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4-Feb-2010
Colors of a feathered dinosaur
Ever tried to draw a dinosaur? What colors would you choose? The only limits are your imagination. Although paleontologists can use fossils to tell us how dinosaurs were built, bones can't tell us about what the dinosaurs looked like on the surface. Or can they?

Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science

28-Jan-2010
New dinosaur from China illuminates dino-bird link
Scientists have discovered a new member of a peculiar group of dinosaurs, the long-legged, stubby-armed alvarezsauroids. This one, found in China, is 63 million years older than other known members of this group, making it an important early member of the lineage that includes birds and their closest dinosaur relatives.

Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Public Release: 9-Feb-2010
13th Conference of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Sanitary Administration
Role-playing games improve the attitude of secondary students towards physical education
The practice of these games can make that exercise and healthy life habits are more attractive for teenagers, according to a work carried out at the University of Granada. Students of the 4th course of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) between 15- and 16-years-old participated in the study.

Contact: Isaac J. Pérez López
isaacj@ugr.es
34-958-246-633
University of Granada

Public Release: 1-Feb-2010
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
New adhesive device could let humans walk on walls
Could humans one day walk on walls, like Spider-Man? A palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond just might make it possible.
DARPA, National Science Foundation

Contact: Blaine Friedlander
bpf2@cornell.edu
607-254-8093
Cornell University

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