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Amira Fernández – combating ‘tags’ in STEM

Frontiers

As with addressing any problem, Fernández hopes to counteract damaging ‘tags’ in science by ‘going to the base’.This It instantly became a tag of my personality for my teachers,” recalls the researcher saying that one teacher used to ridicule her in front of other students just because she was ‘better as a communicator than a scientist’.It

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The ten-billion-dollar gamble: What the JWST will do (and why it’s taken so long)

Physics World

Despite the telescope’s hefty price tag and delayed launch, Lee Feinberg , the optical telescope element manager at NASA Goddard, is confident that it will be worth it. Should it come through its deployment successfully – its 6.5-metre

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NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities

Science Blogs

NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities. by Dominika Heusinkveld, MD, MPH Researchers at NASA and the University of Arizona, among others, are hoping to make real-time air quality forecasting a reality in the next few years. Photo courtesy of NASA Image Library . lborkowski.

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Space for all: here are some of the huge commercial opportunities away from Earth

Physics World

Back in 1981, when NASA unveiled its space shuttle, it cost about $85,000 per kilogram to put an object into space. Sent up by universities, governments and start-ups, they do everything from monitoring deforestation to tracking radio-tagged endangered animals. By 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy vehicle had broken the $1/ kg barrier.

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Research fellowships target clean-energy innovation

Physics World

Electric vehicles already offer a viable route to zero-emission road travel, but more innovation is needed to build better batteries that enable longer journeys and faster charging – and all within an affordable price tag. “I also enjoyed the experience of interacting with ECS and Toyota,” she says.

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Two potential solutions to cool down the Arctic

Edouard Stenger

Desch and his team have put forward the scheme in a paper that has just been published in Earth’s Future , the journal of the American Geophysical Union, and have worked out a price tag for the project: $500bn (£400bn). Image credits: NASA. But will further warming prompt considering extreme solutions ?

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LGBTQ People Face Greater Climate Risks

Legal Planet

More than 1,800 people died and the price tag for the damage quickly rose to the tens of billions of dollars. They then compared this to data on climate risk projections from two sources—NASA, which focuses primarily on changes to meteorological patterns, and FEMA, which focuses on changes in the occurrence of severe weather events.