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The STEM Chicksmas Day Six: The God Particle

The Stem Chicksmas Physics 2013
December 19, 2015December 19, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ 1 Comment

On Day Six of the 12 Days of "The STEM Chicksmas," we're looking at the discovery and theory of the Higgs Boson (The God, or Goddamn Particle) by 2013 Physics Nobel Laureates Peter Higgs and François Englert.

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The STEM Chicksmas Day Five: Quasicrystals

The Stem Chicksmas Chemistry 2011
December 18, 2015December 19, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ 1 Comment

On Day Five of the 12 Days of "The STEM Chicksmas," we're looking at the discovery of quasicrystals, which changed the way we think about solid materials, by 2011 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman.

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The STEM Chicksmas Day Four: Bio Time Travel

The STEM Chicksmas Nobel Prize 2012 Medicine and Physiology
December 17, 2015December 19, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ Leave a comment

For the 12 Days of “The STEM Chicksmas” Day Four, we're featuring the game-changing discoveries of reversing cell differentiation by the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology winners Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka.

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The STEM Chicksmas Day Three: Nanoscopy

The STEM Chicksmas Nobel Prize 2011 Physics
December 16, 2015December 16, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ Leave a comment

For the 12 Days of “The STEM Chicksmas” Day Three, we're featuring the development of high resolved fluorescence microscopy, or "nanoscopy" by the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners W.E. Moerner, Eric Betzig, and Stefan Hell.

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The STEM Chicksmas Day Two: Expanding Universe

The STEM Chicksmas Nobel Prize 2011 Physics
December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ Leave a comment

For the 12 Days of “The STEM Chicksmas” Day Two, we're featuring the crazy discovery of the universe's accelerating expansion due to mysterious "dark energy" from the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics by Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess!

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The STEM Chicksmas Day One: Gene Silencing

The STEM Chicksmas Nobel Prize 2006 Medicine and Physiology
December 14, 2015December 19, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ 1 Comment

For Day One of the 12 Days of “The STEM Chicksmas” we feature the awesome gene silencing discovery from the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.

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Hydraulic Fracturing: What the Frack is that?

gas burner with rock
November 25, 2015November 26, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ Leave a comment

You might have seen it on the news, driven past a gas well, or read a terrible pun on it, but what exactly is it?

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Is it getting warm in here? The Greenhouse Effect

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October 24, 2015October 25, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ 1 Comment

What actually are greenhouse gases? How do they work? And is it just me, or is it starting to get warm in here?

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The Essentials of Cooking Oils

Different Cooking Oils in a Pan
October 15, 2015October 17, 2015 ~ thestemchicksadmin ~ Leave a comment

Not all oils are created equal. We’ve all heard about the horrors of trans-fats, but what is a trans fat? Are there cis fats? What about just fat fats?

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