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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:09:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Carbon Dioxide Has Played Leading Role in Dictating Global Climate Patterns
Carbon Dioxide Has Played Leading Role in Dictating Global Climate Patterns
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:51:00 -0500
Increasingly, the Earth's climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Niño, the weather pattern that originates in a patch of the equatorial Pacific, can spawn heat waves and droughts as far away as Africa.
Now, a research team led by Brown University has established that the climate in the tropics over at least the last 2.7 million years changed in lockstep with the cyclical spread and retreat of ice sheets thousands of miles away in the Northern ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:40:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Solution to Beading-saliva Mystery Has Practical Purposes
Solution to Beading-saliva Mystery Has Practical Purposes
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:26:00 -0500
Researchers have discovered precisely why
strands of some fluids containing long molecules called polymers form beads when stretched, findings that could be used to improve industrial processes and for administering drugs in "personalized medicine."
Source
Purdue University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Stretching Single Molecules Allows Precision Studies of Interacting Electrons
Stretching Single Molecules Allows Precision Studies of Interacting Electrons
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:26:00 -0500
With controlled stretching
of molecules, Cornell researchers have demonstrated that single-molecule devices can serve as powerful new tools for fundamental science experiments. Their work has resulted in detailed tests of long-existing theories on how electrons interact at the nanoscale.
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Cornell University
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an NSF News From the Field item.
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Changing Chesapeake Bay Acidity Impacting Oyster Shell Growth
Changing Chesapeake Bay Acidity Impacting Oyster Shell Growth
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:00 -0500
Acidity is increasing in some regions of the
Chesapeake Bay even faster than is occurring in the open ocean, where it is now recognized that increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolve in the seawater, thereby making it more acidic. These more acidic conditions in key parts of the Chesapeake Bay reduce rates of juvenile oyster shell formation, according to new research published in the journal Estuaries and Coasts.
Source
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Pala Learning Center Youth Visit Old Point Loma Lighthouse at Cabrillo National Monument Via HPWREN LIVE
Pala Learning Center Youth Visit Old Point Loma Lighthouse at Cabrillo National Monument Via HPWREN LIVE
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:37:00 -0500
Using the capabilities of NSF's High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network, the Pala Learning Center--which serves the Pala Native American reservation community--linked elementary school children with Cabrillo National Monument Historian Robert Munson and Cabrillo Park Ranger Emily Floyd--both dressed in period clothing from the year 1887.
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High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:40:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Reinventing The Wheel--Naturally
Reinventing The Wheel--Naturally
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:00 -0500
Humans did not invent the wheel. Nature did.
Source
Duke University
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Message: 7
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Discovery in 'Pop' Science Reveals the Elegant, Complex Way Bubbles Burst
Discovery in 'Pop' Science Reveals the Elegant, Complex Way Bubbles Burst
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:28:00 -0500
Lead
author James C. Bird, a graduate student at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and his colleagues believe they have stumbled upon a universal behavior in how bubbles pop that holds as true for suds in a sink as it does for foam in the ocean.
Source
Harvard University
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Message: 8
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Crocodile and Hippopotamus Served as 'Brain Food' For Early Human Ancestors
Crocodile and Hippopotamus Served as 'Brain Food' For Early Human Ancestors
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:28:00 -0500
Fish really is "brain food." And
it seems that even pre-humans living as far back as 2 million years ago somehow knew it.
Source
Johns Hopkins University
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Message: 9
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Large Majority of Americans Still Believe in Global Warming, Stanford Poll Finds
Large Majority of Americans Still Believe in Global Warming, Stanford Poll Finds
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:29:00 -0500
Three out of four Americans
believe that the Earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it, according to a new survey by researchers at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.
Source
Stanford University
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Message: 10
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:51:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Insects Inspire Robot Design
With NSF support, Oregon State University professor John Schmitt and his colleagues look to nature’s running machines as locomotion models for future robots that can easily run over rough surfaces
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117087&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
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