Endeavour Sports High School Science

Watch: Koa Smith at Skeleton Bay | Swellnet Dispatch | Swellnet Are we sick of Skeleton Bay yet? Has it passed it's use by date just as Cape Solander, P'Pass, and G'land have? Each of them great waves that once graced covers but now fly under the radar.

Could you hear Yanni or Laurel? The explanation comes from how the Cochlea processes information as we get older.
Year 9 have been looking at the function of the ear in our "Communication" topic.

Is that a bright star in the sky next to the waxing Crescent Moon? No, it's actually the planet Venus (also incorrectly referred to as "The Evening Star".

The other bright "star" rising in the east is also another planet, Jupiter.

A perfect night for our year 10 students who are currently studying the astronomy topic "Origins" to head outdoors for some planet spotting.

9SK cow’s eye dissection. The lens magnifies and inverts an image.

Today, 222 years ago on May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner extracted the contents of a pustule from the arm of a cowpox-infected milkmaid, Sarah Nelmes. He then injected it into the arm of an eight year old boy, James Phipps.
As Jenner expected, immunisation with the cowpox virus only caused mild symptoms in the boy.
When he subsequently inoculated the boy with smallpox virus (an act now considered completely unethical), the boy showed no symptoms of the disease.
Smallpox is the only disease in humans that has been completely eradicated by vaccines. It is highly contagious, and caused by orthopoxviruses belonging to the species Variola virus. Variola viruses (VARVs) belong to the family Poxviridae, which also includes the species Monkeypox virus, Molluscum contagiosum virus, and Vaccinia virus. Vaccinia virus (VACV) served as the antigen in the smallpox vaccine.
The genome consists of a single, linear molecule of double-stranded DNA that is replicated in the host cell's cytoplasm.
Smallpox was once one of the most prevalent of all diseases. It was a universally dreaded scourge for more than 3 millennia, with case fatality rates of 20-50%; and disabled and disfigured those who survived.

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