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Making tiny complex controlled shapes
A new study in the May 17 issue of Science reveals how to make minerals assemble themselves into complex but controlled architectures.
Contact: Science Press Package Team
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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The universe is a cool place!
The universe is a pretty cool place. If you hopped on a tour bus for a complete tour of the cosmos, it would take you past a number of "hot" attractions, like the sun, monster black holes and billions of shining stars. But mostly, space is incredibly cold. Like the object in this picture, it might look like a ribbon of hot fire stretching through space, but this is actually a cold cloud of gas and dust, just -250 °C!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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Half of national Microsoft video game design finalists from UH
Two teams from the University of Houston are among the 10 finalists chosen from among thousands of America's brightest young computer science students to reach the final round of the US Imagine Cup in Silicon Valley. They will vie for cash prizes and a spot to represent the U.S. at the Worldwide Finals in Russia. For the fourth consecutive year, UH is the only school to have more than one team in the gaming category.
Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston
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New American Chemical Society video: Keeping tabs on global air pollution from space
What flies around the world 14 times a day and can detect global air pollution levels from space? It's the Aura satellite, the star of the latest ChemMatters video from the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The video is available at http://www.BytesizeScience.com.
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-6042
American Chemical Society
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Astronomers vs. Kids available now
EU-UNAWE is delighted to announce the release of a brand new educational tool: Astronomers vs. Kids! The two new videos have been created specifically for use by educators, to help introduce the hottest topics in astronomy to the classroom, answer the most fundamental questions about the universe and incite a passion for astronomy in curious young students.
Contact: Pedro Russo
russo@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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The secret lives of bubbles
A froth of soap suds, a handful of shaving cream or the mass of bubbles that sits on top of a freshly poured soda -- all of these things are foams or foam-like materials. They all have complex dynamics too, since the individual bubbles that make them up are constantly growing, popping and shape-shifting.
Contact: Science Press Package
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Rising from ashes
Like the legendary phoenix, a number of Earth-like planets have been spotted rising from the ashes of a pair of burnt-out stars, many light years from our solar system. Observations show that these planets probably get their rocky material from nearby asteroids which were torn apart by the stars' strong gravitational fields! The pulverized material would have been pulled into a ring shape surrounding the retired stars and within this disc, brand new planets formed!
Contact: Sarah Eve Roberts
roberts@strw.leidenuniv.nl
31-715-278-419
Leiden University
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With heart cells, middle schoolers learn the hard lessons of science
The drug trial is not off to an auspicious start. The cells are not cooperating. "My control is a beater, but right now my other ones are not," observes Morgridge Outreach Experiences assistant coordinator Irene Landrum as she works under a lab hood manipulating plates of cardiomyocytes, the workhorse cells of the human heart. "Let's get these guys warmed up. If they're too cold, they can stop beating."
Contact: Jeffrey Steele
jdsteele@madison.k12.wi.us
608-442-2973
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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I can see your halo
The universe is enormous and full of empty space. Yet somehow, despite all this empty space, galaxies crashing into each other is a fairly common sight. One such collision has been caught in this cosmic picture; which shows the enormous cloud of hot gas surrounding two large colliding galaxies called NGC 6240.
Contact: Megan Watzke
mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu
617-496-7998
Chandra X-ray Center
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Robotic flies take to the skies
The common house-fly is one of nature's most agile fliers, capable of dodging flyswatters and carefully landing on flowers that are blowing in the wind. Now, researchers have designed a small, flying robot -- about the size of a house-fly -- that can execute the same tricky maneuvers.
Contact: Science Press Package Team
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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