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Geological Society of AmericaScientists find fossil proof of Egypt's ancient climate
Earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are studying snail fossils to understand the climate of northern Africa 130,000 years ago. The snails reveal clues about the climate and environment of western Egypt, lo those many years ago. They also could shed light on the possible role weather and climate played in the dispersal of humans "out of Africa" and into Europe and Asia.
Contact: Tony Fitzpatrick
tony_fitzpatric@wustl.edu
314-935-5272
Washington University in St. Louis
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Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication
Researchers studying the newly sequenced genome of the marine bacterium Vibrio fischer, described this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have observed differences and similarities in gene arrangement between it and pathogenic Vibrio species. The opportunity to annotate the genome of the glow-in-the-dark bacterium, which lives in symbiotic harmony within the light organ of the bobtail squid, has helped a Virginia Tech microbiologist advance her research on how cells communicate.
Contact: Susan Trulove
strulove@vt.edu
540-231-5646
Virginia Tech
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Planetary Formation and Detection MeetingScientists announce smallest extra-solar planet yet discovered
Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer in 1992 of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, will announce during a press conference in Aspen, Colorado, the discovery of the smallest planet yet detected, in that same far-away planetary system. The discovery yields an astonishingly complete description of the planetary system and confirms that it is remarkably like a half-size version of our own solar system.
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
science@psu.edu
814-863-4682
Penn State
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Stroke: Journal of the American Heart AssociationUCI study uncovers how plaque in neck artery leads to stroke-inducing blood clots
A UC Irvine Stroke Center study reveals how plaque in the main neck artery plays a critical role in creating blood clots that greatly increase the risk of stroke.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Tom Vasich
tmvasich@uci.edu
949-824-6455
University of California - Irvine
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MERIS captures all of Europe from orbit
See the face of Europe from space – with the entire continent covered in consistent detail. This set of true-colour Envisat satellite mosaics depicts the ten newest members of the European Union as well as ESA's 15 current member states and two pending accessions of Greece and Luxembourg.
Contact: Mariangela D'Acunto
mariangela.dacunto@esa.int
39-069-418-0856
European Space Agency
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Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
An impending crisis that could have a detrimental impact on the oil and gas infrastructure and fishing industry in the United States is leading scientists to investigate how to stop rapid deterioration and to start restoring marsh land in Louisiana's southern coastal wetlands-which are losing a piece of land the size of a football field every 35 minutes. All of this is part of an international expedition with the JASON Foundation for Education.
JASON Foundation for Education
Contact: Jennifer Walsh
pr@jason.org
504-920-5465
JASON Foundation for Education
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NeuronOlder people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
The long-held belief that older people perform slower and worse than younger people has been proven wrong. In a study published today in Neuron, psychologists from McMaster University discovered that the ageing process actually improves certain abilities: Older people appear to be better and faster at grasping the big picture than their younger counterparts.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada Research Chairs
Contact: Jane Christmas
chrisja@mcmaster.ca
905-525-9140 x27988
McMaster University
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Tobacco ControlSmoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
Maybe packs of cigarettes should come with a new warning: "Smoking is hazardous to your wealth." A new study suggests that typical non-smokers' net worth is roughly 50 percent higher than that of light smokers and about twice the level of that of heavy smokers.
Contact: Jay Zagorsky
Zagorsky.1@osu.edu
Ohio State University
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New technology could make TV more exciting
Live TV outside broadcasts that combine real action and computer-generated images could become possible for the first time, thanks to camera navigation technology now under development.
Contact: Natasha Richardson
natasha.richardson@epsrc.ac.uk
44-179-344-4404
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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The birth of galaxies and stars
Experts at Cardiff University, UK, are designing and building highly sophisticated equipment, which will travel deep into space to enable scientists to look back in time to observe the formation of galaxies and stars. A team in the School of Physics and Astronomy is heading an international consortium to produce a three-colour camera and spectrometer, which will be launched aboard the Herschel Space Observatory.
Contact: Dr Peter Hargrave
HargravePC@cardiff.ac.uk
44-292-087-6682
Cardiff University
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