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The Diversity in STEAM Magazine brings science, technology, education, mathematics, educational, business and employment opportunities to all minorities and diverse cultures. We firmly believe that in order to have a successful company, Diversity & Inclusion must be implemented in all departments. STEM and the arts are critical for our future and innovation. Diversity in STEAM Magazine brings you the best combinations of science and technology with arts, creativity and entrepreneurship.

04/22/2023

On , DiversityComm celebrates the remarkable diversity of our planet and our commitment to sustainability in STEAM fields. Together, let's make a difference by protecting our environment, preserving biodiversity, and creating a more sustainable future.

04/07/2022

The Ins and Outs of Cybersecurity
As seen in Diversity in STEAM Magazine

Cybersecurity involves preventing, detecting, and responding to cyberattacks that can have wide-ranging effects on individuals, organizations, the community, and the national level.

Cyberattacks can occur in many ways, including:
🖥 Accessing your personal computers, mobile phones, gaming systems, and other internet and Bluetooth-connected devices.
🖥 Damaging your financial security, including identity theft.
🖥 Blocking your access or deleting your personal information and accounts.
🖥 Targeting children and adults.
🖥 Complicating your employment, business services, transportation, and power grid.

The following are things you can do to protect yourself, your family, and your property before a cyberattack occurs:

🖥 Limit the personal information you share online. Change privacy settings and do not use location features.
🖥 Keep software applications and operating systems up to date.
🖥 Using a password manager, use upper and lowercase letters, numbers, special characters, and two-factor authentication (two methods of verification).
🖥 Watch for suspicious activity that asks you to do something right away, offers something that sounds too good to be true, or needs your personal information.
🖥 Think before you click, and when in doubt, do NOT click. Do not provide personal information.

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04/04/2022

is officially a Grammy award winner — well, at least in spirit. The pink, spherical creature helped earn and a Grammy for the best arrangement, instrumental, or acapella for their take on Meta Knight’s Revenge from the 1996 classic Kirby Superstar.

The arrangement was performed by the aptly-named 8-Bit Big Band, a 30 to 65-member that specializes in putting its own spin on .

In the past, has performed ’s Lullaby from the , Fourside from Earthbound, Big Blue from F-Zero, and much more. You can listen to the group’s performance of the reimagined Meta Knight’s Revenge in the embed above — it’s a real jazzy take on the original track, and some say, it sounds even better than ’s remake included in .

Video game music isn’t nominated for a very often, but this win is especially timely considering the recent release of .

In 2011, the song Baba Yetu from won a Grammy after getting re-released in a separate album. Journey was nominated for best score soundtrack for visual media in 2012, but ended up losing to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

What video games do you think have a Grammy worthy soundtrack?

03/30/2022

Apple becomes the first honored with at the for 'CODA'. becomes the first film with a predominantly Deaf cast to win Best Picture.

's best-picture win is a big moment for . Overall, — which has spent millions of dollars heavily campaigning for its awards hopefuls — picked up just one Oscar: Campion's win for directing "The Power of the Dog." Apple is estimated to have spent more than $10 million on the Oscars campaign for "CODA" — more than the movie's sub-$10 million production budget.

The star is the first Deaf male actor to win an Oscar. Up until then, his co-star, was the first and only deaf person to win an Academy Award for three decades.

"This is a really big moment for the Deaf community. It's a really big moment for the disability community," - Sian Heder, Director of 'CODA'.

"I want to say to everyone in the Deaf community and everyone in the disability community that there's a place for you here; your stories are important, and we need to make room. And this is one story, and let this one be the first of many, many films to come out of this beautiful community." - Sian Heder, Director of 'CODA.'

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03/29/2022

sent our founder the coolest package!

Leland Melvin’s story is one worth reading— from the to to being one of the greatest advocates for in

Read his story on Diversity In STEAM Magazine and in his book Chasing Space!

03/21/2022

China has just revealed their plans for a - a 7,000 . Experts suspect the plane will be able to travel from Bejing to New York in only a few hours.

Scientists hope the plane will be ready to take off into the air by 2024.

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03/16/2022

is conducting a "wet dress rehearsal" for their and an upcoming moon mission.

NASA’s 2022 mission to the moon is called . The mission is testing hardware for their 2025 mission ( ), where the world will see the first woman and the first person of color on the .

Source: New York Post

03/09/2022

"I really think that has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that." -

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03/08/2022

Happy

who play a significant role in U.S. history have not always received the credit and representation they deserve.

by Encouraging young girls and women to pursue careers in steam/Stem.

Organizations like The Geena Davis Institute are standing up for gender & . The institute researches gender representation in media and advocates for equal representation of women.

Check out our summer 2021 issue of Diversity in magazine to learn more about and the . Link In Bio.

03/03/2022

With the new PlayStation VR2, Sony brings its VR system to current console generations, proving that VR is here to stay. And as accessibility evolves, the presence of VR is indicative of an industry that still has much to learn.

“I think VR can be included in the future of accessible gaming, with the right consultation and testing. It just needs to be more open-minded when it comes to what its ideal gamer looks like.”
- Kristie “KristieMJM” Matheson

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03/02/2022

While the itself is still a proposal, the design is striking.

This upside-down tower is dubbed the and was designed by Adjaye Associates. If approved, the building would stand at 1,663 feet tall - making it the second tallest in Manhattan.

But even more importantly, the tower would actually be the first built by a team made up of mostly Black developers, architects and builders—fitting, given that it would also become the headquarters of the mid-Manhattan branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( ).

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02/23/2022

“You’ve heard the term Irish , and you’ve heard identical twins and fraternal twins,” Briana Salyers. “But we have quaternary twins.”

Briana and Brittany, 35, married another pair of identical twins, Josh and Jeremy Salyers, 37. Now they’re introducing the world to their babies, who are technically cousins, but genetically they are so similar they are more like brothers.

“They were born to identical twin parents less than nine months apart,” Brittany Salyers explained. “Twins married to twins who both have babies at the same time.”

“It was something we all four wanted, and when we got engaged, we all wanted it that way,” Brittany said. “It’s something that’s very nice. (Josh and Jeremy) understand the twin bond as we do. We get to have a lot of together time.”

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02/18/2022

The historic moon missions are often associated with dazzling launches and spectacular feats of engineering. But intricate, challenging handiwork — comparable to weaving — was just as essential to putting men on the moon.

Beyond , and a handful of other names that we remember were hundreds of thousands of men and women who contributed to Apollo over a decade.

Among them: the women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer and the women employees of who wove the computer’s core memory.

Around the time of the beginning of the , had been introduced. They were revolutionizing and , contributing to the gradual miniaturization of computers from mainframes to today’s smartphones. sourced the circuits from the original Silicon Valley start-up, Fairchild Semiconductor.

Making microchips was challenging work. Electrical components had to be placed on tiny chips made of a semiconductor such as silicon and connected by wires in precise locations, creating complex and varying patterns of lines and geometric shapes. The Navajo women’s work “was performed using a microscope and required painstaking attention to detail, excellent eyesight, high standards of quality and intense focus,” writes digital media scholar Lisa Nakamura.

In a brochure commemorating the dedication of the Shiprock plant, Fairchild directly compared the assembly of integrated circuits with what the company portrayed as the traditional, feminine, Indigenous craft of rug-weaving.

Similarly, women employees at Raytheon assembled the Apollo Guidance Computer’s core memory with a process that in this case directly mimicked weaving. Core memory used metal wires threaded through tiny doughnut-shaped ferrite rings, or “cores,” to represent 1s and 0s. All of this core memory was woven by hand, with women sitting on opposite sides of a panel passing a wire-threaded needle back and forth to create a particular pattern.

We want to take a moment to highlight these important women in history and how their work made traveling to the moon possible!

02/16/2022

Australia’s first Underwater Hotel let’s you sleep next to the !

ReefSuites opened in December 2019 just off of Hardy Reef and is managed by is the first of it’s kind and people everywhere are losing their minds!

Some adore it. Some despise it. And some are conflicted. Why? Reefsuites is unlike anything in this world! It comprises of two suites hanging under a Pontoon and gives you an incredible view into reefs and ocean.

It’s quite the journey to te there. It’s an hour and a half flight and then a three-hour boat on top of that.

But it is WORTH IT! Once there you can see more than 1,000 species of fish, turtles, rays, and giant, turtle-eating gropers through your giant windows.

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02/11/2022

Today is International Women and Girls in Science Day. Let's celebrate the scientists in our lives! Whether it's a young girl with her first science kit or a woman working in science that deserves credit for her achievements. Our partner everywoman Tech Hub has produced a selfie card for you to use to aid your celebration!

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01/24/2022

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01/05/2022

Geo Week is the intersection of geospatial + the built world. The event brings together AEC Next Expo & Conference, SPAR 3D Expo & Conference and the International Lidar Mapping Forum into a single powerhouse event. Industries covered include Architecture, Engineering & Construction; Asset & Facility Management; Disaster & Emergency Response; Earth Observation & Satellite Applications; Energy & Utilities, Infrastructure & Transportation; Land & Natural Resource Management, Mining & Aggregates, Surveying & Mapping, and Urban Planning/Smart Cities. It is presented by Geo Week News and organized by Diversified Communications, a global event producer that also organizes Commercial UAV Expo Americas, Commercial UAV Expo Europe (Amsterdam), Digital Construction Week and GEO Business Show (London).

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12/28/2021

On a day he'll never forget, Leland Melvin saw 24 sunsets in 24 hours. He flew over his hometown of Lynchburg, Va., and thought of his family, his modest and healthy upbringing; seven minutes later, he was over Paris.

It wasn't lost on him that he was , and his crew members included , Russians, people from all walks of life.
"It made me contemplate my existence," he said. "My faith was stronger, more magnified, and doing it with people we used to fight against."

Melvin, 57, and, in his post-astronaut career, a prominent advocate for / , did not take the usual route to . He was a in the NFL, but he suffered a career-ending injury, and Act II of a remarkable life journey was on.

Melvin's post- opportunity came at a job fair. A recruiter tracked him down and told him, "You're coming to work at NASA."

This was in the 1980s. Melvin said his mental image of NASA involved white men with crew cuts. He wasn't far off. "Historically, NASA has been myopically focused on a certain mindset," he said. He became part of a sea-change in the world's most esteemed space organization. He became an in 1998, after sustaining a traumatic ear injury during underwater training exercises and, eventually, being cleared to fly despite his lifelong .

"The biggest part of succeeding in a is to be a team member," he said. "Just like and . That's why diversity is so important. You look at things in a different way. To work at NASA, you have to allow yourself to be heard. People sometimes don't speak up because they've been marginalized."

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12/22/2021

A well-preserved dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg. The fossilized dinosaur embryo came from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province in southern China and was acquired by researchers in 2000.

Researchers at Yingliang Group, a company that mines stones, suspected it contained egg fossils, but put it in storage for 10 years, according to a news release. When construction began on Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum, boxes of unearthed fossils were sorted through.

“Museum staff identified them as dinosaur eggs and saw some bones on the broken cross section of one of the eggs,” Lida Xing of China University of Geosciences, Beijing, said in a news release. A embryo was found hidden within, which they named “Baby Yingliang.”

The embryo is that of the bird-like oviraptorosaurs, part of the theropod group. Theropod means “beast foot,” but theropod feet usually resembled those of birds. Birds are descended from one lineage of small theropods.

In studying the embryo, researchers found the dinosaur took on a distinctive tucking posture before hatching, which had been considered unique to birds. The study is published in the iScience journal.

Researchers say this behavior may have evolved through non-avian theropods. “Most known non-avian dinosaur embryos are incomplete with skeletons disarticulated,” said Waisum Maof the University of Birmingham, U.K. “We were surprised to see this embryo beautifully preserved inside a dinosaur egg, lying in a bird-like posture. This posture had not been recognized in non-avian dinosaurs before.”

While fossilized dinosaur eggs have been found during the last 100 years, discovering a well-preserved embryo is very rare, the researchers said in the release.

The embryo’s posture was not previously seen in non-avian dinosaur, which is “especially notable because it’s reminiscent of a late-stage modern bird embryo.”

12/20/2021

“Parker Solar Probe “touching the Sun” is a monumental moment for solar science and a truly remarkable feat,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Not only does this milestone provide us with deeper insights into our Sun’s evolution and its impacts on our solar system, but everything we learn about our own also teaches us more about stars in the rest of the .”

For the first time in , a spacecraft has touched the Sun. ’s Parker has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and there.

The new milestone marks one major step for and one giant leap for solar . Just as landing on the allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the is made of will help scientists uncover critical information about our closest star and its influence on the .

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12/15/2021

The image, created by Nigerian and Chidiebere Ibe, struck a chord with countless people on social media, many of whom said that they had never seen a or a Black depicted before. It also brought attention to a larger issue at hand: A lack of in .

While most fetuses are red in color — come out dark pink or red and only gradually develop the skin tone they will have for life — the medical illustration is intended to represent patients who aren’t used to seeing their skin tones in such images.

“Along with the importance of representation of Black and Brown bodies in medical illustration, his illustration also serves to combat another major flaw in the system, that being the staggering disproportionate mortality rate of in this country,” - Ibe

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12/10/2021

For the first time ever, an ocean has gone inside a and sent back video footage.

This drone, a 23-foot-long Explorer SD 1045, entered the furious category-4 winds of Hurricane Sam on September 30, 2021, as it swirled in the Atlantic Ocean. The Saildrone sent back footage of 50-foot waves stirred up by 120-mile-per-hour (190 kph) winds. The resulting videos of the tempest-tossed ocean could make even those watching on solid ground feel a little seasick.

Inc. and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( ) partnered together to put the ocean drone into the core of the hurricane in the hopes of gaining data to better forecast dangerous storms. Not one but five ocean drones are floating in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean where storms historically occur. The organizations eventually hope to have an even larger fleet out monitoring the ocean.

The ocean drones are equipped with a hurricane wing. The hurricane BFF tu wing provides stability for these drones to operate on ravaged waters and in extremely windy conditions. The data the drones collect may help scientists understand how grow and intensify.

11/23/2021

Starting in April of next year, a Black woman will live and work on the for the first time in history.

“I do hope that all young girls, especially young girls of color that are interested in and interested in exploring space, feel empowered to do so; I just hope young girls across the country feel that way now.”

Watkins joined the ranks of in 2017 and has worked in the space agency’s research centers, particularly on the Mars rover, Curiosity.

Watkins says she grew up admiring astronauts like , the first in , and , the first American woman in space. And she hopes her work aboard the will inspire more kids of color to aspire to .

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11/22/2021

is about to launch an unprecedented mission to knock an slightly off course.

In the first real-world test of a technique that could someday be used to protect Earth from a threatening space rock, a spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday at 10:20 p.m. PST.

The golf-cart-size spacecraft called the — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test will travel to an that’s more than 6 million miles away — and poses no danger to — and ram into it. Scientists will then watch to see how the asteroid’s trajectory changes.

has identified and tracked almost all of the nearby asteroids of a size that would cause world-altering damage if they ever struck Earth. For the foreseeable future, none that big are headed our way. But there are plenty of smaller asteroids, the size that could take out a city, that still haven’t been found and tracked.

“The right time to deflect an asteroid is as far away from the Earth as we can,” says Lindley Johnson, NASA’s officer. “The strategy is to find these objects not only years but decades before they are any kind of an impact hazard to the Earth.”

With enough advance warning, NASA could send out a that would simply give an asteroid a little push, changing its course so that it no longer posed a problem. That’s the approach that NASA is testing out with DART.

“DART is demonstrating asteroid deflection. It is absolutely not asteroid disruption, which is how it goes a lot of times in the movies,” says Chabot, who serves as DART’s coordination lead.

Are you excited to see how this mission goes and what the future holds for planetary defense?

11/19/2021

Over 40 years, dozens of bird species have declined in mass. Many species have lost nearly 2 percent of their average body weight each decade, researchers report. What’s more, some species have grown longer wings.

The changes coincide with a hotter, more variable , which could put a premium on leaner, more efficient bodies that help birds stay cool, the researchers say.

For the new study, researchers collected the biggest dataset so far on the ’s resident birds, representing 77 non-migratory species and spanning the 40 years from 1979 to 2019.

They report states that 36 have lost substantial weight, as much as 2 percent of their body weight per decade since 1980. Meanwhile, all the species showed some decrease in average body mass, while a third grew longer wings.

So why would birds be evolving smaller bodies and longer wings?

The researchers themselves are unsure what advantage the wing length changes give the , but smaller birds may have an easier time keeping cool. In general, smaller animals have a larger ratio of surface area to body size, so they dissipate more heat faster than a bigger animal. Less available food, such as fruit or insects, in dryer weather might lead to smaller body size.

A comparison to aircraft may offer one explanation for the longer wings, says ecologist Vitek Jirinec, of the Integral Research Center, in Blue Lake, California, who led the new study.

“Think about a fighter jet,” Jirinec says. It has short wings and is heavy. “It has to go really fast to stay aloft, so it spends plenty of energy,” he says, whereas “a glider almost uses no power to stay aloft, because it’s got these long wings, and it’s light.”

Whether these changes in shape and size represent an to , or simply a response to warmer temperatures, remains unclear.

“The is mysterious, remote and teeming with ,” Jirinec says. “This study suggests that even in places like this, far removed from civilization, you can see signatures of climate change.”

11/16/2021

The Annals of recently released a report about a now 31-year-old woman who was diagnosed with HIV in 2013. She took for six months during to prevent transmitting the infection to her baby. Yet multiple sophisticated tests looking for evidence of in the patient’s blood showed no intact in her cells.

Dr. Xu Yu led the research team that reported on the case. She is a principal investigator at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

“There is no way to ever say we have proof that there is not a single virus in this patient,” says Yu. “The only thing we can say is that after analyzing a large number of cells from the , with the technology in our lab we cannot reject the hypothesis that the patient probably reached a sterilizing cure by natural .”

“Many immune factors could be playing a role,” she says. “Now that we have a second case, there are probably many cases out there that may not know they have a sterilizing cure. Some may not even be aware they are infected. We are hoping to attract more patients; if we have a cohort of these extremely rare cases, then that will allow us to really analyze their immune responses in more depth and breadth and hopefully give us a hint about what immune factors contribute most to this status. Then we can apply what we learn to the general population.”

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11/08/2021

/ Day is today, November 8!
There’s no way around it: children are significantly better off with strong , , , , and skills. That’s why STEM and STEAM education programs are so important.

Studies in the early 2000s revealed that U.S. students were not achieving in the STEM disciplines at the same rate as students in other countries. The report predicted dire consequences if the country could not compete in the global economy as the result of a poorly prepared workforce. Thus, educators focused attention on science, math, and technology research; on economic policy; and on education. U.S. prosperity seemed to depend on it.

“Our knowledge-based economy is driven by constant innovation. The foundation of innovation lies in a dynamic, motivated and well-educated workforce equipped with STEM skills.” Noted the bipartisan congressional STEM Caucus.

Here are some way that you can celebrate STEM today, and everyday!

🧪 - Find out which hobbies of yours are rooted in STEM subjects

🔬- Watch a about your favorite STEAM topics

🛠 - Unleash your inner and create something

🖼 - Visit an or (virtually or in person!)

🧮 - Donate to your local STEAM programs

11/03/2021

12 disabled passengers on a parabolic flight helped experimenters test how people with disabilities fare in a zero-gravity environment.

A nonprofit initiative called AstroAccess organized the flight to help make spaceflight accessible to all.

Since the beginning of human space travel in the 1960s, 600 people have been to space. These individuals are not the most diverse demographic and only represent a minuscule slice of humanity.

The rise of billionaire-funded private spaceflight is creating the possibility of a more diverse pool of people to make trips to the edge of space - including those with disabilities.

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10/22/2021

in New York City successfully attached a to a human patient and watched the pinkish organ function normally for 54 hours. While such procedures have been done in nonhuman primates, this is the first time that a pig kidney has been transplanted to a human body and not been immediately rejected.

“The sad truth is that nearly half of the people who are waiting for a transplant are going to get too sick or die before an organ is available,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery of Langone Health.

That’s the driving force behind Dr. Montgomery’s quest to enlarge the pool of organs suitable for transplant – the need will always exceed the demand.

What did the researchers do?

Performing a first-of-its-kind operation like this on a living person raises many ethical questions. But in late September, the family of a woman who was brain-dead but kept alive on a ventilator consented to the operation, according to Robert Montgomery, a surgeon at NYU in New York City who led the surgical team. She was taken off life support after the procedure.

The woman was an organ donor, but her organs were not suitable for donation. “I want to [acknowledge] how grateful we are to the family of the decedent, who in a time of profound grief, found a way to help their loved one realize her desire to give a gift to humanity at the time of her death,” Montgomery said at the news conference in New York City.

10/20/2021

breast cancer is the second most common cancer in American women? About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop invasive in their life.

occurs when some of the body's cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body. Breast cancer occurs when the cells in the breast grow out of control.

The breast is made up of three main parts: lobules, ducts, and connective tissue. The lobes are glands that produce milk, the ducts carry the milk to the ni**le, and the connective tissue holds everything together. Most types of breast cancers develop or begin in the ducts or lobules.

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