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04/27/21 - Europa mission - Necklace Nebula - Best place to live? Globular Cluster - Hiawatha Crater update

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Links for this week:
STN member Bernie Reim teaches Astronomy and puts out an exceedingly informative monthly heads-up on the subject. From now on, we will call to attention this delicious mind-candy on our site. Many thanks to you, Bernie!

7mins - Insect Flight | Capturing Takeoff & Flying at 3,200 FPS - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnn9CfsYJqc

STN member Laurenn Rowland - Malaria vaccine hailed as potential breakthrough - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56858158


3 mins - STN member Hameed Faradani - Human cells grown in monkey embryos spark ethical debate - BBC News - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzVp4mxqOJ4


Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Taking Off and Landing - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtTv1rUixiY


Europa Clipper – NASA’s Mission to Search for Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa – Just Hit a Significant Milestone

https://scitechdaily.com/europa-clipper-nasas-mission-to-search-for-life-on-jupiters-moon-europa-just-hit-a-significant-milestone/


13 mins - Our Solar System's Moons: Europa - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGJbIfjzMQk&ab_channel=Astrum


3 mins - There Are Mountains Deep Within the Earth - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnopD9Xzi4


STN member Roger Lamont - Hubble Captures New Image of Necklace Nebula | Astronomy | Sci-News.com

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/hubble-necklace-nebula-09589.html


Two Vortex Rings Colliding in SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 195 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/EVbdbVhzcM4?t=378


Proxima Centauri shoots out humongous flare, with big implications for alien life | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/proxima-centauri-emits-largest-stellar-flare.html


Hiawatha Crater update | S0 News Apr.20.2021 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/if339g2Iao0?t=115


Astronomers find the 'safest place' to live in the Milky Way | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/safest-spot-for-life-in-milky-way.html


10 mins - How do star clusters become spherical, how they form and live over billions of years? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFzswOzuPRU


7 mins - These Globular Clusters Are a New Type of an Object - Galactic Bulge Fossils - YouTube

https://youtu.be/Mz0HlBGk6L8?t=152


11 mins - The Terrifying $1.2 Trillion Plan That Could Kill 90% of Humanity | Stephen Fry - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spnJ5WDgZnY


DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/dna-cave-dirt-tells-tale-how-some-neanderthals-disappeared?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2021-04-16&et_rid=303445233&et_cid=3737714


STN member Roger Lamont - Megalithic Jars - Archaeological News

https://archaeologicalnews.tumblr.com/post/645301135151906816/researchers-solve-more-of-the-mystery-of-laos


7 mins - Plain of Jars Mystery - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMcMKvitHY


Could humans communicate with whales?

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-humans-whales.html


12 mins - STN Member Roger LaMont - When We First Talked - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCW0zyDGuXc&t=4s


Wolf packs don't actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-wolf-dont-alpha-males-females.html


New study shows microbes trap massive amounts of carbon

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-microbes-massive-amounts-carbon.html


New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-uncovers-continental-crust-emerged-million.html

Links from last Session

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SMA Science Book Club

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The SciTechNature get-together is also on Facebook.

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SMA Lifelong learning program

http://instituto-allende.edu.mx/en/lifelong-learning-program/

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...Because the acquisition of clean water in our town is not only a science, but a necessity, especially in the San Miguel de Allende area:

Caminos de Agua

https://caminosdeagua.org/en/home

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Caminos de Agua

https://caminosdeagua.org/en/home

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SMA Rotary Club rests upon a foundation of compassion and science, so it too gets a heads up from SciTechNature.

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Best,

Stephen Goodfellow