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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:00:58 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Grant to Study Effects of Oil and Dispersants on Louisiana Salt Marsh Ecosystem
Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Grant to Study Effects of Oil and Dispersants on Louisiana Salt Marsh Ecosystem
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:28:00 -0500
As oil and dispersants wash ashore in coastal Louisiana salt marshes, what will their effects be on these sensitive ecosystems?
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a rapid response grant to scientist Eugene Turner of Louisiana State University and colleagues to measure the impacts on Gulf Coast salt marshes.
The researchers will track short-term (at the current time, and again at three months) and longer-term (at 11 months) exposure to oil and ...
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:30 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Distinguishing 'Senior Moments' From Alzheimer's
Distinguishing 'Senior Moments' From Alzheimer's
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:20:00 -0500
With the help of volunteers aged 18 to 89, University of
California, Irvine, researchers have identified for the first time in humans, a long-hidden part of the brain called the perforant path. Scientists have struggled for decades to locate the tiny passage, which is believed to deteriorate gradually as part of normal aging and far more quickly due to Alzheimer's disease.
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University of California, Irvine
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Distracted Drivers Benefit From In-car Driving Coach
Distracted Drivers Benefit From In-car Driving Coach
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:21:00 -0500
A study shows an in-car coach has
the strongest effect on drivers most prone to distraction, suggesting that technology could help prevent dangerous driving.
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University of Washington
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Einstein@Home 'Citizen Scientists' Discover a New Pulsar in Arecibo Telescope Data
Einstein@Home 'Citizen Scientists' Discover a New Pulsar in Arecibo Telescope Data
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:22:00 -0500
Idle computers
are the astronomers' playground. Three citizen scientists--a German and an American couple--have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. This is the first deep-space discovery by Einstein@Home, which uses donated time from the home and office computers of 250,000 volunteers from 192 different countries. Astronomers consider the new pulsar especially interesting since it is likely a recycled pulsar that lost its companion.
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Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Extended Solar Minimum Linked to Changes in Sun's Conveyor Belt
Extended Solar Minimum Linked to Changes in Sun's Conveyor Belt
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:23:00 -0500
A new analysis of
the unusually long solar cycle that ended in 2008 suggests that one reason for the long cycle could be a stretching of the sun's conveyor belt, a current of plasma that circulates between the sun's equator and its poles. The results should help scientists better understand the factors controlling the timing of solar cycles and could lead to better predictions.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Surf Your Way to a Deep Ocean Research Expedition
Surf Your Way to a Deep Ocean Research Expedition
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:21:00 -0500
Just click yourself aboard an ocean research expedition--thanks to
the Internet--and journey 300 miles off the Washington-Oregon coast and nearly a mile deep into the ocean as scientists explore methane ice deposits, an underwater volcano and seafloor hot springs spewing water up to 570 degrees Fahrenheit.
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University of Washington
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: The Nano World of Shrinky Dinks
The Nano World of Shrinky Dinks
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:21:00 -0500
The magical world of Shrinky Dinks--an arts and crafts material used
by children since the 1970s--has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. A team of nanoscientists is using the flexible plastic sheets as the backbone of a new, inexpensive way to create, test and mass-produce large-area patterns at the nanoscale. Anyone needing access to these patterns on the cheap could benefit from this method, known as solvent-assisted nanoscale embossing.
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Northwestern University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:40:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Drugs Encased in Nanoparticles Travel to Tumors on the Surface of Immune-system Cells
Drugs Encased in Nanoparticles Travel to Tumors on the Surface of Immune-system Cells
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:22:00 -0500
A team of MIT
engineers has devised a way to deliver necessary drugs by smuggling them on the backs of the cells sent in to fight a tumor. This way, the drugs reach only their intended targets, greatly reducing the risk to the patient.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:11:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Researchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature
Researchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature
Breakthrough paves way to store and process information in novel spin-electronics
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117382&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:46:11 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Social-Computational Systems (SoCS)
Social-Computational Systems (SoCS)
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:47:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Discovery of Possible Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil Record
Discovery of Possible Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil Record
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:00:00 -0500
Scientists may have discovered in Australia the oldest fossils of animal bodies. These findings push back the clock on the scientific world's thinking regarding when animal life appeared on Earth. The results suggest that primitive sponge-like creatures lived in ocean reefs about 650 million years ago.
The shelly fossils, found beneath a 635 million-year-old glacial deposit in South Australia, represent the earliest evidence of animal body forms in the current fossil record, predating ...
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