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Former astronaut preps students for success with math and science
More than 50 area middle-school students are using the summer break to sharpen their math and science skills during the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at the University of Houston. Former astronaut and UH alum Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. will be on hand to help the campers create space suit swatches capable of absorbing the impact of space debris.
Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston
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Great Sunflower Project asks public to count bees in backyards, parks and trails
Interested in bees? Want to help scientists learn about the lives of pollinating insects? The Great Sunflower Project needs your help. The public are being asked to help count bees, and this summer, there are even more ways to take part. Now in its sixth year, The Great Sunflower Project is encouraging its corps of more than 100,000 volunteers to observe bees and other pollinators on all kinds of plants and in all kinds of places, from backyards and parks to nature trails.
Contact: Elaine Bible
ebible@sfsu.edu
415-405-3606
San Francisco State University
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Better oxygen storage deepens the dive
All mammals -- including you -- have oxygen-storing molecules, but deep-diving mammals like whales have adapted special versions of these molecules that let them hold their breaths for long periods, and a new study provides insight into just when this special capability evolved.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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All aboard the Mars Express
Ten years ago, the Mars Express blasted its way out of Earth's atmosphere and began its journey to the Red Planet. Since then, the Martian probe has been hard at work shedding light on the many mysteries of this alien world. In the last decade the Mars Express has sent home dramatic images of huge volcanoes, gigantic canyons and the planet's Earth-like polar ice caps.
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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It's a trap!
Nearly 1,000 alien worlds have now been found orbiting around distant stars. What we don't fully understand is how they form. We know that young stars are often surrounded by rings of dust, but how do tiny grains of dust in the discs around young stars grow bigger and bigger, to become rubble and comets and eventually giant, rocky planets like the one we live on? This is a mystery that the ALMA telescope is trying to solve.
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Birds of a colony eat together
Animals trying to determine where their feeding territory ends and the feeding territory of a competing animal nearby begins may be influenced just as much by signals they share with others in their colony as by spats and squabbles with members of competing colonies, reveals a new study in Science.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Science Books & Films suggests 10 top summer books for K-4 students
Ten great books for students in kindergarten through the fourth grade, suggested by Science Books & Films at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, promise to stimulate children's imaginations and help combat summer learning loss.
Contact: Ginger Pinholster
gpinhols@aaas.org
202-326-6421
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Caught on camera!
In 1992, a discovery was made that changed our view of the Universe: the first alien world was detected circling a distant star. With this discovery, there was no denying it -- the Earth and its brothers and sisters in our solar system are not alone. Since this first discovery, almost 1000 exo-planets have been identified. But only about a dozen were directly photographed. Now astronomers have caught on camera the lightest exo-planet ever seen!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Where are all the normal galaxies?
Most of the distant galaxies we have observed and cataloged are extremely bright and easy to spot. This gives the impression that bright, active galaxies are more common in the Universe than "normal" galaxies like our home, the Milky Way galaxy. But this may not be the case. Using the world's most sensitive radio telescope, ALMA, astronomers have finally started to uncover these elusive "normal" galaxies!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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The hunt for distant galaxies
Interested in Helping Find Galaxies In Deep Space? Then meet a galaxy-hunting team that needs your help.
Contact: James Cohen
cohen@kavlifoundation.org
The Kavli Foundation
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