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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Breaking News - Experts Needed, August 2014
Give the media access to your experts on what’s happening in the world.
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Monday, January 20, 2014
Social and traditional media success with Newswise
A news release from Columbia University went viral late last week, resulting in over 70,000 hits on the release, and nearly two dozen media clips by mid-day Monday.
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Scientists Make A Mini Mona Lisa 30 Microns Wide
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have “painted” the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width – or one-third the width of a human hair. The team’s creation, the “Mini Lisa,” demonstrates a technique that could potentially be used to achieve nanomanufacturing of devices because the team was able to vary the surface concentration of molecules on such short-length scales.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Hunt for Distant Planets Intensifies
Armed with new tools, University of Chicago astronomers search for worlds like Earth.
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Placental Mammal Diversity Exploded After Age of Dinosaurs
Scientists build new tree of life for placentals using ‘phylophenomics,’ visualize common ancestor.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Scientists Help Explain Scarcity of Anti-Matter
A collaboration with major participation by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, anti-matter.
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Thursday, December 06, 2012
Dispersant Used to Clean Up 2010 BP Oil Spill Made Oil 52-times More Toxic
If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse – 52-times more toxic. That’s according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Oldest Spear Points Date to 500,000 Years
A collaborative study involving researchers at Arizona State University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cape Town found that human ancestors were making stone-tipped weapons 500,000 years ago at the South African archaeological site of Kathu Pan 1 – 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. This study, “Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology,” is published in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Science.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
New Tool for CSI? Geographic Software Maps Distinctive Features Inside Bones
A common type of geographic mapping software offers a new way to study human remains
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