Science

South Dakota public universities and some K-12 schools will use federal grants totaling nearly $300,000 for six projects aimed at improving math and science instruction in middle schools and high schools.

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LEAD - The Department of Energy has started an environmental assessment in Lead that will determine whether building a new surface laboratory will have significant effects on human health and the environment.

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VERMILLION - Students from Brookings High School and Yankton Middle School have been crowned champions of the South Dakota Science Olympiad State Tournament.

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SIOUX FALLS - The University of South Dakota Research Park will host a national conference focusing on small business research in October.

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BROOKINGS - The president of the American Society of Human Genetics will be at South Dakota State University next week to talk about the role nutrition plays in genetics.

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SIOUX FALLS - Nearly 600 eighth-grade girls will be gathering in Sioux Falls Wednesday for an event aimed at encouraging women to enter the fields of science.

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South Dakota high school seniors have an opportunity to apply to a national science education program that will take place this summer in West Virginia.

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Scientists have been given the Department of Energy's approval to move forward with plans for a $50 million building that will eventually house a neutrino detector in the western South Dakota town of Lead.

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Something very strange happens at the 1:15 point in this video. When these three clear solutions are combined on a stir plate, the result changes color — and keeps changing!

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Two South Dakota universities could be adding doctoral programs in physics to their curriculums in part to support work being done at the Sanford Underground Research Facility at Lead.

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