Honourable mention in the JUICE up your rocket! art competition Access the image 15 November 2021 We received astounding works of art from kids in 63 countries who put their personal touch on Europe’s mission to the largest planet in our Solar System, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE). Thank […]
Month: November 2021
University students complete the 2nd ESEO In-Flight Experience Workshop
Agency 18/11/2021 110 views 11 likes Throughout several days they received lectures on the lessons learned and experiences gained throughout the ESEO spacecraft development and operations. These were offered by the engineers, project managers and payload experts involved in the mission, both from the universities, industry and ESA. During the […]
Researchers study TikTok platform’s use in academia
Credit: KMDI In a bid to shine a spotlight on their research and make it more accessible, academics around the world are following in the footsteps of their students and taking to TikTok to share videos. The trend is being highlighted by a team of researchers at the Knowledge Media […]
Survey shows food-insecure students more likely to fail, leave school
Credit: Pexels A survey conducted by a team of researchers from The University of New Mexico finds that students who are food-insecure are more likely to fail or withdraw from classes or drop out of college entirely. The survey was done by lead author Heather Mechler, UNM Office of Institutional […]
Deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists call for equity, inclusion
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Providing some basic standards of support will greatly increase diversity in fields of science and medicine, a group of hard of hearing and deaf scientists argue in a perspective published in the journal Frontiers in Education. The perspective was co-authored by more than 40 deaf and hard of […]
Gay men earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at the highest rate in the US
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Recent news about the significant shift of women outpacing men in attending college—now a 60/40 ratio—overlooks one of the highest-achieving groups of all: gay men. In addition, lesbian women’s level of education is not accounted for in the new figures. A new study from a University […]
Teaching university students to be ‘age-conscious’ could help address our elder care crisis
What it’s like to get older? A course on the psychology of aging helped students gain empathy and curiosity. Credit: Shutterstock How does systemic ageism affect our society? A coroner’s inquest into COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes in Québec recently heard that ageism was a contributing factor. This is […]
Are your kids keeping up at school?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain How a child learns is as individual as the child themselves. Yet with the pressures of large class sizes, decreases in school funding and, most recently, home-schooling, many teachers are struggling to keep track of their students’ performance. Now, world-first research from the University of South […]
Scientists Plan Private Mission to Hunt for Earths around Alpha Centauri
Do any habitable worlds exist in the closest stellar system to our own, Alpha Centauri? For years scientists have struggled to answer this question, unsuccessfully seeking to pierce the overpowering glare of the two sunlike stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, to see signs of orbiting planets (a third member […]
Great Apes’ Biggest Threat Is Human Activity, Not Habitat Loss
When ecologist Hjalmar Kühl first visited the Republic of Congo in 2003, deep in the forest, he met chimpanzees whose curiosity gave away that they had never seen a human before. “You’d try to move away, and they’d come closer,” he says. “They’d just sit there watching us.” Today it’s […]
Mystery of Doomed Sardine Migration Is Finally Solved
As winter arrives in South Africa, anticipation begins to build for one of the planet’s largest and most spectacular migrations: the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run. In the waters off the southern tip of Africa, hundreds of millions of the slender, silvery fish coalesce into massive shoals and begin to travel hundreds […]