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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:40:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: What the Locals Ate 10,000 Years Ago
What the Locals Ate 10,000 Years Ago
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:19:00 -0500
BYU archaeologists find a Utah site occupied by humans 11,000 years
ago. The researchers documented a variety of dishes the people dined on back then. Grind stones for milling small seeds appeared 10,000 years ago.
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Brigham Young University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:40:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Secrets of the Gecko Foot Help Robot Climb
Secrets of the Gecko Foot Help Robot Climb
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:21:00 -0500
The science behind gecko toes holds the answer to a dry adhesive
that provides an ideal grip for robot feet. Stanford mechanical engineer Mark Cutkosky is using the new material, based on the structure of a gecko foot, to keep his robots climbing.
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Stanford University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:40:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Scientists Say Natural Selection Alone Can Explain Eusociality
Scientists Say Natural Selection Alone Can Explain Eusociality
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:20:00 -0500
Scientists at Harvard
University have sketched a new map of the "evolutionary labyrinth" species must traverse to reach eusociality, the rare but spectacularly successful social structure where individuals cooperate to raise offspring. Their modeling shows that natural selection alone can explain the evolution of eusocial behavior, without the need for kin selection theory.
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Harvard University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Distant Star's Sound Waves Reveal Cycle Similar to the Sun's
Distant Star's Sound Waves Reveal Cycle Similar to the Sun's
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:20:00 -0500
In a bid to unlock longstanding
mysteries of the sun, including the impacts on Earth of its 11-year cycle, an international team of scientists has successfully probed a distant star. By monitoring the star's sound waves, the team has observed a magnetic cycle analogous to the sun's solar cycle.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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Message: 5
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: New View of Tectonic Plates
New View of Tectonic Plates
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:21:00 -0500
Computational scientists and geophysicists at the University of Texas at
Austin and the California Institute of Technology have developed new computer algorithms that for the first time allow for the simultaneous modeling of the earth's Earth's mantle flow, large-scale tectonic plate motions, and the behavior of individual fault zones, to produce an unprecedented view of plate tectonics and the forces that drive it.
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California Institute of Technology
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Message: 6
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Major Moral Decisions Use General-purpose Brain Circuits to Manage Uncertainty
Major Moral Decisions Use General-purpose Brain Circuits to Manage Uncertainty
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:21:00 -0500
Scientists at
Harvard University have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food. The results suggest that complex moral decisions need not rely on a specific "moral sense."
Source
Harvard University
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Message: 7
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:39:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Asymmetric Electron Behavior Discovered in High-temperature Superconductors
Asymmetric Electron Behavior Discovered in High-temperature Superconductors
Finding could eventually lead to cheaper electrical power
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117419&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
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