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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Simulations Solve a 20-Year-Old Riddle about Why Nebulae around Massive Stars Don’t Disappear
Simulations Solve a 20-Year-Old Riddle about Why Nebulae around Massive Stars Don’t Disappear
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:32:00 -0500
The birth of the most massive stars-those ten to a hundred times the mass of the Sun-has posed an astrophysical riddle for decades. Massive stars are dense enough to fuse hydrogen while they're still gathering material from the gas cloud, so it was a mystery as to why their brilliant radiation does not heat the infalling gas and blow it away.
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American Museum of Natural History
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: University of Arizona Astronomers Discover Most Primitive Super-massive Black Holes Known
University of Arizona Astronomers Discover Most Primitive Super-massive Black Holes Known
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:33:00 -0500
Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive super-massive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars all came to be.
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University of Arizona
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: China and India: Neighbors Need to Collaborate for Sake of Global Environment
China and India: Neighbors Need to Collaborate for Sake of Global Environment
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:31:00 -0500
With large and growing economies and
populations, China and India will strongly influence the quality of the global environment for years to come. While their political relationship is strained, it's critical the two countries work together to slow global warming, deforestation, water shortages and other environmental issues, says a Michigan State University scientist and colleagues.
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Michigan State University
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Study Probes Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
Study Probes Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:32:00 -0500
A new study coauthored by University of California,
Davis, anthropologist Richard McElreath and published in Science magazine suggests that the cooperative nature of each society is at least partly dependent upon historical forces--such as religious beliefs and the growth of market transactions.
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University of California, Davis
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Research Reveals Frequency and Cost of Copying College Homework
Research Reveals Frequency and Cost of Copying College Homework
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:35:00 -0500
Young-Jin Lee, assistant professor of educational
technology at University of Kansas, and colleagues from MIT spent four years seeing how many answers that were copied by MIT students submitted to an online homework tutoring system.
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University of Kansas
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Science Inquiry Tools Deliver Significant Improvement in Middle-school Students' Skills
Science Inquiry Tools Deliver Significant Improvement in Middle-school Students' Skills
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:35:00 -0500
Louisiana State
University professors Yiping Lou and Pamela Blanchard in the department of educational theory, policy and practice have developed an innovative program that showed an average 12 percent increase in student science inquiry skills. The project, called Pathways to Inquiry, was funded by the National Science Foundation and aids teachers and students in analyzing and building science inquiry skills through evidence-based practice.
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Louisiana State University
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Students Discover New Species of Raptor Dinosaur
Students Discover New Species of Raptor Dinosaur
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:34:00 -0500
A new species of dinosaur, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, has
been discovered in Inner Mongolia by two Ph.D. students.
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University College London
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: GW Ph.D. Candidate and UCL Grad Student Discover New Species of Raptor Dinosaur
GW Ph.D. Candidate and UCL Grad Student Discover New Species of Raptor Dinosaur
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:34:00 -0500
A new species of raptor dinosaur being
named Linheraptor exquisitus has been discovered by George Washington University doctoral candidate Jonah Choiniere and Michael D. Pittman, a graduate student at University College London.
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George Washington University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Cracking the Plant-Cell Membrane Code
Cracking the Plant-Cell Membrane Code
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:31:00 -0500
To engineer better, more productive crops and develop new drugs to combat disease, scientists look at how the sensor-laden membranes surrounding cells control nutrient and water uptake, secrete toxins, and interact with the environment and neighboring cells to affect growth and development.
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Carnegie Institute for Science
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Incorporating Biofunctionality Into Nanomaterials for Medical, Health Devices
Incorporating Biofunctionality Into Nanomaterials for Medical, Health Devices
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:33:00 -0500
A team led by
researchers from North Carolina State University has published a paper explaining how to use atomic layer deposition to incorporate "biological functionality" into complex nanomaterials, which could lead to a new generation of medical and environmental health applications. For example, the researchers show how the technology can be used to develop effective, low-cost water purification devices that could be used in developing countries.
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North Carolina State University
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:55:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science using CyberInfrastructure (CI TraCS)
NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science using CyberInfrastructure (CI TraCS)
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