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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:47:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NSF Issues Solicitation for Basic, Human Sciences Research on Social and Behavioral Dimensions of National Security, Conflict and Cooperation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a solicitation that represents a partnership between NSF and the Department of Defense (DoD) to support basic research projects that can address areas of strategic importance to national security as one part of DoD's Minerva Initiative launched in the spring by the Secretary of Defense.
The solicitation follows a Memorandum of Understanding signed by NSF and DoD in June that facilitates support of such research collaborations.
The ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:51:15 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Antarctic Fossils Paint a Picture of a Much Warmer Continent
Antarctic Fossils Paint a Picture of a Much Warmer Continent
National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began a relentless drop millions of years ago.
An abrupt and dramatic climate cooling of 8 degrees Celsius, over a relatively brief period of geological time roughly 14 million years ago, forced the extinction of tundra plants and insects and ...
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