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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:41:37 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Climate Helped Bring Angkor to Its Knees
Climate Helped Bring Angkor to Its Knees
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:49:00 -0500
Throughout written history there have been many abrupt ends to empires and civilizations that have little explanation. Political climates deteriorate, passions rise, revolts happen and the next thing you know--the culture is a thing of the past relegated to a short chapter in a textbook.
The natural world leaves a record in the form of tree rings, which can be read like a very detailed book, covering a long period of human history. Now a team of researchers has correlated the demise of ...
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Colonies of Bacteria Fight for Resources With Lethal Protein
Colonies of Bacteria Fight for Resources With Lethal Protein
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:42:00 -0500
Rival colonies of bacteria can produce a lethal
chemical that keeps competitors at bay, scientists report this week. By halting the growth of nearby colonies and even killing some of the cells, groups of bacteria preserve scarce resources for themselves, even when the encroaching colony is closely related.
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University of California, San Diego
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Emotions Key to Judging Others
Emotions Key to Judging Others
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:42:00 -0500
A new study from MIT neuroscientists suggests that our ability to respond
appropriately to intended harms--that is, with outrage toward the perpetrator--is seated in a brain region associated with regulating emotions.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Early Child-parent Attachment Affects Behavior, Especially for Boys
Early Child-parent Attachment Affects Behavior, Especially for Boys
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:43:00 -0500
A meta-analysis of 69 studies involving
almost 6,000 children ages 12 and younger shows that children, especially boys, who are insecurely attached to their mothers in the early years have more behavior problems later in childhood. The studies included in this meta-analysis used a range of methods for assessing children's behavior problems, including parent and teacher questionnaires and direct observations.
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Society for Research in Child Development
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Pollution From Asia Circles Globe at Stratospheric Heights
Pollution From Asia Circles Globe at Stratospheric Heights
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:41:00 -0500
The economic growth across much of Asia is
coming with a troubling side-effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, published this week in Science Express, provides additional evidence of the global nature of air pollution.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: New Research Indicates Plants Can Grow Quickly or Ward Off Hungry Insects, But Not Both
New Research Indicates Plants Can Grow Quickly or Ward Off Hungry Insects, But Not Both
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:41:00 -0500
There's a war occurring
each day in our backyards--plant versus plant-eating insect versus insect-eating insect. Research by University of California, Irvine's Kailen Mooney suggests the outcome--of interest to farmers--is a stalemate.
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University of California, Irvine
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Move Over Predators: Plants Can Control the Food Chain Too--From the Bottom Up
Move Over Predators: Plants Can Control the Food Chain Too--From the Bottom Up
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:43:00 -0500
Forget top-to-bottom only. New
Cornell University evolutionary biology research shows how plants at the bottom of the food chain have evolved mechanisms that influence ecosystem dynamics as well.
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Cornell University
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Single Gene Dramatically Boosts Yield, Sweetness in Tomato Hybrids, CSHL-Israeli Study Finds
Single Gene Dramatically Boosts Yield, Sweetness in Tomato Hybrids, CSHL-Israeli Study Finds
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:42:00 -0500
Giving tomato breeders
and ketchup fans something to cheer about, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist and his colleagues at the Hebrew University in Israel have identified a gene that pushes hybrid tomato plants to spectacularly increase yield. The yield-boosting power of this gene, which controls when plants make flowers, works in different varieties of tomato, and crucially, across a range of environmental conditions.The study appears in Nature Genetics on March 28.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Researchers Use Improved Nanogenerators to Power Sensors Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowires
Researchers Use Improved Nanogenerators to Power Sensors Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowires
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:43:00 -0500
By combining a new
generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of mechanical energy.
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Georgia Institute of Technology Research News
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:35:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Division of Undergraduate Education Project Data Form
Division of Undergraduate Education Project Data Form
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:19:09 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Climate, Energy and Sustainability
Climate, Energy and Sustainability
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:24:06 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Climate, Energy and Sustainability
Climate, Energy and Sustainability
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:52:16 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Naked Mole-Rats' Secrets Revealed
Naked Mole-Rats' Secrets Revealed
What University of Illinois at Chicago biologist Thomas Park and colleagues are learning from studying how these very strange animals adapt to the challenges of their environment
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:01:58 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Bruce Alberts to Receive National Science Board's Vannevar Bush Award
Bruce Alberts to Receive National Science Board's Vannevar Bush Award
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:41:00 -0500
Bruce M. Alberts was named the recipient of the 2010 Vannevar Bush Award, presented by the National Science Board (NSB), in recognition of his lifetime contributions to the United States in science and technology.
"We are pleased to recognize Bruce for his dedication to the creativity, openness and tolerance that define science, passion for improving the human condition and transformational and inspirational leadership in science education, international capacity building and the ...
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