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Feature Story Cockroaches outsmart sugary traps
A new study in the May 24 issue of Science reveals how cockroaches outsmart the sugary traps designed to catch and kill them.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Feature Story Pretty in pink
The world's best instrument for looking at the visible universe turns 15 today. Happy birthday to the Very Large Telescope! To celebrate, the telescope has been used to take this space photograph of a party in Space. The theme is "pretty in pink" and there are bright disco lights and dark balloons scattered all across the image.
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Breaking News Scientists announce top 10 new species
An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists -- scientists responsible for species exploration and classification -- announced its list of top 10 species from 2012 today, May 23.
Contact: Sandra Leander
sandra.leander@asu.edu
480-965-9865
Arizona State University
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Breaking News Help wanted: Public needed to uncover clues in bug collections
UC Berkeley's Essig Museum of Entomology is opening up its collections to citizen scientists. The project, Calbug, crowd-sources the digitization of a million hand-written field notes that accompany insect specimens, many of which were collected more than a century ago.
Sloan Foundation
Contact: Sarah Yang
scyang@berkeley.edu
510-643-7741
University of California - Berkeley
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Breaking News CU-Boulder helps tap crowds to digitize museum records of bugs and plants
A new online project, brought to life with the help of a team from the University of Colorado Boulder, is using citizen scientists to help transcribe museum records.
Contact: Robert Guralnick
robert.guralnick@colorado.edu
303-735-0441
University of Colorado at Boulder
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Breaking News PLOS ONEAnts and carnivorous plants conspire for mutualistic feeding
An insect-eating pitcher plant teams up with ants to prevent mosquito larvae from stealing its nutrients, according to research published May 22 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Mathias Scharmann and colleagues from the University of Cambridge and the University Brunei Darussalam.
Contact: Souri Somphanith
onepress@plos.org
415-624-1217 x199
Public Library of Science
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Breaking News Solar and lithium ion car race winners announced
Ninety-seven teams from 28 Colorado schools participated in today's car competitions hosted by the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The student teams raced solar and lithium ion powered vehicles they designed and built themselves.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
david.glickson@nrel.gov
303-275-4097
DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Feature Story Making tiny complex controlled shapes
A new study in the May 17 issue of Science reveals how to make minerals assemble themselves into complex but controlled architectures.
Contact: Science Press Package Team
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Feature Story The universe is a cool place!
The universe is a pretty cool place. If you hopped on a tour bus for a complete tour of the cosmos, it would take you past a number of "hot" attractions, like the sun, monster black holes and billions of shining stars. But mostly, space is incredibly cold. Like the object in this picture, it might look like a ribbon of hot fire stretching through space, but this is actually a cold cloud of gas and dust, just -250 °C!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Feature Story Half of national Microsoft video game design finalists from UH
Two teams from the University of Houston are among the 10 finalists chosen from among thousands of America's brightest young computer science students to reach the final round of the US Imagine Cup in Silicon Valley. They will vie for cash prizes and a spot to represent the U.S. at the Worldwide Finals in Russia. For the fourth consecutive year, UH is the only school to have more than one team in the gaming category.
Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston
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