ERAscience and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA take great pride supporting the annual Nanovation Competition. Top three finalists winners were announced May 18, 2024 and granted funds to support their schools' classroom supplies. Ten finalist teams...
ERAScience CEO / Co-Founder Denise Avchen gifted Nanovation Competition students tickets to attend the launching of Roots and Shoots Basecamp LA event featuring Jane Goodall at the Ebell Theater on Sunday 3/17 St Patrick’s Day. (Above: Denise Avchen backstage...
Ten teams of 4-5 middle and high school students with a teacher leader and UCLA graduate student mentors met at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA for the annual Nanovation Competition March 8, 2024. A panel of judges, including Nanovation Competition...
Crazy as it sounds, but all this freezing weather is the result of the North Pole losing pressure to keep its arctic weather belt intact... perhaps cinch up that belt tighter, North Pole. The North Pole is approximately 36 degrees Fahrenheit warmer since 2016,...
First up this week, urban wildfires raged in Los Angeles in January. Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall discusses how researchers have come together to study how pollution from buildings at such a large scale impacts the environment and health of the local population. Next on the show, Mingze Chen, a graduate student in the mechanical […]
First up this week, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss stories from the sea, including why scientists mounted cameras on seabirds, backward and upside-down; newly discovered organisms from the world’s deepest spot, the Mariana Trench; and how extremely venomous, blue-lined octopus males use their toxin on females in order to mate. […]
First up this week, science policy editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the latest news about the National Institutes of Health—from reconfiguring review panels to canceled grants to confirmation hearings for a new head, Jay Bhattacharya. Next, although cochlear implants can give deaf children access to sound, it doesn’t always mean […]
Climate models predict that as the planet warms, so will the Southern Ocean. But for decades, the waters around Antarctica have grown mysteriously cooler. A new study shows why.Read more on E360 →
The EU is getting further from its goal of weaning off Russian fossil fuels by 2027. Imports of Russian gas rose by 18 percent last year, a new analysis finds.Read more on E360 →