Seventh Annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge Opens Today For Student Submissions
2021 Breakthrough Junior Challenge Welcomes Videos on Space Exploration, in Recognition of the 60th Anniversary of the First Human Space Flight, Along with Topics in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics
Contest Open to All Students Ages 13-18; Submissions Accepted Today Through June 25
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the launch of its popular, global video competition for students – the
To participate in the Challenge, students ages 13 to 18 are invited to create and submit an original video that explains a favorite scientific concept or theory that falls within the category of Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, or Mathematics. Submissions will be accepted today through Friday, June 25.
The fourth event of the Champions Chess Tour, the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, will take place on March 13-21, with sixteen players fighting for Tour points and a share of the US$ 220,000 prize fund. According to their rapid ratings, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura are the top seeds.
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It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it s known, left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and runs 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species living on Earth.
The enduring puzzle: Where did the asteroid or comet originate, and how did it come to strike Earth? Now, a pair of researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian believe they have the answer.
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The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a global science competition that was created to inspire creative thinking about fundamental concepts in the life sciences, physics and mathematics. With the recent coronavirus gripping the world, this was the first time there was a new category on the science of pandemics.
“Winning the Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a life-changing moment for me, and presents so many new opportunities that nothing will be the same from now on,” Tsegaye said in a written statement. “I am so humbled to be a part of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge community, and to win this for my school, my teachers, my family, the city, and the country.”
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Astronomers have spotted what may be the strongest candidate yet for an alien signal. Researchers at the Breakthrough Listen project have found an unusual beam of radio light coming from around our nearest neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri, according to a report in
The Guardian on 18 December.
Any purported discovery of aliens always has to be taken with scepticism. That is especially true in cases where a signal appears to be a possible technosignature, a sign of alien technology rather than simply life beyond Earth. The Breakthrough Listen team has been extremely cautious about this find. “No one is claiming it’s a technosignature,” tweeted Pete Worden, chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.