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Question About Autism, sodium/potassium channels, and seizures

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Question About Autism, sodium/potassium channels, and seizures Question About Autism, sodium/potassium channels, and seizures Hello! I was planning on doing my project on something related to autism, sodium/potassium channels and seizures. The article I found that I wanted to relate my project to talked about how genetic variants in sodium channels cause autism and when overactive they cause seizures. But the medicine given to close the sodium channels and prevent this sometimes doesn’t work… Read more

Science Fair Idea- smartphone affects the Brain

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Science Fair Idea- smartphone affects the Brain Science Fair Idea- smartphone affects the Brain Hi All, I am planning to research how the usage of smartphone affect the brain? I can find a lot of data available and research that have been done on this topic. But if I want to prove this Question in my science project, how do I test this? Any help on this is appreciated. Re: Science Fair Idea- smartphone affects the Brain Hello, We'd be happy to help you out with your project! The first… Read more

Why to use Linux?

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Why to use Linux? Why to use Linux? This is the most helpful perspective for understudies, as they can utilize the product to concentrate on how it functions, prior to altering and stretching out the code to suit their requirements. This will likewise assist them with learning the internals of an OS and the product. This interaction will help in the improvement of new programming and help development dependent on nearby requirements. Regardless of whether clients are not software engineers,… Read more

Publishing Reserach

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Publishing Reserach Publishing Reserach Hello, I was wondering if someone can help with resouces to publish reserach in a good journal as a high school student? Re: Publishing Reserach Hello, It's great that you have an interest in getting your work published! One journal that publishes work by high school students is the Journal of Emerging Investigators. You can go to their website and read about their publication guidelines. This could be a good opportunity to get feedback on your work… Read more

How do we estimate the size of a star in arcminutes?

Ask an Expert Topic Forum: Grades 9-12: Physical Science

How do we estimate the size of a star in arcminutes? How do we estimate the size of a star in arcminutes? I'm doing the "How Old Is the Universe?" Project and they ask us to find the approximate size of a star in arcminutes with the length on the chart, but I'm struggling to do so. Is there an equation I need to work with? Re: How do we estimate the size of a star in arcminutes? Make sure that you have selected the "grid" and "label" options, as shown in Figure 4. Step 4 explains and… Read more

Aging Experiment with mice - finding collaborators

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Aging Experiment with mice - finding collaborators Aging Experiment with mice - finding collaborators Hey All, Does anyone know how I could find someone interested in collaboration on an aging experiment with mice? I've been doing an experiment on aging in mice, using absolute telomere analysis to check results based on different mice subjects. I've had one mouse exhibit results that indicated a slightly increased and then stable telomere length over about six months, which is rather… Read more

Tranist of a Planet

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Tranist of a Planet Tranist of a Planet Dear all, I wish to create a model, for my students, to measure the decrease in light as a result of an object moving in front of a light source. The idea is to simulate a transit and to calculate the relationship between the object size and the light curve. Any help will be appreciated. Vered Tal Re: Tranist of a Planet Hi Vered, This project might help:… Read more

Bioengineering Organs

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Bioengineering Organs Bioengineering Organs Hi, I am doing a project related to "Creating a Kidney: How Stem Cells Might Be Used to Bioengineer a Vital Organ" except I am doing it on bioengineering lungs. I am wondering how I could find research papers that would explain the different soluble factors used to differentiate lung cells, like how it is shown in table 1 of the procedures. I have tried using the websites suggested but I do not understand how to specifically look for these… Read more

Bioengineering Organs

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Bioengineering Organs Bioengineering Organs Hi, I am doing a project relating to "Creating a Kidney: How Stem Cells Might Be Used to Bioengineer a Vital Organ". In the Make It Your Own section it said that there are many other organs that can be bioengineered. I am planning to make this project about lungs, but I am having a hard time finding out what cell types I am doing the research on. For example, the kidney has a main filtering system called the nephrons and the nephrons have two main… Read more

Arrhenius equation and crickets

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Arrhenius equation and crickets Arrhenius equation and crickets I am working on a project to test the accuracy of cricket chirps to determine the temperature. Equations are listed in the farmers' almanac that can be used, but I also wanted to test the accuracy of those equations versus the Arrhenius equation since it has both constant and exponential factors. My issue is that I am having difficulty deciding what factors to use in place of my variables in the Arrhenius equation. Factors that… Read more

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