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Landform observatory at Mt. Pollux to highlight Pioneer Valley’s deep geologic history
NEPM - Massachusetts
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August 22, 2025
While there's a new observatory in the works in Amherst, Massachusetts, it's not aimed at looking up. It's a landform observatory. On a recent hot summer day Thomas Johnson, founder of the Friends of Mt. Pollux, and NEPM's Carrie Healy walked up...
Did Lancaster Public School District students succeed or flounder in their 2023-24 mathematics tests?
NW Minnesota News
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August 22, 2025
Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim WalzWillie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim Walz In Lancaster Public School District 36% of the...
Armenian Highschoolers Win Three Medals at Astronomy/Astrophysics Olympiad
Hetq
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August 22, 2025
Armenia won two silver and one bronze medal at the 18th International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) held in Mumbai, India. The Armenian highschoolers were led by Hrant Topchyan of the Yerevan Physics Institute and Artashes...
Did STEP Academy School District students succeed or flounder in their 2023-24 mathematics tests?
St. Paul Reporter - Minnesota
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August 22, 2025
Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | sahanjournal.comWillie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | sahanjournal.com In STEP Academy School District 20.5% of the students passed the...
Tata Steel’s Young Astronomer Talent Search Returns for 19th Edition
The Avenue Mail
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August 22, 2025
Jamshedpur, August 22: The 19th edition of the Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS), organised by Tata Steel in collaboration with Pathani Samanta Planetarium, Bhubaneswar, under the Science & Technology Department, Government of Odisha, was...
Local ecology inspires new mural project at Burnside Road in Victoria
CHEK
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August 22, 2025
Burnside Road will be getting a lot more colourful with the induction of a new large-scale mural sponsored by the Gorge Tillicum Community Association (GTCA). The new mural will be created by local artist Collin Elder. Elder’s work focuses on...
Armenian schoolchildren win 2 silver and 1 bronze medals at International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Arminfo
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ArmInfo. Armenian schoolchildren won 2 silver and 1 bronze medals at the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics in Mumbai (India), from August 11 to 21. As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture...
Did Sibley East School District students succeed or flounder in their 2023-24 mathematics tests?
SC Minnesota News
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August 22, 2025
Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim WalzWillie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim Walz In Sibley East School District 36.5% of the students...
Astronomy Olympiad team of Iran becomes world champion
Mehr News Agency
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August 21, 2025
The Iranian team has achieved a remarkable feat at the 17th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), securing the first-place position with a clean sweep of five gold medals. The Iranian team in this edition of the competitions...
The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as astronomers thought
The Conversation
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August 22, 2025
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of stars to form the first planets. The first stars...
Science The Conversation The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as astronomers thought
Yahoo News
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For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of stars to form the first planets. The first stars...
Astronomers reveal hidden black holes, not dark matter, as the glue of the Milky Way’s faintest satellite
The Economic Times
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August 21, 2025
Ursa Major III, the faintest known satellite of the Milky Way, may not be a dark-matter-rich dwarf galaxy as previously believed. Located over 30,000 light-years away and containing just 60 visible stars, this ghostly object has long puzzled...
Astronomical costs of occupation: Israel set to shoulder economic burden of 2 million Gazans
Haaretz
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August 20, 2025
In recent months, an aid worker employed by an international organization in the Gaza Strip encountered a seemingly simple problem: he needed to clear trash from the area where he was operating so his aid project could function.
Geologists dismiss recent Myanmar quake as disaster
The Nation Thailand
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August 21, 2025
Santi Pailoplee, a geology professor at Chulalongkorn University, echoed the call for calm. He explained that a quake of this magnitude is not categorised as a disaster. “For an event to be considered a disaster, there would need to be building...
A Geologist Discovered The World’s Oldest Water Deep In A Mine, Then She Tasted It
IFL Science
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August 22, 2025
Back in 2016, deep inside a Canadian mine, geologists stumbled upon something extraordinary. At nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, they found water that had been sealed away for up to 2.64 billion years, the oldest known water on...
Astronomers combine X-ray and radio data to map pulsar 'hand' nebula
Phys.org
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August 20, 2025
In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object. Now, new...
Practitioners' insights: From mines to green hills – two generations witness 20 years of China's ecological development miracle under 'two mountains' concept
Global Times
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Editor's Note: August 15 marks the National Ecology Day. During an inspection tour to Yucun village, Anji county in East China's Zhejiang Province on August 15, 2005, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist...
Iranian Astronomy Olympiad Team crowned world’s best for second consecutive year
Iran Front Page
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August 22, 2025
They won the outstanding title in a competition in which 64 countries participated. The achievement brought the Iranian competitors prestigious medals and reaffirmed their position at the top of the global rankings. The distinguished members of...
Astronomers Stunned by the Strangest Supernova Ever Seen
ScienceDaily
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An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected a never-before-seen type of exploding star, or supernova, that is rich with silicon, sulfur and argon. When massive stars explode, astrophysicists...
Four medals for Bulgaria at International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics
BNR - Radio Bulgaria
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August 22, 2025
Bulgarian students won four medals at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), which was held in India, the Ministry of Education has reported. The team returned home with three gold and one silver medal, as well as an...