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Welcome to Venture has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in February 2022. The social media accounts linked to from Welcome to Venture are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • LinkedIn • Email • X Besides social media accounts, ventureNGSS has populated their site with: • Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction • www.science.org • The chemistry behind fireworks | Penn Today • Scientists have found signs of a new kind of gravitational wave. It's really big • Now We Know Why Platypus Are So Weird - Their Genes Are Part Bird, Reptile, And Mammal • A 50-million-year-old insect testicle is one lucky find • 5 Common Questions Teachers are Asking About NGSS-Designed Science Materials • FREE Summer School Resource! 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A physicist explains • Researchers Studied a Circadian Clock in Real Time in a First For Science • Winners of the 2023 UChicago Science as Art competition announced • Repeating radio signal leads astronomers to an Earth-size exoplanet | CNN • How scientists are decoding what the past smelled like | CNN • Scientists use 3D printer to make dessert from seven ingredients • Bright pink ocean and rare wildflower super bloom — February’s best science images • Women in Science and Technology | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress • Scientists Defy Physics, Basically Pull Energy Out of Thin Air • What has NASA's Perseverance rover found in its two years on Mars? • The Many Eyes of Scallops • Flicker through the eclectic beauty and biological diversity of 2,400 leaves | Aeon Videos • Katherine Johnson and 9 Other Black Female Pioneers in Science • Why Woodpeckers Don’t Get Headaches From Hammering • Annie Easley, Computer Scientist and Mathematician • Hoosier Association of Science Teachers, Inc. - 2023 HASTI/ICTM Conference • Get on the Mailing List! • Scientists create living smartwatch powered by slime mold • Venture Privacy Statement • The Science Behind Groundhog Day • This mutant Venus flytrap mysteriously lost its ability to “count” • Japanese telescope captures mysterious blue spiral in Hawaii | CNN • Earth's inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests | CNN • Drone captures rare moment moose sheds antlers in forest | VIDEO • NGSS Earth Science — Venture NGSS Resource Center • How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat — water • Trovants - The Mysterious Growing Stones of Romania • Huge rare earth metals discovery in Arctic Sweden • NASA's Webb telescope has discovered its first exoplanet • Collapsed Arecibo telescope offers near-Earth asteroid warning from beyond the grave • Venture NGSS Aligned Formative Assessments • What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? • The Best Meteor Showers in 2023 • The science of fireworks • Bees like to roll little wooden balls as a form of play, study finds • Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins | Quanta Magazine • These science discoveries from 2022 could be game changers • The science events to watch for in 2023 • These are our favorite animal stories of 2022 • The Most Compelling Science Graphics of 2022 • Remarkable space blast identified as black hole collision • Researchers 3D-print low-cost and durable violins for music students • Long-lost bird species, thought to be extinct, captured in images for 1st time in 140 years • Venture NGSS Resource Center • Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turns Out to Be Far More Valuable • Prizes For Science That Makes You Laugh, Then Think • These are our top space images of all time • Octopuses throw objects at one another, researchers observe • Science confirms: to light up the dance floor, turn up the bass • Venture NGSS Resources Center • Science sleuths solve century-old mystery of Martian meteorite's discovery • Why we enjoy fear: the science of a good scare • Nature: Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park • She's Made 1,750 Wikipedia Bios for Female Scientists Who Haven't Gotten Their Due • Finally, Scientists Have Figured Out A Key Molecular Mechanism Behind Human Hearing • Use the Leidenfrost effect to make your stainless steel pan non-stick • Enhance! Citizen Scientists’ Awe-Inspiring New Europa Images From NASA’s Juno • First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct • These Beautiful Maps Capture the Rivers That Pulse Through Our World • The World's Largest Camera Is Nearly Complete • When You Smell Poop, Is That Because Poop Particles Have Gone Up Your Nose? • Ready for some spooky science? Brace yourself, and dive into a dreadful dozen … If you dare • Giant Squid • Antarctica's Blood Red Waterfall • Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot • Hispanic Heritage Month: 25 Hispanic and Latinx trailblazers in science and biotechnology to know | BIO • Gallery: Voyage to the Ridge 2022: NOAA Ocean Exploration • 20 Quadrillion Ants Are Roaming Earth Right Now, Scientists Calculate • Bird Migration Explorer • The Golden Goose Award • Archaeologists discover monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across Arabian desert • Community science draws on the power of the crowd • What's the world's oldest civilization? • The “Fantastic Giant Tortoise” – Believed To Be Extinct – Has Been Found Alive • Whale Shark Fact Sheet | Blog | Nature | PBS • NGSS Assessment-Venture Introduction • Study reveals how hunting hawks home in on prey inside a chaotic swarm • The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins And The Results Are Wild • Watch NASA's Artemis 1 SLS megarocket moon launch for free with these live webcasts • Washington State Entomologists Ask: 'Have You Seen This Huge Moth?' • The History of Clocks is a Very Long and Interesting One • The Northern Lights may move farther south into the mainland U.S. this week • GeoGirls all shook up at Mount St. Helens geology, tech camp • STEM & Science Related Grants • Scientists can now grow wood in a lab without cutting a single tree • 5 reasons to hold on to old silica gel packets • What can a bee feel? • Stephen Hawking exhibition hopes to unravel the mysteries of his blackboard • Parts of the moon have stable temperatures fit for humans, researchers find • Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S. • Multimedia: Social Media Video Shorts: Whiplash Squid: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research • HOME | Kate the Chemist • 'Necrobotic' spiders: Scientists turn dead bodies into zombie robots • In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months, thaw and hop away • These 8 Unexpected Migration Routes Give You Reason to Go Birding in Summer • japanese teams develop an artificial gravity architecture to make outer-space living possible • A buck supermoon rose on Wednesday. Here's what it looked like around the world • You Can Thank The Physics Inside Dying Stars For The Fact That Barns Are Red • Webb's First Images Gallery • ‘The start of something wonderful’: First full-color images from James Webb telescope, curated in Baltimore, to be released Tuesday • 166th anniversary of Tesla’s birthday to be celebrated in his hometown • News of the Wild • Happy Birthday, Venture! • Experiments hint at why bird nests are so sturdy • ‘Microscopya’: New video game continues La Jolla researcher's efforts to inspire girls in science • Earth has more than 10,000 kinds of minerals. This massive new catalog describes them all. • A new origin story for domesticated chickens starts in rice fields 3,500 years ago • His job is to actually really stare at octopus, seahorse, jellyfish • Scientists: Ancient Giraffe Family Developed Long Neck for Fighting • Experience Chicago online: Virtual tours and digital experiences | Choose Chicago • The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know • Geologic map of the entire moon at 1:2,500,000 scale • Study shows mangrove and reef restoration yield positive returns on investment for flood protection • First Dinosaur Belly Button Discovered in Fossil From China • New Gaia data paint the most detailed picture yet of the Milky Way • Venture is offering a free 60-day trial for our NGSS assessment • Scientists make ‘slightly sweaty’ robot finger with living skin • What Really Happens When You Pop Champagne, According to Science • The multiverse under fire • Twenty years of citizen science backs up findings on coral bleaching • Ancient Maya Practice of Gluing Gemstones Onto Teeth May Have Been For More Than Bling • Dolphins wait in queue for rubbing their skin against corals • Tip Sheets | Garden for Wildlife | National Wildlife Federation • Ancient Bronze Age city reemerges from Iraq river after extreme drought • American Kestrels • Are there any giant animals humans haven't discovered yet? • Bugs Are Evolving to Eat Plastic, Study Finds • 2022 Winners - Underwater Photographer of the Year • Meet the robot keeping an eye on emperor penguins in Antarctica • Scientists Figure Out Why Female Octopuses Self-Destruct After Laying Eggs • World Turtle Day® | Home • WORLD BEE DAY - May 20 • Native Peoples Harvested Huge Amounts of Seafood Without Harming Ecosystems • Scientists successfully grow plants in soil from the moon • Camera Films Itself Getting Launched Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000mph • This High Schooler Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm • Ancient Smellscapes • 3-meter-long giant squid found stranded on Sea of Japan beach - The Mainichi • May’s full Flower Moon will be a super blood moon total lunar eclipse • How a tiny bee became a big problem for an Amazon-fueled expansion in Illinois • Scientist or Artist? • These green books are poisonous—and one may be on a shelf near you • The Webb Telescope Is Almost Fully Aligned • Fish behavior is affected by microplastics in water • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 • Rainbows Smile Too! • Flow state, exercise and healthy ageing: 5 unexpected benefits of singing • Electric Ladyland: The Museum of Fluorescent Art • Taking on food waste and fashion pollution—with fungi • Man stumbles across bizarre two-headed mutant fish in shape of heart on beach • Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims • Conference 2022 | wsst • Italian scientists hacked pizza physics to make dough without yeast • Mystery object spied on the moon • Scientists Finally Sequence the Entire Human Genome • How do Fresnel lenses work? • 404 Error Page • Satellites and surveys help count population to fill census gaps • Let’s learn about Earth’s secret stash of underground water • The 20 big questions in science • Analyze This: Birds may decorate nests to scare off rivals • Women's History • Spiders Use Electric Fields to Fly, And We May Finally Know How • Octopus fossil found with extra arms • 3D printer pumps out a pizza • From Anal Teeth To Deadly Farts: The Wild World Of Invertebrate Butts • Girls 4 Science inspires young Chicago-area women in STEM • Celebrate National Giant Panda Day! • The NASA Pi Day Challenge – NEW for 2022 | NASA/JPL Edu • Flower-shaped Mars Rock • Chemistry’s ever-useful periodic table celebrates a big birthday • Large, Parachuting Spiders Could Soon Invade the East Coast, Study Finds • MSTA Conference and Breakout Sessions • Pollinator Ambassadors • Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible • Building bridges: No downside to wildlife crossings • Five ways AI is saving wildlife – from counting chimps to locating whales • Black History Month Blog • Scientists Attached Tracking Devices to Magpies. But Nobody Asked The Magpies • NYPL Digital Collections • Science Needs Diversity • Ten Scientific Discoveries From 2021 That May Lead to New Inventions • Torturous Martian terrain is chewing through NASA Curiosity's tires • These scientists are attempting to answer the phenomenon of tuskless African elephants • Launching Venture at National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) events • Science of Baseball • Polar Bear Research | U.S. Geological Survey • Photons Received: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Sees Its First Star – 18 Times • Touring the Winter Home of Western Monarch Butterflies • Ten Black Scientists that Science Teachers Should Know About | PBS Education • Bioplastics • Humans may be older than we thought • Beetle wings! • The heart of the Milky Way