Category: highlighting research
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Mendeley Celebrate New Horizons' Pluto Flyby in Washington D.C.
In June we announced that NASA’s Science Program Manager Adriana Ocampo had extended a very special invite for the Mendeley team to be at NASA HQ to witness the Pluto New Horizons Encounter! Naturally we were excited about this incredible opportunity… so much so that we focused four of our internal hack-days on space-themed hacks, and the hackers…
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Eyes on Pluto – Now you too can journey to the outer edge of our Solar System!
“It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we’ve invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system…..” Alan Stern, Astronomer and Aeronautical Engineer quoted in Smithsonian, June 2015 The New Horizons mission…
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NASA Museum Alliance
As the NASA Space probe, New Horizons, approaches Pluto, members of the NASA Museum Alliance are preparing to host various events to live-stream and celebrate this nine and a half year journey that culminates in a momentous Pluto Flyby! The Museum Alliance is a NASA-centric STEM community of science educators, museums, observatories, planetariums, science-technology centers;…
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NASA New Horizons Mission Prepares for Historic Pluto Approach
… and you can be a part of it! You might have noticed a bit of a trend recently with Mendeley supporting some cool space-themed events, such as a talk by Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (pictured below presenting a much-coveted “Get your Ass to Mars” t-shirt to Professor Stephen Hawking) and a debate at…
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Cheers to the #pint15selfie winners!
We had such a great time at the Pint of Science festival this week – so many amazing talks and discussions with an incredibly engaged audience. Congratulations to the Pint of Science teams in the UK and around the world for another successful celebration of science. There were a great many selfies being submitted during…
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