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International Day of Women and Girls in Science Highlight: Lise Meitner

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Sahaana Vijay Abstract As of October 2021, there are 441 operational nuclear reactors in roughly 30 nations.[1] These nuclear reactors  generate power through nuclear fission, which earned Otto Hahn, a German chemist, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1944.[2] While the prize was unshared, Hahn did not discover nuclear fission alone; he and his long-term colleagues, physicist …

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Scientific education in developing countries

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Introduction We all might have heard about these notable scientists: Max Theiler, the South African virologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for developing yellow fever vaccines; Abdus Salam (1926–1996), from Pakistan, who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for the unification hypothesis that incorporated electromagnetic and weak interactions between …

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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Fig. 1, taken from Hindustantimes.com Background The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to chemists Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan of Frankfurt, Germany, and Bellshill, Scotland, respectively. List and MacMillan had developed a new way to construct molecules through a process known as asymmetric organocatalysis, a novel form of catalysis. This revolutionary finding …

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SAVE THE PLANET! YOU ALONE ARE THE SUPER-HUMAN: PART-1: WATER RESOURCES

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1.Abstract Science is a vast topic, even more vast than our thought!! For example, you might learn Rutherford’s model for your 9th Grade. But when you transform into a 10th grade’s student and start opening your chemistry book, you’ll find there’s many “why?” behind the model at the beginning of the chapter and when you …

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COVID-19: A detailed explanation and overview

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Author: Supratha Murugaraj and Martin Binoy ABSTRACT AIM: The project aim is to briefly explain and summarise major COVID-19 findings onto one coherent document, so it would be more easily accessible for future medical students or researchers to use for analytical or research purposes. When researching about COVID-19, although there were plentiful resources going in …

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Hearing and tasting colours: the multisensory mystery of synaesthesia

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For around 4% of the population, the concept of colour is much more than a stimulation of photoreceptor cells: those who experience synaesthesia are able to hear colours, or associate colours with letters, numbers and even music. The word synaesthesia comes from the Greek ‘syn’ (meaning union) and ‘aesthesis’ (meaning sensation). Therefore, this rare condition …

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Stars and their Colours

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Abstract Stars are often described in terms of their colour. Sentences like “Betelguese is a Red Supergiant” and “The Sun is a Yellow Dwarf” paint an image, but there is also a great deal of physics behind them. Stars emit light in a way similar to black bodies. The wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that a …

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