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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:55:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: A New Look beneath the Waves: Ocean Observatories Initiative Gets Underway
A New Look beneath the Waves: Ocean Observatories Initiative Gets Underway
Giving scientists never-before-seen views of the world's oceans, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) have signed a Cooperative Agreement that supports the construction and initial operation of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).
OOI will provide a network of undersea sensors for observing complex ocean processes such as climate variability, ocean circulation, and ocean acidification at several coastal, open-ocean and seafloor ...
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:25:01 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Life in Transition: National Science Foundation Awards Grants to Study Connections among Living Systems and Earth's History
What expectations about the direction and magnitude of planetary change can be drawn from an understanding of how the living world has and is shaping Earth's climate?
How is energy transduction managed by living systems of all types and scales and across the diverse range of physical environments found on Earth?
What are the likely pathways that led from pre-biotic inorganic chemistry and geochemistry to the biochemistry of life, to one or more ancestors, then to all life on ...
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:17:13 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Buried Coins Key to Roman Population Mystery?
Buried Coins Key to Roman Population Mystery?
University of Connecticut theoretical biologist Peter Turchin and Stanford University ancient historian Walter Scheidel recently developed a new method to estimate population trends in ancient Rome and waded into an intense, ongoing debate about whether the state's population increased or declined after the first century B.C.
Using the region's abundance of coin hoards, bundles of buried Roman coins that citizens hid to protect their savings during times of violence and political ...
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:18:59 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: For Future Superconductors, a Little Bit of Lithium May Do Hydrogen a Lot of Good
For Future Superconductors, a Little Bit of Lithium May Do Hydrogen a Lot of Good
Scientists have a long and unsuccessful history of attempting to convert hydrogen to a metal by squeezing it under incredibly high and steady pressures.
Metallic hydrogen is predicted to be a high-temperature superconductor. A superconductor is a state of matter where electrons, and thus electricity, can flow indefinitely and without resistance.
In a paper published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of ...
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:19:41 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Homebound Termites Answer 150-Year-Old Evolution Question
Homebound Termites Answer 150-Year-Old Evolution Question
Staying at home may have given the very first termite youngsters the best opportunity to rule the colony when their parents were killed by their neighbors. This is according to new research supported by the National Science Foundation and published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers say the incentive to remain home with siblings and inherit the parents' estate could be the missing link to a question posed nearly 150 years ago by evolution ...
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