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Construction progress on the historic building and the assembly of the tilt-up panels for the new addition.
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Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture’s design for the Powerhouse Science Center re-envisions a historic riverfront structure as a hub for science education, exploration and promotion in the City of Sacramento. On the banks of the Sacramento River, the Science Center grows out from an abandoned power station building. As a principal component of the Riverfront activation, the Powerhouse Science Center anchors Robert T. Matsui Waterfront Park and borders the southern terminus of the 32-mile American River Bike Trail.
Vacant for over half a century, the structure undergoes a complete historic rehabilitation and the construction of a new floor level inside. A new two-story addition projects from the east side, containing a lobby, classrooms, offices and a cafe. A 110-seat planetarium is prominently on display with a zinc-clad hemispheric dome rising above the building’s mass. As representation of our place in the universe, the facade and building mass is sectioned by multiple planes, creating continuous vector lines that extend across the building and site. From satellites to world landmarks, the lines form connections with local and global points of interest.
The original PG&E Power Station B was designed in 1912 in the Beaux Arts Style by architect Willis Polk and was formally closed in 1954. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historic Places and the Sacramento Register of Historic & Cultural Resources. The Powerhouse Science Center is designed to achieve a USGBC LEED Rating of Silver.
Photo by Otto Construction.
The Skylight of the Lorry Lokey Laboratories with the Computer Science building (Deschutes Hal ) in the background
The Journal Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics (MMT) includes basic research aimed at understanding molecular mechanisms of disease, as well as translational research utilizing this information to develop new and improved molecular-targeted approaches for prevention, diagnosis, and therapy. The journal covers all aspects of molecular biology, pathophysiology and molecular therapeutics.
A fellow astronomy student carefully monitors progress of an observation in the Parkes Radiotelescope control room. Observing is an exhausting business. You need to keep a careful eye on all the equipment while it's doing those 50-minute integrations!
Author: Wolfgang Beyer
Date: 4th December 2006
Description: Partial view of the Mandelbrot set. Step 7 of a zoom sequence: Each of this crowns consists of similar "seahorse tails". Their number increases with powers of 2, a typical phenomenon in the environment of satellites. The unique path to the spiral center mentioned in zoom step 5 passes the satellite from the groove of the cardioid to the top of the "antenna" on the "head". Also observe that the starting view is located in the center.
Technique: Use of the program Ultra Fractal 3
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg
Image and caption provided by: Miguel Matos, undegraduate student, FCUL
This image is protected by copyright, no use of this image shall be granted without the written permission from Csaba Desvari.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano working inside the Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) on the International Space Station. Luca tweeted this image with the text: Working inside LSG for the Micro15 experiment, I prepare some samples of cells to be incubated in microgravity: an experiment that’s only possible on board the ISS.
ID: 402F0686
Credit: ESA/NASA
Title: Christian Science Center
Creator: Peter H. Dreyer
Date: undated
Source: Collection 9800.007, Peter H. Dreyer slide collection
File name: 9800007_454
Photographer: Peter H. Dreyer
Rights: Public Domain, Please credit Peter H. Dreyer
Citation: Peter H. Dreyer slide collection, Collection #9800.007, City of Boston Archives, Boston
The Health Sciences Program at the University of Hartford prepares you for professional or graduate study in health-related fields, such as occupational therapy, speech pathology, or public health.
The pre-professional track of the health science program prepares you for professional or graduate study in such health-related fields as dentistry, allopathic or osteopathic medicine, optometry, chiropractic, or podiatry.
The curriculum includes prerequisite coursework for many graduate programs in health-related fields, such as biology, physics, and chemistry. The curriculum can also be tailored to meet your needs if you are interested in graduate programs with unique prerequisites (for example, two semesters of physics or a semester of biochemistry).
Additionally, you will take health science courses that introduce you to a wide range of health-related topics, such as Educational Strategies for Healthcare Professionals, The Human Genome, Introduction to Public Health, and Cardiovascular Disease. These courses can help you determine your long-term career goals by exposing you to a range of healthcare professional roles.
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Photo by Jake Koteen
DR JAY PETERSEN ADJUSTS THE LARGE GONI-OMETER INSTALLED IN A SPECIALLY SHIELDED CAVE OF THE A W WRIGHT NUCLEAR - YALE.
THE CAVE IS UNDER 20 FEET OF EARTH AND HAS 3 FOOT WALLS, FLOOR AND CEILING OF A SPECIAL CONCRETE CONTAINING NONE OF THE COMMON NATURALLY RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES (E.G. THORIUM AND POTASSIUM) SO THAT THE NORMAL RADIATION BACKGROUND LEVEL IS LESS THAN ONE THOUSANDTH OF THAT IN A TYPICAL RESIDENCE. THE PROJECTILE BEAM FROM THE ACCELERATOR ENTERS FROM THE RIGHT, AND PASSES THROUGH THE TARGET UNDER STUDY IN THE CENTRAL HEMISPHERICAL CHAMBER BEFORE EXITING TO THE LOWER LEFT AND BEING STOPPED IN AN UNDERGROUND BEAM DUMP OUTSIDE OF THE CAVE. ONE OF THE LARGE, COMPUTER CONTROLLED GAMMA RADIATION DETECTORS IS SHOWN ON ITS OVERHEAD MOUNT TO THE LEFT OF DR. PETERSEN, A NUMBER OF SUCH DETECTORS MAY BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY UNDER ON-LINE COMPUTER CONTROL IN THE MEASUREMENT OF CHARACTERISTIC RADIATION PATTERNS FROM THE TARGET NUCLEI UNDER STUDY FOLLOWING THEIR STIMULATION BY THE PROJECTILES IN THE BEAM.
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The Middle School Science Fair was held on May 28 in the Great Hall of the Center for Well-Being. The exhibits ranged from a lava lamp and lemon battery to a water powered grist mill and a study on which brand of diaper is most absorbent.
OU's oldest building, named Science Hall, was completed in 1904, as was a sister building, the Carnegie Library, which still faces across the oval flanking Evans Hall. (The Sooner Story, page 20)
Photo credit: The Norman Transcript via The Sooner Story.
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Simulation showing Outer Planets and Kuiper Belt: a) Before Jupiter/Saturn 2:1 resonance b) Scattering of Kuiper Belt objects into the solar system after the orbital shift of Neptune c) After ejection of Kuiper Belt bodies by Jupiter
Planets shown: Jupiter (green circle), Saturn (orange circle), Uranus (light blue circle) and Neptune (dark blue circle)
simulation/description credit to enWiki user:AstroMark
Kuiper belt: ...is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU [Astronomical units]) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. While the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water. It is home to at least three dwarf planets – Pluto, Haumea and Makemake.
Scattered disc: ...is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets, a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects. The scattered disc objects have orbital eccentricities ranging as high as 0.8, inclinations as high as 40°, and perihelia greater than 30 astronomical units. These extreme orbits are believed to be the result of gravitational "scattering" by the gas giants, and the objects continue to be subject to perturbation by the planet Neptune. While the nearest distance to the Sun approached by scattered objects is about 30–35 AU, their orbits can extend well beyond 100 AU. This makes scattered objects "among the most distant and cold objects in the Solar System". The innermost portion of the scattered disc overlaps with a torus-shaped region of orbiting objects known as the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the belt proper.
Because of its unstable nature, astronomers now consider the scattered disc to be the place of origin for most periodic comets observed in the Solar System...
Formation of the Kuiper belt and Scattered disc?: The scattered disc is still poorly understood: no model of the formation of the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc has yet been proposed that explains all their observed properties.
According to contemporary models, the scattered disc formed when Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) were "scattered" into eccentric and inclined orbits by gravitational interaction with Neptune and the other outer planets. The amount of time for this process to occur remains uncertain. One hypothesis estimates a period equal to the entire age of the Solar System; a second posits that the scattering took place relatively quickly, during Neptune's early migration epoch.
Models for a continuous formation throughout the age of the Solar System illustrate that at weak resonances within the Kuiper belt (such as 5:7 or 8:1), or at the boundaries of stronger resonances, objects can develop weak orbital instabilities over millions of years. The 4:7 resonance in particular has large instability. KBOs can also be shifted into unstable orbits by close passage of massive objects, or through collisions. Over time, the scattered disc would gradually form from these isolated events...Modern theories indicate that neither Uranus nor Neptune could have formed in situ beyond Saturn, as too little primordial matter existed at that range to produce objects of such high mass. Instead, these planets, and Saturn, may have formed closer to Jupiter, but were flung outwards during the early evolution of the Solar System, perhaps through exchanges of angular momentum with scattered objects. Once the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn shifted to a 2:1 resonance (two Jupiter orbits for each orbit of Saturn), their combined gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, sending Neptune into the temporary "chaos" of the proto-Kuiper belt. As Neptune traveled outward, it scattered many trans-Neptunian objects into higher and more eccentric orbits... - enWikipedia
Postcard of the Science room, St. Ignatius, Galway where the pupils are writing under the instruction of a Jesuit. scgalw3-7-2-14
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NASA'S MOBILE LAUNCH PLATFORM AND THE CRAWLER THAT CARRIERS THE SPACE SHUTTLE TO THE LAUNCH PAD.
SANDIA'S TOM CARNE, SEEN IN FRONT OF THE MOBILE LAUNCH PLATFORM, HAS ASSISTED NASA WITH A SERIES OF TESTS BEGINNING IN NOVEMBER, 2003 TO DEVELOP THE DATA NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE RESPONSE OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE VEHICLE DURING ROLLOUT. THE MASSIVE MOBILE LAUNCH PLATFROM SITS ON THE CRAWLER WHICH TRAVELS AT 0.9 MPH, FOR ABOUT 5-6 HOURS TO TAKE THE SPACE HUTTLE FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER'S VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING TO THE LAUNCH PAD.
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As part of Manchester Science Festival. The ‘Science Extravaganza’ brings together experts from across the faculty, creating family friendly workshops for members of the public. This year, the John Dalton Building became a Forensics Lab for a giant game of ‘who done it’, complete with detective notebooks and crime scene tape…
We were also proud to to host Combination Dance Co. working in collaboration with scientists from MMU, UCL and the Motor Neuron Disease Association. Dancers and martial arts performers staged an interactive dance exploring how we currently understand a motor neurone works, how MND affects the body and the effects MND has on those living with the disease.
SHOWN IS NANO-SIZED CRYSTALS OF COBALT OXIDE, AN EARTH-ABUNDANT CATALYST, HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY CARRY OUT THE CRITICAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION OF SPLITTING WATER MOLECULES AT LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY.
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