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Feature Story Get ready for the Great Bee Count
To celebrate the Great Bee Count on Saturday Aug. 17 everyone is invited to count the bees they see in their backyards, local parks, or sidewalks. Upload that count to the Great Sunflower Project website to help San Francisco State biologists learn where bees are buzzing the best.
Contact: Gianna Devoto
gbdevoto@sfsu.edu
415-338-6745
San Francisco State University
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Breaking News Chanel, UCSB's corpse flower, blooms and causes a big stink
Chanel, UC Santa Barbara's corpse flower, has finally spread her odiferous wings, broadcasting a stench that smells like a cross between rotting flesh and Limburger cheese. "It's disgusting," said UCSB junior Connor Way, who visited Wednesday morning. "It's pretty nasty."
Contact: Julie Cohen
julie.cohen@ia.ucsb.edu
805-893-7220
University of California - Santa Barbara
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Feature Story Understanding why male mammals choose to mate with just 1 female
A new study in Science reports that scientists are getting closer to understanding a question they've long debated: why some male mammals -- who could mate with several females -- stick to just one. The new study, with authors from the University of Cambridge, is one of the field's most extensive to date.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Breaking News Navy, city of Chicago team up for groundbreaking education
The Department of the Navy and City of Chicago this month kicked off a unique collaboration to give high school and community college students an intense, hands-on experience in naval-relevant science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
Contact: Peter Vietti
ONRPublicAffairs@navy.mil
703-696-5031
Office of Naval Research
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UH Undergraduate Research Day 2013Singing fruit flies, Alzheimer's diagnostics among student projects
From seeking evolutionary clues through the courtship and survival habits of fruit flies to new diagnostics and treatments for Alzheimer's and breast cancer, University of Houston students are devoting their summer to serious research. With 63 participants this year, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program is open to UH undergraduates from all colleges and disciplines. SURF provides students with a concentrated, full-time research experience under the mentorship of faculty members.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston
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Feature Story For diabetics, a way to bypass the bypass
A new study in the journal Science might help explain why obese individuals who undergo a special type of surgery to help reduce their weight are cured of diabetes in the process.
Contact: Science Press Package Team
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Breaking News High-school course on smoking behavior research wins Science magazine prize
By engaging students in the real practice of science, Munn and her colleagues at the University of Washington have been selected to win the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction. Their prize-winning course module, Exploring Databases, allows students to compare genetic and environmental influences determining why people smoke.
Contact: Natasha Pinol
npinol@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Breaking News American Chemical Society launches 2013 edition of popular Prized Science video series
Developing ways to treat cancer patients with drugs that kill only cancer cells and that have fewer side effects is one of the topics in the premiere segment of the 2013 season of a popular video series from the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The videos are available at www.acs.org/PrizedScience and on DVD.
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-6042
American Chemical Society
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Feature Story From starburst to star bust
It's not only biologists who study evolution; many astronomers work on this topic, too. But instead of looking at how human beings came into existence, they study the how baby galaxies (known as "proto-galaxies") grow into giant systems containing hundreds of billions of brilliant stars, similar to our own galaxy. Now they've solved the mystery of the missing massive galaxies!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Feature Story The day the Earth smiled
Something great, something big, something new and very special has just happened! Last week the Cassini spacecraft which is orbiting around Saturn, over a billion kilometers away, was turned around to snap a photograph of the Earth! Our planet might be just a tiny blue dot in this picture, but we're all there -- all 7 billions of us!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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