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"Channel Earth" is turned off

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Until recently, people where able to experience space the way an astronaut would by watching the Dish Network Earth Channel, a 24 hour, seven days a week feed that broadcast directly from the commercial satellite Echostar 11. The author explains how the images where captured and transimitted to Earth. The camera stopped working recently, but fortunately for space aficionados, videos are still available on Youtube.


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The democratization of education

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Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. Among other things, they allow one teacher to reach thousands of students with one class. The author reviews the offerings of three of the most populare MOOC programs: KhanAcademyedX, and Coursera.

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An oasis for the pharmaceutical sector

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Marie Custodio Collazo / mcustodio@elnuevodia.com

Neolpharma, a Mexican pharmaceutical group specializing in the production of generic medicines and contract manufacturing, opened operations yesterday in Caguas in a plant that used to be owned by Pfizer. The company might be a new business model for Puerto Rico, for the research and development market of "differentiated generics", a type of off-patent medicines that are more technically challenging to produce than regular generics. Neolpharma relocated to Puerto Rico, despite higher production costs, because of the talent pool of potential workers.

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Trio of students will represent Puerto Rico in robotics competition in California

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Aurora Rivera Arguinzoni / arivera@elnuevodia.com

Three Puerto Rican teenagers will travel to California to represent Puerto Rico at the VEX Robotics Competition.

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Science funding in Puerto Rico at risk

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Con la alta criminalidad, el desempleo y el menú de controversias políticas del día, ¿a quién le podría importar un asuntito de científicos?

De primera instancia, quizás el lector piense que los problemas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) con la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias (National Science Foundation, NSF) no le conciernen. Pero el problema con la NSF no es un asunto que solo afecta a un puñado de académicos.

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Discussing advances to counter coastal erosio

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Por Gerardo E. Alvarado León / galvarado@elnuevodia.com

Local and international scientists wil gather in Rincón, February 19-22 to celebrate de 8th International Symposium on Artifical Corals and Surfing Sciences 

Those interested in participating should contact (787) 632-8329 o or visit the event page at www.imprs2013.org


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Iguanas and their favorite menus

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Scientists from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras make a surprising discovery about the diet of iguanas.

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Puerto Rican youth get hooked on robotics

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Aurora Rivera Arguinzoni / arivera@elnuevodia.com

Puerto Rican grade school students showcased their engineering and scientific abilities at the Technology Challenge Puerto Rico LEGO Championship. Puerto Rican astronaut Joseph Acabá was present to observe their work and encourage the students.

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Puerto Rican woman aspires to be the first in space

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NASA chose the young woman from Arroyo, and member of CienciaPR, for a Mars pre-exploration project

Yajaira Sierra Sastre aspires to be the first woman astronaut from Puerto Rico. Her goal is closer at hand now that she has been selected to participate in the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (Hi-SEAS), an important project financed by NASA to study important aspects of how to sustain astronauts traveling and living in Mars. 

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