Paignton Library STEM Group

Life on Venus?

Life on Venus? MIT’s “Absolutely Surprising” Discovery of Amino Acid Stability

Interesting article and this seems to follow on nicely from the Di Methyl Sulfide discovery a while back.

Not sure what sort of life would exist on Venus, or perhaps may do at a later date in the future but the discovery of basic building blocks, esp of Amino Acids is important and may help us look for life on other planets & moons in the solar system or exo-planets and exo-moons around other stars.

You can read more about this here

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#Venus,#Discovery,#AminoAcid,#Stable,#AstroChemistry,#Chemistry,#BioChemistry


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Dark stars

'Dark stars': Dark matter may form exploding stars, and observing the damage could help reveal what it's made of

More research into Dark Stars. In this instance, the research is looking at whether exploding stars are linked to the formation of Dark matter.

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#Science,#Astronomy,#Physics,#Wimps,#DarkMatter,#Stars,


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STEM Group 13th April 2024

The next Stem group event will take place on :

Date: Saturday, April 13th 2024 Time: 10:30am to 15:00 Location: Paignton Library and Information Centre Room: 12

What is planned?


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This Is How the Body’s Building Blocks Are Made

Interesting article from SciTechDaily on how some of the human bodies basic building blocks are made. These are the proteins that make up other more complex components of the human body, This is linked to research into how ribosomes work

Molecular Majesty: This Is How the Body’s Building Blocks Are Made

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#Science,#Ribosome,#Biology,#Chemistry,#BioChemistry


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Robot car 4 (updates)

I have now re-built the Robot car, using an acrylic sheet material for the chassis, different wheels and also used hot glue to secure everything together more securely.

R car 3

The other difference is that I also used hot glue to put this together.

R car 4

The micro:bit car is also now working. Only using some basic example code at the moment.,

R car 4


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STEM Group 23rd March 2024 Write up

Good session today, more updates from Helen. More work on the Lenovo, but we decided that it really does need a bigger hard disk. We also need the installation media for the next meeting on the 6th April.

Did more work with Scratch and some coding in the afternoon.

The sessions need much more structure, so we can plan better what we are going to do, and therefore what to bring in terms of resources.

Next event 6th April


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STEM Group 23rd March 2024

The next Stem group event will take place on :

Date: Saturday, March 23rd 2024 Time: 10:30am to 15:00 Location: Paignton Library and Information Centre Room: 12

What is planned

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TeX Live 2024

TeX Live 2024 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.

Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.

Writing

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The invention of blue and purple pigments

The invention of blue and purple pigments in ancient times

Article from the Royal society of Chemistry on the history of blue and purple pigments.

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#Chemistry,#History,#Pigments,#Blue,#Purple


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