STEMM4Girls

Encouraging more girls in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Medicine

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Our sun's a blue-green star: peak wavelength in blue & green spectrum. Heat relys on preeminent emission wavelength, at 5800K or 500nm; we see it as white & yellow as our eyes focus more on extended colors.

#sunfacts #trending #exploretab #fridaymorning

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We already know we can teach machines to see. But did you know machines can smell too? It's currently being used on the market for the future of fragrance tech. Turning odour data into actionable information, how cool is that???

#wesnesdayperception #STEM #trending #explore

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CHIMERA is essentially a single organism that's made up of cells from two or more individuals, it contains two sets of DNA, with the code to make two separate organisms.

#science #Biology #WomenInSTEM #DNA #chimera #STEM #math #technology

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This led Milner to speculate that there are different types of learning and memory, each dependent on a separate system of the brain . She was able to demonstrate two different memory systems- episodic memory and procedural memory.

#neuroscience #brain #women #STEM #Science

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STEM4Girls was honored to have a session with Dr. Laura Helmuth on 5th September 2020. Laura Helmuth is the Editor in Chief of Scientific American. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley.
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#science #journalism #STEM

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Even now, at the age of 102, she remains to be one of the most active members in this field, having shifted her research to focus on the study of brain activity in normal subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET).
#brain

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The placebo effect is defined as a phenomenon in which some people experience a benefit after the administration of an inactive "look-alike" substance or treatment. This substance, or placebo, has no known medical effect.

#science #placebo #neurolink