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Open science is a collaborative culture enabled by technology that empowers the open sharing of data, information & knowledge to accelerate scientific research & understanding.🧪

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The world's most efficient recycling plant – the human kidney - produces about 170 litres of primary urine in twenty-four hours. Fortunately, most of this is recovered thanks to a series of cunning mechanisms so that finally, only about one litre of urine leaves the body during this time. This recycling machinery consists chiefly of water channels in the cell membranes called aquaporins.

A single human being is made up of about one hundred thousand million cells. The various cells – e.g. muscle cells, kidney cells and nerve cells – act together in an intricate system in each one of us. To maintain even pressure in the cells it is important that water can pass through the cell wall. The appearance and function of these pores, remained for a long time as one of the classical unsolved problems of biochemistry. It was not until around 1990 that Peter Agre succeeded in isolating a protein that he proved was the sought-after water channel. He named the protein aquaporin, "water pore". Agre received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery of water channels".

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NSTA conferences are home to hundreds of professional learning sessions and hands-on workshops for science educators across all grade levels and science disciplines. Whether you’re an elementary educator introducing students to scientific concepts, a university physics professor teaching quantum mechanics, or a school administrator looking for resources to help your school or district science department, you belong here.

Join us for NSTA and gain exciting new teaching strategies, an expanded network of STEM educators from across the nation, and a renewed sense of passion for STEM education. Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/40KlVzI. Pennsylvania Convention Center - Philadelphia, PA (Philly)

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Join The GLOBE Program Mission Mosquito team on Feb. 27th for a webinar sharing how your citizen science observations can help scientists create an early warning system for mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. 🦟

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Explore upcoming events, plus career exploration opportunities, online learning & more!

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Join the 🌏 GLOBE Program (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) and become part of a community of educators, students, and citizen scientists studying the Earth around them.

By collecting and analyzing environmental data, you’ll contribute to a database of more than a quarter billion data points used by students and scientists across the world for research and learning!

Who can join? Anyone living in a participating GLOBE country! Check if your country is involved or learn how to bring GLOBE to your area: https://www.globe.gov/do-globe

February is Black History Month, and NSTA is honoring the generations of African Americans who have made lasting contributions to the advancement of science and STEM fields.

From groundbreaking scientists like Kizzmekia Corbett, whose work contributed to the first mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, to Dr. Herman Branson, a biophysicist who discovered a key protein structure in DNA, to Otis Boykin who invented the first electrical resistor (a part now used in many common devices, including computers and televisions), their legacies inspire us to strive for a more inclusive and equitable future in STEM.

Join us this month in celebrating diversity in STEM education. Together, we can cultivate curiosity and empower the next generation of scientists and educators.

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