Science Ever After

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The least we can say, the COVID-19 has stressed as out and we decided we will not contribute for the moment with another virus-post.
We will focus to what we love, hoping that our minds will fly and wander to a better future. So, as some of you may know, we love graphene. And as women in science, we love other women in science. Especially the passionate ones, like Zina Jarrahi Cinker, who also happens to be an expert in graphene as well. So, our minds to your minds. Keep safe. Keep positive.

How 2D Materials will Change Our 3D World | Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker | TEDxNashvilleWomen Can you imagine a material so thin, it is only “one” atomic layer? 100,000 times thinner than human hair, yet 200 times stronger than its equivalent weight i...

What You Need to Know About Coronavirus (So Far) If you want a little more background information on what coronaviruses are (because yes, there are lots of different kinds) and how this disease became a proble

Why the ‘Queen of Sh*tty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown YouTuber Simone Giertz gave up wildly popular but barely functioning machines and confronted her fears of imperfection (while facing her own mortality and making an awesome Truckla EV).

Scrolling down was never *that* informative. Enjoy!
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/?

The Deep Sea Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.

USB: Just wondering how many of you know what does B stand for? 🤓
USB acronym stands for Universal Serial Bus. A bus in this context is a subsystem that connects a computer with another device like a modem, a printer, another computer, or a scientific instrument and transfers data between them. Serial bus, means that the communication between the devices is based on the most common low-level protocol : the serial port sends and receives bytes of information one bit at a time.

Already Tuesday. This is a video that motivates us and makes as feel good lately, so we wanted to share it with you!

Jocko Motivation "GOOD" (From Jocko Podcast) How to deal with failure and bad situations. Excerpt from the Jocko Podcast (iTunes). Video by Echo Charles. Join the Conversation on Twitter: ...

A shot of materials science: Graphene

Maybe many of you have heard the word ''graphene'', but do not really know what what this material is.

Graphene is a ''wonder''material. Basically it is pure carbon, like diamond is pure carbon, graphite is pure carbon and charcoal is pure carbon. But the atoms of carbon in graphene are neither randomly distributed, like in coal, nor at the corners of tetrahedrals, building a diamond's geometry. The carbon atoms are arranged in sheets, just one atom thick, that look like honeycomb lattice. This is how graphene is structured. Many sheets of graphene stacked together form graphite.

Ok, so now, why igraphene is a big deal. Graphene has more than 10 times better electronic conduction properties than silicon: electrons can move very easily on its surface. For modern electronics and computing, it was considered from the beggining an ideal replacement for silicon, in semiconductor integrated circuits. Electronic devices with graphene would be smaller, faster, more flexible, and efficient.

Graphene is conducting like crazy, but scientists need to tame its electrons to build electronic circuitry. For this, they are looking for ways to open a band gap. What a band gap is and how researchers manage to create one is of course another big story.

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Ingredients for a last minute glowing soup for (not vegan): loosejaw dragonfish, glowing jelly fish, glowworms and last but not least, motyxia sequoiae. Do not forget to add some glowing mushrooms and fireflies. Be carefull to cook enough, until you can't taste the mushrooms. The perfect glowing soup should be smooth and creamy. Bon Appétit!🎃

Save some candies today for cool candy experiments! Happy Halloween!

13 of Our Favorite Halloween Candy Experiments From growing gummy bears to making your own vending machine.

With Halloween around the corner, here is an image of the Witch Head nebula. In its dusty clauds, that appear green in the foto, baby stars are born.The nebula is hundreds of light-years away, near the Orion constellation, close to the hunter's knee.

Infrared image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

New Art Exhibit Celebrates the Periodic Table The periodic table is a tidy chart of chemical elements. A new exhibit at Tisch Library whips those elements into artistic chaos. Artist-scientist Dan Jay, dean of the Sackler School for Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct professor at the School of the Mu...

This is the story of a scientist with a successful carreer, who is also a mother of two. Tanya Kertsman was taught from an early age to be ambitious and reach high. Find out what happened when she left her pharmacist job to become a stay-at-home mom and how she is dealing with this new era in her life.

For Tanya there was always a next step: get into pharmacy school, earn good grades and graduate, complete a fellowship, work in the pharmaceutical industry and continue to advance.

And then she became a mother. And then she became a mother again.

''I felt confident that with a 50/50 spouse, dependable child care and supportive grandparents, I could juggle my career and my home life. I understood that it would not be perfect but I was OK with that.[...] There were times I would think to myself: I can do this. It’s manageable. I’m overthinking everything. I just have to make some sacrifices but we’ll make it work.''

So today we ask you, do you believe is doable you have kids and science ever after?

Why I Left My Lucrative Job As A Pharmacist To Be A Stay-At-Home Mom I realized the time to be at home with my children was now. Eventually, I will figure out how to get back into the workforce.

Our founders, Eva and Filippa, are both new moms. As many of you can imagine or know, being a mom of a baby or a toddler (or both), is a time that you are 24/7 on duty. And it is hard.

Furthermore, if you are like Eva and Filippa, apart from your ''mom-job'', you may also have another job, the type that generates money for the family. Or you may have studies waiting for you. And this makes life even harder.

It is important for us, the moms with the ''mom-job'' as well as the moms with the ''money-making job'' or ''studying-job'', to know that there are other women out here, who face the same challenges and struggles. Even writing a post is a struggle. Writing this post is definetely a struggle, as I have a toddler on my knee (Eva is writing).

So, here is an article about a working mom who was also a scientist. To be precise, she was named by her peers the “Queen of carbon science”, because of her pioneering work in the electronic properties of carbon materials, like graphene.

This is a short story of how life looked like for her daughter, Shoshi.

''I don’t remember Cornell, myself, but my mom always told me about how she took me into the lab with her — when I was only weeks old — and would do her work with me by her side.''


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My Extended Family: Growing Up as the Daughter of Millie Dresselhaus · Celebrating Millie

Do you know her story?

Mary Anning, the greatest fossilist the world ever knew | The Kid Should See This Around 1811, 12-year-old Mary Anning and her brother Joseph discovered what she would later find to be a remarkably complete Jurassic-era fossil of an

23 women to get inspired. Happy weekend!

23 Women Leading the World of Fashion Technology | Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator These 23 women in the fashion tech space are making big moves in sustainability and beyond.

Science serving art

New small-scale accelerator to help study heritage artworks | CERN Particle accelerators find several uses outside fundamental physics research. Following the first “miniature” accelerator developed for a compact injector for proton therapy, CERN has been building a new transportable high-frequency accelerator for use in the examination of art masterpieces.

Our family is growing, our hearts are melting and our hugs are getting warmer and bigger.
Science Ever After started with two determined, passionate science communicators Eva and Filippa and now has three extra helpers ☺️.
We wish you a spectacular, warm 2019🥳. Life is magical indeed, although we are always eager to search and unravel the science behind it 🧬🔬🧪🧫🦠💎🌋🚀🛰

Jars of rice refuse to roll down ramps. Strips of paper slip past solid obstacles. Balls swirling inside a bowl switch direction when more balls join them.
It’s these small things.

Tadashi Tokieda Collects Math and Physics Surprises | Quanta Magazine Tadashi Tokieda discovers new physical phenomena by looking at the everyday world with the eyes of a child.

The science of Vermeer’s colors...

How We Make (and Made) Color - [A Collaboration with Google Arts and Culture] - Google Arts & Culture Explore collections and stories from around the world with Google Arts & Culture.

Does anyone here into YouTube?

7 Female Science YouTubers That Are Breaking STEM Glass Ceilings At IE, we are proud to celebrate women in STEM and in that spirit we have combined a list of our favorite seven female-lead YouTube science shows! You go girls!

What a great idea to heave in the classroom/library/study room! Applied science, in our everyday lives 💪🏼

Illustrated Periodic Table Shows How Elements Are Part of Everyday Life This ingenious illustrated periodic table by Keith Enevoldsen shows how the chemical elements are part of daily life and is available in a printed version.

Monday all over the place folks. A song will do for today I guess...

Army Of Lovers - The Ballad of Marie Curie [Lyrics] Band: Army Of Lovers Album: Gotd of earth and heaven Song: the ballad of marie curie I Suppose everyone already knows about that great woman, but I truly rec...

Believe it or not, the science of cuteness exists and Hello Kitty is leading the field. If the pink feline with the bow is too pink or too girly for you, we challenge your amygdala brain cells, which are involved in emotions, to resist any impulse you may feel by looking at these T-shirts. We want them all. The Kitty shirt. The Kitty shirt. The and the Kitty shirt. And of course the and the Kitty shirt.

Incredible work by artist Nendo, based on ,

The Science of Cuteness: How To Make Hello Kitty Appeal to Different Audiences Ever since Hello Kitty took her first faltering steps in 1974, she has been the reigning cute superpower. And it’s no coincidence either. Hello Kitty and her large head, small nose, ribbon and look of helplessness has been engineered to trigger certain maternal impulses in our brain that makes us ...

Guess what? This post is about another Dinosaur! One with the head of a pelican, the body of a giraf and with two bat-wings. People meet the giant Azhdarchid Pterosaurs (or at least its head!)

Azhdarchid Pterosaurs Head with John Weinstein at the Field Museum, via Dinosaur.

It seems this is a dino-week, which we do not mind at all!

Some of us recently found out from our geek friends that when internet goes dead, nada, kaput, the T-Rex that appears in your Chrome browser to inform you about this misfortune, can turn into a fun online game.
Just go offline, make the T-Rex appear, and press the space tab to start. Space to jump and down arrow (↓) to duck. Enjoy!