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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 06:09:02 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: National Science Foundation Launches Green Revolution Video Series
National Science Foundation Launches Green Revolution Video Series
Mon, 10 May 2010 16:36:00 -0500
Today the National Science Foundation released online its "Green Revolution" video series. These educational videos, each about five minutes long, feature scientists and engineers who are working to develop and improve the use of clean energy sources, new fuels and other energy-related technologies. Each segment explores the research carried out by men and women at the forefront of discovery and innovation
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:35 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Maya Plumbing, First Pressurized Water Feature Found in New World
Maya Plumbing, First Pressurized Water Feature Found in New World
Tue, 11 May 2010 09:22:00 -0500
A water feature
found in the Maya city of Palenque, Mexico, is the earliest known example of engineered water pressure in the New World, according to a collaboration between two Penn State researchers, an archaeologist and a hydrologist. However, how the Maya used the pressurized water is still unknown.
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Penn State
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:35 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Epidemic This Year? Check The Lake's Shape
Epidemic This Year? Check The Lake's Shape
Tue, 11 May 2010 09:22:00 -0500
Of all the things that might control the onset of disease epidemics in
Michigan lakes, the shape of the lakes' bottoms might seem unlikely. But that is precisely the case, and a new BioScience report by scientists from Indiana University-Bloomington and four other institutions explains why.
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Indiana University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:35 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Ancient Leaves Help Researchers Understand Future Climate
Ancient Leaves Help Researchers Understand Future Climate
Tue, 11 May 2010 09:22:00 -0500
Potential climate change caused by
rising levels of carbon dioxide might be better understood by examining fossil plant remains from millions of years ago, according to biogeochemists. The types of carbon within the leaves can serve as a window into past temperatures and environmental conditions.
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Penn State
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:36 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Bald Eagle Diet Shift Enhances Conservation
Bald Eagle Diet Shift Enhances Conservation
Tue, 11 May 2010 09:23:00 -0500
An unprecedented study of bald eagle diet, from about 20,000 to 30,000 years
ago to the present, will provide wildlife managers with unique information for reintroducing bald eagles to the Channel Islands off California. Eagles fed mainly on seabirds from about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago to the 1840s and 50s, when humans introduced sheep. The seabirds provided carrion for the local eagle population until the pesticide DDT wiped out the eagles in the 1960s.
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Carnegie Institution for Science
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:36 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Trapping Giant Rydberg Atoms for Faster Quantum Computers
Trapping Giant Rydberg Atoms for Faster Quantum Computers
Tue, 11 May 2010 09:24:00 -0500
In an achievement that could
help enable fast quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have built a better Rydberg atom trap. Rydberg atoms are highly excited, nearly ionized giants that can be thousands of times larger than their ground-state counterparts.
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University of Michigan
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:36 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Stem Cells: In Search of a Master Controller
Stem Cells: In Search of a Master Controller
Tue, 11 May 2010 09:23:00 -0500
With thousands of scientists across the globe searching for ways to use
adult stem cells to fight disease, there's a growing emphasis on finding the "master regulator" that guides the day-to-day operations of stem cells. New research from Rice University and the University of Cambridge suggests that a closely connected trio of regulatory proteins fulfills that role in hematopoietic stem cells, the self-renewing cells the body uses to make new blood cells.
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Rice University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 06:10:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Killer Seaweed: Scientists Find First Proof that Chemicals from Seaweeds Damage Coral on Contact
Killer Seaweed: Scientists Find First Proof that Chemicals from Seaweeds Damage Coral on Contact
Mon, 10 May 2010 15:01:00 -0500
Chlorodesmis, it's called, this green seaweed whose filamentous fronds look like maiden's hair.
But this innocuous-appearing seaweed is a killer, scientists have discovered.
Field studies have shown for the first time that Chlorodesmis and several common species of seaweeds in both the Pacific and Caribbean Oceans can kill corals upon contact. They use chemicals to do the deed.
While competition between seaweed and coral is just one of many factors ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:44:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NSF Invites Science Writers to June 3rd Astronomy Conference in Washington, D.C.
NSF Invites Science Writers to June 3rd Astronomy Conference in Washington, D.C.
Tue, 11 May 2010 09:50:00 -0500
The National Science Foundation (NSF), in cooperation with the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites journalists to attend Future Science: The Frontiers of 21st Century Astronomy. This science writers' conference will be moderated by Miles O'Brien, managing editor of Space Flight Now's "This Week in Space," and former chief technology and environment correspondent
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