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Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia. Tyson's professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile.
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Cell Size and Scale
Some cells are visible to the unaided eye The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long. That means that under the right conditions, you might be able to see an ameoba proteus, a human egg, and a paramecium without using magnification. A magnifying glass can help you to see them more clearly, but they will still look tiny. Smaller cells are easily visible under a light microscope. It's even possible to make out structures within the cell, such as the nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts.Ep8 Part 1 | Sciencelearn Hub
Hi, I'm John Watt and welcome to Ever Wondered? This week, we’re taking a look at one of the biggest scientific challenges we’ve ever faced, climate change.
Lift your right foot a few inches from the floor and then begin to move it in a clockwise direction. While you're doing this, use a finger your right index finger to draw a number 6 in the air. Your foot will turn in an anticlockwise direction and there's nothing you can do about it! What’s happening?
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According to this article from the Wall Street Journal , Wafaa Bilal , an Iraqi assistant professor at New York University, is having a camera surgically embedded in the back of his head. The unusual act is part of a museum installation called 3rdI . For a year, the camera will take still pictures in one-minute intervals and send them wirelessly to Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, which will display them on monitors. Bilal is known for his provocative art. He has a tattoo on his back that details American and Iraqi casualties, he set up a website where people could shoot him remotely with paint balls and created a suicide-bomber avatar of himself in a video game that hunted down President George W. Bush.
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Play golf using protons in magnetic fields. Start with simple fields, then move all the way up to golfing in Earth’s magnetic field. Complete the quiz and get access to a bonus hole. Complete all holes and you can post your score.Maurizio Porfiri wants to build robots that can herd fish like sheepdogs. Sound fishy? He's farther along than you might expect. A few years ago, Porfiri, a mechanical engineer at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, discovered real fish would mill about and follow his robotic fish. And since then, he's been trying to understand why. In a recent study, he found that how the robot flaps its tail seems to be part of the secret to being a leader of fishes.
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You are enjoying your breakfast after having put some salt on your scrambled eggs when your nerdy brother presents you with an ice cube floating in a glass of water and a short length of string.Braingle