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Technical Problems

Submitted by malcolm.morgan on Tue, 13/11/2012 - 18:57

 

We are having some technical problems, so article submission is currently blocked.

 

We are working to get the site back to normal ASAP.

 

Thank you for your Patience.

 

YSJ Team

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Science and the Media – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Submitted by FionaJ on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 21:11

On the 14th March 2012 – which was also Einstein’s 133rd birthday and Pi day (consequence of writting the date in American style, 3.14) – Mei Yin Wong (member of YSJ Editorial Team)and Fiona Jenkinson (Editorial Team Leader, YSJ) attended a lecture by Dr. Simon Singh on “Science and the Media – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at the University of Kent. Dr. Singh gave an engaging talk about how the media can influence the general public, both in a good and bad way.

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Langton Faulkes Blog

Submitted by langton_faulkes_team on Wed, 12/10/2011 - 13:07

Welcome to the Langton Faulkes group. A group dedicated to observing objects of interest. We book sessions to observe from both Hawaii and Australia. Both telescopes are 2 m (79 in) Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes. The Australian telescope is located at siding spring obeservatry on Siding Spring Moutain 1165 metres up. About 300 miles north of Sydney.
The Hawaii telescope The Haleakala High Altitude Observatory 3000 metres up on the Haleakala mountain on the island of Maui.

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A workshop on science writing...?

Submitted by cma on Mon, 18/07/2011 - 20:06

This idea came from a student at King's Canterbury.  Could Young Scientists Journal organise a workshop on science writing open to young people to attend?

Science students need to be able to write cogently, express their ideas clearly and accurately, whether they are reporting their own work or, as journalists, the work of others.  I'd like to invite readers to help us formulate some ideas for a workshop on science writing:

Where could it be held?

Whom could we invite to speak/teach?

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Big Bang Science Fair

Submitted by cma on Thu, 17/03/2011 - 15:09

Last Thursday, 10th March, 150 pupils from King's Canterbury visited the Big Bang science fair at ExCel in London.  I was already there (after a less-than-comfortable night in a local hotel) judging the Intermediate Science and Maths entries to the National Science and Engineering Competition whose finals were part of the event.

I also used the opportunity to mention Young Scientists journal in hope that some competitors would like to submit their projects for publication, or even get involved as editors.

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Schoolchildren announce bumble-bee breakthrough in top science journal by Alom Shaha

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 22/12/2010 - 13:30

Everyone has to read this article by Alom Shaha

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/dec/22/schoolchildren-bumble-bee-research-journal?CMP=twt_fd

a Paper in Biology Letters today demonstrates how important it is for pupils to conduct their own original scientific experiments......

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YSJ Activity Summary 07/10/10

Submitted by cswire on Thu, 07/10/2010 - 14:32

Nicky: Address book for local schools
Hannah: Finished editing article and emailed author
Max: News
Izy: News articles and blocked people
Rosie: Uploading html of articles
Sam: Edited photos, tourist info contacts
Hattie: Newspaper contacts
Timey: Caught up
Cleodie: Interview editing
Mr. Orders: motivating and organising and MARKING
Miss. Astin: Flyer editing
All admired new GLOSSY issue 8

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Courtney Williams in BBC2 University challenge Episode 13

Submitted by Butrous on Mon, 04/10/2010 - 09:41

Congratulation to Courtney Williams the Lead Editor of Young Scientists Journal  and part of the Imperial College London Team for her appearance in  BBC2  University challenge  - Episode 13  on 8:00pm Mon, 27 Sep 2010http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v1wrt/University_Challenge_2010_2011_Episode_13/  The team from the University of the Arts London fights it out with Imperial College London for a place in the second round of the student quiz. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.

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Young Scientists Meeting - minutes 30th Thursday!

Submitted by Tim on Thu, 30/09/2010 - 14:40

      The day's events
Rosie - added a new article system to the YSJ site for issues 3 & 4.
MAX - has been news blogging, and improved the layout massively
Sam - Touching up photos, and writing interview letters
Tim - YSJ twitted, facebooked
Hannah - Uploaded an article and edited an article
Nicky - fault finding in the website
Will - has re-created his account
Cleodie - has started editing two articles, has finished her interview article and has confirmed the idea for her new  book chapter.

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My week at CERN

Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 28/09/2010 - 15:57

It has been almost a year since I managed to get up on the stage at the 21st EU Contest for Young Scientists in Paris, to be presented with the EIROforum CERN Prize. I still can't believe how I got there from a six week Nuffield Bursary project at the University of Sheffield, via the inaugural Big Bang Fair, and even less how I ended up getting a week-long all-expenses paid trip to the largest particle physics laboratory in the world this summer.

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Spam

Submitted by malcolm.morgan on Thu, 16/09/2010 - 07:41

Unfortunately we have been experiencing a lot of spam recently on the comments section, while we have been deleting the spam and blocking the accounts of the spammers it does not seem to have deterred them.

Therefore we have removed the ability to post clickable links in the comments for normal users, you will still be able to type in full urls e.g. www.ysjournal.com but they will not automatically become clickable links. It is hoped this will make the comments an unattractive way to post spam.

Apologies for the inconvenience

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