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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Rattlesnakes Sound Warning on Biodiversity and Habitat Fragmentation
Rattlesnakes Sound Warning on Biodiversity and Habitat Fragmentation
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:51:00 -0500
Cornell University
researchers discover fragmentation of natural habitats by roads--even smaller, low-traffic highways--has had a significant effect on genetic structure of timber rattlesnakes. The work reinforces similar research conducted on other species and underlines the grave danger habitat fragmentation poses to wildlife populations.
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Cornell University
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Caltech Researchers Create 'Sound Bullets'
Caltech Researchers Create 'Sound Bullets'
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:51:00 -0500
Taking inspiration from a popular executive toy
("Newton's cradle"), researchers at Caltech have built a device--called a nonlinear acoustic lens--that produces highly focused, high-amplitude acoustic signals dubbed "sound bullets." The acoustic lens and its sound bullets (which can exist in fluids--as well as in solids) have the potential to revolutionize applications from medical imaging and therapy to the nondestructive evaluation of materials and engineering systems.
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California Institute of Technology
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: WHOI Scientists Find Ancient Asphalt Domes Off California Coast
WHOI Scientists Find Ancient Asphalt Domes Off California Coast
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:50:00 -0500
They paved
paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. The deposits were discovered recently by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Scientists Crack Code of Critical Bacterial Defense Mechanism
Scientists Crack Code of Critical Bacterial Defense Mechanism
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:51:00 -0500
Scientists have combined chemistry and biology research
techniques to explain how certain bacteria grow structures on their surfaces that allow them to simultaneously cause illness and protect themselves from the body's defenses. The researchers are the first to reproduce a specific component of this natural process in a test tube--an essential step to fully understanding how these structures grow.
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Ohio State University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: How to Move Protons, Improve Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology
How to Move Protons, Improve Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:50:00 -0500
In a breakthrough that should help to solve one of the biggest problems holding back development of affordable fuel cells, a team of University of Massachusetts-Amherst scientists has discovered a way to improve proton conductivity under very low humidity conditions, where few materials perform well at present.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Brain-like Computing on an Organic Molecular Layer
Brain-like Computing on an Organic Molecular Layer
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:52:00 -0500
One big advantage a brain's
circuitry has always had over a computer's is its ability to evolve as it tackles complex problems. Now, an international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University has created a tiny computing device with a brain-like "evolutionary circuit."
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Michigan Technological University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Research in Antarctica Reveals Non-organic Mechanism for Production of Important Greenhouse Gas
Research in Antarctica Reveals Non-organic Mechanism for Production of Important Greenhouse Gas
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:50:00 -0500
A research team has
discovered in Antarctica's Don Juan Pond, a previously unreported chemical mechanism for the production of nitrous oxide, an important greenhouse gas. The discovery could help space scientists understand the meaning of similar brine pools in a place whose ecosystem most closely resembles that of Don Juan Pond--Mars.
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University of Georgia
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Mobile Devices Serve as Own Mice With Optical Sensing Method From Carnegie Mellon
Mobile Devices Serve as Own Mice With Optical Sensing Method From Carnegie Mellon
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:52:00 -0500
The same inexpensive but
high-quality optical sensors employed in the common computer mouse can enable small mobile phones and digital music players to be used as their own pointing and gestural input devices, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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Carnegie Mellon University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:33:03 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Appointment of Dr. David O. Conover as the Division Director for the Ocean Sciences Division
Appointment of Dr. David O. Conover as the Division Director for the Ocean Sciences Division
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:38:00 -0500
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David O. Conover as Director of the Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE), effective July 19, 2010.
Dr. Conover currently serves as Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University. Dr. Conover has served as Dean. He has served in that position since 2003 and was a Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University from 1993 to 2003. Prior to coming to Stony Brook, Dr. ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:03:37 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: VORTEX2 Tornado Scientists Hit the Road Again
VORTEX2 Tornado Scientists Hit the Road Again
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:50:00 -0500
In the largest and most ambitious effort ever made to understand tornadoes, more than 100 scientists and 40 support vehicles will hit the road again this spring.
The project, VORTEX2--Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes--is in its final season: May 1st through June 15th, 2010.
VORTEX2 is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Scientists from more than a dozen universities ...
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