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Cool Jobs: Green Science
Scientists get at the root (and stem, leaf, flower, fruit and seed) of the relationship between plants and their environment
Posted in Agriculture, Plants, STEM Careers
Tagged air pollution, air pollution control, albedo, allelopathy, arabidopsis, benzene, Bill Wolverton, birch, botany, climate change, contaminants, cool jobs, ecology, feature, forests, formaldehyde, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse effectPlants, herbicide, houseplants, Joseph Jez, juglone, Labrador, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, plant chemistry, plants, Pollination, pollinator, Quebec, rice, seeds, Serge Payette, sorghum, spruce, topstories, transpiration, tree line, trees, trichloroethylene, tundra, Université Laval, Washington University, weed killers, X-ray crystallography
Cool Jobs: Museum science
Samples collected long ago may hold answers to important questions in science and medicine today
Posted in Ancient Times, Animals, STEM Careers
Tagged Adaptation, ancient DNA, anthropology, antibody, arenavirus, British Museum, Charles Fulhorst, collections, computed tomography, cool jobs, crime scene, CSI, CT scan, Daniel Antoine, deer mouse, Egypt, evolution, feature, flightless birds, forensics, hantavirus, holdings, moa, mummy, Museums, Oliver Haddrath, outbreaks, pack rat, Robert Baker, Robert Bradley, rodents, Royal Ontario Museum, Texas Tech, tinamou, topstories, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, viral RNA, virus, X-ray
Cool Jobs: Explosive pursuits
These researchers study things that go boom — or poof!
Posted in STEM Careers, Technology & Engineering
Tagged airport security, Bibhu Mohanty, blast, bomb, bomb sniffer, bunchberry dogwood, carbon, catapult, chemical reaction, cool jobs, explosions, explosive, feature, geology, gold, Guinness Book of World Records, high speed photography, iron, Joan Edwards, land mine, minerals, mining, molecular sieve, nickel, oxidizer, pollen, reaction, rocks, TNT, topstories, University of Delaware, University of Toronto, Williams College, Yushan Yan, zeolite
Cool Jobs: Wild science
Collecting data can be dangerous for scientists who work in the field
Posted in Science Education, STEM Careers
Tagged Arctic, atrazine, Bathurst Island, cool jobs, feature, field research, fieldwork, frog, fungus-farming ants, hippo, hydrology, Inuit, Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo, Kathy Young, permafrost, polar bear, topstories, Tyrone Hayes, wetlands
Cool Jobs: Like Mother Nature
Scientists observe what works best for animals, plants in efforts to build better products
Posted in STEM Careers, Technology & Engineering
Tagged cool jobs, Engineering Careers, feature
Plant-powered plastics
Scientists are using green materials to create more Earth-friendly plastics
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