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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:07:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant to Study Emotional Response to Disaster
Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant to Study Emotional Response to Disaster
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:28:00 -0500
Political scientists at Louisiana State University want to know how your close friends and family influence you during times of crisis. They say the information could be crucial to understanding how people make social and political decisions in the context of a major disaster such as the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Our study is unique in its focus on the ways in which social context shapes individual responses to disaster," said LSU Associate ...
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:40:29 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Princeton Scientists Find Unusual Electrons That Go With the Flow
Princeton Scientists Find Unusual Electrons That Go With the Flow
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:03:00 -0500
On a quest to discover new states of matter, a team of Princeton University scientists recently found that electrons on the surface of specific materials act like miniature superheroes, relentlessly dodging the cliff-like obstacles and sometimes moving straight through barriers. The National Science Foundation supported the research through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:05:52 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Tiny Marine Microbes Exert Influence on Global Climate
Tiny Marine Microbes Exert Influence on Global Climate
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:20:00 -0500
New research indicates that the interactions of microscopic organisms around a particular organic material may alter the chemical properties of the ocean--influencing global climate by affecting cloud formation in the atmosphere.
Justin Seymour, a research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, is the lead author of a paper reporting the results, published in this week's issue of the journal Science.
The paper describes how a relative of the chemical ...
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:09:37 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
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