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Breaking News PrimatesPersonality test finds some mouse lemurs shy, others bold
In the last 10 years the study of animal personality has gained ground with behavioral ecologists. Researchers at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, N.C., have now found distinct personalities in the grey mouse lemur, the tiny, saucer-eyed primate native to the African island of Madagascar.
Contact: Robin Ann Smith
ras10@duke.org
919-668-4544
Duke University
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Feature Story Former astronaut preps students for success with math and science
More than 50 area middle-school students are using the summer break to sharpen their math and science skills during the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at the University of Houston. Former astronaut and UH alum Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. will be on hand to help the campers create space suit swatches capable of absorbing the impact of space debris.
Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston
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Feature Story Great Sunflower Project asks public to count bees in backyards, parks and trails
Interested in bees? Want to help scientists learn about the lives of pollinating insects? The Great Sunflower Project needs your help. The public are being asked to help count bees, and this summer, there are even more ways to take part. Now in its sixth year, The Great Sunflower Project is encouraging its corps of more than 100,000 volunteers to observe bees and other pollinators on all kinds of plants and in all kinds of places, from backyards and parks to nature trails.
Contact: Elaine Bible
ebible@sfsu.edu
415-405-3606
San Francisco State University
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Feature Story Better oxygen storage deepens the dive
All mammals -- including you -- have oxygen-storing molecules, but deep-diving mammals like whales have adapted special versions of these molecules that let them hold their breaths for long periods, and a new study provides insight into just when this special capability evolved.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Breaking News ZooKeysHigh diversity of flying reptiles in England 110 million years ago
Pterosaurs are an extinct group of flying reptiles that are only abundant in very few deposits. One of these is situated in England, where hundreds of fossils of these animals, that covered the skies some 110 million years ago, have been unearthed. Paleontologists have re-analyzed these fossils and discovered that they had a much higher diversity of groups than previously thought. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.
Contact: Dr. Taissa Rodrigues
taissa.rodrigues@gmail.com
55-283-552-8625
Pensoft Publishers
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Feature Story All aboard the Mars Express
Ten years ago, the Mars Express blasted its way out of Earth's atmosphere and began its journey to the Red Planet. Since then, the Martian probe has been hard at work shedding light on the many mysteries of this alien world. In the last decade the Mars Express has sent home dramatic images of huge volcanoes, gigantic canyons and the planet's Earth-like polar ice caps.
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Feature Story Birds of a colony eat together
Animals trying to determine where their feeding territory ends and the feeding territory of a competing animal nearby begins may be influenced just as much by signals they share with others in their colony as by spats and squabbles with members of competing colonies, reveals a new study in Science.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Breaking News PLOS ONEMagpies take decisions faster when humans look at them
Researchers from the Seoul National University found that wild birds appear to "think faster" when humans, and possibly predators in general, are directly looking at them.
National Research Foundation of Korea
Contact: Sangjin Lee
snulbeepress@outlook.com
Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution at Seoul National University
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Breaking News Animal CognitionPigeons peck for computerized treat
New research by University of Iowa psychologists show pigeons can make informed choices, and use a computerized touch-screen as well. The study by Ed Wasserman and colleagues appears in the journal Animal Cognition.
University of Iowa
Contact: Richard Lewis
richard-c-lewis@uiowa.edu
319-384-0012
University of Iowa
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2013 ASCO Annual MeetingFather and son to present their respective cancer research at ASCO
What started as a dinner-table conversation between a teen and his father has become a bona fide cancer research study for Matthew Lara, a Davis High School sophomore and the son of UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center medical oncologist and researcher Primo (Lucky) Lara Jr.
Contact: Dorsey Griffith
dorsey.griffith@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
916-734-9118
University of California - Davis Health System
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