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Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Minority students earned greater number of academic degrees in fiscal year 2006 A new National Science Foundation report shows an increase in the number of academic degrees awarded to minority students since 2004, the last time such data were published. Contact: Bobbie Mixon
Public Release: 30-Oct-2009
 Science{DISSERTATION} 'Technology' plays large role in wealth inheritance A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies. A team of 26 anthropologists, statisticians and economists based at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico amassed an unprecedented data set allowing 43 estimates of a family's wealth inheritance and found that financial inequality among populations largely depends on the "technologies" that produce a people's livelihood. Contact: Bobbie Mixon
Public Release: 27-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} 'The Music Instinct' wins international recognition "The Music Instinct: Science and Song," is a television documentary that brings together researchers and musicians to investigate the biological, emotional and psychological impact of music. Elena Mannes and Margaret Smilow, director and producer, of the two-hour documentary -- developed with major funding from the National Science Foundation -- were awarded the Grand Prix at Pariscience 2009, an international science film festival. Contact: Maria C. Zacharias
Public Release: 23-Oct-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Seeing previously invisible molecules for the first time A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows researchers to identify previously unseen molecules in living organisms and offers broad applications in biomedical imaging and research. Contact: Jennifer A. Grasswick
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Diverting sediment-rich water below New Orleans could lead to extensive new land Diverting sediment-rich water from the Mississippi River below New Orleans could generate new land in the river's delta in the next century. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 14-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} National Science Foundation awards grants for studies of coupled natural and human systems How do humans and their environment interact, and how can we use knowledge of these links to adapt to a planet undergoing radical climate and other environmental changes? Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 14-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} National Science Foundation congratulates Nobel Laureates in medicine/physiology, chemistry and economics The National Science Foundation congratulates the 2009 Nobel laureates, particularly those who have received NSF funding over the years: Jack W. Szostak, who shared the prize in physiology or medicine; Thomas A. Steitz, who shared the prize in chemistry; and Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson who earned the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2009. Contact: Lisa-Joy Zgorski
Public Release: 12-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Self-sacrifice among strangers has more to do with nurture than nature Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to those who contribute to food banks. Contact: Maria C. Zacharias
Public Release: 6-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Expeditions in computing continue to break new ground Energy-efficient computers optimally designed for custom applications. New tools to make air travel safer and health-care interventions more effective. Robotic "bees" that lend a helping hand in search and rescue operations. 
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Contact: Dana W. Cruikshank
Public Release: 6-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Ancient China's sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon rains The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia. But the sandy dunefields that mark the desert margin between greener pastures to the south and the Gobi Desert to the north are a rich source of information about past climates in Asia, says University of Wisconsin-Madison geographer Joseph Mason. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 6-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Climate change triggered dwarfism in soil-dwelling creatures of the past Ancient soil-inhabiting creatures decreased in body size by nearly half in response to a period of boosted carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures, scientists have discovered. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} For future superconductors, a little bit of lithium may do hydrogen a lot of good Scientists have a long and unsuccessful history of attempting to convert hydrogen to a metal by squeezing it under incredibly high and steady pressures. Contact: Jennifer A. Grasswick
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Homebound termites answer 150-year-old evolution question Staying at home may have given the very first termite youngsters the best opportunity to rule the colony when their parents were killed by their neighbors. This is according to new research supported by the National Science Foundation and published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Contact: Bobbie Mixon
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Buried coins key to Roman population mystery? University of Connecticut theoretical biologist Peter Turchin and Stanford University ancient historian Walter Scheidel recently developed a new method to estimate population trends in ancient Rome and waded into an intense, ongoing debate about whether the state's population increased or declined after the first century B.C. Contact: Bobbie Mixon
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} A new look beneath the waves: Ocean Observatories Initiative gets underway Giving scientists never-before-seen views of the world's oceans, the National Science Foundation and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership have signed a Cooperative Agreement that supports the construction and initial operation of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Federal government's share of university R&D funding drops to 60 percent In fiscal year 2008, universities reported science and engineering research and development expenditures of $51.9 billion, according to a new report released by the National Science Foundation. Contact: Bobbie Mixon
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Buried coins may hold key to solving mystery of ancient Roman population In an article published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Connecticut theoretical biologist Peter Turchin and Stanford University ancient historian Walter Scheidel attempt to solve the mystery surrounding ancient Rome's population by focusing on the region's prevalence of coin hoards, those bundles of buried treasure that people hid to protect their savings during times of violence and political strife.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Bobbie Mixon
Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} East African cichlid fish offer new understanding of genetic basis of sex determination Biologists have genetically mapped the sex chromosomes of several species of cichlid fish from Lake Malawi, East Africa, and identified a mechanism by which new sex chromosomes may evolve. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Living, meandering river constructed In a feat of reverse-engineering, Christian Braudrick of University of California at Berkeley and three coauthors have successfully built and maintained a scale model of a living meandering gravel-bed river in the lab. Their findings point to the importance of vegetation to reinforce the banks and, surprisingly, to the importance of sand in healthy meandering river life. Contact: Dana W. Cruikshank
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} North meets south? Glaciers move together in far-flung regions Results of a new study add evidence that climate swings in the northern hemisphere over the past 12,000 years have been tightly linked to changes in the tropics. The findings, published this week in the journal Science, suggest that a prolonged cold spell that caused glaciers in Europe and North America to creep forward several hundred years ago may have affected climate patterns as far south as Peru, causing tropical glaciers there to expand, too. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 18-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} President honors nation's top scientists and innovators President Obama named nine researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science, and four inventors and one company as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. The recipients will receive their awards on Oct. 7 at a White House ceremony. Contact: Lisa-Joy Zgorski
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Invasive species on the march: variable rates of spread set current limits to predictability Whether for introduced muskrats in Europe or oak trees in the United Kingdom, zebra mussels in United States lakes or agricultural pests around the world, scientists have tried to find new ways of controlling invasive species by learning how these animals and plants take over in new environs. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 3-Sep-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} The Arctic offers more evidence of human influences on climate change A new study indicates that Arctic temperatures suddenly increased during the last 50 years of the period from 1 AD to the year 2000. Because this warming occurred abruptly during the 20th century while atmospheric greenhouse gases were accumulating, these findings provide additional evidence that humans are influencing climate. Contact: Dana Cruikshank
Public Release: 2-Sep-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Secrets of the 4 chambers revealed by reptile hearts The first genetic link in the evolution of the heart from three-chambered to four-chambered has been found, illuminating part of the puzzle of how birds and mammals became warm-blooded.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lily Whiteman
Public Release: 2-Sep-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Dead ahead: Similar early warning signals of change in climate What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth's climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures have in common? According to a paper published this week in the journal Nature, all share generic early warning signals that indicate a critical threshold of change dead ahead. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
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