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FOR KIDS: Flagging loose bolts
“Smart alert washer” automatically flags when a nut is coming loose, warning of potential danger
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ESA Policy News May 17
Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Science Policy Analyst Terence Houston. Read the full Policy News here. NSF: FORMER DIRECTORS EXPRESS CONCERN WITH DRAFT PEER REVIEW BILL On May 8, six former officials who headed the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Science Board during the Clinton and George W. [...]
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News in Brief: Analog circuits boost power in living computers
New cell-based computers do division and logarithms the old-fashioned way
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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water.
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This Week in Science
Surprise Attack | Fracturing Hydrology? | Fabricating Quartz | Falling Out | Stress Inside Out | ATAXIN Clock | Melting Away | Nuclear Actin in Action | Confined Helium | Modules of Desire | EZ Inhibition | Signal Scaffolds | Cheap Pix
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Editors' Choice
Geophysics: Hawaii's Deep Plumbing System | Economics: A Look at the Data | Pathogens: The End of Antiquity | Chemistry: UN Coaxed to Neutrality | Chemistry: Shepherding Stem Cells | Physics: Spin Thermometers | Developmental Biology: Putting on the Brakes
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Findings
New Fossils Provide Earliest Glimpse of Ape Origins | U.S. East Coast Not So Passive
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[News of the Week] Around the World
In science news around the world, the U.S. Supreme Court backed the agribusiness firm Monsanto on its soybean patents; the Institut Pasteur has denied accusations by a government watchdog that it misleads research donors; and a director at Charité University Hospital is preparing to examine how Cold War patients were informed, how consent was handled, and how doctors dealt with side effects; and more.
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[News of the Week] Random Sample
Last week, the National Science Foundation announced the winners of the unique Graduate 10K+ initiative addressing President Barack Obama’s call for U.S. high-tech companies to help train 1 million more STEM graduates by 2020. And according to a new study, the key to environmentally friendly sources of protein may be one that makes many Westerners squirm: edible insects.
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[News of the Week] Newsmakers
R. Graham Cooks, a chemist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has been awarded the 2013 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. And biochemist Christian de Duve, who helped reveal the internal organization and operation of cells, died on 4 May.
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[News & Analysis] Biomedicine: Human Stem Cells From Cloning, Finally
This time it looks like it's for real: Researchers have made personalized human embryonic stem cells with a method similar to how Dolly the sheep was cloned—though with an added jolt of caffeine.
Author: Gretchen Vogel
Author: Gretchen Vogel
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[News & Analysis] Influenza: Synthetic Vaccine Strain May Speed Up Pandemic Response
Researchers publish technique that could shave up to 4 weeks off vaccine production time, which during a pandemic could save tens of thousands of lives.
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
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[News & Analysis] Glaciology: Melting Glaciers, Not Just Ice Sheets, Stoking Sea-Level Rise
A new study says that although field measurements were painting an accurate picture of the few glaciers being monitored, they were not representative of the world's glaciers.
Author: Richard A. Kerr
Author: Richard A. Kerr
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[News & Analysis] Human Evolution: More Genomes From Denisova Cave Show Mixing of Early Human Groups
Analyses of three fossil samples using a powerful new method paint a complex picture of mingling among different ancient human groups.
Author: Elizabeth Pennisi
Author: Elizabeth Pennisi
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[News & Analysis] U.S. Science Policy: Lawmakers Await NSF's Response to Query About Grants
NSF officials must weigh factors such as the preservation of reviewer confidentiality in responding to Representative Lamar Smith's request for the agency to justify five recent research grants.
Author: Jeffrey Mervis
Author: Jeffrey Mervis
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[News Focus] Troubled Waters for Ancient Shipwrecks
As archaeologists find new ways to pull precious data from wrecks, they are squaring off against those salvaging ships for profit.
Author: Heather Pringle
Author: Heather Pringle
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[News Focus] From Quarry to Temple
Two thousand years after the Kizilburun shipwreck, excavating archaeologists have figured out exactly where it came from, where it was headed, and why.
Author: Helen Pickersgill
Author: Helen Pickersgill
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[News Focus] Food Science: Following the Flavor
Scientists are beginning to unravel why we love some types of food and hate others. It's a vastly more complex topic than they once thought.
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
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