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• eStadium app brings replays, chat features to smartphones

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Watching a match live from the stands might be an exciting experience, but it does not allow you to have instant replays, or share opinions about the game with friends.But now, a new smartphone application can provide you just that and more to make watching an athletic event in the stadium ...
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• National Science Foundation-funded Projects Featured at Educatio...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 153
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as well as Senators Patty Murray, Jeff Bingaman, Kay Hagan and Ted Kaufman, were among the special guests at an Education Technology Showcase held on Capitol Hill on Nov. 4. Representatives Peter Welch and Harry Teague also attended the event, sponsored by the State Education ...
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• Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 yea
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• American Environmental Engineers Say Planning Saved Lives in Samoan Tsunami

  
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  “The last significant tsunami in Samoa occurred in 1917 and was very similar in seismology to the Sept. 29 tsunami. Surprisingly, no one I interviewed said they knew of family members being in a similar situation,” Okal said. “Since the
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• Minority students earned greater number of academic degrees in fiscal year 2006

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  A new National Science Foundation report shows an increase in the number of academic degrees awarded to minority students since 2004, the last time such data were published.
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• Nanotech Company Gets Fourth Federal Grant for Cleantech (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  MemPro Ceramics Corporation (MemPro) received notice that The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the company a $147,000 grant to continue the development of innovative ceramic nanofiber technology. The grant brings the total amount that the company has received from NSF to $847,000. The current grant will ...
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• Minority Students Earned Greater Number of Academic Degrees in F...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 153
  A new National Science Foundation report shows an increase in the number of academic degrees awarded to minority students since 2004, the last time such data were published. read more
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• Report on Online Townhalls Finds Enemies on the Right

  
  techPresident — Authority: 691
  A report we recently touched on , a work sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation and which found that online townhalls boost both citizen engagement and politicians approval ratings, has become the target of ire coming from the right side of the political spectrum. If youre wondering how a rather dry ...
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• Robot Fish to Better Monitor Water Quality

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 622
  An ecologist and an engineer at Michigan State University are working together to create robot fish that can better monitor various factors in aquatic environments. Combining the brilliance of nature with some top-notch engineering, these two scientists are on to something and getting the funding for it. The ...
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• WirelessTech Taking a Toll on Earth Science and Astronomy

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  Nearly lost amidst the breathless anticipation of all things wireless...is the potential impact these gadgets may have on scientific instruments that likewise need access to the electromagnetic spectrum.
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• Robo fish may soon monitor water quality

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 3 (ANI): In a new research, scientists at the Michigan State University (MSU) are developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments and monitor water quality.The research is being carried out by Xiaobo Tan, an assistant professor of electrical and ...
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• Robot fish could monitor water quality

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University.
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• Technology plays large role in wealth inheritance

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies.
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• Astronomers See Further

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 131
  In this artists concept, dense knots of dust in otherwise normal galaxies dim the light of a dark gamma-ray burst (center). The dust absorbs most or all of a bursts visible light but not higher-energy X-rays and gamma rays. Image Credit NASA/Swift/Aurore Simonnet The light from a star that exploded 13 million years ...
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• UAB earns $2.1 million grant to boost math teacher readiness

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 153
  (University of Alabama at Birmingham) The Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership, a partnership between the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College and area school districts, has earned a $2.1 million National Science Foundation grant to provide professional development programs for ...
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• Pork Report October 29,2009: National Science Foundation Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  National Science Foundation studies gossip and workplace politics in elementary school $1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a 3-D virtual recreation of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair National Science Foundation funds self-help for Members of Congress $1.57 million stimulus ...
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• Taxpayer-Funded Research Helps Congressmen Become More Popular

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  This Friday, taxpayer funded researchers will brief politicians in Congress on how to improve their approval ratings by avoiding face-to-face townhall meetings with voters.    After receiving tongue lashings from outraged taxpayers across the country at townhall meetings this summer, career politicians no doubt ...
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• North Carolina sea levels rising 3 times faster than in previous 500 years, Penn study says

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  PHILADELPHIA ?- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating.
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• Pork Report October 28, 2009: Taxpayer Subsidies All Around Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  There are millions of tweets every day, and the government is paying scientists $678,000 to read them and measure the happiness of the written expressions National Science Foundation discovers the cure for politicians’ dismal approval ratings ; Taxpayer funded researchers to brief Congress on how to increase ...
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• NSF Lectures Explore Timely Research in the Mathematical and Phy...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 153
  The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites media and members of the public to a series of lectures sponsored by the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Upcoming talks listed below will help promote a national discussion of issues that scientists expect to shape their research in the coming years. ...
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