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Tangled Up in Fishing Gear
Using a “patient monitoring” device attached to a whale entangled in fishing gear, scientists showed for the first time how fishing lines changed a whale’s diving and swimming behavior. The monitoring...

Contact: Media Relations Office
media@whoi.edu
508-289-3340
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

NOAA's GOES-13 Satellite Shows the Movement of Storm System
This animation of imagery from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the movement of storm systems in the south central United States on May 20, 2013. Warm, moist gulf air flowing across Texas, Oklahoma, ...

Contact: Rob Gutro
Robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
443-848-1779
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Class on German Thin-Shell Structures Yields New Exhibit
Princeton professors Sigrid Adriaenssens and Branko Glisic co-taught an undergraduate course on German thin-shell structures that has resulted in a new exhibit, "Evolution of German Shells: Efficiency...

Contact: Teresa Riordan
triordan@princeton.edu
609-258-9754
Princeton University, Engineering School

NASA's IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge

The time draws near. NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere ...

Contact: Susan Hendrix
Susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov
301-286-7745
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Study Finds Vitamin C Can Kill Drug-Resistant TB
Dr. William Jacobs, Jr. has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria in laboratory culture. The paper was published online May 21, 2013, in Nature Communications. Dr...

Contact: Kim Newman
sciencenews@einstein.yu.edu
718-430-3101
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Blotting up Liquid with Microfluidic Fabric
This video shows how threads stitched into the fabric can absorb, channel and collect fluids.

Contact: Andy Fell
ahfell@ucdavis.edu
530-752-4533
University of California - Davis

Development of the Frontal and Temporal Regions during the Last 3 Months
This video shows the development of the frontal and temporal regions of the cerebral cortex in preterm infants during the last three months before the normal time of birth, turning from red to blue as...

Contact: Marianne Slegers
marianne.slegers@kcl.ac.uk
44-020-784-83840
King's College London

Development of the Occipital and Parietal Regions during the Last 3 Months
This video shows the development of the occipital and parietal regions of the cerebral cortex in preterm infants during the last three months before the normal time of birth, turning from red to blue ...

Contact: Marianne Slegers
marianne.slegers@kcl.ac.uk
44-020-784-83840
King's College London

TRMM 3-D View of Mahasen
This animation shows a simulated 3-D analysis of NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite's multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA). It shows rainfall that occurred with ...

Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Allosaurus Animation
This animation shows head and neck movements of the Jurassic predatory dinosaur Allosaurus.

Contact: Andrea Gibson
gibsona@ohio.edu
740-597-2166
Ohio University