MLC grade 12 students thrilled with VCE results

MLC grade 12 students thrilled with VCE results

The Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC) congratulates the 2022 VCE Grade 12 graduates who have achieved outstanding results. This cohort of 12th graders faced many challenges during their high school years and persevered through disruption and illness to make the MLC community immensely proud. This year’s results demonstrate the importance of providing a wide range of …

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Healthy soil for more nutritious food and healthier planet

Healthy soil for more nutritious food and a healthier planet

Sri Noor Chalidah and Eristyana Sari (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta ● Mon 12 December 2022 2022-12-12 03:04 0 499db3314bec618375f5d217fc1148e3 4 Academia land,agriculture,food,health,fertilizer,methane,greenhouse gas,spatial planning,soil,FAO Free Soil is widely recognized as the foundation of the food system, which produces 95% of our food. In the opening address to the G20 summit last month, President Joko “Jokowi” …

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Historic Moon Mission Ends With Orion Capsule Splashdown |  CNN

Historic Moon Mission Ends With Orion Capsule Splashdown | CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — The Artemis I mission – a 25.5-day uncrewed test flight around the moon intended to pave the way for future astronaut missions – came to a memorable end as NASA’s Orion spacecraft managed …

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Snowflake zinc crystals, the strongest material and "hellish planet"

Snowflake zinc crystals, the strongest material and “hellish planet”

It’s starting to feel a lot lighter Australian researchers have grown zinc crystals that look like snowflakes inside liquid gallium metal. But you won’t be hanging them on your Christmas tree anytime soon, instead these complex symmetrical zinc crystals can potentially be used in a range of catalysis applications. Often resembling six-pronged snowflake crystals, the …

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Watch live as NASA recovers the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft after a soft splashdown today

Watch live as NASA recovers the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft after a soft splashdown today

Update for December 11, 12:50 p.m. ET: NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft successfully crashed today, December 11, and appears to be in good condition as recovery teams work to recover the spacecraft. NASA will wait approximately 2 hours to retrieve Orion from the ocean as part of a post-landing temperature test. Read our full story. …

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Severe COVID looks scary like old age in human brain, study finds

Severe COVID looks scary like old age in human brain, study finds

Severe COVID-19 looks frighteningly like old age in the human brain, according to post-mortem analysis of 54 healthy and infected individuals. The study authors say their research is the first to link COVID-19 to molecular signatures of brain aging. “We observed that gene expression in the brain tissue of deceased COVID-19 patients closely resembled that …

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Planet Earth’s blue and white swirls loom behind an inverted spacecraft with its engine cones and one solar panel visible.

Live Updates: NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission Returns to Earth

Another day, another rocket launch by SpaceX and another spacecraft going to the moon. All of this seems commonplace these days. SpaceX has already launched its Falcon 9 rocket more than 50 times this year. NASA’s Artemis I, an uncrewed test flight that is a precursor to future astronaut missions, is nearing its return to …

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Garden Chat: seedlings, clones and a bit of plant breeding

Garden Chat: seedlings, clones and a bit of plant breeding

Garlic cloves, lily and gladioli bulbs, Jerusalem artichoke tubers and strawberry stolons are all examples of plants reproduced as clones. Genetic diversity, cloning and sowing are words that all have one thing in common: they are the result of reproduction. Sexual reproduction results in seedlings that increase the genetic diversity of a particular species while …

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Climate change affects Christmas trees in BC and beyond: expert - BC News

Climate change affects Christmas trees in BC and beyond: expert – BC News

Photo: The Canadian Press A plot of land on the Sahtlam Tree Farm in the Cowichan Valley region of Duncan, British Columbia The effects of climate change are wreaking havoc on Christmas tree farms in British Columbia and beyond, with a forestry expert saying the already shrinking and changing sector will need to adapt in …

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Not on the moon yet: Here's what's on the horizon for Canadian space exploration - Canada News

Not on the moon yet: Here’s what’s on the horizon for Canadian space exploration – Canada News

Photo: The Canadian Press This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 shows the edge of a young star forming region near NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. When Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette was young, she didn’t see many stars in the bright sky of Montreal. But she delves into the colorful otherworldly images …

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