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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:40:23 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Caltech Scientists Find First Physiological Evidence of Brain's Response to Inequality
Caltech Scientists Find First Physiological Evidence of Brain's Response to Inequality
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:02:00 -0600
The human
brain is a big believer in equality--and a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, has become the first to gather the images to prove it. Specifically, the team found that the reward centers in the human brain respond more strongly when a poor person receives a financial reward than when a rich person does.
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California Institute of Technology
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:40:16 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Torn Apart By Its Own Tides, Massive Planet is on a 'Death March'
Torn Apart By Its Own Tides, Massive Planet is on a 'Death March'
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:02:00 -0600
An international group of
astrophysicists has determined that a massive planet outside our solar system is being distorted and destroyed by its host star--a finding that helps explain the unexpectedly large size of the planet, WASP-12b. It's a discovery that not only explains what's happening to WASP-12b, it also means scientists have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to observe how a planet enters this final stage of its life.
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The Kavli Foundation
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:13:57 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Why Is the Sun's Atmosphere So Hot?
Why Is the Sun's Atmosphere So Hot?
New satellite imagery of the sun is providing scientists with clues to understanding the long-standing mystery of what is heating up the solar corona
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116364&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:45:36 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Revisiting Chicxulub
Revisiting Chicxulub
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:00:00 -0600
For decades, scientists have accumulated ever-larger datasets that suggest an enormous space rock crashed into the ocean off the Yucatan Peninsula more than 65 million years ago, resulting in the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction.
Recent research, supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), suggested that the impact could have occurred 300,000 years prior to the K-Pg extinction, and that another cause--perhaps a second impact, or the long-lasting volcanic activity ...
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