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Pullman, Washington
Joined October 2010
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"Engineering Our Senses" is happening through 3 today at the Palouse Discovery Science Center in Pullman, with activities to teach about smell and vision-based sensing and a machine that is learning how to make decisions.
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For Family Science Saturday, students & scientists from #WSU's Biological Systems Engineering Dept and Center for Precision & Automated Agriculture Systems helped families and kids learn how #AI & sensors can impact our crops and our lives.
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Let's settle the "Is Pluto a planet?" debate right now: ed.gr/ulnx @coreyspowell
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How do #ocean plants like giant kelp survive lean times when nutrients in the sea ebb? The kelp switches from one kind of nitrogen to another, say #NSFfunded scientists: bit.ly/2M5SC3r #WorldOceansWeek
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Lava flows from Kilauea have eaten an entire bay in Hawaii: ed.gr/uc4h @eruptionsblog
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Galaxies are not randomly distributed in space; they swarm together, joined together by the unyielding hand of gravity to form clusters like the ones pictured here. How many galaxy clusters do you see in this @NASAHubble space telescope image? Details: go.nasa.gov/2ssa5uT
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On Saturday, @WSUVoiland hosted a day of #3Dprinting at the Palouse Science Discovery Center. #STEMed facebook.com/media/set/?set=…
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the May Pub Talk! It was a great evening and your support made it such a successful event! Stay tuned for the next Pub Talk in early September! #wsupullman #pullman #efawsu #wsupullman #palousescience #pcbrewery
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Certain Antarctic icefishes lost the gene for making the oxygen-carrying pigment hemoglobin about 5 million years ago. They’re the only vertebrates without red blood cells and hemoglobin—and so they have colorless blood!
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Memorial Day is behind us, and it's time to dust off those binoculars! @DeanRegas gives us some tips for what to look for in the sky this summer. scifri.me/6m1
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Boston Dynamics' robots can now go for a jog outside and avoid obstacles
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for fun on this April Fools' Day, check out the wild visual illusions in this slide show: (not a prank)
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“Whenever I get a chance to go to a science fair, I go," said President Obama of his visit to the NYCSEF @AMNH. http://1.usa.gov/dMD49z
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First viable sperm cells grown from scratch http://bit.ly/g9r4BG
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National Park Service Image Archive: http://ow.ly/43CiG
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Processed food diet in early childhood may lower subsequent IQ
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RT @NASA: Can you believe tiny ocean life is this gorgeous, or that NASA's high-tech satellite eyes can see this?
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The top scientific breakthroughs of 2010, compiled by @wiredscience http://bit.ly/h9u7CS
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RT @gmusser: "That the Galaxy shld have an irregular companion as luminous as the LMC is almost a miracle." http://is.gd/j9X74
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