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24-Apr-2007
Student winners of nationwide Earth Day competition announced
Winners of a nationwide Earth Day Haiku competition illustrating the theme "Recycling --Chemistry Can!" have been announced by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The competition is part of the society's annual program, Chemists Celebrate Earth Day.
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-4400
American Chemical Society
20-Apr-2007
Moody's Mega Math Challenge announces winners
On Wednesday, April 18, at the Down Town Association in New York City, the Moody's Foundation awarded a team of students from Manalapan High School with the first-place Summa Cum Laude Team Prize of $20,000 in the second annual Moody's Mega Math Challenge...immediately after it awarded a team of students from the same high school with the second-place Magna Cum Laude Team Prize of $15,000!
Contact: Michelle Montgomery
montogmery@siam.com
215-382-9800
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
19-Apr-2007
Whole lotta shaking goin' on in space
Researchers studied high-resolution photos of the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa and learned that its surface -- which is made up of small grains and boulders -- has been sorted when the asteroid was shaken.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
17-Apr-2007
Greenhouse gases turn to stone
The Norwegian seabed actually has enough room to store all the greenhouse gases from all the power plants in Europe for the next 800 years. There, the gas turns to stone.
Contact: Knut van der Wel
kw@rcn.no
472-203-7353
The Research Council of Norway
12-Apr-2007
New form of information from T. rex and Mastodon fossils
After discovering a giant T. rex leg bone fossil in Montana, back in 2003, a team of scientists had a problem: It wouldn't fit in their helicopter. When they broke the fossil open in order to fit the pieces inside, this led to a shocking discovery.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
5-Apr-2007
Sizing up man's best friend
Have you ever wondered why dogs come in such diverse sizes? When they are on their hind legs, the toy dogs may just reach up to your knee. The giant dogs can easily push you over and are more than 7 feet tall!
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
4-Apr-2007
Peter Cottontail sports stripes in Sumatra
Hippity, hoppity…click! So went the latest appearance of one of the world's rarest rabbits, captured on film by a camera trap in the rain forests of Indonesia, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Contact: John Delaney
jdelaney@wcs.org
718-220-3275
Wildlife Conservation Society
3-Apr-2007
Top 6 Teams in Moody's Mega Math Challenge 2007 will present their winning solutions April 18 in NYC
Look out Wall Street! In the final showdown of the Moody's Mega Math Challenge 2007 competition, six teams of high school students will present their winning solutions to this year's problem, "Beat the Street!" to a panel of professional applied mathematicians on April 18 at Moody's Corporation headquarters in New York City.
Contact: Michelle Montgomery
m3challenge@siam.org
215-382-9800 x368
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
30-Mar-2007
The next generation of cancer researchers
It is never too early to start thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, especially if you want to be a cancer researcher. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is capturing the interest of aspiring young scientists during a special program for high school students at the Annual Meeting 2007, April 14-18, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Contact: Jennifer Ryan
ryan@aacr.org
267-646-0558
American Association for Cancer Research
29-Mar-2007
Can coral survive in a warmer world?
One likely effect of global warming is that the oceans will absorb more carbon dioxide and become a little more acidic. Humans probably wouldn't notice the change when they went swimming, but it would make a big difference to many corals.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6657
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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