15-Jan-2009
Invisibility 'cloak' hides objects from microwaves
Researchers have created an invisibility cloak of sorts, though it looks more like a yellow bathmat than Harry Potter's famous cloth.

Contact: SciPak
scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science

15-Jan-2009
The young crusaders
Honey bees are in trouble. A six-year-old girl from Phoenix and an 11-year-old girl from Wilmington, Del. are doing what they can to save the honey bees.

Contact: Kathy Keatley Garvey
kegarvey@ucdavis.edu
530-754-6894
University of California - Davis

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Public Release: 15-Jan-2009
College Mathematics Journal
High school students' paper published in prestigious college math journal
A paper written by four students from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey, entitled "Ethanol: Not all it seems to be" has been published in the Jan. 2009 issue of the Mathematical Association of America's College Mathematics Journal.

Contact: Jessica Stephenson
stephenson@siam.org
215-382-9800 x383
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Public Release: 6-Jan-2009
Zitteliana
Four, three, two, one . . . pterosaurs have lift off
Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly -- and wrongly -- lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike in many ways, such as using only two legs to take flight.
Jurassic Foundation

Contact: Maryalice Yakutchik
myakutc1@jhmi.edu
443-287-2251
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

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