A new STEM mentoring network seeks to maximize scientific excellence and output within the astronomy and astrophysics community by cultivating inclusive environments where people with marginalized ...

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Crowdsourcing is used for everything from raising funds to locating the best burger in town. The practice of enlisting a large group of people to provide a service, information or a contribution to a ...

The News Feature on optical telescopes (Nature 408 12 2000 ) reviews the present state of most national telescope operators in Europe and the United States, and identifies some important niches that ...

Angel network FAAD Network has led an angel funding round in Navars Edutech Pvt Ltd, an astronomy and space edtech company that caters to school students. Sravan Varma Datla, cofounder and CEO of ...

As it sets its sights on paving new frontiers in its field, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron) has embarked on a project to upgrade its core access wireless local area network ...

Two of West Virginia’s premier research institutions, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank and West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown, have inaugurated a new super ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Emma Alexander, PhD Candidate in Astrophysics, ...

Until now, Europe has had two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical wavelength domain and the other in the radio-wave domain. OPTICON and RadioNet have now come ...

Despite years of effort, diversifying the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains a challenge. In fact, in 2019, underrepresented minorities held only 9% of academic ...

Last month, NASA granted Nokia $14.1 million to build a 4G telecom network on the Moon by the year 2030. The goal was to get a communications and navigational network for any future lunar outposts up ...

Navars Edutech, a Hyderabad-based edtech startup focused on the astronomy education sector, has raised an undisclosed amount in angel round of funding through Faad Network. Founded in 2019 by Sravan ...