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Science shows set at WSU today

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 11:16pm

OGDEN -- Weber State University's College of Science, Ott Planetarium and Museum of Natural Science will host a series of shows, presentations and hands-on activities today.

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Grandchildren of Steve and Kaylana Gertsch pose with Monty Python. The snake died Jan. 29 after 27 years as a class pet. (Photo courtesy of Steve and Kaylana Gertsch)

Students remember Monty Python, the letter 'S'

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 6:30am

PLAIN CITY -- One of Plain City's best-known and most-beloved celebrity residents has passed away. Monty Python, 30, was a muscular 70 pounds and measured 10 feet 6 inches tall, uh, long.

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Cape Royal on the North Rim provides a panorama up, down, and across the canyon. With seemingly unlimited vistas to the east and west, it is popular for both sunrise and sunset. The sweeping turn of the Colorado River at Unkar Delta is framed through the natural arch of Angels Window. Look for the Desert View Watchtower across the canyon on the South Rim. This popular viewpoint is accessible via a paved, level trail. NPS Photo by Michael Quinn

Historic partnership formed to guide resource management of Grand Canyon's North Rim

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 10:36am

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A pioneering partnership has been forged to bolster the science guiding resource management and public lands stewardship along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Students at Davis High School play “Angry Birds” with stuffed animals and boxes on Wednesday.

'Angry Birds' game breaks up daily grind at Davis High

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 9:51pm

KAYSVILLE -- Stuffed animals hurtled through the air Wednesday afternoon as Davis High School students put their science and engineering skills to the test.

In a full-size mock-up of the popular "Angry Birds" video game, student leaders in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math program showed their peers the joy that can come from science.

"We were looking for a way to get our cause out," said STEM student leader Daniel Page, 17. "We wanted to show some real-life experience."

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Star collision causes supernova

Amina Khan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 7:17am

Type 1a supernovae, exploding stars that can outshine entire galaxies, were instrumental to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery that a mysterious "dark energy" is fueling the expansion of the universe. But astronomers haven't been able to pin down what causes these massive stellar explosions.

Now, after studying a Type 1a supernova in a nearby galaxy, two researchers say that they must be the result of a collision between two white dwarf stars. They made their case this week in the journal Nature.

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Public welcome to hear geologist speak at WSU

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 11:18pm

OGDEN — Geologist Scott F. Burns will speak at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in Room 124 of the Lind Lecture Hall at Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd.

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This illustration provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows artist's renderings of planets Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f compared with Venus and the Earth. Scientists have found the two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere. The discovery shows that such planets exist and that they can be detected by the Kepler spacecraft, said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. They’re the smallest planets found so far outside the solar system. Scientists are seeking Earth-sized planets as potential homes for extraterrestrial life, said Fressin, who reports the new findings in a paper published online Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2011 by the journal Nature. (AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Two Earth-sized planets discovered

Lisa M Krieger San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 10:04am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has found the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. But they're too hot to support liquid water -- or life.

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Heather Wokurka, of Sunset, will receive the first-ever degree in WSU’s electronics engineering department. At ATK, in Promontory, she works on static rocket tests. (Courtesy photo)

First WSU electronics engineering grad revved up

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 6:24am

OGDEN -- When Heather Wokurka considered updating her Weber State University electronics engineering technology degree with night classes in WSU's new electronics engineering department, the decision wasn't exactly rocket science.

Rocket science is Wokurka's day job.

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Science Saturday studies toys, magic

Charlie Pomerleau Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 2, 2011 - 11:08pm

OGDEN -- Science Saturday classes from 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 10 will explore "The Science of Magic & Toys," presented by Mad Science of Greater Salt Lake in partnership with the Eccles Community Art Center.

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Davis High students learn chemistry through viscous project

Ruth Malan Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 6:22am

KAYSVILLE — Slime oozed across the table, dripped from hands and bounced off walls during a special science lab Friday at Davis High School.

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The tornado-chasing Doppler on Wheels radar truck is set up at Lake Point on Interstate-80 west of Salt Lake City to measure an approaching cold front. With National Science Foundation funding, University of Utah meteorologists are using the advanced radar technology to study winter storms. Photo Credit: Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah

Storm chaser truck tracking Wasatch Front weather

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 9:45am

SALT LAKE CITY - A truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah this month as University of Utah meteorologists use it to get an unprecedented look inside snow and rain storms over the Salt Lake Valley and the surrounding Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains.

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Miss Davis County to speak at event

Ruth Malan Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 11:39pm

KAYSVILLE -- The Kaysville-Davis Branch of the American Association of University Women invites the public to join them at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Kaysville Branch of the Davis County Library, 44 N. Main St.

The speaker will be Kara Arnold, Miss Davis County, who will talk about how to "Discover Your Potential Through Science and Math."

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Mckenna Latteier (left), 14, of Layton and Divanah Wallace, 12, of Tremonton, make polymer at ATK Aerospace Systems Expanding Your Horizons Conference at South Ogden Junior High School on Saturday. The conference is designed to get young girls interested in math and science.

Top of Utah girls attend career conference sponsored by ATK

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 9:23pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Emma Harding is glad girls no longer have to hold down the stereotypical jobs to which women used to be limited.

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New WSU dean of the College of Science sets lofty goals

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 9:46pm

OGDEN -- After a few months of applying his keen scientific observation skills and examining the evidence, David Matty has concluded he made the correct decision in accepting the Weber State University position of dean of the College of Science.

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(PAUL SAKUMA/The Associated Press) In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 photo, Richard Muller, left, and his daughter, Elizabeth Muller, right, pose with a map from their study on climate at their home in Berkeley, Calif. A new study of Earth’s temperatures going back more than 200 years finds the same old story: It’s gotten hotter in the last 60 years. What’s different is the scientist behind the latest study, Richard Muller. The California physicist was doubtful of what climate scientists have been saying - until he did his own research, partly funded by climate change skeptics. Elizabeth Muller, co-founder and executive director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study, ran the study.

Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real

Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 3:41pm

WASHINGTON — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

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