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AGU journal highlights - July 2, 2009
2 Jul 2009
1. Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused decade of severe winters Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may...
2 Jul 2009
1. Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused decade of severe winters Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may...
American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 24, 2009
29 Jun 2009
News Items in This Edition: Potential new drugs: 970 million and still counting Successful initial safety tests for genetically-modified rice that fights allergy Brittle table salt can stretch like taffy in the nanoworld Once-a-month...
29 Jun 2009
News Items in This Edition: Potential new drugs: 970 million and still counting Successful initial safety tests for genetically-modified rice that fights allergy Brittle table salt can stretch like taffy in the nanoworld Once-a-month...
NSF provides $3.4 million to study climatically important Agulhas Current
29 Jun 2009
Three-years of in situ measurements, combined with along-track satellite data to create long-term index of Agulhas Current transport IMAGE: Dr. Lisa Beal of the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine...
29 Jun 2009
Three-years of in situ measurements, combined with along-track satellite data to create long-term index of Agulhas Current transport IMAGE: Dr. Lisa Beal of the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine...
'Genetic arms race' between bacteria, viruses subject of stimulus grant
2 Jul 2009
Cyanobacteria will be focus of research project IMAGE: Michigan State University researcher Jay Lennon will work with researchers in Tennessee to probe the interplay between cyanobacteria and viruses. Click...
2 Jul 2009
Cyanobacteria will be focus of research project IMAGE: Michigan State University researcher Jay Lennon will work with researchers in Tennessee to probe the interplay between cyanobacteria and viruses. Click...
AGU journal highlights -- July 2, 2009
2 Jul 2009
1. Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused decade of severe winters Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may...
2 Jul 2009
1. Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused decade of severe winters Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may...
Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms
2 Jul 2009
NEW YORK, July 1, 2009 – Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise. Today, at the annual...
2 Jul 2009
NEW YORK, July 1, 2009 – Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise. Today, at the annual...
July 2009 Geology and GSA Today Media Highlights
30 Jun 2009
Boulder, CO, USA - GEOLOGY articles extract information on forces shaping Earth's surface, solve the puzzle of LIPs on land, trace the leading edges of dispersing continents, expose magmatic plumbing, argue over gold deposits, show how fungi...
30 Jun 2009
Boulder, CO, USA - GEOLOGY articles extract information on forces shaping Earth's surface, solve the puzzle of LIPs on land, trace the leading edges of dispersing continents, expose magmatic plumbing, argue over gold deposits, show how fungi...
Dino tooth sheds new light on ancient riddle
29 Jun 2009
Scientists discover major group of dinosaurs had unique way of eating unlike anything alive today IMAGE: These are teeth from the lower jaw of a hadrosaur, Edmontosaurus, showing its multiple rows of leaf-shaped...
29 Jun 2009
Scientists discover major group of dinosaurs had unique way of eating unlike anything alive today IMAGE: These are teeth from the lower jaw of a hadrosaur, Edmontosaurus, showing its multiple rows of leaf-shaped...
All in sight
2 Jul 2009
The Alfred Wegener Institute tests infrared system for the protection of whales IMAGE: The FIRST Navy thermal imager is installed in Polarstern’s crow’s nest at a height of about 28 m above water on...
2 Jul 2009
The Alfred Wegener Institute tests infrared system for the protection of whales IMAGE: The FIRST Navy thermal imager is installed in Polarstern’s crow’s nest at a height of about 28 m above water on...
New treatment for receding gums: No pain, lots of gain
1 Jul 2009
Tufts dental researchers show tissue regeneration application maintained after three years BOSTON (July 1, 2009, 7 a.m. ET) — Tufts dental researchers conducted a three-year follow-up study that examined the stability of a treatment...
1 Jul 2009
Tufts dental researchers show tissue regeneration application maintained after three years BOSTON (July 1, 2009, 7 a.m. ET) — Tufts dental researchers conducted a three-year follow-up study that examined the stability of a treatment...
A question of height
2 Jul 2009
What Europe can learn from the successful reintroduction of a once extinct butterfly in Britain IMAGE: This is a photo of a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion). Click here for more...
2 Jul 2009
What Europe can learn from the successful reintroduction of a once extinct butterfly in Britain IMAGE: This is a photo of a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion). Click here for more...
International team of students and scientists on month-long field course in Siberian Arctic
1 Jul 2009
Scientists and undergraduate students from across the United States and Russia are departing July 2 for a month-long field course in the Russian Arctic. The program, known as The Polaris Project, is training future leaders in arctic research...
1 Jul 2009
Scientists and undergraduate students from across the United States and Russia are departing July 2 for a month-long field course in the Russian Arctic. The program, known as The Polaris Project, is training future leaders in arctic research...
New focus on the moon
2 Jul 2009
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera releases its first images of the moon IMAGE: This Locator Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera's Narrow Angle Camera image shows the position of the first two images. This...
2 Jul 2009
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera releases its first images of the moon IMAGE: This Locator Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera's Narrow Angle Camera image shows the position of the first two images. This...
71 projects fill DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 pipeline
29 Jun 2009
IMAGE: The desert locust can eat the equivalent of its body mass in a day, but it's unclear whether the insect or the microbes in its gut are breaking down the... Click here for more...
29 Jun 2009
IMAGE: The desert locust can eat the equivalent of its body mass in a day, but it's unclear whether the insect or the microbes in its gut are breaking down the... Click here for more...
Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this Independence Day
2 Jul 2009
$350K in stimulus funding to greatly expand reef restoration efforts in Florida, US Virgin Islands IMAGE: University of Miami scientist Dr. Diego Lirman makes sure new staghorn coral fragments are safely...
2 Jul 2009
$350K in stimulus funding to greatly expand reef restoration efforts in Florida, US Virgin Islands IMAGE: University of Miami scientist Dr. Diego Lirman makes sure new staghorn coral fragments are safely...
Top food scientist to target hidden fish allergens, pork, with new tests
29 Jun 2009
IMAGE: Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh is a professor of food science in the department of nutrition, food and exercise sciences at the Florida State University College of Human Sciences. Click here for more...
29 Jun 2009
IMAGE: Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh is a professor of food science in the department of nutrition, food and exercise sciences at the Florida State University College of Human Sciences. Click here for more...
Can a new implant coating technique create a new six million dollar man?
29 Jun 2009
Tel Aviv University develops superior method for coating orthopaedic and dental implants IMAGE: This is an image of electrochemically-deposited crystals from a scanning electron microscope. Click here for more...
29 Jun 2009
Tel Aviv University develops superior method for coating orthopaedic and dental implants IMAGE: This is an image of electrochemically-deposited crystals from a scanning electron microscope. Click here for more...
Nanotechnology may increase longevity of dental fillings
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: Dr. Franklin Tay, associate professor of endodontics in the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry, is studying a new nanotechnology technique to extend the longevity of tooth-colored...
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: Dr. Franklin Tay, associate professor of endodontics in the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry, is studying a new nanotechnology technique to extend the longevity of tooth-colored...
Dynasty: Influenza virus in 1918 and today
29 Jun 2009
IMAGE: Red arrows indicate human influenza virus lineages, black arrows swine influenza virus lineages, and gray arrows exportation of one or more genes from the avian influenza A virus gene pool.... Click...
29 Jun 2009
IMAGE: Red arrows indicate human influenza virus lineages, black arrows swine influenza virus lineages, and gray arrows exportation of one or more genes from the avian influenza A virus gene pool.... Click...
NIST issues human milk and blood serum SRMs for contaminant measurements
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: The new NIST Standard Reference Materials for organic contaminants in human body fluids reflect changes in contaminant levels since the last materials were issued in 2000 -- levels of PCBs,... Click...
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: The new NIST Standard Reference Materials for organic contaminants in human body fluids reflect changes in contaminant levels since the last materials were issued in 2000 -- levels of PCBs,... Click...
Rotator cuff treatment provides immediate tendonitis relief
30 Jun 2009
OAK BROOK, Ill. – A minimally invasive procedure to treat tendonitis in the rotator cuff of the shoulder provides immediate symptom relief to the patient, according to a study published in the July issue of Radiology. The study found...
30 Jun 2009
OAK BROOK, Ill. – A minimally invasive procedure to treat tendonitis in the rotator cuff of the shoulder provides immediate symptom relief to the patient, according to a study published in the July issue of Radiology. The study found...
News media registration open for 49th ICAAC, Sept. 12-15, 2009, San Francisco
1 Jul 2009
News media registration for the annual infectious disease meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is now open. The 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) will be held September 12-15, 2009...
1 Jul 2009
News media registration for the annual infectious disease meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is now open. The 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) will be held September 12-15, 2009...
Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: The band of heavy precipitation indicates the intertropical convergence zone. The new findings are based on sediment cores from lakes and lagoons on Palau, Washington, Christmas and Galapagos...
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: The band of heavy precipitation indicates the intertropical convergence zone. The new findings are based on sediment cores from lakes and lagoons on Palau, Washington, Christmas and Galapagos...
Unexpectedly long-range effects in advanced magnetic devices
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: NIST MOIF (Magneto-optic imaging film) technique is unique in being able to image magnetic domains in real time while they are forming, growing and disappearing. Bright and dark regions...
1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: NIST MOIF (Magneto-optic imaging film) technique is unique in being able to image magnetic domains in real time while they are forming, growing and disappearing. Bright and dark regions...
University of Leicester researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles
30 Jun 2009
Research may ultimately track the uptake of drugs by the body's cells IMAGE: This is a suspension of nanoparticles in a quarz-glass cell exposed to ultra violet light. Click here for more...
30 Jun 2009
Research may ultimately track the uptake of drugs by the body's cells IMAGE: This is a suspension of nanoparticles in a quarz-glass cell exposed to ultra violet light. Click here for more...
Little-known marine decomposers attract the attention of genome sequencers
29 Jun 2009
Joint Genome Institute to sequence the genomes of 4 species of labyrinthulomycetes IMAGE: Labyrinthulomycetes from Peconic Bay are shown growing on pollen grains. Click here for more...
29 Jun 2009
Joint Genome Institute to sequence the genomes of 4 species of labyrinthulomycetes IMAGE: Labyrinthulomycetes from Peconic Bay are shown growing on pollen grains. Click here for more...
Professor honored with prestigious award for work in computational mathematics
30 Jun 2009
EPFL's Assyr Abdulle to receive prize in numerical analysis and scientific computing Professor Assyr Abdulle, of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be honored with the James H. Wilkinson...
30 Jun 2009
EPFL's Assyr Abdulle to receive prize in numerical analysis and scientific computing Professor Assyr Abdulle, of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be honored with the James H. Wilkinson...
Researchers survey Mid-Atlantic ridge looking for new life forms, clues to deep-sea communities
30 Jun 2009
An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea food webs. The project is part of a 16-nation...
30 Jun 2009
An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea food webs. The project is part of a 16-nation...
First riser-drilling research operations undertaken
29 Jun 2009
Riser drilling starts as part of Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment Approximately 58 km southeast of Shingu City, Japan--Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the...
29 Jun 2009
Riser drilling starts as part of Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment Approximately 58 km southeast of Shingu City, Japan--Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the...
Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly
30 Jun 2009
IMAGE: This is an image from the video game BOOM BLOX, which the North Carolina State University researchers will be using as part of their study. Click here for more...
30 Jun 2009
IMAGE: This is an image from the video game BOOM BLOX, which the North Carolina State University researchers will be using as part of their study. Click here for more...
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