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Science Update seminars highlight science in the news, science-related anniversaries or celebrations, targeting all teachers of science and general science enthusiasts.


 

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Archive: Science Update: Observing Hurricanes with Ocean Drones, June 8, 2023

Advancing our understanding of hurricanes and improving forecasts require measurements from the most violent parts of the storms, where ships and airc...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Climate Change Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM

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Archive: Science Update: Europa Clipper: Exploring an Ocean World, May 11, 2023

In this web seminar, a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will share information about the exciting Europa Clipper mission that will explore...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Astronomy Chemistry Earth & Space Science Engineering Life Science Mathematics Physics STEM Technology

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Archive: Science Update: From Talking Trash to Taking Action: The Science of Marine Debris, April 20, 2023

Our oceans are filled with items that do not belong there. Huge amounts of plastics, metals, rubber, textiles, lost fishing gear, abandoned vessels, a...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Chemistry Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM

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Archive: Science Update: Food Agriculture – The Plant Scientist’s Toolbox, March 9, 2023

Humans have used a variety of ways to modify food crops to suit our needs and tastes for more than 10,000 years. Over this time, the plant scientists�...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Biology Chemistry Climate Change Environmental Science Life Science STEM

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Archive: Science Update: From Apollo to Artemis: NASA’s Return to the Moon, February 16, 2023

More than 50 years after the Eagle landed at Tranquility Base, NASA has begun its campaign to return astronauts to the surface of our Moon. Named afte...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Aerospace Earth & Space Science STEM

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Archive: Science Update: State of the Climate 2022, January 19, 2023

The past several years have seen too many weather and climate extremes to count, from record-obliterating heat waves to tremendous rainfall events to ...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Climate Change Environmental Science STEM

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Archive: Science Update: Space Telescope Discoveries of Today and Tomorrow, December 1, 2022

Astronomers have been launching space telescopes above the obscuring effects of the Earth’s atmosphere for decades. Since 1990, the Hubble Space Tel...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Astronomy Earth & Space Science Engineering STEM

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Archive: Science Update: NOAA - Observing and Understanding Earth Systems, November 3, 2022

Together we will explore all the places where we can find NOAA employees and how this federal agency allows us to observe and understand Earth systems...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Climate Change Earth & Space Science Engineering Environmental Science Mathematics STEM Technology

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Archive: Science Update: Earthquakes: What’s Shakin? September 15, 2022

Did you feel it? An earthquake is a shaking movement of the Earth’s Crust as stress overcomes friction. This web seminar will provide basic bac...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Computer Science Earth & Space Science Engineering Mathematics Technology

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Archive: Science Update: Seeing the Unseeable: Imaging Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope, August 25, 2022

Black holes are astrophysical objects with such strong gravity that nothing can escape them, not even light.  In the past few years, the Event Ho...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Astronomy Earth & Space Science STEM

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Archive: Science Update: Is Cancer Inevitable? July 14, 2022

What should teachers, their students, and the general public know about the current state of cancer diagnoses, research, and treatments, and what oppo...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Biology General Science Life Science STEM

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