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Black Brilliance. It was for Black youth to discuss their experiences (which are often neglected by the curriculum/textbooks) and also create an avenue to rectify these circumstances in their respective schools. Throughout my university career, I introduced black businesses to the Carleton student body, and spirited both the Redress project – commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women – and the Dear Black Girl project – addressing gender-based violence. Most recently, I introduced the first-ever social justice campaign and Indigenous celebration campaign at our student union du...

BBC Science Focus Magazine The roar of engines from the Rockot launch vehicle split the air as it lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on 30 June 2003. The rocket was 30m tall and had been chartered by the German company Eurockot Launch Services. But instead of carrying one large satellite into orbit, the Rockot was carrying eight smaller ones. Advertisement At the time, no one paid it much attention. After all, it wasn’t the launch of a flagship, billion-dollar mission. Yet in hindsight we can see that’s exactly what made the launch so important – perhaps even a w...

Hayabusa2 brings back asteroid dust December 21, 2020CNRS On the night of 5-6 December, a very special package landed in the South Australian desert region of Woomera. It contained samples of dust brought back from asteroid Ryugu, after a long journey by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. These tiny grains of material should speak volumes about the earliest moments of the Solar System. “Returning these samples was the mission’s main goal,” explains Patrick Michel, senior researcher at the Joseph-Louis Lagrange Laboratory1 and a member of the Hayabusa22 scientific team, as well as of the Hera,3 M...