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Public Release: 25-Jan-2006
Closer to home
Using a relatively new planet-hunting technique that can spot worlds one-tenth the mass of our own, researchers have discovered a potentially rocky, icy body that may be the smallest planet yet found orbiting a star outside our solar system.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Josh Chamot
jchamot@nsf.gov
703-292-7730
National Science Foundation
Public Release: 24-Jan-2006
Children's peer relationships have enormous influence
In his book, "Children's Peer Relations and Social Competence: A Century of Progress," Gary Ladd, Arizona State University professor of psychology and human development, examines the role of peer relationships in child and adolescent development by tracking major research findings from the 1900s to the present.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Sharon Keeler
sharon.keeler@asu.edu
480-965-4012
Arizona State University
Public Release: 24-Jan-2006
Johns Hopkins team discovers statue of Egyptian queen
A Johns Hopkins archaeological expedition in Luxor, Egypt, has unearthed a life-sized statue, dating back nearly 3,400 years, of one of the queens of the powerful king Amenhotep III.
Contact: Amy Lunday
amylunday@jhu.edu
443-287-9960
Johns Hopkins University
Public Release: 24-Jan-2006
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
HIV prevention hope: Yogurt bugs that make antiviral drugs
A research team led by Bharat Ramratnam, a Brown Medical School professor, has genetically modified bacteria found in yogurt so that the bugs produce a protein proven to block HIV infection in monkeys. The results offer hope for a microbicide that can prevent the spread of HIV, which now affects about 40 million people.
National Institutes of Health, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Charles E. Culpeper Biomedical Pilot Initiative
Contact: Wendy Lawton
Wendy_Lawton@brown.edu
401-863-1862
Brown University
Public Release: 24-Jan-2006
Paleobiology
Duck-billed dino crests not linked to sense of smell
After decades of debate, a U of T researcher has finally determined that duck-billed dinosaurs' massive but hollow crests had nothing to do with what many scientists suspected -- the sense of smell.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Contact: Nicolle Wahl
nicolle.wahl@utoronto.ca
416-978-6974
University of Toronto
Public Release: 24-Jan-2006
American Naturalist
New study explores beetle species with two forms of females
A fascinating new study from the forthcoming issue of The American Naturalist attempts to explain the mysterious persistence of two forms of females in many diving beetle populations. Their findings have important implications for theories of sexual conflict, which arises when the costs and benefits of multiple matings differ for males and females.
Contact: Suzanne Wu
swu@press.uchicago.edu
773-834-0386
University of Chicago Press Journals
Public Release: 24-Jan-2006
American Naturalist
Mute swan population helps explain longstanding evolutionary question
In an important new study forthcoming from The American Naturalist, biologists from the University of Oxford tracked a colony of mute swans for more than two decades to explore a longstanding evolutionary question: whether the number of eggs laid by a female bird – known as "clutch size" – changes in accordance with natural selection.
Contact: Suzanne Wu
swu@press.uchicago.edu
773-834-0386
University of Chicago Press Journals
Public Release: 24-Jan-2006
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
Daughters of alcoholics
During the last decade, most of the research on genetic and environmental variables relevant to children of alcoholics has focused on the sons of alcoholics. In contrast, symposium participants at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Vancouver, Canada in June 2004 focused on moderators of risk for alcoholism and other psychopathologies among daughters of alcoholics. Proceedings are published in the February issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Contact: Aruna Gogineni, Ph.D.
agogine1@jhmi.edu
443-287-4673
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
Public Release: 23-Jan-2006
Public schools equal or better in math than private or charter schools
Contrary to common wisdom, public schools score higher in math than private ones, when differences in student backgrounds are taken into account. That was the conclusion of researchers Sarah and Christopher Lubienski in a study last year of data from the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Now they're back with similar and more-extensive results in a follow-up study.
Contact: Craig Chamberlain, Education Editor
cdchambe@uiuc.edu
217-333-2894
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Public Release: 19-Jan-2006
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Heart-healthy compound in chocolate identified
In a multifaceted study involving the Kuna Indians of Panama, an international team of scientists has pinpointed a chemical compound that is, in part, responsible, for the heart-healthy benefits of certain cocoas and some chocolate products.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Mars Inc.
Contact: Patricia Bailey
pjbailey@ucdavis.edu
530-752-9843
University of California - Davis
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