiences that provide real-world training in robotics, programming, augmented and virtual reality, coding and hardware. In July, Governor Mills joined governors from across the country in signing a bipartisan national compact on computer science education.Read News

When Fossils are accidentally dug up, the workplace becomes a Science Laboratory

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KENT CITY, Michigan – It all started with a really big thigh bone. When Kevin Busscher dipped his backhoe shovel into the soft soil of Michigan last month, he knew the femur he plucked from the ground was far too big to have belonged to a cow or horse. And he knew the diver he was replacing would have to wait. “My first thought was, ‘Woolly mammoth!’” said Mr. Busscher, who reported his find to the provincial officials overseeing the project, who passed on photos of the bones to scientists. It turned out that he had found the skeleton ofRead News

Francis Collins on trust in science and how Covid communication failed

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Former NIH director and current White House science adviser Francis Collins told a group of reporters last week about his love for the Cancer Moonshot and the new biomedical research agency known as ARPA -H. But he also revealed his pain at seeing people turn away from mRNA Covid vaccines being developed at an alarming rate and lamented that he and other health officials had failed to communicate the ever-changing science behind ‘of the Covid recommendations. “The big thing I know I didn’t do, and I don’t think a lot of advocates did, was say this is an ongoing crisis,Read News

Why should we trust science? Because he doesn’t trust himself

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Most of us accept science as a reliable guide to what we should believe – but not all of us. Distrust of science has led to skepticism on a number of important issues, from climate change denial to the reluctance to protect during the COVID pandemic. And although many of us would like to dismiss such skepticism as irrational, it raises the question: Why should we trust science? As a philosopher who focuses on the philosophy of science, I am particularly interested in this question. As it turns out, delving into the works of great thinkers can help provide answers.Read News

Science links of the week » Explorersweb

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A passion for the outdoors drives many of our adventures. And when we’re not outside, we love to immerse ourselves in discoveries about the places we live and travel. Here are some of the best natural history links we found this week. Caribou in trouble Declining caribou populations in Labrador: In the 1980s, the George River caribou herd was the largest in the world at three quarters of a million animals. Between the 1990s and 2010s, the population declined by 99%. Although communities in the area were used to fluctuations in caribou numbers, they could not fathom the dramatic loss.Read News

Peak Cuteness, and Other Revelations from the Science of Puppies

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Neanderthals didn’t live with puppies. But Homo sapiens has been doing that for thousands of years. The guarding that wolves and dogs provided for early humans probably contributed to why we thrived and Neanderthals ultimately did not. In “Animals in Translation,” from 2005, the scientist Temple Grandin presents this argument, and also points out that many ways in which Homo sapiens differ from other primates are curiously doggish. Like dogs, we come to hunt in packs and have same-sex friendships. Grandin explained that as dogs became domesticated, their brains shrank. But it wasn’t just the dog’s brain that was altered.Read News

Data science reveals the universal rules that shape the powerhouses of cells

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Mitochondria are compartments — so-called “organelles” — in our cells that provide the chemical energy supply we need to move, think and live. Chloroplasts are organelles in plants and algae that capture sunlight and carry out photosynthesis. At first glance, they might look worlds apart. But an international team of researchers, led by the University of Bergen, used data science and computational biology to show that the same “rules” shaped how both organelles — and more — evolved throughout life’s history. Both types of organelle were once independent organisms, with their own complete genomes. Billions of years ago, these organismsRead News

Environmental risks from artificial lighting at night are widespread and increasing across Europe

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If humans use natural things to create something new that provides benefits and value for our lives, then it is called man-made resources. For example, when we use metal, wood, cement, sand, and solar energy to make buildings, machines, vehicles, bridges, roads, etc. they become man-made resources. Is gold a natural resource? The most common categories of natural resources are minerals (such as gold and lead) and energy resources (such as coal and oil). Air, forests and oceans can also be classified as natural resources. Is gold a natural resource on Earth? In its natural form, it is found deepRead News

Opinion: Feminist science is not an oxymoron

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In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, a mystery hit the news headlines: Men, it seemed, were dying from the infection at twice the rate of women. To explain this alarming disparity, researchers looked for innate biological differences between the sexes, for example, protective levels of sex hormones or different immune responses between men and women. Some even went so far as to test the possibility of treating infected men with estrogen injections. This focus on biological sex differences turned out to be woefully inadequate, as a group of Harvard-affiliated researchers pointed out earlier this year. By analyzing moreRead News

How vlogs with my students enrich our science

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About a year ago, my department at South China University of Technology in Guanghzou invited me to submit a 5-minute video clip about my research lab, which will be screened at a summer camp in secondary school. With many outreach experiences under my belt after five years as a Principal Investigator, I was confident enough to achieve this. After three seconds of filming myself on my phone in my office, I realized I had been too optimistic. I had to press ‘Pause’ because I couldn’t help looking around the room. And while looking at myself in front of the camera,Read News

Inside the US Supreme Court’s war on science

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In late June, the US Supreme Court issued a trio of key decisions that revoked the right to abortion, relaxed gun restrictions and curtailed climate regulations. While the decisions differed in rationale, they share one distinct feature: All three rejected substantial evidence about how the court’s rulings would affect public health and safety. It’s a troubling trend that many scientists fear could undermine the role of scientific evidence in shaping public policy. As the court prepares for a groundbreaking election policy case, many are concerned about the future of American democracy itself. Often regarded as the most powerful court inRead News

Alumni presentation: Colin J Potter | Scientific College

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Colin J Potter, a native of Tucson and a 2018 graduate with a double major in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science and Molecular & Cellular Biology, didn’t think about continuing his education after graduation. After graduating with a double major in 2018, he earned a master’s degree in optical sciences and will graduate in 2022. Potter immediately became an MD/PhD student at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and expects to earn both degrees in 2026. Potter spoke to the Faculty of Science to reflect on his time as an undergraduate and how it prepared him for the rest ofRead News

Real Skills: Computer Science Education

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What is Computer Science Education? Computer science is the study of the capabilities and limitations of computers. Through computer science education, students develop critical thinking, or the ability to understand how CS can be used in all areas of life. NYC Public Schools students develop critical thinking skills by using computers in creative ways. Computer Science for All (CS4All) NYC Public Schools’ Computer Science for All (CS4All) program works to ensure that schools expand computer science (CS) exposure, offering access to CS information in real life, and create a community in computer science for all children. Through the work ofRead News

Lesson Plan: Explore How CRISPR Is Revolutionizing Science

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Lesson Plans | Find out how CRISPR is revolutionizing science https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/learning/lesson-plans/explore-how-crispr-is-revolutionizing-science.html Lesson Overview Featured Article: “CRISPR, 10 Years Later: Learn to Rewrite Life’s Code” by Carl Zimmer The gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, which turned 10 years old this year, has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture. However, it has also raised deep ethical questions about altering human DNA. In this lesson, students will learn how CRISPR works, how the field is changing science, and how scientists are grappling with the ethical questions this revolutionary technology raises. Warm-Up Part I: Watch the video below about the original CRISPRRead News