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Deconstructing a mystery: What caused Snowmaggedon?
NASA scientists are using computer models to help unravel the mystery of a record-setting snowfall in the Washington, DC area in early 2010.
NASA
Contact: Christina Coleman
Christina.a.coleman@nasa.gov
301-286-1046
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Night of the Open DoorNight owls and star gazers to gather at Night of the Open Door Festival
ASU's Night of the Open Door shines a spotlight on more than 165 activities to celebrate the sciences, arts, humanities and engineering on March 3 in Tempe, as part of the Arizona SciTech Festival.
Contact: Margaret Coulombe
margaret.coulombe@asu.edu
480-727-8934
Arizona State University
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2012 AAAS Annual MeetingSFU scientists seek teaching excitement at AAAS
Thousands of scientists, including many from SFU, will descend upon Vancouver, Feb. 16-20 to not only share research discoveries but also hone their skills as science educators. They will share their teaching trade secrets at the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, known as the world's largest science fair. SFU's Faculty of Science is sponsoring 10 faculty members, two staff and two graduate students to attend the AAAS' symposium on education.
Contact: Carol Thorbes
cthorbes@sfu.ca
778-782-3035
Simon Fraser University
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Studying butterfly flight to help build bug-size flying robots
By figuring out how butterflies flutter among flowers with amazing grace and agility, researchers hope to help build small airborne robots that can mimic those maneuvers.
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
prs@jhu.edu
443-287-9960
Johns Hopkins University
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New ACS video celebrates the science behind one of Super Bowl Sunday's favorite foods
With pizza, nachos and other cheesy dishes on the menu for an estimated 60 percent of Super Bowl Sunday football fans, the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, released a video today on the chemistry that transforms milk into cheese, a year-round favorite food. This video, the latest in ACS' award-winning Bytesize Science series, is available at www.BytesizeScience.com.
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-6042
American Chemical Society
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Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesMom's love good for child's brain
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the first to show that changes in this key region of children's brain anatomy are linked to a mother's nurturing.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
Contact: Jim Dryden
jdryden@wustl.edu
314-286-0110
Washington University School of Medicine
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Journal of Abnormal Child PsychologyLifelong payoff for attentive kindergarten kids
Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of "work-oriented" skills in school children, according to a new study published by Dr. Linda Pagani, a professor and researcher at the University of Montreal and CHU Sainte-Justine.
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture
Contact: William Raillant-Clark
w.raillant-clark@umontreal.ca
514-343-7593
University of Montreal
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Science magazine honors method that teaches essence of experimentation
Priscilla Laws, David Jackson and Scott Franklin are honored for having developed an inquiry-focused curriculum for students who are not majors in science called Explorations in Physics.
Contact: Natasha Pinol
npinol@aaas.org
202-326-7088
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Young Americans recognize the impact of innovation on US economy according to survey
The 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index indicates that young Americans are acutely aware of the importance of invention and innovation in their personal lives, and within the context of the nation's economy.
Lemelson-MIT Program
Contact: Jessica Benjamin
jbenjamin@coneinc.com
617-939-8417
Lemelson-MIT Program
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Supporting primary children's understanding of physics
New software has significant benefits for primary school children and their understanding of elementary physics, research shows. Studies funded by the Economic and Social Research Council focused on what primary school children know when they begin studying physics, and how much they still have to learn. The studies looked at how much children understand about the movement of objects such as direction and speed.
Economic and Social Research Council
Contact: Press Office
Pressoffice@esrc.ac.uk
Economic & Social Research Council
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