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Harrisburg education leader battles cancer while continuing to empower youth Updated Feb 16, 2021; Posted Feb 16, 2021 Sieta Achampong is director of high schools at Harrisburg School District. February 12, 2021. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com Facebook Share Editor’s note : During Black History month, PennLive is paying tribute to the people who are helping shape what will some day be the history of the Black community in Central Pennsylvania. These are people who are examples of exce...

Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 9:45 am A trial underway on the edge of the North Island’s Pureora Forest is exploring how New Zealand’s native bats/pekapeka respond to different types of artificial light. This collaborative trial, combining expertise and knowledge from Department of Conservation (DOC) and Waikato University, will last for two months, and will see the bats’ behaviour monitored as different colours of artificial light are in use. The bats will not be harmed during the trial,...

Israel's largest healthcare provider said Sunday a study of more than half a million fully vaccinated Israelis indicated the Pfizer/BioNTech jab gave 94% protection against COVID-19.

Prone position therapy entails having a patient lie face down as illustrated in this photo. (Provided by Hideaki Dairi) Nurse Hideaki Dairi had an eye-opening experience during a night shift in April last year that changed how he and other health care workers treat COVID-19 patients with moderate symptoms. A colleague at the Metropolitan Komagome Hospital in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward came rushing up to Dairi, 58, alarmed that a patient’s blood oxygen level was low and nothing was bringing it back...

Monday, 15 February 2021, 12:10 pm  Farmers, scientists and rural industry leaders are meeting in Waikato later this year to start mapping out a secure future for New Zealand pastures. The Resilient Pastures Symposium (RPS), organised by the NZ Grassland Association (NZGA), comes 10 years after the association’s landmark Pasture Persistence Symposium. With agriculture currently earning more than 40c in every NZ export dollar, those behind the event say pasture – and innovative thinking abo...

Monday, 15 February 2021, 12:14 pm A team of international researchers led by a University of Canterbury (UC) Engineering academic, believe they have discovered a potentially revolutionary key to reducing climate change impacts. Lead researcher UC Civil Engineering Associate Professor Allan Scott, and his team in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, have found a new low-carbon method to produce the common mineral, magnesium hydroxide or Mg(OH)2. Associate Professor Scott explains ...

The system also has a pair of companion stars that orbit far beyond the planets.

Monday, 15 February 2021, 9:43 am Scientists are calling on New Zealanders to become citizen seismologists to help determine whether a low-cost community-based earthquake early warning system is feasible in New Zealand. The project, co-funded by EQC and Massey University, has enabled a group of scientists, led by the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University, to source a number of low-cost seismometers and work with a number of communities to see if they would be willing to becom...

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Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory arent rescuing Princess Peach just yet, but they did show a remarkable ability to learn and operate a game.