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Cracked skin and crocodile scales
Researchers have discovered how the scaly skin pattern on crocodile faces and jaws is created, reports a new study in the journal Science.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Blowing bubbles
Astronomers have captured a very special event in space: a so-called "reborn planetary nebula." This is a gas bubble inside a previously blown bubble, or nebula, like you can see in this image. Most stars turn into a nebula at the end of their lives, and sometimes, like in this case, they do the same thing twice.
Contact: Megan Watzke
mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu
617-496-7998
Chandra X-ray Center
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On other planets, a new kind of magnesium oxide
Magnesium oxide, one of the simplest minerals on Earth, transforms into liquid metal under certain conditions likely to exist inside giant, Earth-like planets known as "super Earths," reports a new study in the journal Science.
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202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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American Chemical Society videos on the science behind turkey pop-up timers, tryptophan and more
Does tryptophan really cause the bleary-eyed daze after a Thanksgiving meal? Why does that timer pop up from the Thanksgiving turkey at just the right moment? What causes bloating after eating? For answers to those and other questions that could spark lively dinnertime conversation next Thursday, the American Chemical Society is offering an addition to the holiday menu: two Bytesize Science videos uncovering the chemistry behind Thanksgiving, available at www.BytesizeScience.com.
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-6042
American Chemical Society
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Rainforest insect hears like a human
The ear of the South American rainforest katydid sits on the insect's hind legs, and it's one of the smallest of all hearing organs. But in other ways, the katydid ear is remarkably similar to the mammalian ear, researchers have discovered.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Students from Maryland School for Blind visit NASA Goddard
October was National Disability Employment Awareness month, and students from the Maryland School for the Blind visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for a hands-on and audible learning experience about what happens at NASA and career opportunities available to them.
Contact: Rob Gutro
Robert.j.Gutro@nasa.gov
301-286-4044
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Corals signal to gobies, 'come clean me!'
On the reefs of Fiji, corals and goby fish help each other out, a new study shows. The corals offer the gobies food and shelter, and the gobies protect the corals from toxic seaweed.
Contact: Science Press Package
SciPak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Why fish talk
Clownfish produce sounds to establish and defend their breeding status in social groups, but not to attract mates, according to research published Nov. 7 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Orphal Colleye and colleagues from the University of Liege, Belgium.
Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan
jmadhusoodanan@plos.org
415-568-4545 x187
Public Library of Science
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Studying the solar system's first solids
The first solids to form in our solar system more than four and a half billion years ago were calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, or CAIs, and round grains called chondrules. They can both be found in meteorites today.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Registration open for high school math modeling competition
Registration for Moody's Mega Math Challenge, an Internet-based competition that requires participants to analyze and interpret relevant issues in an effort to provide practical solutions opens today.
Contact: Frank Kunkle
kunkle@siam.org
267-350-6388
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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