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Paper or plastic?
Every five seconds, Americans use 60,000 plastic bags and consume 2,000 bottled drinks, an ecological concern on many minds, including thousands of high school juniors and seniors -- 5,809 across 29 states -- who spent last weekend devising methods to quantify and manage this waste. The impetus for this high-minded task is Moody's Mega Math Challenge, an Internet-based applied math contest organized by the Pennsylvania-based Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
karthika@siam.org
267-350-6383
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Cosmic candles shine a light on the size of the universe
For a hundred years, astronomers have been trying to pin down the exact distance to one of our nearest neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Measuring distances in the vast Universe is very tricky business: we can't travel with a measuring tape, and our rulers would have to be very long! However, astronomers have come up with some very clever tricks for measuring distances, using just light from a pairs of stars orbiting each other!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Free insect fair in Lancaster, Pa., on St. Patrick's Day
Thousands of insects and a swarm of entomologists will converge on Lancaster for the 84th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America's Eastern Branch. The meeting will include a free public program for kids and parents called "It's a Bug's World." This event will be held on Sunday, March 17 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Eden Resorts.
Contact: Faith Kuehn
Faith.Kuehn@state.de.us
302-698-4587
Entomological Society of America
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For more food, we need wild bees
Wild insects pollinate food crops more effectively than managed honeybees, a new study appearing online in Science Express reports.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Congratulations, it's a ... planet!?
When a woman is pregnant, she's has to go for an ultrasound, where doctors look into her womb to check on the baby growing inside. Astronomers recently performed similar observations on a nearby star -- by accident! While looking into the gassy disk surrounding the star, they were surprised to see a baby planet growing inside! For the first time a planet has been seen at such an early stage of its life!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Future leaders showcase work in Science and Engineering Fair
Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students will present science and engineering research projects at the 54th Annual Science Engineering Fair of Houston Friday, March 1, at the George R. Brown Convention Center. As a lead sponsor, the University of Houston will host the fair's award ceremonies from noon to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2. Retired NASA astronaut Bonnie Dunbar will speak at the ceremonies, which are free and open to the public.
Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston
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There's something fishy about this picture
ESO have snapped a breath-taking infrared photo of the so-called "Lobster Nebula" during an enormous survey that is being done by a telescope called VISTA. The survey will map the shape of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and help us discover how it formed.
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Watching tiny particles in a Finland forest
All over the world, tiny airborne particles from volcanoes, dust, pollution and other sources float around in the atmosphere. New field studies in a boreal forest in Hyytiälä, Finland, and laboratory experiments reveal how these tiny particles, called atmospheric aerosols, are formed from gas molecules, a new study appearing in the journal Science reports.
Contact: Science Press Package Team
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Does melting ice in the Arctic mean more algae?
Last year, Arctic sea ice fell to its lowest levels ever recorded. During that time, when the ice was the thinnest it had been in decades, scientists aboard the research vessel Polarstern found large amounts of an algae, known as Melosira arctica, growing under it.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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NJIT sophomore gets invite from White House to attend tech summit
Jinisha Patel, of Springfield, a sophomore at the College of Computing Sciences at NJIT, recently attended a White House technology summit. Patel numbered among 12 college students chosen to attend by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, a group Patel has worked with since high school.
Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
973-596-3436
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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