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Whatever floats your RoboBoat: Competition engages students in STEM
An international lineup of university teams raced custom-built autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) at the fifth annual RoboBoat competition, held June 20-24 in Virginia Beach, Va. The competition is an autonomous robotics challenge where teams put their ASVs through a marked navigation channel and a series of challenges. The goal is to boost student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to inspire them to follow a naval career in these fields.
Contact: Peter Vietti
onrcsc@onr.navy.mil
703-588-2167
Office of Naval Research
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Now everyone can build a satellite like NASA: Online!
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to build a satellite to peer into a black hole and uncover its secrets, now you can find out thanks to a free new online game from NASA.
Contact: Lynn Chandler
Lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov
301-286-2806
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Lake in Siberia offers window to complex Arctic climate
Climate in the Arctic region of the planet is more complex than it is in other areas of the world, which has made it difficult for researchers to understand how climate really works there. Now, however, researchers have discovered a tool that gives them a glimpse of what Arctic climate may have been like over the past 2.8 million years.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Kids become space suit engineers at UH Science Camp this summer
Campers will be given the opportunity to meet an astronaut and become space suit engineers for a day at the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at UH next week. The 54 area students will 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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World's first cave paintings older than expected
A new study has found that some cave paintings in northwestern Spain are much older than researchers had expected, raising questions about who created them. According to Alistair Pike and colleagues, the tradition of decorating caves must have began in Europe more than 40,000 years ago -- an age that coincides with the arrival of modern humans.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Embedded educators: Teacher research experience in Greenland with Operation IceBridge
In mid-April, scientists working in a remote corner of Greenland on NASA's Operation IceBridge gave five teachers a taste of what airborne polar science is like and in the process provided the educators with better tools to teach students about science.
Contact: George Hale
george.r.hale@nasa.gov
301-614-5853
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Grizzly bears at play
At Washington State University's Bear Research Center, doctoral student Heidi Keen closely interacts with eight furry research subjects too dangerous to handle in the wild. Using tools such as flash cards, orange construction cones and cow hides, she is analyzing not only how the bears interact with her but how much they enjoy the human-made stimulation.
Contact: Heidi Keen
hkeen@wsu.edu
509-335-0789
Washington State University
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This shrimp has a hammer
The hammer-like claws of the peacock mantis shrimp can smash through mollusk shells, the heads of small fish, even a glass aquarium wall. The claws themselves stay surprisingly strong, even after being damaged while delivering so many blows.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Nunavik sled dogs need first aid and care too
In Nunavik, there are many dogs -- sled dogs, pets, and strays -- but no veterinarian, so the University of Montreal International Veterinary Group has given Andréanne Cléroux, a veterinary student, the mandate to design and deliver a first aid guide for dogs in northern Quebec.
Contact: William Raillant-Clark
w.raillant-clark@umontreal.ca
514-343-7593
University of Montreal
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Opium poppies pave the way for a cancer-killing compound
The opium poppy plant, Papaver somniferum, is the source of certain illegal narcotics, like morphine and heroin. But, the plant also produces a non-addictive compound called noscapine that acts as both a cough suppressant and tumor-killing agent in humans.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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