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DOUBLE TROUBLE 🐒🐒
Adorable twin red-bellied lemurs - a species vulnerable to extinction in the wild - have been born here at #TheZoo ❤️
These tiny primates are so important for the future of the species with lemurs considered to be the most endangered mammals on the planet 🌍
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Know her name: Alice Ball was a chemist who designed a revolutionary treatment for leprosy at 23. She died before publishing her work & Arthur L. Dean stole credit. It was not until years after her death that she was recognised.
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The IOP is very concerned at the continued use of outdated stereotypes as we firmly believe #physics is for everyone regardless of their background or gender.
Girls shun physics A-level as they dislike ‘hard maths’ - some pretty astonishing comments here from government’s social mobility chief theguardian.com/education/20…
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On Saturday #wind produced 51.2% of British electricity, more than nuclear 18.3%, gas 14.5%, imports 7.1%, solar 5.8%, biomass 1.9%, hydro 1.2%, coal 0.0%, coal 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation
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Happy International Women's Day!
We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.
Tell us about the women who inspire you the most.
#IWD2022
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In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the green mould he was working with produced a substance that could kill many common bacteria that infect humans. He called this new, exciting substance "mould juice". Only after a couple of months, on 7 March 1929, did he name it penicillin.
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“If one girl can change the world, what can 130 million girls do?”
In 2012, @Malala Yousafzai was shot three times in an attempt to stop her from speaking out for girls' education. Today, the #NobelPrize laureate is a leading advocate for girls' rights.
#EducationDay
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Take it from us — sometimes, you do need to be salty. 🧂
Learn more about how #NASAWebb’s salt lenses help the telescope see in infrared in the latest episode of “Elements of Webb!” #UnfoldTheUniverse
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Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana…
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We can expect more than 100 multicoloured #meteors per hour to streak through the sky tonight at the peak of the #Geminid meteor shower, which is one of the most active of the year.
nhm.ac.uk/discover/meteor-sh…
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#OTD in 1795, a meteorite fell in a field near Wold Newton in East Yorkshire. Farmworker James Shipley was so close to its impact site that he was struck by soil and rocks as it crash landed.
You can see the specimen on display in the Treasures gallery. nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-wold-…
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#OnThisDay 1842 James Nasmyth patented his steam hammer🔨
It was built at his Patricroft foundry next to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal.
This painting in the collections, by Nasmyth himself, shows one at work: collection.sciencemuseumgrou…
ALT Painting shows a huge metal arch with a large glowing hot piece of metal being pushed by several workers through the machine where a large hammer is waiting to drop from the top of the arch.
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🌍WORLD FIRST: THE BABY SNAILS GIVING HOPE TO THEIR SPECIES!🌍
You’re looking at something VERY special – the FIRST Desertas Island snails ever to hatch outside of their homeland, anywhere in the world!
And aren’t they TINY?! (Yes, that’s a 5p coin)😵
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This #LostSpeciesDay we're remembering the Tasmanian tiger. British settlers in Tasmania during the 1800s thought this doglike marsupial was a threat to their sheep. The government offered a £1 reward for every adult killed, contributing to the species’ extinction in 1936.
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Nearly a decade after the foundation of special relativity, Albert Einstein submitted his paper 'The Field Equations of Gravitation' for publication #OnThisDay in 1915, which gave the correct field equations for the theory of general relativity.
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Have you ever heard about van der Waals forces?
The term in molecular physics is named after scientist and 1910 physics laureate Johannes Diderik van der Waals (born #otd in 1837). Van der Waals forces are relatively weak intermolecular forces between atoms or molecules.
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In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the mould he was working with produced a substance that could kill many common bacteria. He called this new, exciting substance "mould juice". Only after a couple of months did he name it penicillin.
#WorldAntibioticAwarenessWeek
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Yuan T. Lee, born on this day, became a scientist after first being inspired by another #NobelPrize laureate - Marie Skłodowska Curie. Lee went onto study chemistry, with a particular interest in reaction dynamics. In 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work.
