Hive managing editor Heidi Waite has recently awarded a Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award! Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award gives graduate students hands-on training and science policy experience. As part of the program, graduate students get training on communicating with congressional decision makers and then get to apply that
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What’s the difference between the Baltimore World Trade Center and New York’s One World Tower? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying — One is a prism and the other is an ANTIprism! 3D prisms have two parallel shapes connected with rectangles. Think — cereal
Continue readingToday we will be making this shape out of cookies! Materials Needed: Tube of cookie icing, 8 triangular-shaped cookies, 2 square cookies. The length of the square cookie must be equal to the length of the triangle cookie. Use 1 square cookie as the base. Add a thick layer of
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Illustrator and craft blogger Rachel Basinger teaches you how to make your own 3-D Antiprism sculptures. Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Materials: four straws, scissors, and some bakers twine (available online here). Step 1: Cut your straws into thirds. Take three pieces of your straw and thread them on
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Nora Bradford, Hiver writer has recently published an article about PETS with Southern California News Group (SCNG)! Nora says, “In a world where science is so central in solving problems around climate change, the pandemic, and a multitude of other issues, it’s our responsibility as scientists to make scientific literature more
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Exciting shark research from Samantha Leigh, former Hiver and currently Assistant Professor at CSU Dominguez Hills, titled “Shark intestines may operate as Tesla valves” has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (PRSB)! Dr. Leigh’s research used CT scanners to image shark’s intestines in more than 20 shark
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