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Playground peers can predict adult personalities
Even on the playground, our friends know us better than we know ourselves. New research has revealed that your childhood peers from grade school may be able to best predict your success as an adult.
Contact: Clea Desjardins
clea.desjardins@concordia.ca
514-848-2424 x5068
Concordia University
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The future of diagnosing disease: New American Chemical Society Prized Science video
Providing patients with faster diagnoses for influenza and other respiratory infections and new tests that improve care for heart disease is among the topics in the latest episode of the 2012 edition of a popular video series from the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The videos are available at www.acs.org/PrizedScience and on DVD.
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-6042
American Chemical Society
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Children evaluate educational games
Is it possible to create suitable and amusing educational computer games? Can you use qualities from other types of games? And what do the children really think of these kinds of games? Wolmet Barendregt from The University of Gothenburg, conducts research on children's game playing, how we can support learning with design and include the children in the design process.
Swedish Knowledge Foundation
Contact: Wolmet Barendregt
wolmet@ituniv.se
University of Gothenburg
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Preventive MedicineAttractive names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools
The age-old parental struggle of convincing youngsters to eat their fruits and vegetables has some new allies: Power Punch Broccoli, X-Ray Vision Carrots -- and a host of catchy names for entrees in school cafeterias. Cornell University researchers studied how a simple change, such as using attractive names, would influence elementary-aged children's consumption of vegetables. This research suggests that schools have a low-cost or even no-cost solution to induce children to consume more nutritious foods.
Robert Wood Johnson Fundation, US Department of Agriculture/Economic Research Service
Contact: Sandra Cuellar-Healey
foodandbrandlab@cornell.edu
607-254-4960
Cornell Food & Brand Lab
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PLOS ONEHands-on activities for high schoolers effectively teach about antibiotics
A hands-on project to educate high schoolers about appropriate antibiotic use was highly effective, promoting more sophisticated understandings of bacteria and antibiotics and increasing understanding of the dangers of antibiotic resistance, and was even enjoyable, as reported Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE.
Contact: Yael Franco
yfranco@plos.org
415-568-3169
Public Library of Science
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A celestial witch's broom?
The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova explosion that took place about 11,000 years ago. This detailed view was produced by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope.
Contact: Richard Hook
rhook@eso.org
49-893-200-6655
ESO
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SF State biologists tag 'zombees' to track their flight
After last year's accidental discovery of "zombie"-like bees infected with a fly parasite, SF State researchers are conducting an elaborate experiment to learn more about the plight of the honey bees.
Contact: Nan Broadbent
nbroadbe@sfsu.edu
415-338-7108
San Francisco State University
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Students create low-cost biosensor to detect contaminated water in developing nations
Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old -- killing as many as 1.5 million children worldwide every year. These startling statistics from the World Health Organization point to the reason why a team of nine Arizona State University students is participating in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition -- a global event that challenges students to design and build simple biological systems made from standard, interchangeable parts.
Contact: Sandra Leander
sandra.leander@asu.edu
480-965-9865
Arizona State University
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PLOS Computational BiologyUBC researchers seek to engage students in STEM careers with science outreach toolkit
Outreach programs that offer a taste of real-world science and pair secondary students with enthusiastic young researchers are key to promoting careers in science and technology, according to UBC researchers.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Contact: Joanne Fox, MSL, UBC
joanne@msl.ubc.ca
604-220-7890
University of British Columbia
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Lab course that starts with students' own ideas wins Science magazine prize
With Exploring Gold Nanoparticles, the course module chosen to win the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction, students receive a chemical equation for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles. They then conduct experiments, synthesizing different sizes of nanoparticles using varying amounts of sodium citrate, for instance, and using laser pointers to collect evidence related to the nature of the reactants and the products.
Contact: Natasha Pinol
npinol@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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