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Public Release: 22-Jun-2009
Chemical and Engineering News
'Green' fireworks may brighten eco-friendly 4th of July displays in future
With millions of people in the United States eagerly awaiting those July 4 fireworks displays -- and our Canadian neighbors doing likewise for their July 1 Canada Day celebrations -- here's a prospect for those light shows of the future likely to ignite a smile on Mother Nature's face: A new generation of "green" fireworks is quietly making its way toward the sky. That's "green" as in eco-friendly.

Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-6042
American Chemical Society

Public Release: 18-Jun-2009
Success of Socrates Fellows program shows after 1 year
For ninth-grader Priscilla Maestro, it is just a normal day in her biology class at Castle Park High School in Chula Vista as she and fellow students evaluate mock samples of urine and blood as part of learning a medical procedure used by hospitals and clinics to determine diabetes in patients.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Michael Dabney
mdabney@ucsd.edu
858-922-0949
University of California - San Diego

Public Release: 17-Jun-2009
Computers & Writing 2009
Anime's fan girls
Girls are gathering online to remake male-oriented Japanese animation videos into romances -- and in the process are picking up skills in film editing, storytelling and feminist literary criticism.

Contact: Claudia Morain
cmmorain@ucdavis.edu
530-752-9841
University of California - Davis

Public Release: 10-Jun-2009
Astronomical Journal
Peculiar, junior-sized supernova discovered by New York teen
In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so. Additional observations determined that the object, called SN 2008ha, is a new type of stellar explosion, 1000 times more powerful than a nova but 1000 times less powerful than a supernova. Astronomers say that it may be the weakest supernova ever seen.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Christine Pulliam
cpulliam@cfa.harvard.edu
617-495-7463
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Public Release: 26-May-2009
Getting to the root of science in a nutty way
Dr. Leo Lombardini has gone underground to get the most top secret information in his field. Lombardini is watching roots grow in his experimental orchards, and it is sort of nuts -- he's a pecan researcher. His study, which uses an underground camera, is part of a national specialty crop research project funded by the US Department of Agriculture. Lombardini is a scientist for Texas AgriLife Research.
US Department of Agriculture

Contact: Kathleen Phillips
ka-phillips@tamu.edu
979-845-2872
Texas A&M AgriLife Communications

Contact: Lynne Reaves
lreaves@chw.edu
602-818-5179
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

Public Release: 22-May-2009
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS
The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University announces the top 10 new species described in 2008. The list includes: pea-sized seahorse, caffeine-free coffee, bacteria that live in hairspray, tiny snake, very long insect, fossilized specimen of live-bearing vertebrate, snail whose shell twists around four axes, palm that flowers itself to death, ghost slug and deep blue damselfish.

Contact: Carol Hughes
carol.hughes@asu.edu
480-965-6375
Arizona State University

Public Release: 19-May-2009
Where do penguins go to dance?
What is it like to sleep in an igloo? And have you ever wondered how ancient ice can be used as a time machine? Then take the journey into "Polar Eyes," an interactive new children's book about Antarctica from CSIRO.
CSIRO Education, Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship Program

Contact: Tanya Patrick
Tanya.Patrick@csiro.au
026-276-6017
CSIRO Australia

Public Release: 11-May-2009
2009 RASC-AL Forum
More 'Star Trek' than 'Snuggie': Student design to protect lunar outpost from dangerous radiation
Alien creatures are the least of NASA's worries when it comes to moon travel. There are several potential threats to future missions -- with space radiation at the top of the list. Now, a group of students at North Carolina State University has developed a "blanket" of sorts that covers lunar outposts -- the astronauts' living quarters -- to provide astronauts protection against radiation while also generating and storing power.
Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage

Contact: Caroline M. Barnhill
caroline_barnhill@ncsu.edu
919-515-6251
North Carolina State University

Public Release: 6-May-2009
Zootaxa
Entomologists name 'diving beetle' for Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert
Agaporomorphus colberti, a diving beetle from Venezuela, was named by entomologists Quentin Wheeler of Arizona State University and Kelly Miller of the University of New Mexico to honor Stephen Colbert, the satirical host and executive producer of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."

Contact: Carol Hughes
carol.hughes@asu.edu
480-965-6375
Arizona State University

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