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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:31:13 -0500 (CDT)
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 12:40:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Dartmouth Scientists Use Caribbean Islands as Natural Laboratories
Dartmouth Scientists Use Caribbean Islands as Natural Laboratories
Mon, 10 May 2010 11:43:00 -0500
When is a laboratory experiment not a laboratory experiment? When the "laboratory" is actually an island in The Bahamas. By using the entire Bahamian islands as experimental laboratories, two Dartmouth biologists--Ryan Calsbeek and Robert Cook--have performed one of the largest manipulations of natural selection ever conducted in a wild animal population.
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:22:53 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Scientists Seeking NSF Funding Will Soon Be Required to Submit Data Management Plans
Scientists Seeking NSF Funding Will Soon Be Required to Submit Data Management Plans
Mon, 10 May 2010 07:01:00 -0500
During the May 5th meeting of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation (NSF) officials announced a change in the implementation of the existing policy on sharing research data. In particular, on or around October, 2010, NSF is planning to require that all proposals include a data management plan in the form of a two-page supplementary document. The research community will be informed of the specifics of the anticipated
changes ...
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:23:47 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Green Revolution
Green Revolution
Mon, 10 May 2010 11:54:00 -0500
As part of the "Green Revolution" series, we visited researchers all over the country and asked them lots of questions about the energy, fuels and technologies they are working on to make our lives better in the future.
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:18:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Odd Mosaic of Dental Features Reveals Undocumented Primate
Odd Mosaic of Dental Features Reveals Undocumented Primate
Mon, 10 May 2010 14:29:00 -0500
It's in the teeth. An odd mosaic of dental features recently unearthed in northern Egypt reveals a previously undocumented, highly-specialized primate called Nosmips aenigmaticus that lived in Africa nearly 37 million years ago.
Because it is only known from its teeth, the paleontologists who discovered it don't know what its body looked like, but the find likely represents an ancient African lineage whose discovery makes early primate evolution on that continent more ...
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