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Here is an interesting program for science minded students

DRI Research Immersion Internship 2021 - DRI Research and solutions for a changing planet.

Jennifer Doudna has always been one of my science heroes. I was a fan back before she was famous

"The Code Breaker": Jennifer Doudna and how CRISPR may revolutionize mankind Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the gene-editing technique which has the potential to cure diseases caused by genetic mutations, and Walter Isaacson, author of "The Code Breaker," talk about the promise of the biotech revolution.

Happy Mars Rover Landing Day!!!

Our own Dr. David Charlet was interviewed on the In Defense of Plants podcast. Take a listen!

Ep. 303 - Lessons in Biogeography from Conifers — In Defense of Plants Ep. 303 - Lessons in Biogeography from Conifers February 7, 2021 This episode occurs at the intersection of botany and geology, two inseparable components of the natural world. For Dr. David Charlet, what started with curiosity about a seemingly out of place population of conifers has developed into...

Isn't this just beautiful!

APOD: The Magnetic Field of the Whirlpool Galaxy (2021 Jan 20)
Image Credit: NASA, SOFIA, HAWC+, Alejandro S. Borlaff;
JPL-Caltech, ESA, Hubble; Text: Jayanne English (U. Manitoba)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210120.html

Explanation: Do magnetic fields always flow along spiral arms? Our face-on view of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) allows a spectacularly clear view of the spiral wave pattern in a disk-shaped galaxy. When observed with a radio telescope, the magnetic field appears to trace the arms' curvature. However, with NASA's flying Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observatory, the magnetic field at the outer edge of M51's disk appears to weave across the arms instead. Magnetic fields are inferred by grains of dust aligning in one direction and acting like polaroid glasses on infrared light. In the featured image, the field orientations determined from this polarized light are algorithmically connected, creating streamlines. Possibly the gravitational tug of the companion galaxy, at the top of the frame, on the dusty gas of the reddish star-forming regions, visible in the Hubble Space Telescope image, enhances turbulence -- stirring the dust and lines to produce the unexpected field pattern of the outer arms.

https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/SOFIA
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/image-feature/one-of-a-kind-camera-added-to-sofia
https://borlaff.github.io/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.esa.int/
https://www.nasa.gov/hubble
http://www2.physics.umanitoba.ca/u/english/
https://sci.umanitoba.ca/physics-astronomy/

Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210120

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Then I'm going to go on a weeks-long somatic hypermutation bender, producing ever-more targeted antibodies, while I continue to remain distanced and follow guidance from public health authorities.

This is just beautiful!

Explore the mind-boggling moons of our solar system Soar through a cosmic menagerie of moons—and learn their long-held secrets—in our interactive atlas.

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APOD: Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge (2020 Jul 14)
Image Credit & Copyright: Declan Deval
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200714.html

Explanation: Have you ever seen a comet? Tonight -- and likely the next few nights -- should be a good chance. Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. The lower your horizon, the better. Binoculars may help, but if your sky is cloudless and dark, all you should need is your unaided eyes and patience. As the Sun sets, the sky will darken, and there will be an unusual faint streak pointing diagonally near the horizon. That is Comet NEOWISE. It is a 5-kilometer-wide evaporating dirty iceberg visiting from -- and returning to -- the outer Solar System. As the Earth turns, the comet will soon set, so you might want to take a picture. In the featured image, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was captured two mornings ago rising over Stonehenge in the UK. Discovered with the NASA satellite NEOWISE toward the end of March, Comet NEOWISE has surprised many by surviving its closest approach to the Sun, brightening dramatically, and developing impressive (blue) ion and (white) dust tails.

https://www.instagram.com/decsphotos/

Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200714

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has been observing the Sun from geosynchronous orbit since June 2010. This hour-long video shows 10 years of near-continuous observations of the Sun.

See the caption of the video for information about events on specific dates.

A Decade of Sun As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the ...

"Dangerous" because it's so fun! 🙃

Mathematician Proves Huge Result on ‘Dangerous’ Problem Mathematicians regard the Collatz conjecture as a quagmire and warn each other to stay away. But now Terence Tao has made more progress than anyone in decades.

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Astrophysicists confirm cornerstone of Einstein's Theory of Relativity An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein's theory of general relativity, 'the universality of free fall."

Happy Earth Day!

This article is a retrospective which discusses how a picture of the Earth taken by astronauts orbiting the moon helped to inspire the first Earth Day celebration.

Earth Day at 50: How Apollo 8's 'Earthrise' photo helped spark the first celebration The snapshot gave us a new perspective on our home planet.