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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:44:42 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Winter Ice on Lakes, Rivers, Ponds: A Thing of the Past?
Winter Ice on Lakes, Rivers, Ponds: A Thing of the Past?
If you're planning to ice skate on a local lake or river this winter, you may need to think twice, according to scientists John Magnuson, Olaf Jensen and Barbara Benson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Their research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, the researchers have amassed 150 years of lake and river ice records spanning the Northern Hemisphere. ...
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:46:01 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Clams Convert Air into Food
Only plants can take nitrogen gas from the air and use it to make the protein they need to grow. Or so biologists thought.
Now scientists at Ocean Genome Legacy in Ipswich, Mass., and their colleagues at Harvard Medical School have shown that animals, too, can convert air into food. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded their research.
The animals are marine clams called shipworms. They burrow into and eat wood, causing more than a billion dollars in ...
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:54:49 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Quakes Under Pacific Ocean Floor Reveal Unexpected Circulation System
Quakes Under Pacific Ocean Floor Reveal Unexpected Circulation System
Zigzagging some 60,000 kilometers across the ocean floor, Earth's system of mid-ocean ridges plays a pivotal role in many workings of the planet: in plate-tectonic movements, heat flow from the interior, and the chemistry of rock, water and air.
Now, a team of seismologists working in 2,500 meters of water on the East Pacific Rise, some 565 miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, has made the first images of one of these systems--and it doesn't look the way most scientists had assumed. ...
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:45:18 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Joint Domestic Nuclear Detection Office/National Science Foundation: Academic Research Initiative
Joint Domestic Nuclear Detection Office/National Science Foundation: Academic Research Initiative
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