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Public Release: 24-Mar-2009
Clouded leopard cubs born at National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center
An endangered clouded leopard at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Conservation & Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, Va., gave birth to a genetically valuable litter of two cubs on Tuesday, March 24. The clouded leopard, two-and-a-half year-old "Jao Chu," has been on a pregnancy watch for five days, and started giving birth to the litter early Tuesday morning.
Contact: Enica Thompson
thompsonen@si.edu
202-633-3083
Smithsonian
Public Release: 19-Mar-2009
Bioscience institutions come together to launch Microlife Discovery Center for area students
Microbes may hold the key to many of the challenges we face today, such as renewable energy and disease eradication, and yet scientists estimate that they have discovered less than one percent of all microbial species.
Contact: Michael Dabney
mdabney@ucsd.edu
858-922-0949
University of California - San Diego
Public Release: 13-Mar-2009
Chemical Geology
Fledgling mantle plume may be cause of African volcano's unique lava
Nyiragongo, an active African volcano, possesses lava unlike any other in the world, which may point toward its source being a new mantle plume says a University of Rochester geochemist. The lava composition indicates that a mantle plume -- an upwelling of intense heat from near the core of the Earth -- may be bubbling to life beneath the soil of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The findings are presented in the current issue of the journal Chemical Geology.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jonathan Sherwood
jonathan.sherwood@rochester.edu
585-273-4726
University of Rochester
Public Release: 12-Mar-2009
Biology Letters
Tracking tigers in 3-D
New software developed with help from the Wildlife Conservation Society will allow tiger researchers to rapidly identify individual animals by creating a three-dimensional model using photos taken by remote cameras.
Contact: Stephen Sautner
ssautner@wcs.org
718-220-3682
Wildlife Conservation Society
Public Release: 24-Feb-2009
Physical Review E
Lovely 'snowfakes' mimic nature, advance science
Exquisitely detailed and beautifully symmetrical, the snowflakes that David Griffeath makes are icy jewels of art.
Contact: David Griffeath
griffeat@math.wisc.edu
608-263-3624
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public Release: 23-Feb-2009
Copeia
Researchers solve mystery of deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. A new paper by Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler shows that this fish's unusual eyes can rotate within a transparent shield that covers the fish's head. This allows the barreleye to peer up at potential prey or focus forward to see what it is eating.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Contact: Kim Fulton-Bennett
kfb@mbari.org
831-775-1835
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Public Release: 2-Feb-2009
Journal of Vision
Not just your imagination: The brain perceives optical illusions as real motion
Ever get a little motion sick from an illusion graphic designed to look like it's moving? A new study suggests that these illusions do more than trick the eye; they may also convince the brain that the graphic is actually moving.
Contact: Joanne Olson
jolson@arvo.org
240-221-2923
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Public Release: 29-Jan-2009
'The robots are coming'
Iowa State University's Alexander Stoytchev is working on software that will enable robots to learn. It won't be long, he says, before personal robots are part of our lives.
Contact: Alexander Stoytchev
alexs@iastate.edu
515-294-5904
Iowa State University
Public Release: 28-Jan-2009
Intensive Care Medicine
Oetzi's last days
Oetzi the Iceman -- the stone-age man who spent thousands of years as a frozen mummy -- may have been attacked twice in the days before his death. A research team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen working together with a Bolzano colleague have shown that a cut wound on his hand is a number of days older than the deadly arrow wound and a severe blow on his back.
Contact: Luise Dirscherl
dirscherl@lmu.de
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Public Release: 28-Jan-2009
Anthrozoos
Names give cows a lotta bottle
Giving a cow a name helps to boost her milk production, Newcastle University scientists have found.
Contact: Dr Catherine Douglas
catherine.douglas@ncl.ac.uk
07-715-103-650
Newcastle University
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