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| News From the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) — For more information about NSF and its programs, visit www.nsf.gov NSF Press Releases
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Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} Artificial retina receives FDA approval The US Food and Drug Administration granted market approval to an artificial retina technology today, the first bionic eye to be approved for patients in the United States. The prosthetic technology was developed in part with support from the National Science Foundation. Contact: Joshua A. Chamot
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
 Current Biology{DISSERTATION} Animal magnetism: First evidence that magnetism helps salmon find home When migrating, sockeye salmon typically swim up to 4,000 miles into the ocean and then, years later, navigate back to the upstream reaches of the rivers in which they were born to spawn their young. Scientists, the fishing community and lay people have long wondered how salmon find their way to their home rivers over such epic distances. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lily Whiteman
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} Antarctic ice core contains unrivaled detail of past climate A team of US ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation, have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past climate and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that extends back 68,000 years. Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} President Obama awards nation's top scientists and innovators highest honor President Obama today awarded 12 eminent researchers the National Medal of Science and 11 extraordinary inventors the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the US government upon scientists, engineers and inventors. Contact: Lisa-Joy Zgorski
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} Academic institutions added more science and engineering research space in last several years Science and Engineering research space at the nation's research-performing colleges and universities increased 3.5 percent from fiscal year 2009 to FY 2011, growing to 202.9 million net assignable square feet, according to recent data from the National Science Foundation's Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities. Contact: Deborah Wing
Public Release: 31-Jan-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Mutant gene responsible for pigeons' head crests Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon, unlocking secrets about pigeons' Middle East origins, feral pigeons' kinship with escaped racing birds and how mutations give pigeons traits like feather head crests.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 31-Jan-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Winners of 10th annual International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge announced The National Science Foundation, along with the journal Science, today announces the 53 winners and honorable mentions of the International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge, a highly competitive contest jointly sponsored by NSF and Science. Science magazine is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Bobbie Mixon
Public Release: 29-Jan-2013
{DISSERTATION} US, New Zealand search-and-rescue teams recalled from Antarctic plane crash site Officials with the U.S. Antarctic Program and Antarctica New Zealand have jointly decided to recall search-and-rescue teams from the site of an Antarctic aircraft crash after examination of the plane indicated that it would be unsafe at this point to further disturb the wreckage that is largely embedded in snow and ice on a steep mountain slope. Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 29-Jan-2013
{DISSERTATION} NSF-funded team samples Antarctic lake beneath the ice sheet In a first-of-its-kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples that have been isolated from direct contact with the atmosphere for many thousands of years. Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 25-Jan-2013
{DISSERTATION} Switzerland is latest to partner with NSF through GROW National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh and Swiss State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation Mauro Dell'Ambrogio announced today a new research partnership with Switzerland through Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide. Contact: Maria C. Zacharias
Public Release: 25-Jan-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} Analysis of Greenland ice cores adds to historical record and provide glimpse into climate's future A new study that provides surprising details on changes in Earth's climate from more than 100,000 years ago indicates that the last interglacial -- the period between "ice ages" -- was warmer than previously thought and may be a good analog for future climate, as greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere and global temperatures rise.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 24-Jan-2013
{DISSERTATION} NSF cooperating with Italy, New Zealand in search for downed plane in Antarctica Officials with the US Antarctic Program are cooperating with their Italian and New Zealand counterparts, as well as the Rescue Coordination Centre in Wellington, NZ, in a search-and-rescue effort to locate a propeller-driven aircraft that is believed to have crashed in a remote and mountainous part of Antarctica. Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 23-Jan-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} Magma in Earth's mantle forms deeper than once thought Magma forms far deeper than geologists previously thought, according to new research results. A team led by geologist Rajdeep Dasgupta of Rice University put very small samples of peridotite, rock derived from Earth's mantle, under high pressures in a laboratory.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 23-Jan-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} Marginal lands are prime fuel source for alternative energy Marginal lands--those unsuited for food crops--can serve as prime real estate for meeting the nation's alternative energy production goals. In the current issue of the journal Nature, scientists at Michigan State University and other institutions show that marginal lands are a huge untapped resource for growing mixed-species cellulosic biomass.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 23-Jan-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Global plant diversity hinges on local battles against invasive species In Missouri forests, dense thickets of invasive honeysuckle decrease the light available to other plants, hog the attention of pollinators and offer nutrient-stingy berries to migrating birds.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 22-Jan-2013
{DISSERTATION} Federal budget authority for R&D declined in fiscal years 2011-12 Federal budget authority for research and development (R&D) and R&D Plant (R&D facilities and fixed equipment) declined in fiscal years 2011 and 2012, mostly due to a drop in defense-related R&D, according to a recent report from the National Science Foundation. Contact: Deborah Wing
Public Release: 17-Jan-2013
{DISSERTATION} NSF Supports GlobalNSF supports global research to advance science and engineering for sustainability The National Science Foundation today announced the 12 projects funded in a fourth round of Partnerships for International Research and Education awards. Many of these projects engage scientists in research to develop clean, safe, reliable, affordable energy alternatives, as the need for solutions challenges societies across the globe. Contact: Lisa-Joy Zgorski
Public Release: 3-Jan-2013
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are warming twice as fast as previously thought A new study funded by the National Science Foundation finds that the western part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 20-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} Trio of complex antarctic science projects reach significant technological milestones 'on the ice' A trio of very large-scale, National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic science projects--investigating scientifically significant subjects as varied as life in extreme ecosystems, the fate of one of the world's largest ice sheets and the nature of abrupt global climate-change events--have recently each reached important technological milestones that will advance cutting-edge research.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter West
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