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• Semiconducting nanowires are coming

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 439
  With all the news about nanotechnology and wiring that’s been coming out over the last year or so, this release is no surprise . The release: November 26, 2009 Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Nanowire formation Download photo caption below A new ...
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• Georgetown’s request for science center stimulus funding gets positive signals

  
  Vox Populi — Authority: 583
  The current science center The federal government has not yet denied or approved Georgetown University’s $15 million request for stimulus money to fund construction of the science center, but Ali Whitmer, a dean in the College, said that the outlook is good. Having submitted the request to the National Institute ...
  4 days ago

• Using aerospace principles to ride a wave of limitless energy

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 435
  Image via Wikipedia The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet wave-energy systems are rare as they generally offer limited efficiency, must withstand battering storms, and need to be tethered to the sea floor . But by applying the principles that keep airplanes aloft, a team of aerospace ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• arXiv Receives $883K Stimulus Grant

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 557
  A three-year NSF grant will create new tools for arXiv e-print repository.
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• Butterfly proboscis inspired ’straw’ to sip fluid from cells

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 23 (ANI): A scientist is getting inspiration from a butterfly’s proboscis to make small probes that can sample the fluid inside of cells.The scientist in question is Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University in the US.A butterfly’s proboscis looks like a straw - long, slender, and used for ...
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• Swarms of underwater robots to study marine life supporting mechanisms

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 443
  A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help researchers at UC San Diego accomplish their goal. The researchers are on their way to develop small robotic devices that are capable of flowing with the ocean currents to study the mechanisms that support plankton and other petite marine creatures. ...
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• New hydrogen-storage method discovered

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Washington, D.C. -- Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem.
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• The search engine as teacher

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 439
  Who’d a thunk it?!? The release: Search engines are source of learning Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers. The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined ...
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• Scientists Developing Swarms of Miniature Drifting Robots to Patrol the Ocean

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 630
  The National Science Foundation has just awarded researchers at UC San Diego a $1million grant to develop small robotic devices that will drift with the ocean currents to study the mechanisms that support plankton and other tiny marine creatures.  Swarms of the autonomous underwater explorers (AUE’s) ...
  6 days ago

• New method to measure snow, soil moisture with GPS may benefit climate modelers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and ...
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• Now, smartphone app that illuminates power consumption

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): A new application has been developed which can help check the power being consumed by applications loaded on smartphones.Students and professors at the University of Michigan have developed application called Power Tutor for the Android smartphone that can help show users and software ...
  1 week ago

• Smartphone app illuminates power consumption

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  ANN ARBOR, Mich.---A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan.
  1 week ago

• New method to measure snow, vegetation moisture with GPS may benefit farmers, meteorologists

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.
  1 week ago

• Evolution of Evolution: An NSF-sponsored Webcast Featuring Moham...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Please join the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Monday, Nov. 23, at 10 a.m. ET for a live webcast featuring Darwin-Wallace Medal recipient Mohamed Noor of Duke University, who will answer media questions about current evidence for evolution and modern evolution theory. Among the topics: read more
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• Reference genome of maize, most important US crop, is published by team co-led by CSHL scientists

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in unprecedented detail the DNA sequence of maize (Zea mays).
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• Pork Report November 17, 2009: Post Office Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  The U.S. Postal Service lost $3.8 billion last year Winery receives federal stimulus grant Musicians more effective communicating in noisy environments than non-musicians , according to findings of a National Science Foundation study Only 20 percent of Americans hold positive view of government Research ...
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• Nomura’s jellyfish swim towards the coast

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Kokonogi, Nov 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Nomura is the world’s largest jellyfish and its poison can kill the other fish very fast. It normally used to stay in the ocean but are now a common occurrence along Japan’s coastline and a big cause for worry for the fishermen. This may be due to the fact that [...]
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• Supercomputer dedicated to climate research

  
  Sevier County News — Authority: 139
  OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 16, 2009 –Thanks to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute for Computational Sciences’s (NICS’s) Athena supercomputer is hosting one of the largest climate simulations in history.“It is our goal to produce quantitative, transparent and accessible scientific ...
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• Shape perception in brain develops by itself

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners, according to a new study. The findings, published online this week in Psychological Science, suggested that the brains ability to understand shapes develops without the ...
  2 weeks ago

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