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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:40:13 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate
Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:43:00 -0500
Dogs likely originated in the Middle East, not Asia or
Europe, according to a new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists led by University of California, Los Angeles biologists.
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University of California, Los Angeles
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:40:28 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: The Smell of Salt Air, a Mile High and 900 Miles Inland
The Smell of Salt Air, a Mile High and 900 Miles Inland
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0500
In a surprise with implications for air
quality, researchers have found that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to be restricted to sea spray, occurs at similar rates in air above Boulder, Colo., nearly 900 miles away from any ocean.
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University of Washington
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:40:28 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Prehistoric Response to Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today
Prehistoric Response to Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0500
Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist
Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka, to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes.
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University at Buffalo
This is an NSF News From the Field item.
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:40:28 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Why Female Moths are Big and Beautiful
Why Female Moths are Big and Beautiful
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0500
In most animal species, males and females show obvious differences in
body size. But how can this be, given that both sexes share the same genes governing their growth? University of Arizona entomologists studied this conundrum in moths and found clues that had been overlooked by previous efforts to explain this mystery of nature.
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University of Arizona
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Message: 5
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:26:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: When Glaciers Melt, What's in the Water?
When Glaciers Melt, What's in the Water?
Measuring the movement of nutrients in Alaska's glacial streams is a "hot topic" for an NSF-supported research team
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116555&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
This is an NSF Discoveries item.
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:27:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Prescribed Burns May Help Reduce U.S. Carbon Footprint
Prescribed Burns May Help Reduce U.S. Carbon Footprint
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:23:00 -0500
The use of prescribed burns to manage western forests may help the United States reduce its carbon footprint.
Results of a new study find that such burns, often used by forest managers to reduce underbrush and protect bigger trees, release substantially less carbon dioxide emissions than wildfires of the same size.
"It appears that prescribed burns can be an important piece of a climate change strategy," says Christine Wiedinmyer, a scientist at the National Center for ...
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Message: 7
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:28:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Improving Predictions of Climate Change and its Impacts: Media Briefing
Improving Predictions of Climate Change and its Impacts: Media Briefing
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:05:00 -0500
NSF invites reporters to participate on Monday, March 22 at 11:00 a.m., EDT
On March 22 at 11:00 a.m., EDT, officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy will discuss the launch of an interagency program aimed at generating predictions of climate change and its impacts at more localized scales and over shorter time periods than have previously been possible. This project represents an historic augmentation of ...
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Message: 8
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:47:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Taking the "Surprise" out of Surprise Solar Storms
Taking the "Surprise" out of Surprise Solar Storms
Scientists are learning to predict giant solar storms that could, at any time, hit the Earth and produce cascading catastrophes
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116594&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
This is an NSF Discoveries item.
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