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PRESS RELEASES FOR 2011

• PR 11-270 - December 28, 2011
  NSF Awards Logistical Support Contract for U.S. Antarctic Program
  
  
• PR 11-269 - December 22, 2011
  United States Ranks 20th in Holiday Spending
  
  
• PR 11-268 - December 22, 2011
  Badwater Basin: Death Valley Microbe Thrives There
  
  
• PR 11-267 - December 19, 2011
  Facebook Helps Researchers See How Friendships Form
  
  
• PR 11-266 - December 18, 2011
  Journal Piece Reveals New Data-driven Methods for Understanding Climate Change
  
  
• PR 11-265 - December 16, 2011
  NSF Director and Russian Science Minister Sign Historic Agreement for Bilateral Collaboration
  
  
• PR 11-264 - December 15, 2011
  Tool Enables Scientists to Uncover Patterns in Vast Data Sets
  
  
• PR 11-263 - December 15, 2011
  Close Family Ties Keep Microbial Cheaters in Check, Study Finds
  
  
• PR 11-262 - December 14, 2011
  Statement By NSF Office of Polar Programs Director Karl A. Erb
  
  
• PR 11-261 - December 14, 2011
  Supernova Caught in the Act
  
  
• PR 11-260 - December 14, 2011
  South Pole Website Celebrates a Century of Science
  
  
• PR 11-259 - December 12, 2011
  Gallaudet University Opens New Brain and Language Laboratory
  
  
• PR 11-258 - December 9, 2011
  Scientists Assess Radioactivity in the Ocean From Japan Nuclear Power Facility
  
  
• PR 11-257 - December 8, 2011
  Vision Scientists Demonstrate Innovative Learning Method
  
  
• PR 11-256 - December 8, 2011
  Earliest Known Bug-Repellant Plant Bedding Found at South African Rock Shelter
  
  
• PR 11-255 - December 5, 2011
  NSF Joins in Targeting Educators to Celebrate Computer Science Education Week 2011
  
  
• PR 11-254 - December 5, 2011
  Sleeping Giants Discovered
  
  
• PR 11-253 - December 1, 2011
  "Mosaic Report" Outlines Strategies and Priorities for Future Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
  
  
• PR 11-252 - December 1, 2011
  Path to Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere: Long Series of Starts and Stops
  
  
• PR 11-251 - December 1, 2011
  Study of Yellowstone Wolves Improves Ability to Predict Their Responses to Environmental Changes
  
  
• PR 11-250 - November 24, 2011
  Ancient Environment Led to Earth's Current Marine Biodiversity
  
  
• PR 11-249 - November 21, 2011
  New Projection Shows Global Food Demand Doubling by 2050
  
  
• PR 11-248 - November 16, 2011
  Early Breast Cancer Detection Saves Lives
  
  
• PR 11-247 - November 16, 2011
  Antarctica's Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains Mystery Solved
  
  
• PR 11-246 - December 14, 2011
  President Obama Honors Outstanding Science, Math and Engineering Mentors
  
  
• PR 11-245 - November 14, 2011
  The Weather Channel to Air "Changing Planet" Town Hall on the Future of Water
  
  
• PR 11-244 - November 14, 2011
  Evidence Emerges of Ancient Lake in California's Eel River
  
  
• PR 11-243 - November 14, 2011
  Air Pollution a Culprit in Worsening Drought and Flooding
  
  
• PR 11-242 - November 9, 2011
  Pine Island Glacier: A Scientific Quest in Antarctica to Determine What's Causing Ice Loss
  
  
• PR 11-241 - November 9, 2011
  Sound, Digested
  
  
• PR 11-240 - November 9, 2011
  Big, Little, Tall and Tiny: Words That Promote Important Spatial Skills
  
  
• PR 11-239 - November 7, 2011
  The U.S. National Science Foundation and Japan Science and Technology Agency Issue New Joint Awards to Reduce Pesticide Pollution and Promote Biofuel
  
  
• PR 11-238 - November 7, 2011
  Asteroid Approaches Earth on November 8: Discuss It Online With an NSF Astronomer in a Washington Post Chat Session
  
  
• PR 11-237 - November 3, 2011
  One if by Land, Two if by Sea? Climate Change "Escape Routes"
  
  
• PR 11-236 - November 3, 2011
  Bird Song Yields a New Understanding of Cooperation
  
  
• PR 11-235 - November 2, 2011
  Large Ice-Age Mammal Extinctions: Humans and Climate the Culprits
  
  
• PR 11-234 - November 2, 2011
  Link Between Air Pollution and Cyclone Intensity in Arabian Sea
  
  
• PR 11-233 - October 26, 2011
  Diversity of Life on Earth: NSF Awards Grants for Study of Dimensions of Biodiversity
  
  
• PR 11-232 - October 26, 2011
  Earth System Models at Decadal and Regional Scales Critical to Understanding Climate Change Effects
  
  
• PR 11-231 - October 25, 2011
  Long-term Survey Reveals Gen Xers Are Active, Balanced and Happy
  
  
• PR 11-230 - October 24, 2011
  Geoscientists Find Key to Why Some Patients Get Infections from Cardiac Implants
  
  
• PR 11-229 - October 20, 2011
  West Nile Virus Transmission Linked with Land-Use Patterns and "Super-spreaders"
  
  
• PR 11-228 - October 20, 2011
  National Science Foundation Makes First Awards in Sustainability Research Coordination Networks Program
  
  
• PR 11-227 - October 19, 2011
  Improved Living Environments Can Reduce Health Problems for Women and Children
  
  
• PR 11-226 - October 19, 2011
  Manufacturing Goes Viral
  
  
• PR 11-225 - October 19, 2011
  Spiral Arms Hint at the Presence of Planets
  
  
• PR 11-224 - October 18, 2011
  Suggested Explanation for Glowing Seas--Including Currently Glowing California Seas
  
  
• PR 11-223 - October 18, 2011
  Diamonds, Silver and the Quest for Single Photons
  
  
• PR 11-222 - October 18, 2011
  Drop! Cover! Hold On! "ShakeOut" Earthquake Drills to Take Place This Week
  
  
• PR 11-221 - October 17, 2011
  From Tropics to Poles: Study Reveals Diversity of Life in Soils
  
  
• PR 11-220 - October 16, 2011
  U.S. Rivers and Streams Saturated With Carbon
  
  
• PR 11-219 - October 14, 2011
  President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators
  
  
• PR 11-218 - October 13, 2011
  Nano Materials by Design: No Small Breakthrough
  
  
• PR 11-217 - October 11, 2011
  2011 Nobel Prize Winners Announced
  
  
• PR 11-216 - October 6, 2011
  Progress Towards Developing Plants That Accommodate Climate Change
  
  
• PR 11-215 - October 6, 2011
  Crab Pulsar Emits Light at Higher Energies Than Expected
  
  
• PR 11-214 - October 6, 2011
  NSF Innovation Corps Announces First Round of Awardees
  
  
• PR 11-213 - October 5, 2011
  Virtual Institutes to Support the Scientific Collaborations of the Future
  
  
• PR 11-212 - October 3, 2011
  ALMA Opens Its Eyes
  
  
• PR 11-211 - October 3, 2011
  Scientists Identify Microbes Responsible for Consuming Natural Gas in Deepwater Horizon Spill
  
  
• PR 11-210 - September 30, 2011
  NSF Frontiers in Earth-System Dynamics Awards Explore Links Among Earth Processes and Systems
  
  
• PR 11-209 - September 29, 2011
  Twitter Helps Determine "Morning People" and "Night Owls"
  
  
• PR 11-208 - September 28, 2011
  Insights From Biological World to Inspire New Engineering Capabilities
  
  
• PR 11-207 - October 17, 2011
  President Obama Names Top U.S. Early Career Scientists and Engineers
  
  
• PR 11-206 - September 26, 2011
  Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Spill Effects on Fish Revealed
  
  
• PR 11-205 - September 26, 2011
  NSF Launches Science360 Radio for Web, iPhone and Android
  
  
• PR 11-204 - September 26, 2011
  National Convocation Highlights Best Practices for Improving STEM Education
  
  
• PR 11-203 - September 22, 2011
  Stampede Charges Computational Science Forward in Tackling Complex Societal Challenges
  
  
• PR 11-202 - September 22, 2011
  Zebras vs. Cattle: Not So Black-and-White
  
  
• PR 11-201 - September 22, 2011
  Over the Hump: Ecologists Use Power of Network Science to Challenge Long-Held Theory
  
  
• PR 11-200 - September 22, 2011
  Scientists Probe Indian Ocean for Clues to Worldwide Weather Patterns
  
  
• PR 11-199 - September 21, 2011
  New Understanding of How Humans and the Environment Interact
  
  
• PR 11-198 - September 20, 2011
  To Welcome Students & Teachers Back to School, NSF and NBC Learn Add to the "Chemistry Now" Video Series
  
  
• PR 11-197 - September 19, 2011
  On-line Gamers Succeed Where Scientists Fail, Opening Door to New AIDS Drug Design
  
  
• PR 11-196 - September 19, 2011
  Deep Oceans May Mask Global Warming for Years at a Time
  
  
• PR 11-195 - September 16, 2011
  NSF Funds Projects to Expand the Potential of the Administration's Digital Promise Initiative
  
  
• PR 11-194 - September 14, 2011
  Of Mice and Men
  
  
• PR 11-193 - September 14, 2011
  Scorched Earth: The Past, Present and Future of Human Influences on Wildfires
  
  
• PR 11-192 - September 14, 2011
  A Call to Arms for Synthetic Biology
  
  
• PR 11-191 - September 13, 2011
  Investigating the Spread of Infectious Diseases With NSF, NIH, U.K. Funding
  
  
• PR 11-190 - September 13, 2011
  Something Odd Is Happening With Namibia's Weather
  
  
• PR 11-189 - September 13, 2011
  Men Also Wired for Childcare
  
  
• PR 11-188 - September 8, 2011
  Hazards Researchers "Stormed" Capitol Hill
  
  
• PR 11-187 - September 8, 2011
  A Tale of (More Than) Two Butterflies
  
  
• PR 11-186 - September 8, 2011
  NSF Announces Results of the Materials Research Centers and Teams Competition
  
  
• PR 11-185 - September 8, 2011
  Hummingbirds All A-Flutter During Courtship
  
  
• PR 11-184 - September 8, 2011
  From 9/11 to Now: Lessons from the Tragedy
  
  
• PR 11-183 - September 7, 2011
  First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Research Flights
  
  
• PR 11-182 - September 7, 2011
  Evidence for Iron-Rich Ancient Ocean Changes View of Earth's Early History
  
  
• PR 11-181 - September 6, 2011
  Evolution's Past Is Modern Human's Present
  
  
• PR 11-180 - September 6, 2011
  Call for Nominations: 2012 National Science Board Honorary Awards
  
  
• PR 11-179 - September 1, 2011
  Tibetan Plateau: New Cradle of the Ice Age Giants
  
  
• PR 11-178 - September 1, 2011
  Recent Trends Show Recession's Effect on U.S. Advanced Technology Exports
  
  
• PR 11-177 - August 30, 2011
  NSF Selects Wingfield to Head Its Directorate for Biological Sciences
  
  
• PR 11-176 - August 29, 2011
  Testing the Water for Bioenergy Crops
  
  
• PR 11-175 - August 29, 2011
  Hurricane Irene: Scientists Collect Water Quality and Climate Change Data from Huge Storm
  
  
• PR 11-174 - August 29, 2011
  Are New England's Iconic Maples at Risk?
  
  
• PR 11-173 - August 25, 2011
  NSF Signs Agreement to Use Russian Icebreaker for Critical Antarctic Resupply and Refueling Mission
  
  
• PR 11-172 - August 25, 2011
  NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative Streams Live Video of Undersea Volcano
  
  
• PR 11-171 - August 24, 2011
  Fossil Discovery Represents New Milestone in Early Mammal Evolution
  
  
• PR 11-170 - August 22, 2011
  Living on the Edge of Poverty and National Parks
  
  
• PR 11-169 - August 22, 2011
  Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: A Twisted Tale
  
  
• PR 11-168 - August 21, 2011
  Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change Climate Picture
  
  
• PR 11-167 - August 17, 2011
  NSF Launches New Engineering Research Centers with Awards Totaling $74.0 Million
  
  
• PR 11-166 - August 17, 2011
  The Future of Inks, Paints and Coatings Takes Shape
  
  
• PR 11-165 - August 12, 2011
  Ethane Levels Yield Information About Changes in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  
  
• PR 11-164 - August 11, 2011
  New Program Addresses Need to Integrate Geoscience Across Academic Disciplines
  
  
• PR 11-163 - August 11, 2011
  Stick-On Tattoos Go Electric
  
  
• PR 11-162 - August 11, 2011
  Arctic Ice Melt Could Pause in Coming Decades
  
  
• PR 11-161 - August 9, 2011
  Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages
  
  
• PR 11-160 - August 5, 2011
  NSF Grants Foster Understanding of Biological Systems on Regional to Continental Scales
  
  
• PR 11-159 - August 3, 2011
  Six Million Years of African Savanna
  
  
• PR 11-158 - August 2, 2011
  NSF Grant Launches Center for Synthesizing Environmental and Related Research Results
  
  
• PR 11-157 - July 28, 2011
  NSF Awards Construction Funding to National Ecological Observatory Network
  
  
• PR 11-156 - July 28, 2011
  Dissecting Dyslexia: Linking Reading to Voice Recognition
  
  
• PR 11-155 - July 28, 2011
  Largest-Ever Map of Interactions of Plant Proteins Produced
  
  
• PR 11-154 - July 28, 2011
  Study Reveals How Bats Stay on Target Even in Dark, Cluttered Environment
  
  
• PR 11-153 - July 28, 2011
  I-Corps: To Strengthen the Impact of Scientific Discoveries
  
  
• PR 11-152 - July 25, 2011
  XSEDE Project Brings Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Services and Expertise to Nation's Scientists and Engineers
  
  
• PR 11-151 - July 25, 2011
  Aging Brains Are Different in Humans and Chimpanzees
  
  
• PR 11-150 - July 25, 2011
  Engineering Innovation Center Brings Together Tools to Launch Future Entrepreneurs
  
  
• PR 11-149 - July 21, 2011
  The Weather Channel to Air "Changing Planet" Town Hall Meeting July 26th at 9 P.M. EDT
  
  
• PR 11-148 - July 21, 2011
  Identical Virus, Host Populations Coexist for Centuries
  
  
• PR 11-147 - July 21, 2011
  Diamond Impurities Bonanza for Geologists Studying Earth's History
  
  
• PR 11-146 - July 21, 2011
  Animal Species Large and Small Follow Same Rule for How Common They Are in Ecosystems
  
  
• PR 11-145 - July 21, 2011
  Chemists Create Molecular "Flasks"
  
  
• PR 11-144 - July 20, 2011
  Bacterial Attack Strategy Uses Special Delivery of Toxic Proteins
  
  
• PR 11-143 - July 18, 2011
  Chemical Make-up of Gulf of Mexico Plume Determined
  
  
• PR 11-142 - July 14, 2011
  Pity the Boss Man
  
  
• PR 11-141 - July 14, 2011
  Loss of Large Predators Caused Widespread Disruption of Ecosystems
  
  
• PR 11-140 - July 13, 2011
  Norm Augustine to Lead Review of Antarctic Science
  
  
• PR 11-139 - July 11, 2011
  Landscape Change Leads to Increased Insecticide Use in U.S. Midwest
  
  
• PR 11-138 - July 11, 2011
  Scientists on a Mission: Detailed Study of U.S. Southeast Tornadoes
  
  
• PR 11-137 - July 11, 2011
  New Genetic Map of Potato May Lead to Improved Crops
  
  
• PR 11-136 - July 8, 2011
  NSF Awards Grants to Advance Digitization of Biological Collections
  
  
• PR 11-135 - July 8, 2011
  Through Research.gov, Institutions Gain Streamlined Access to Federal Research Systems
  
  
• PR 11-134 - July 7, 2011
  NSF and USAID Jointly Launch International, Interagency PEER Program to Advance Science Collaboration With the Developing World
  
  
• PR 11-133 - June 30, 2011
  When Viruses Infect Bacteria
  
  
• PR 11-132 - June 30, 2011
  Big Hole Filled in Cloud Research
  
  
• PR 11-131 - June 29, 2011
  Scientists Study Earthquake Triggers in Pacific Ocean
  
  
• PR 11-130 - June 28, 2011
  Multimedia Stories Show How Engineers Shape the Future
  
  
• PR 11-129 - June 24, 2011
  NSF Leads Interagency Collaboration to Develop Advanced Robotics
  
  
• PR 11-128 - June 23, 2011
  Research Shows 16-month-olds Infer Causes of Failed Actions
  
  
• PR 11-127 - June 23, 2011
  Scientists Measure Body Temperature of Dinosaurs for the First Time
  
  
• PR 11-126 - June 23, 2011
  New Report Offers Roadmap for Success in K-12 STEM Education
  
  
• PR 11-125 - June 22, 2011
  Tropical Birds Return to Harvested Rainforest Areas in Brazil
  
  
• PR 11-124 - June 22, 2011
  Economic Cost of Weather May Total $485 Billion in U.S.
  
  
• PR 11-123 - June 21, 2011
  Stretching Old Material Yields New Results for Energy- and Environment-related Devices
  
  
• PR 11-122 - June 20, 2011
  Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures
  
  
• PR 11-121 - June 17, 2011
  Learning From Mom Boosts Low-Income Kids' School Readiness
  
  
• PR 11-120 - June 16, 2011
  Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
  
  
• PR 11-119 - June 14, 2011
  Study Reveals Important Aspects of Signalling Across Cell Membranes in Plants
  
  
• PR 11-118 - June 9, 2011
  Can Small Loans Reduce Poverty?
  
  
• PR 11-117 - June 9, 2011
  Social Scientists Study Impact of Human Adult Stem Cell Research
  
  
• PR 11-116 - June 9, 2011
  NSF Launches Science360 for iPad Application
  
  
• PR 11-115 - June 7, 2011
  Jellyfish Blooms Transfer Food Energy From Fish to Bacteria
  
  
• PR 11-114 - June 7, 2011
  'Library of Fishes' to Feature Thousands of Specimens from Remote Locations
  
  
• PR 11-113 - June 7, 2011
  Air Quality Worsened by Paved Surfaces
  
  
• PR 11-112 - June 2, 2011
  Moral Responses Change as People Age
  
  
• PR 11-111 - June 2, 2011
  New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet
  
  
• PR 11-110 - June 2, 2011
  While Hominin Males Stayed Home, Females Roamed
  
  
• PR 11-109 - June 2, 2011
  River Mystery Solved
  
  
• PR 11-108 - June 1, 2011
  Cora Marrett Confirmed as NSF Deputy Director
  
  
• PR 11-107 - May 27, 2011
  Outstanding Math and Science Teachers Honored by the President
  
  
• PR 11-106 - May 26, 2011
  World-Wide Assessment Determines Differences in Cultures
  
  
• PR 11-105 - May 26, 2011
  Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling
  
  
• PR 11-104 - May 25, 2011
  Mars: Red Planet's Rapid Formation Explains Its Small Size Relative to Earth
  
  
• PR 11-103 - May 20, 2011
  Just Four Percent of Galaxies Have Neighbors Like the Milky Way
  
  
• PR 11-102 - May 19, 2011
  Replacing the Blue Bloods
  
  
• PR 11-101 - May 18, 2011
  Big Clue to Future Climate Change in Small Plants
  
  
• PR 11-100 - May 18, 2011
  After Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: How Much Radioactivity in the Oceans?
  
  
• PR 11-099 - May 18, 2011
  Common Jupiters?
  
  
• PR 11-098 - May 16, 2011
  Sound Safety
  
  
• PR 11-097 - May 13, 2011
  NSB and NSF Recognize Extraordinary Science, Service with Annual Awards
  
  
• PR 11-096 - May 11, 2011
  Clouds, a Weapon Against Climate Change?
  
  
• PR 11-095 - May 11, 2011
  Scientists Discover Animal-like Urea Cycle in Tiny Diatoms in the Ocean
  
  
• PR 11-094 - May 11, 2011
  Why Some Planets Orbit the Wrong Way; Extrasolar Insights Into Our Solar System
  
  
• PR 11-093 - May 10, 2011
  NSF Announces Its Strategic Vision for Road Ahead
  
  
• PR 11-092 - May 9, 2011
  NSF Selects Arizona State University to Host Next EarthScope National Office
  
  
• PR 11-091 - May 8, 2011
  "Fool's Gold" from The Deep is Fertilizer for Ocean Life
  
  
• PR 11-090 - May 5, 2011
  "Science of the Olympic Winter Games" and "Science of NFL Football" Win Sports Emmy
  
  
• PR 11-089 - May 3, 2011
  NSF Report Spotlights Opportunities to Digitally Enhance America's Community Colleges
  
  
• PR 11-088 - May 3, 2011
  "Nutcracker Man" Had Fundamentally Different Diet
  
  
• PR 11-087 - May 2, 2011
  Global Warming Will Not Significantly Affect Wind Energy Production
  
  
• PR 11-086 - April 28, 2011
  A Tale of Two Lakes: One Gives Early Warning Signal for Ecosystem Collapse
  
  
• PR 11-085 - April 27, 2011
  Threading the Climate Needle: The Agulhas Current System
  
  
• PR 11-084 - April 21, 2011
  Fossil Sirenians Give Scientists New Look at Ancient Climate
  
  
• PR 11-083 - April 20, 2011
  Imagine: Material That If Scratched, You Can Quickly and Easily Fix Yourself, With Light Not Heat
  
  
• PR 11-082 - April 20, 2011
  The Sky Is No Limit: 13 Research Teams Compute in the Clouds
  
  
• PR 11-081 - April 19, 2011
  The Weather Channel to Air NSF-Sponsored Town Hall Meeting in Celebration of Earth Day
  
  
• PR 11-080 - April 18, 2011
  New Booklet About Modern Antarctic Science
  
  
• PR 11-079 - April 18, 2011
  Study of Deer Mice on California's Channel Islands Provides New Information on Hantavirus
  
  
• PR 11-078 - April 18, 2011
  It's Earth Week. Just In Time, Thousands of Hectares of Tropical Forest Are Saved
  
  
• PR 11-077 - April 15, 2011
  NSF Director Wraps Up Visit to Iowa, Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
  
  
• PR 11-076 - April 14, 2011
  "Jurassic Park" Had it Right: Some Dinosaurs Hunted by Night
  
  
• PR 11-075 - April 14, 2011
  DNA Origami Used to Create 3-D Nanostructures
  
  
• PR 11-074 - April 14, 2011
  Search for Dark Matter Narrowed by New Data From XENON100
  
  
• PR 11-073 - April 13, 2011
  Death--Not Just Life--Important Link in Marine Ecosystems
  
  
• PR 11-072 - April 7, 2011
  Climate Change Poses Major Risks for Unprepared Cities
  
  
• PR 11-071 - April 6, 2011
  Precedent-Setting Evidence of the Benefits of Biodiversity
  
  
• PR 11-070 - April 4, 2011
  San Francisco-based Exploratorium to Receive National Science Board's 2011 Public Service Award
  
  
• PR 11-069 - April 4, 2011
  "Epidemiological" Study Demonstrates Climate Change Effects on Forests
  
  
• PR 11-068 - April 1, 2011
  The National Science Board Announces Recipient of 2011 Public Service Award
  
  
• PR 11-067 - April 1, 2011
  NSF Director Awarded Prestigious Padma Shri From Government of India
  
  
• PR 11-066 - March 31, 2011
  Archaeologists Investigate Iraqi Marshes for Origins of Mesopotamian Cities
  
  
• PR 11-065 - March 31, 2011
  EarthScope Seismic Sensors Head East of the Mississippi
  
  
• PR 11-064 - March 30, 2011
  The National Science Board Announces Recipient of the 2011 Vannevar Bush Award
  
  
• PR 11-063 - March 30, 2011
  Extra-Cold Winters in Northeastern North America and Northeastern Asia?
  
  
• PR 11-062 - March 29, 2011
  Communicating Uncertain Climate Risks
  
  
• PR 11-061 - March 28, 2011
  Bones of Long-Dead Animals Conjure Ghosts at Yellowstone
  
  
• PR 11-060 - March 28, 2011
  NSF Announces New Awards That Will Investigate More Efficient Ways to Harvest Sunlight to Make New Biofuels and Biomaterials
  
  
• PR 11-059 - March 25, 2011
  Antarctic Icebergs Play a Previously Unknown Role in Global Carbon Cycle, Climate
  
  
• PR 11-058 - March 25, 2011
  Size Matters: Smaller Particles Could Make Solar Panels More Efficient
  
  
• PR 11-057 - March 25, 2011
  Stranglers of the Tropics--and Beyond
  
  
• PR 11-056 - March 24, 2011
  Surprise! Biodiversity and Resource Use May Co-Exist in Tropical Forests
  
  
• PR 11-055 - March 22, 2011
  Some Outcomes of the Evolutionary Race Buck Conventional Wisdom
  
  
• PR 11-054 - March 17, 2011
  NSF Director Finishes Third of Three Congressional Hearings on the FY12 Budget
  
  
• PR 11-053 - March 16, 2011
  Viscous Cycle: Quartz is Key to Plate Tectonics
  
  
• PR 11-052 - March 16, 2011
  Round Two: Digging Into Data Challenge
  
  
• PR 11-051 - March 14, 2011
  Casey Dunn to Receive NSF Waterman Award
  
  
• PR 11-050 - March 14, 2011
  Tornado Alley Film Premieres in Theaters
  
  
• PR 11-049 - March 11, 2011
  How the Slime Mold Gets Organized
  
  
• PR 11-048 - March 10, 2011
  Study Finds Primates Age Gracefully
  
  
• PR 11-047 - March 9, 2011
  Researchers Selectively Control Anxiety Pathways in the Brain
  
  
• PR 11-046 - March 2, 2011
  Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction: Is It Almost Here?
  
  
• PR 11-045 - March 1, 2011
  NSF Partners With Entertainment Industries Council to Inspire Viewers About Science, Engineering and Technology
  
  
• PR 11-044 - February 28, 2011
  National Science Foundation Transports Two Norwegian Expeditioners to Safety
  
  
• PR 11-043 - February 28, 2011
  Share of Black S&E Degrees from HBCUs Declines in 2008
  
  
• PR 11-042 - February 24, 2011
  Joan Ferrini-Mundy to Become NSF Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources
  
  
• PR 11-041 - February 24, 2011
  Homoplasy: A Good Thread to Pull to Understand the Evolutionary Ball of Yarn
  
  
• PR 11-040 - February 24, 2011
  Discovery Of Oldest Northern North American Human Remains Provides New Insights Into Ice-Age Culture
  
  
• PR 11-039 - February 24, 2011
  Ancient Catastrophic Drought Leads to Question: How Severe Can Climate Change Become?
  
  
• PR 11-038 - February 17, 2011
  The Year of the Higgs?
  
  
• PR 11-037 - February 17, 2011
  NSF and AAAS Name 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Awardees
  
  
• PR 11-036 - February 16, 2011
  NSF Director to Present Topical Lecture at AAAS Annual Meeting
  
  
• PR 11-035 - February 16, 2011
  Oldest Fossils of Large Seaweeds, Worm-like Animals Tell Story of Ancient Oxygen
  
  
• PR 11-034 - February 16, 2011
  NSF Builds More Partnerships for International Research and Education
  
  
• PR 11-033 - February 16, 2011
  Iceland Volcano's Molten Rock Could Become Source of High-Grade Energy
  
  
• PR 11-032 - February 15, 2011
  Numbers of Lyme Disease-Carrying Ticks Plummet in Absence of Western Lizards
  
  
• PR 11-031 - February 15, 2011
  NSF's Division of Science Resources Statistics Is Now the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
  
  
• PR 11-030 - February 15, 2011
  Scientists Delve Into 'Hotspot' Volcanoes along Pacific Ocean Seamount Trail
  
  
• PR 11-029 - February 14, 2011
  NSF Presents President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request of $ 7.76 Billion
  
  
• PR 11-028 - February 10, 2011
  A Scientific Gold Rush: Electronic Mining of Published Research
  
  
• PR 11-027 - February 10, 2011
  Measuring Science Investments
  
  
• PR 11-026 - February 7, 2011
  Language May Play Important Role in Learning the Meanings of Numbers
  
  
• PR 11-025 - February 3, 2011
  The Most Genes in an Animal? Tiny Crustacean Holds the Record
  
  
• PR 11-024 - February 3, 2011
  Wolverines Threatened by Climate Change, Earlier Springs
  
  
• PR 11-023 - February 2, 2011
  Phosphorus: Too Much or Too Little?
  
  
• PR 11-022 - February 1, 2011
  Ice Cores Yield Rich History of Climate Change
  
  
• PR 11-021 - February 1, 2011
  Home and Away: Are Invasive Plant Species Really That Special?
  
  
• PR 11-020 - January 31, 2011
  Brain Scans Predict Likely Success When It Comes to Quitting Smoking
  
  
• PR 11-019 - January 31, 2011
  Seeking Social Genes
  
  
• PR 11-018 - January 27, 2011
  Unemployment Among Doctoral Scientists and Engineers Was Lower Than Among the General Population in 2008
  
  
• PR 11-017 - January 26, 2011
  Scientists Determine What Makes an Orangutan an Orangutan
  
  
• PR 11-016 - January 26, 2011
  First Large-Scale, Physics-Based Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation
  
  
• PR 11-015 - January 25, 2011
  Mathematical Model Could Help Predict and Prevent Future Extinctions
  
  
• PR 11-014 - January 24, 2011
  President and NSF Spotlight Mentors Who Inspire America's Next Generation of Scientists
  
  
• PR 11-013 - January 24, 2011
  National Science Foundation and NBC Learn Launch "Chemistry Now" Video Series
  
  
• PR 11-012 - January 20, 2011
  Science Learning Easier When Students Put Down Textbooks and Actively Recall Information
  
  
• PR 11-011 - January 19, 2011
  Like Humans, Amoebae Pack a Lunch Before They Travel
  
  
• PR 11-010 - January 18, 2011
  Biological Clock Ticks Slower for Female Birds Who Choose Good Mates
  
  
• PR 11-009 - January 13, 2011
  Scientists: Big City Life May Alter Green Attitudes
  
  
• PR 11-008 - January 13, 2011
  Putting the Dead to Work
  
  
• PR 11-007 - January 13, 2011
  Writing About Anxiety Helps Students Ace Exams
  
  
• PR 11-006 - January 13, 2011
  Earth's Hot Past: Prologue to Future Climate?
  
  
• PR 11-005 - January 13, 2011
  NSF-Funded Series Explores Latest Materials Innovation and Research
  
  
• PR 11-004 - January 11, 2011
  Inside a Snowstorm: Scientists Obtain Close-Up Look at Old Man Winter
  
  
• PR 11-003 - January 6, 2011
  Plasma Jets Are Suspect in Solar Mystery
  
  
• PR 11-002 - January 5, 2011
  Widespread Ancient Ocean "Dead Zones" Challenged Early Life
  
  
• PR 11-001 - January 5, 2011
  Globally Sustainable Fisheries Possible With Co-Management
  
  

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PRESS RELEASES FOR 2010

• PR 10-244 - December 29, 2010
  What Triggers Mass Extinctions? Study Shows How Invasive Species Stop New Life
  
  
• PR 10-243 - December 27, 2010
  Broken Glass Yields Clues to Climate Change
  
  
• PR 10-242 - December 22, 2010
  Genome of Extinct Siberian Cave-dweller Linked to Modern-day Humans
  
  
• PR 10-241 - December 21, 2010
  NSF/NASA Scientific Balloon Launches From Antarctica
  
  
• PR 10-240 - December 20, 2010
  Ocean Acidification Changes Nitrogen Cycling in World Seas
  
  
• PR 10-239 - December 20, 2010
  Global Rivers Emit Three Times IPCC Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide
  
  
• PR 10-238 - December 17, 2010
  NSF, University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete Construction of the World's Largest Neutrino Observatory
  
  
• PR 10-237 - December 17, 2010
  NSF Partners with NBC Learn to Bring Science to Life for Nation's Students
  
  
• PR 10-236 - December 15, 2010
  Polar Bears: On Thin Ice? Extinction Can Be Averted, Scientists Say
  
  
• PR 10-235 - December 13, 2010
  What "Pine" Cones Reveal About the Evolution of Flowers
  
  
• PR 10-234 - December 13, 2010
  Human Networking Theory Gives Picture of Infectious Disease Spread
  
  
• PR 10-233 - December 10, 2010
  Questions About Genetic Testing of Newborns
  
  
• PR 10-232 - December 10, 2010
  Iron Furnaces Leave Legacy: Soil High in Manganese
  
  
• PR 10-231 - December 9, 2010
  NSF's Nathaniel B. Palmer Sails with Sweden's Oden to Study Antarctic Peninsula Ecosystem
  
  
• PR 10-230 - December 7, 2010
  NSF Celebrates Computer Science Education Week 2010
  
  
• PR 10-229 - December 2, 2010
  New Report Summarizes Key Themes in American Doctoral Education
  
  
• PR 10-228 - December 2, 2010
  What Can Ice Reveal About Fire?
  
  
• PR 10-227 - December 1, 2010
  Biodiversity Loss: Detrimental to Your Health
  
  
• PR 10-226 - November 30, 2010
  America's Colonial Hydrologic History Recreated
  
  
• PR 10-225 - November 28, 2010
  Air Above Dead Sea Contains Very High Levels of Oxidized Mercury
  
  
• PR 10-224 - November 25, 2010
  Mammals Grew 1,000 Times Larger After the Demise of the Dinosaurs
  
  
• PR 10-223 - November 24, 2010
  Getting a Tighter Grip on Cell Division
  
  
• PR 10-222 - November 23, 2010
  President Obama Awards National Medals of Science to America's Best and Brightest Scientific Minds
  
  
• PR 10-221 - November 22, 2010
  Number of Doctorates Awarded Continued to Grow in 2009
  
  
• PR 10-220 - November 22, 2010
  NSF Signs $34.5-million Operating Agreement With University Of Wisconsin as Antarctic Neutrino Detector Nears Completion
  
  
• PR 10-219 - November 18, 2010
  Months of Geologic Unrest Signaled Reawakening of Icelandic Volcano
  
  
• PR 10-218 - November 17, 2010
  Widely Adopted Indicator of Fisheries Health Questioned
  
  
• PR 10-217 - November 16, 2010
  Tightwads and Spendthrifts: A Black Friday Tradition
  
  
• PR 10-216 - November 12, 2010
  Catastrophic Drought Looms for Capital City of Bolivia
  
  
• PR 10-215 - November 12, 2010
  Key Player in Detoxification Pathway Isolated After Decades of Searching
  
  
• PR 10-214 - November 12, 2010
  NSF Leads Effort to Make Ethics Resources Available to Researchers
  
  
• PR 10-213 - November 9, 2010
  New Research Finds Number Talk Is Important Before Preschool
  
  
• PR 10-212 - November 9, 2010
  President Names Nation's Top Early Career Scientists and Engineers
  
  
• PR 10-211 - November 4, 2010
  NSF Releases Online, Multimedia Package Titled, "Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change"
  
  
• PR 10-210 - November 4, 2010
  The Genetics of Self-Incompatibility
  
  
• PR 10-209 - November 4, 2010
  Volcanic Eruptions Affect Rainfall Over Asian Monsoon Region
  
  
• PR 10-208 - November 4, 2010
  National Science Foundation Launches "Innovation Nation"
  
  
• PR 10-207 - November 3, 2010
  The Emergence of Holographic Video
  
  
• PR 10-206 - November 1, 2010
  New Way of Removing Excess Nitrogen from the Environment
  
  
• PR 10-205 - November 1, 2010
  The Zebrafish's Neural Circuit Prevents It From Biting Off More Than It Can Chew
  
  
• PR 10-204 - November 1, 2010
  Study Improves Accuracy of Models for Predicting Ozone Levels in Urban Areas
  
  
• PR 10-203 - October 28, 2010
  Typists' Errors and Intention Theories
  
  
• PR 10-202 - October 27, 2010
  New Evidence Supports Snowball Earth as Trigger for Early Animal Evolution
  
  
• PR 10-201 - October 25, 2010
  NSF Awards New Projects for Plant Genome Research
  
  
• PR 10-200 - October 22, 2010
  Radio Series Highlights Women with Disabilities in Science
  
  
• PR 10-199 - October 21, 2010
  Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awardees Announced
  
  
• PR 10-198 - October 21, 2010
  NSF Awards Grants for Research on Coupled Natural and Human Systems
  
  
• PR 10-197 - October 21, 2010
  Universities Receive Grants to Study Climate Change Decisions
  
  
• PR 10-196 - October 21, 2010
  Plants Play Larger Role Than Thought in Cleaning up Air Pollution
  
  
• PR 10-195 - October 20, 2010
  Climate Change May Create Tipping Points for Populations, Not Just Species
  
  
• PR 10-194 - October 19, 2010
  NSF Awards Grants on Interactions Among the Environment, Economy and Society
  
  
• PR 10-193 - October 19, 2010
  Scientists and Engineers Take Over Downtown Washington, D.C., This Weekend
  
  
• PR 10-192 - October 19, 2010
  Exploring Sustainability for Energy and Buildings
  
  
• PR 10-191 - October 19, 2010
  Drought May Threaten Much of Globe Within Decades
  
  
• PR 10-190 - October 14, 2010
  White House Announces National Medal of Science Laureates
  
  
• PR 10-189 - October 14, 2010
  A River Ran Through It
  
  
• PR 10-188 - October 13, 2010
  2010 Nobel Laureates Include Four NSF-supported Scientists
  
  
• PR 10-187 - October 13, 2010
  Ecology of Infectious Disease Grants Awarded by NSF, NIH
  
  
• PR 10-186 - October 13, 2010
  NSF Awards Grants to Study Effects of Ocean Acidification
  
  
• PR 10-185 - October 12, 2010
  NSF Renews Centers for Nanotechnology in Society
  
  
• PR 10-184 - October 11, 2010
  Population Change: Another Influence on Climate Change
  
  
• PR 10-183 - October 7, 2010
  Too Much of a Good Thing: Human Activities Overload Ecosystems with Nitrogen
  
  
• PR 10-182 - October 6, 2010
  NSF Awards Grants for Study of Water Sustainability and Climate
  
  
• PR 10-181 - October 6, 2010
  Mapping Color Vision in HD
  
  
• PR 10-180 - October 5, 2010
  NSF Research Dollars Boost Science and Engineering Infrastructure in Regions in Need of Support
  
  
• PR 10-179 - October 5, 2010
  NSF Awards Grants to Study Dimensions of Earth's Biodiversity
  
  
• PR 10-178 - October 5, 2010
  NSF Releases New Statistics on Business Innovation
  
  
• PR 10-177 - October 5, 2010
  Cheek Swab May Detect Lung Cancer
  
  
• PR 10-176 - October 5, 2010
  NSF Awards Grant for Continuously Operating Caribbean GPS Natural Hazards Observational Network
  
  
• PR 10-175 - October 4, 2010
  NSF Selects University of Michigan Professor Farnam Jahanian to Head Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate
  
  
• PR 10-174 - October 1, 2010
  New Study Validates Factors That Enhance the Intelligence of a Group
  
  
• PR 10-173 - October 18, 2010
  Subra Suresh Sworn in as NSF Director
  
  
• PR 10-172 - September 29, 2010
  Newly Discovered Planet May Be First Truly Habitable Exoplanet
  
  
• PR 10-171 - September 23, 2010
  Cilia Revolution
  
  
• PR 10-170 - September 22, 2010
  New Species of Multi-horned Dinosaurs Unearthed in Utah
  
  
• PR 10-169 - September 20, 2010
  Windborne Dust on High Peaks Dampens Colorado River Runoff
  
  
• PR 10-168 - September 16, 2010
  Aerosols Control Rainfall in the Rainforest
  
  
• PR 10-167 - September 15, 2010
  Preparing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators
  
  
• PR 10-166 - September 13, 2010
  Why "Scientific Consensus" Fails to Persuade
  
  
• PR 10-165 - September 10, 2010
  Climate Change Education Partnership Program Is Launched
  
  
• PR 10-164 - September 9, 2010
  Sizing Up Stockpiles of Children's Vaccines
  
  
• PR 10-163 - September 8, 2010
  Study Adds Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended
  
  
• PR 10-162 - September 8, 2010
  NSF, NBC News and the NFL Kick Off "Science of NFL Football"
  
  
• PR 10-161 - September 7, 2010
  Subseafloor Observatories Installed to Run Dynamic Experiments
  
  
• PR 10-160 - September 6, 2010
  These Cells Will Self-Destruct in Five ... Four ...
  
  
• PR 10-159 - September 1, 2010
  Bacterial Charity Work Thwarts Medical Treatments
  
  
• PR 10-158 - August 30, 2010
  "Stocky Dragon" Dinosaur Terrorized Late Cretaceous Europe
  
  
• PR 10-157 - August 30, 2010
  Feasts at a Funeral
  
  
• PR 10-156 - August 27, 2010
  NSF Announces Future Internet Architecture Awards
  
  
• PR 10-155 - August 26, 2010
  Distant Star's Sound Waves Reveal Cycle Similar to Sun
  
  
• PR 10-154 - August 26, 2010
  Shrinking Atmospheric Layer Linked to Low Levels of Solar Radiation
  
  
• PR 10-153 - August 25, 2010
  Fields Medal Awarded to Top Young Mathematicians
  
  
• PR 10-152 - August 25, 2010
  ARRA Funds Bolster Broadband Access and Improve Connectivity among Institutions to Strengthen Scientific Collaborations
  
  
• PR 10-151 - August 24, 2010
  Genetic Structure of First Animal to Show Evolutionary Response to Climate Change Determined
  
  
• PR 10-150 - August 23, 2010
  Cement, the Glue That Holds Oyster Families Together
  
  
• PR 10-149 - August 19, 2010
  Marine Scientists, Students Find Widespread Floating Plastic Debris in North Atlantic Ocean
  
  
• PR 10-148 - August 19, 2010
  Scientists Map Origin of Large, Underwater Hydrocarbon Plume in Gulf
  
  
• PR 10-147 - August 19, 2010
  NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
  
  
• PR 10-146 - August 18, 2010
  New Computer Model Advances Climate Change Research
  
  
• PR 10-145 - August 18, 2010
  Ancient "Terror Bird" Used Powerful Beak to Jab Like Boxer
  
  
• PR 10-144 - August 18, 2010
  Deadly Tonga Earthquake Revealed as Three Big Quakes
  
  
• PR 10-143 - August 17, 2010
  Discovery of Possible Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil Record
  
  
• PR 10-142 - August 16, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Grant to Study Effects of Oil and Dispersants on Louisiana Salt Marsh Ecosystem
  
  
• PR 10-141 - August 12, 2010
  Extended Period of Lower Solar Activity Linked to Changes in Sun's Conveyor Belt
  
  
• PR 10-140 - August 12, 2010
  Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
  
  
• PR 10-139 - August 11, 2010
  Oldest Earth Mantle Reservoir Discovered
  
  
• PR 10-138 - August 10, 2010
  Research Shows a Good Kindergarten Education Makes Dollars and Sense
  
  
• PR 10-137 - August 9, 2010
  The Jellyfish-like Salp: Most Efficient Filter-Feeder in the Deep, Scientists Discover
  
  
• PR 10-136 - August 5, 2010
  The Secret of Life May Be As Simple As What Happens Between the Sheets--Mica Sheets
  
  
• PR 10-135 - August 5, 2010
  Scientists Unlock Secret of Rabies Transmission in Bats
  
  
• PR 10-134 - August 4, 2010
  These Crocs Were Made for Chewing?
  
  
• PR 10-133 - August 4, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Funds Research on Impacts to Florida Everglades
  
  
• PR 10-132 - August 4, 2010
  Bedrock Is a Milestone in Climate Research
  
  
• PR 10-131 - August 2, 2010
  Triggers of Volcanic Eruptions in Oregon's Mount Hood Investigated
  
  
• PR 10-130 - July 29, 2010
  Decontaminating Dangerous Drywall
  
  
• PR 10-129 - July 29, 2010
  If Spiders and Worms Can Do It, Why Can't We?
  
  
• PR 10-128 - July 29, 2010
  From the Heart: How Cells Divide to Form Different but Related Muscle Groups
  
  
• PR 10-127 - July 27, 2010
  Birth of a Hurricane
  
  
• PR 10-126 - July 26, 2010
  Latest "Green" Packing Material? Mushrooms!
  
  
• PR 10-125 - July 22, 2010
  Study Reveals a Secret to the Success of Notorious, Disease-Causing Microbes
  
  
• PR 10-124 - July 21, 2010
  Green Bank Telescope Enables "Intensity Mapping" to Shed Light on Mysteries of Dark Energy
  
  
• PR 10-123 - July 19, 2010
  Frog Killer Caught in the Act
  
  
• PR 10-122 - July 15, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant to Study Emotional Response to Disaster
  
  
• PR 10-121 - July 15, 2010
  Tiny Marine Microbes Exert Influence on Global Climate
  
  
• PR 10-120 - July 14, 2010
  New Primate Fossil Found in Saudi Arabia
  
  
• PR 10-119 - July 14, 2010
  Indian Ocean Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas
  
  
• PR 10-118 - July 8, 2010
  Six NSF-funded Two-Year Colleges Designated National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education
  
  
• PR 10-117 - July 8, 2010
  Setting a Molecular Clock for Malaria Parasites
  
  
• PR 10-116 - July 8, 2010
  New Findings Indicate Sediment Composition Affected the Strength of Sumatran Earthquake
  
  
• PR 10-115 - July 9, 2010
  Stirring It Up: North Pacific Circulation Was Radically Changed by Past Post-Glacial Warming
  
  
• PR 10-114 - July 8, 2010
  New Way to Conquer Disease-Causing Nematodes in Flies has Implications for Human Diseases
  
  
• PR 10-113 - July 8, 2010
  U.S. R&D Companies Employed 27 Million Workers Worldwide in 2008
  
  
• PR 10-112 - July 6, 2010
  Borne on the Wing: Avian Influenza Risk in U.S. Wild Songbirds Mapped
  
  
• PR 10-111 - July 1, 2010
  A Star Is Born ... But How?
  
  
• PR 10-110 - June 28, 2010
  Emotion Affects Memory's Reliability
  
  
• PR 10-109 - June 25, 2010
  Satellite Used in Polar Research Enters Retirement
  
  
• PR 10-108 - June 25, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant to Study Oil Found on Alabama, North Florida Beaches
  
  
• PR 10-107 - June 22, 2010
  Research Mission Studies Oil Spill Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and Mass Spectrometry
  
  
• PR 10-106 - June 23, 2010
  Scientists Discover Source of Essential Nutrients for Open-Ocean Algae
  
  
• PR 10-105 - June 21, 2010
  Researchers Discover Relative of Best-Known Human Ancestor
  
  
• PR 10-104 - June 21, 2010
  NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant for Study of Vibrio Bacteria in Gulf Oyster Beds
  
  
• PR 10-103 - June 17, 2010
  Carbon Dioxide Has Played Leading Role in Dictating Global Climate Patterns
  
  
• PR 10-102 - June 17, 2010
  Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Efforts Miss the Mark
  
  
• PR 10-101 - June 17, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill: Mississippi River Hydrology May Help Reduce Oil Onshore
  
  
• PR 10-100 - June 16, 2010
  Researchers Use Science to Identify Soccer Stars
  
  
• PR 10-099 - June 16, 2010
  Volcanic Eruptions in North America Were More Explosive in Ancient Past
  
  
• PR 10-098 - June 15, 2010
  Bigger Spectrometer to Study Life's Smaller Nuts and Bolts
  
  
• PR 10-097 - June 14, 2010
  Mysterious Clouds Produced When Aircraft Inadvertently Cause Rain or Snow
  
  
• PR 10-096 - June 10, 2010
  Stretching Molecules Yields New Understanding of Electricity
  
  
• PR 10-095 - June 9, 2010
  For This High School Student, Success in Science Didn't Have to Wait For College
  
  
• PR 10-094 - June 8, 2010
  Getting a Grip on Stroke Treatment
  
  
• PR 10-093 - June 2, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant to Study Impact of Oil and Methane on Microbes
  
  
• PR 10-092 - June 2, 2010
  Data Show Increase in First-Time Science and Engineering Graduate Students
  
  
• PR 10-091 - June 1, 2010
  STAR METRICS: New Way to Measure the Impact of Federally Funded Research
  
  
• PR 10-090 - May 27, 2010
  The Great Pond Experiment: Regional vs. Local Biodiversity
  
  
• PR 10-089 - May 26, 2010
  New Survey Facilitates Better U.S. Business Competition in Global Economy
  
  
• PR 10-088 - May 21, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant to Study Microbes' Natural Degradation of Oil
  
  
• PR 10-087 - May 19, 2010
  New England Losing Significant Forest Cover, According to New Report
  
  
• PR 10-086 - May 17, 2010
  Prehistoric Fish Extinction Paved the Way for Modern Vertebrates
  
  
• PR 10-085 - May 16, 2010
  Unprecedented Warming in East Africa's Lake Tanganyika
  
  
• PR 10-084 - May 13, 2010
  Silver Tells a Story of Early Earth: Water Here Since Planet's Very Early Days
  
  
• PR 10-083 - May 12, 2010
  Molecular Robots On the Rise
  
  
• PR 10-082 - May 12, 2010
  NSF Provides $20 Million to Support 15 Projects Through BREAD Program
  
  
• PR 10-081 - May 11, 2010
  NSF Launches Website in Support of National Lab Day
  
  
• PR 10-080 - May 10, 2010
  National Science Foundation Launches Green Revolution Video Series
  
  
• PR 10-079 - May 10, 2010
  Killer Seaweed: Scientists Find First Proof that Chemicals from Seaweeds Damage Coral on Contact
  
  
• PR 10-078 - May 10, 2010
  Odd Mosaic of Dental Features Reveals Undocumented Primate
  
  
• PR 10-077 - May 10, 2010
  Scientists Seeking NSF Funding Will Soon Be Required to Submit Data Management Plans
  
  
• PR 10-076 - May 6, 2010
  NSB and NSF Recognize Extraordinary Science, Service with Annual Awards
  
  
• PR 10-075 - May 5, 2010
  Shape of Lake Basin is Key Factor in Plankton Disease Epidemics in Midwest
  
  
• PR 10-074 - May 4, 2010
  National Science Foundation Commemorates 60th Anniversary
  
  
• PR 10-073 - May 4, 2010
  Islands of Germs: Researchers Discover Pathogens Floating on Tiny Clumps of Aquatic Detritus
  
  
• PR 10-072 - May 3, 2010
  Scientists Outline Strategy to Limit Global Warming
  
  
• PR 10-071 - May 3, 2010
  Chile Earthquake: NSF Awards Rapid Response Research Grants
  
  
• PR 10-070 - April 29, 2010
  Coordinated Punishment Leads to Increased Cooperation in Large Groups
  
  
• PR 10-069 - April 29, 2010
  Aphids Evolved Special, Surprising Talents
  
  
• PR 10-068 - April 29, 2010
  Through the Looking Glass: Scientists Peer into Antarctica's Past to See Future Climate
  
  
• PR 10-067 - April 27, 2010
  VORTEX2 Tornado Scientists Hit the Road Again
  
  
• PR 10-066 - April 25, 2010
  Soil Microbes Produce Less Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Than Expected With Climate Warming
  
  
• PR 10-065 - April 25, 2010
  Scientists Discover Underwater Asphalt Volcanoes
  
  
• PR 10-064 - April 22, 2010
  Scientists Study "Glaciovolcanoes," Mountains of Fire and Ice, in Iceland, British Columbia, U.S.
  
  
• PR 10-063 - April 22, 2010
  Researchers Demonstrate New Understanding of Nanotube Growth
  
  
• PR 10-062 - April 19, 2010
  On 'Earth Week,' World Is No Longer Our Oyster
  
  
• PR 10-061 - April 19, 2010
  Volunteers Scrutinize "Ten Most Wanted" Plants for Clues to Climate Change
  
  
• PR 10-060 - April 16, 2010
  New Research Finds Bureaucracy Linked to a Nation's Growth
  
  
• PR 10-059 - April 15, 2010
  "Missing" Heat May Affect Future Climate Change
  
  
• PR 10-058 - April 13, 2010
  Long-Distance Larvae Speed to New Undersea Vent Homes
  
  
• PR 10-057 - April 9, 2010
  Scientists Explore Origins of 'Supervolcanoes' on the Sea Floor
  
  
• PR 10-056 - April 7, 2010
  Astronomers Capture a Rare Stellar Eclipse in Opening Scene of Year-long Show
  
  
• PR 10-055 - April 7, 2010
  NSF Releases Open Government Plan
  
  
• PR 10-054 - April 6, 2010
  Archaeologists Uncover Land Before Wheel; Site Untouched for 6,000 Years
  
  
• PR 10-053 - April 2, 2010
  Small But Mighty Female Lizards Control Genetic Destiny
  
  
• PR 10-052 - April 2, 2010
  Can Clever Hackers Target Smart Phones?
  
  
• PR 10-051 - April 8, 2010
  Geologists Uncover Major Ancient Human Ancestor in South Africa
  
  
• PR 10-050 - March 30, 2010
  A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics
  
  
• PR 10-049 - March 30, 2010
  Bruce Alberts to Receive National Science Board's Vannevar Bush Award
  
  
• PR 10-048 - March 29, 2010
  Climate Helped Bring Angkor to Its Knees
  
  
• PR 10-047 - March 25, 2010
  Tree Canopy Researcher and Education Network for Young Women Honored for Public Service
  
  
• PR 10-046 - March 25, 2010
  Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratospheric Heights
  
  
• PR 10-045 - March 25, 2010
  NSF Announces Partnership with Association of Petroleum Geologists to Increase Funding for Earth Sciences
  
  
• PR 10-044 - March 22, 2010
  Improving Predictions of Climate Change and its Impacts
  
  
• PR 10-043 - March 19, 2010
  (Ultra)Sounding Out a New Way to Treat Chronic Pain
  
  
• PR 10-042 - March 18, 2010
  NSF Dispatches Rapid Response Oceanographic Expedition to Chile Earthquake Site
  
  
• PR 10-041 - March 17, 2010
  Prescribed Burns May Help Reduce U.S. Carbon Footprint
  
  
• PR 10-040 - March 16, 2010
  Spider Silk Reveals a Paradox of Super-strength
  
  
• PR 10-039 - March 9, 2010
  NSF Selects Young Theoretical Computer Scientist for its Highest Honor
  
  
• PR 10-038 - March 9, 2010
  Dome Away From Home
  
  
• PR 10-037 - March 4, 2010
  Scientists Find Signs of "Snowball Earth" Amidst Early Animal Evolution
  
  
• PR 10-036 - March 4, 2010
  Methane Releases From Arctic Shelf May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated
  
  
• PR 10-035 - March 4, 2010
  Revisiting Chicxulub
  
  
• PR 10-034 - February 25, 2010
  Forest Tree Species Diversity Depends on Individual Variation
  
  
• PR 10-033 - February 24, 2010
  Take a Nanooze Break
  
  
• PR 10-032 - February 25, 2010
  More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlling Ocean Nitrogen Shares the Throne
  
  
• PR 10-031 - February 22, 2010
  NSF Builds Science and Engineering Capacity in Communities Around the United States
  
  
• PR 10-030 - February 23, 2010
  NSF and USC School of Cinematic Arts Announce Novel Partnership
  
  
• PR 10-029 - February 20, 2010
  Fighting Crime With Math
  
  
• PR 10-028 - February 18, 2010
  2009 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
  
  
• PR 10-027 - February 19, 2010
  National Science Board Urges Action to Sustain U.S. Leadership in Science and Engineering Research
  
  
• PR 10-026 - February 15, 2010
  For Nanowires, Nothing Sparkles Quite Like Diamond
  
  
• PR 10-025 - February 12, 2010
  Rev Up For "The Science of Speed"
  
  
• PR 10-024 - February 8, 2010
  NSF Launches Open Government Web Page
  
  
• PR 10-023 - February 4, 2010
  Microsoft and NSF Enable Research in the Cloud
  
  
• PR 10-022 - February 4, 2010
  NSF Director to Lead New Purdue Global Institute
  
  
• PR 10-021 - February 3, 2010
  Reporters Invited to NSF's Celebration of Five Leading Science and Technology Centers
  
  
• PR 10-020 - February 1, 2010
  NSF Announces the Appointment of James Ulvestad as the New Director of its Division of Astronomical Sciences
  
  
• PR 10-019 - February 1, 2010
  Evolution Impacts Environment, Study Finds
  
  
• PR 10-018 - February 1, 2010
  NSF Submits Its Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request of $7.4 Billion
  
  
• PR 10-017 - January 28, 2010
  Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle
  
  
• PR 10-016 - January 28, 2010
  White Roofs May Successfully Cool Cities
  
  
• PR 10-015 - January 27, 2010
  Innovative Technique Can Spot Errors in Key Technological Systems
  
  
• PR 10-014 - January 25, 2010
  Scientists Return to Haiti to Assess Possibility of Another Major Quake
  
  
• PR 10-013 - January 25, 2010
  Geoscientists Drill Deepest Hole in Ocean Crust in Scientific Ocean Drilling History
  
  
• PR 10-012 - January 21, 2010
  Watching Crystals Grow May Lead to Faster Electronic Devices
  
  
• PR 10-011 - January 21, 2010
  New Earthquake Information Unearthed by San Andreas Fault Studies
  
  
• PR 10-010 - January 18, 2010
  The Fantastic Armor of a Wonder Snail
  
  
• PR 10-009 - January 15, 2010
  National Science Board Releases Science and Engineering Indicators 2010
  
  
• PR 10-008 - January 14, 2010
  Obama Bestows Highest Presidential Honor on Early Career Scientists and Engineers
  
  
• PR 10-007 - January 14, 2010
  Gators Breathe Like Birds
  
  
• PR 10-006 - January 13, 2010
  Who's Afraid of the HPV Vaccine?
  
  
• PR 10-005 - January 13, 2010
  Mapping and Sequencing of Soybean Genome Paves the Way for Improved Soybean Crops
  
  
• PR 10-004 - January 11, 2010
  Microbe Understudies Await Their Turn in the Ecosystem Limelight
  
  
• PR 10-003 - January 10, 2010
  Global Ice Age Climate Patterns Influenced by Bering Strait
  
  
• PR 10-002 - January 7, 2010
  President Obama Honors Outstanding Teachers and Mentors at White House
  
  
• PR 10-001 - January 6, 2010
  Silencing Brain Cells with Yellow and Blue Light
  
  

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PRESS RELEASES FOR 2009

• PR 09-244 - December 28, 2009
  Looks Can Be Deceiving
  
  
• PR 09-243 - December 17, 2009
  Marine Scientists Discover Deepest Undersea Erupting Volcano
  
  
• PR 09-242 - December 16, 2009
  It's Not Your Fault--A Typical Fault, Geologically Speaking, That Is
  
  
• PR 09-241 - December 16, 2009
  Waterworld Discovered Transiting a Nearby Star
  
  
• PR 09-240 - December 14, 2009
  Advancing STEM Education
  
  
• PR 09-239 - December 10, 2009
  Computer Science Via Interactive Journalism
  
  
• PR 09-238 - December 11, 2009
  From Outer Space to Inner Earth: NSF-supported Presentations at American Geophysical Union Conference Present New Discoveries
  
  
• PR 09-237 - December 10, 2009
  Aerosols in the Atmosphere: From Mexico to Japan, Finland to Switzerland, the Same Everywhere
  
  
• PR 09-236 - December 10, 2009
  Newly Discovered Dinosaur Illuminates Ancient Lineage
  
  
• PR 09-235 - December 10, 2009
  Learning Computer Science From Scratch
  
  
• PR 09-234 - December 8, 2009
  A Week to Focus on Computer Science Education
  
  
• PR 09-233 - December 9, 2009
  National Science Foundation and NBC Learn Help Students Discover "The Science of the Olympic Winter Games"
  
  
• PR 09-232 - December 3, 2009
  Scientists Locate Deep Origins of "Hawaiian Hotspot"
  
  
• PR 09-231 - November 23, 2009
  Ice Cold: Cooler Than Being Cool
  
  
• PR 09-230 - November 23, 2009
  Anniversary Edition of Evolution Special Report Released
  
  
• PR 09-229 - November 19, 2009
  Science Journalism Awards Announced
  
  
• PR 09-228 - November 19, 2009
  Ants, Like Humans, Use Bacteria to Make Their Gardens Grow
  
  
• PR 09-227 - November 18, 2009
  Awards of U.S. Doctorate Degrees Rise for Sixth Straight Year
  
  
• PR 09-226 - November 19, 2009
  Kernels of Truth: Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome
  
  
• PR 09-225 - November 18, 2009
  On the Crest of Wave Energy
  
  
• PR 09-224 - November 13, 2009
  Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians
  
  
• PR 09-223 - November 13, 2009
  Growth Spurt in Tree Rings Prompts Questions About Climate Change
  
  
• PR 09-222 - November 12, 2009
  Record Highs Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S.
  
  
• PR 09-221 - November 10, 2009
  Oceanographers Develop "Swarms" of Robotic Ocean Explorers
  
  
• PR 09-220 - November 6, 2009
  National Science Foundation-funded Projects Featured at Education Technology Showcase
  
  
• PR 09-219 - November 5, 2009
  Butterflies in the Same Milieu, Mate With Others of Like Hue
  
  
• PR 09-218 - November 5, 2009
  Climate Change, Nitrogen Loss Threaten Plant Life in Arid Desert Soils
  
  
• PR 09-217 - November 5, 2009
  Unusual Explosion Sparks New Insight Into the Life of Stars
  
  
• PR 09-216 - November 5, 2009
  Airborne Nitrogen Affects Aquatic Ecosystem in Alpine Lakes
  
  
• PR 09-215 - November 4, 2009
  Secretary Clinton Announces New Initiatives to Bolster Science and Technology Collaboration With Muslim Communities Around the World
  
  
• PR 09-214 - November 4, 2009
  Minority Students Earned Greater Number of Academic Degrees in Fiscal Year 2006
  
  
• PR 09-213 - November 2, 2009
  The Snows of Kilimanjaro: For How Much Longer?
  
  
• PR 09-212 - November 2, 2009
  VERITAS Discovers Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Starburst Galaxy M82
  
  
• PR 09-211 - November 2, 2009
  Computer Science Provides a More Sound Way to Test for Sleep Apnea
  
  
• PR 09-210 - October 29, 2009
  "Technology" Plays Large Role in Wealth Inheritance
  
  
• PR 09-209 - October 29, 2009
  Ancient Ocean Oxygen Production Began 100 Million Years Earlier than Thought
  
  
• PR 09-208 - October 26, 2009
  "The Music Instinct" Wins International Recognition
  
  
• PR 09-207 - October 26, 2009
  Identifying Molecules in Infrared Could Lead to New Medicines
  
  
• PR 09-206 - October 22, 2009
  Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time
  
  
• PR 09-205 - October 21, 2009
  Ancient Lemurs Take Bite Out of Evolutionary Tree
  
  
• PR 09-204 - October 20, 2009
  NSF Awards 32 New Projects for Plant Genome Research
  
  
• PR 09-203 - October 20, 2009
  Diverting Sediment-rich Water Below New Orleans Could Lead to Extensive New Land
  
  
• PR 09-202 - October 15, 2009
  NSF Relaunches Science360 News Service
  
  
• PR 09-201 - October 15, 2009
  Deep-Sea Microbes May Answer Long-Standing Question About Earth's Nitrogen Cycle
  
  
• PR 09-200 - October 14, 2009
  NSF's Cyber-Network Now Expands Across the Northern Hemisphere and Connects Half the Globe
  
  
• PR 09-199 - October 15, 2009
  Teaching the Teachers
  
  
• PR 09-198 - October 13, 2009
  NSF Congratulates Nobel Laureates in Medicine/Physiology, Chemistry and Economics
  
  
• PR 09-197 - October 14, 2009
  NSF Awards Grants for Studies of Coupled Natural and Human Systems
  
  
• PR 09-196 - October 15, 2009
  National Science Foundation Advisory Committee Offers New Vision for the Geosciences
  
  
• PR 09-195 - October 12, 2009
  Self-Sacrifice Among Strangers Has More to Do with Nurture than Nature
  
  
• PR 09-194 - October 8, 2009
  Paleontologists Discover New Fossil Mammal
  
  
• PR 09-193 - October 8, 2009
  President Obama Presents 2008 National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation
  
  
• PR 09-192 - October 8, 2009
  NSF Releases Online Multimedia Package on Marine "Dead Zones"
  
  
• PR 09-191 - October 7, 2009
  Ecology of Infectious Disease Grants Awarded by NSF, NIH
  
  
• PR 09-190 - October 6, 2009
  Expeditions in Computing Continue to Break New Ground
  
  
• PR 09-189 - October 6, 2009
  Ancient China's Sand Dunes Reveal Unexpected Dryness During Heavy Monsoon Rains
  
  
• PR 09-188 - October 5, 2009
  Climate Change Triggered Dwarfism in Soil-Dwelling Creatures of the Past
  
  
• PR 09-187 - October 5, 2009
  Buried Coins Key to Roman Population Mystery?
  
  
• PR 09-186 - October 5, 2009
  Homebound Termites Answer 150-Year-Old Evolution Question
  
  
• PR 09-185 - October 5, 2009
  For Future Superconductors, a Little Bit of Lithium May Do Hydrogen a Lot of Good
  
  
• PR 09-184 - October 5, 2009
  Life in Transition: National Science Foundation Awards Grants to Study Connections Among Living Systems and Earth's History
  
  
• PR 09-183 - October 5, 2009
  A New Look Beneath the Waves: Ocean Observatories Initiative Gets Underway
  
  
• PR 09-182 - October 2, 2009
  Federal Government's Share of University R&D Funding Drops to 60 Percent
  
  
• PR 09-181 - October 2, 2009
  Awards Announced in "Social and Behavioral Dimensions of National Security, Conflict and Cooperation" Competition
  
  
• PR 09-180 - October 1, 2009
  East African Cichlid Fish Offer New Understanding of Genetic Basis of Sex Determination
  
  
• PR 09-179 - September 28, 2009
  Living, Meandering River Constructed
  
  
• PR 09-178 - September 28, 2009
  Building on Nature
  
  
• PR 09-177 - September 24, 2009
  North Meets South? Glaciers Move Together in Far-flung Regions
  
  
• PR 09-176 - September 22, 2009
  Building Research Competitiveness
  
  
• PR 09-175 - September 18, 2009
  President Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators
  
  
• PR 09-174 - September 17, 2009
  The Art of Science
  
  
• PR 09-173 - September 17, 2009
  Invasive Species on the March: Variable Rates of Spread Set Current Limits to Predictability
  
  
• PR 09-172 - September 15, 2009
  Unraveling the Chemistry of Titan's Hazy Atmosphere
  
  
• PR 09-171 - September 17, 2009
  More to Solar Cycle Than Sunspots
  
  
• PR 09-170 - September 9, 2009
  Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light
  
  
• PR 09-169 - September 8, 2009
  Report Shows Decline in Federal Science and Engineering Funding at Minority-Serving Institutions
  
  
• PR 09-168 - September 9, 2009
  Global Warming Causes Outbreak of Rare Algae in Caribbean Corals
  
  
• PR 09-167 - September 9, 2009
  NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education Releases New Report
  
  
• PR 09-166 - September 2, 2009
  The Arctic Offers More Evidence of Human Influences on Climate Change
  
  
• PR 09-165 - September 1, 2009
  NSF Invites Media to Apply for Antarctic Reporting Slots
  
  
• PR 09-164 - September 1, 2009
  Secrets of the Four Chambers Revealed by Reptile Hearts
  
  
• PR 09-163 - August 31, 2009
  2009 Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials
  
  
• PR 09-162 - August 27, 2009
  Removing the Barriers of Autism
  
  
• PR 09-161 - September 2, 2009
  Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health
  
  
• PR 09-160 - August 27, 2009
  Connections among Solar Cycle, Stratosphere and Ocean Discovered
  
  
• PR 09-159 - August 27, 2009
  Scientists Find "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch"
  
  
• PR 09-158 - August 26, 2009
  International Greenland Ice Coring Effort Sets New Drilling Record in 2009
  
  
• PR 09-157 - August 26, 2009
  Iridescence Found in 40-Million-Year-Old Fossil Bird Feather
  
  
• PR 09-156 - August 23, 2009
  Lightning's Mirror Image ... Only Much Bigger
  
  
• PR 09-155 - August 20, 2009
  "Wedding Cake" Images Display Transitions between Exotic Quantum States
  
  
• PR 09-154 - August 19, 2009
  LIGO Listens for Gravitational Echoes of the Birth of the Universe
  
  
• PR 09-153 - August 19, 2009
  Scientists Create First Three-dimensional Global Map of Electrical Conductivity in Earth's Mantle
  
  
• PR 09-152 - August 13, 2009
  Early Fire Use Ignites Discussion about the Evolution of Human Brainpower
  
  
• PR 09-151 - August 12, 2009
  Hurricane Seasons Are More Active
  
  
• PR 09-150 - August 12, 2009
  Storm Clouds Over Titan
  
  
• PR 09-149 - August 11, 2009
  Uncovering the Secrets of Ulcer-causing Bacteria
  
  
• PR 09-148 - August 5, 2009
  U.S. Students Win Big at the International Linguistics Olympiad
  
  
• PR 09-147 - August 3, 2009
  Of Mutts and Men
  
  
• PR 09-146 - August 3, 2009
  NYU Physicists Make Room for Oddballs
  
  
• PR 09-145 - July 30, 2009
  Membrane Breaks Through Performance Barrier
  
  
• PR 09-144 - July 30, 2009
  New Hope for Fisheries on the Horizon?
  
  
• PR 09-143 - July 29, 2009
  Researchers Link Jellyfish, Other Small Sea Creatures to Large-Scale Ocean Mixing
  
  
• PR 09-142 - July 24, 2009
  NSF Selects University of Michigan Historian to Head Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
  
  
• PR 09-141 - July 23, 2009
  What Scientists Know About Jewel Beetle Shimmer
  
  
• PR 09-140 - August 4, 2009
  Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles, Once in Concert, Falling Out of Sync
  
  
• PR 09-139 - July 16, 2009
  Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate
  
  
• PR 09-138 - July 14, 2009
  Classifying "Clicks"
  
  
• PR 09-137 - July 14, 2009
  When Robots Invaded the Senate
  
  
• PR 09-136 - July 13, 2009
  President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists
  
  
• PR 09-135 - July 8, 2009
  Matter Over Mind
  
  
• PR 09-134 - June 30, 2009
  Scientists Create First Working Model of a Two-Qubit Electronic Quantum Processor
  
  
• PR 09-133 - June 29, 2009
  Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows
  
  
• PR 09-132 - June 29, 2009
  Peer Pressure Plays Major Role in Environmental Behavior
  
  
• PR 09-130 - June 24, 2009
  New Data Show Jump in Science and Engineering Graduate Study
  
  
• PR 09-129 - June 24, 2009
  Stream of Sand Behaves Like Water
  
  
• PR 09-128 - June 23, 2009
  Variation in the Same Gene Affects Rate of Parasite Infection in Both Humans and Baboons
  
  
• PR 09-127 - June 23, 2009
  Weather Forecasts of Great Value to Americans, Survey Finds
  
  
• PR 09-126 - June 18, 2009
  Sudden Collapse in Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming the Culprit?
  
  
• PR 09-125 - June 18, 2009
  Scientists Create First Comprehensive Computer Model of Sunspots
  
  
• PR 09-124 - June 18, 2009
  Conflict Zones, Live
  
  
• PR 09-123 - June 17, 2009
  Beaked, Bird-like Dinosaur Tells Story of Finger Evolution
  
  
• PR 09-122 - June 11, 2009
  Global Warming Can Impact Monsoons and Lower Crop Production
  
  
• PR 09-121 - June 9, 2009
  The Secret of a Snake's Slither
  
  
• PR 09-120 - June 4, 2009
  Different Genes Cause Loss of Body Parts in Similar Fish
  
  
• PR 09-119 - June 4, 2009
  New Report Sets Forth Principles of Earth Science Literacy
  
  
• PR 09-118 - June 2, 2009
  The Abyss: Deepest Part of the Oceans No Longer Hidden
  
  
• PR 09-117 - June 1, 2009
  U.S. and Korean Researchers Unveil Newest Research Team Member: Jaemi the Humanoid
  
  
• PR 09-116 - June 1, 2009
  National Science Foundation Releases Science Nation, a Video Series on Breakthroughs and Discoveries That Impact Our Lives
  
  
• PR 09-115 - May 29, 2009
  When the Country Called: How a Team of Academic Experts Contributed to the President's Cyberspace Review
  
  
• PR 09-114 - May 28, 2009
  Streamlining Access: NSF Partners With InCommon
  
  
• PR 09-113 - May 28, 2009
  Corals' "Internal Communication" Process Critical to Maintaining Healthy Reefs
  
  
• PR 09-112 - May 28, 2009
  Scientists Return from Expedition to Drill Beneath Frozen Russian Lake
  
  
• PR 09-111 - May 27, 2009
  Arctic Tundra May Contribute to Warmer World
  
  
• PR 09-110 - May 27, 2009
  Sea-level Rise May Pose Greatest Threat to Northeast U.S., Canada
  
  
• PR 09-109 - May 27, 2009
  City Rats Loyal to Their 'Hoods, Scientists Discover
  
  
• PR 09-108 - May 27, 2009
  NSF Announces First Major Award Under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV)
  
  
• PR 09-107 - May 26, 2009
  A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface
  
  
• PR 09-106 - May 25, 2009
  Racing the Clock: Rapid Climate Change Forces Scientists to Evaluate Extreme Conservation Strategies
  
  
• PR 09-105 - May 21, 2009
  Viral Epidemics Poised to Go Mobile
  
  
• PR 09-103 - May 18, 2009
  NSF and NSB Pay Tribute to Three Top American Scientists and Public Service Awardees at Annual Ceremony
  
  
• PR 09-102 - May 18, 2009
  How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?
  
  
• PR 09-101 - May 15, 2009
  The Next Best Thing to You
  
  
• PR 09-100 - May 17, 2009
  Scientists Make First Direct Observations of Biological Particles in High-Altitude Clouds
  
  
• PR 09-099 - May 14, 2009
  National Science Foundation Releases Comprehensive Report on Global Impacts of Climate Change
  
  
• PR 09-098 - May 14, 2009
  National Science Foundation Requests $7.045 Billion for Fiscal Year 2010
  
  
• PR 09-097 - May 13, 2009
  Scientists Document Fate of Oil Slicks from Natural Seeps
  
  
• PR 09-096 - May 11, 2009
  NSF To Help Improve Academic Research Facilities
  
  
• PR 09-095 - May 11, 2009
  NSF Announces $200 Million Funding for Research Instrumentation
  
  
• PR 09-094 - May 11, 2009
  High Human Impact Ocean Areas Along U.S. West Coast Revealed
  
  
• PR 09-093 - May 8, 2009
  A Nimbus Rises in the World of Cloud Computing
  
  
• PR 09-092 - May 8, 2009
  NSF Director Arden Bement Awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star
  
  
• PR 09-091 - May 6, 2009
  Alchemy in Tanzania? Gas Becomes Solid at Surface of Oldoinyo Lengai Volcano
  
  
• PR 09-090 - May 5, 2009
  Marine Scientists Return From Expedition to Erupting Undersea Volcano
  
  
• PR 09-089 - May 1, 2009
  Sea-floor Sediments Illuminate 53 Million Years of Climate History
  
  
• PR 09-088 - April 30, 2009
  Shift in Simulation Superiority
  
  
• PR 09-087 - April 29, 2009
  Wildlife Trade Threatens Public Health and Ecosystems
  
  
• PR 09-086 - April 29, 2009
  Newly Rebuilt Drillship JOIDES Resolution Enroute to Port Call
  
  
• PR 09-085 - April 29, 2009
  Glacial Advances
  
  
• PR 09-084 - April 28, 2009
  Seaglider Monitors Climate-related Ocean Circulation in the Arctic During Record-Breaking Journey Under Ice
  
  
• PR 09-083 - April 23, 2009
  Video Available: A Celebration of the International Polar Year
  
  
• PR 09-082 - April 23, 2009
  National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research
  
  
• PR 09-081 - April 23, 2009
  Fire Is an Important and Under-Appreciated Part of Global Climate Change
  
  
• PR 09-080 - April 23, 2009
  "Fantastic Voyage" Not So Far-fetched
  
  
• PR 09-079 - April 21, 2009
  Students Least Informed about Environmental Science Are Most Optimistic
  
  
• PR 09-078 - April 21, 2009
  Lost Research Station Staffer Rescued in Greenland
  
  
• PR 09-077 - April 22, 2009
  Marine Scientists Warn of "Moderately Large" Potential for Spring, Summer Red Tide Outbreak in Gulf of Maine
  
  
• PR 09-076 - April 27, 2009
  New Blow for Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Theory
  
  
• PR 09-075 - April 21, 2009
  As World Warms, Water Levels Dropping in Major Rivers
  
  
• PR 09-074 - April 17, 2009
  "Instant On" Computing
  
  
• PR 09-073 - April 16, 2009
  NSF and People's Republic of China Extend China's Participation in East Asian Pacific Summer Institute Program
  
  
• PR 09-072 - April 16, 2009
  Scientists Discover New Chemical Reaction for DNA Production in Bacteria and Viruses
  
  
• PR 09-071 - April 16, 2009
  Shedding Some Light on Parkinson's Treatment
  
  
• PR 09-070 - April 16, 2009
  Unusual Antarctic Microbes Live Life on a Previously Unsuspected Edge
  
  
• PR 09-069 - April 15, 2009
  "Two-handed" Marine Microbes Point to New Method for Isolating Harmful Forms of Chemicals
  
  
• PR 09-068 - April 14, 2009
  Decline in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Reduce Sea-Level Rise, Save Arctic Sea Ice
  
  
• PR 09-067 - April 14, 2009
  National Science Board Recommends Comprehensive, Coordinated Federal Strategy to Transform U.S. Energy Economy
  
  
• PR 09-066 - April 16, 2009
  West African Droughts are the Norm, not an Anomaly
  
  
• PR 09-065 - April 9, 2009
  Autonomous Antarctic Observatories Gather Space Weather Data
  
  
• PR 09-064 - April 8, 2009
  Field Stations Foster Serendipitous Discoveries in Environmental, Biological Sciences
  
  
• PR 09-063 - April 7, 2009
  Scientists Pierce Veil of Clouds to "See" Lightning Inside a Volcanic Plume
  
  
• PR 09-062 - April 7, 2009
  Desert Woodrats Switch One Dietary Poison for Another
  
  
• PR 09-061 - April 7, 2009
  Largest Attempt in History to Understand Tornadoes Slated to Begin
  
  
• PR 09-060 - April 6, 2009
  Human Impacts on Coral Reefs of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Revealed
  
  
• PR 09-059 - April 6, 2009
  Spring Fishing Season Arrives ... And With It, Amphibian Diseases
  
  
• PR 09-058 - April 6, 2009
  Better Living through Chemistry: Brine-Loving Microbes Reveal Secrets to Success in Chemically Extreme Environments
  
  
• PR 09-057 - April 2, 2009
  Researchers Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply?
  
  
• PR 09-056 - April 1, 2009
  National Science Foundation Teams With NASCAR to Reveal "The Science of Speed"
  
  
• PR 09-055 - March 31, 2009
  "How Professors Think"
  
  
• PR 09-054 - April 2, 2009
  Maybe Robots Dream of Electric Sheep, But Can They Do Science?
  
  
• PR 09-053 - March 30, 2009
  National Science Foundation Announces Partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Foster Sustainable Agricultural Solutions around the World
  
  
• PR 09-052 - March 25, 2009
  Palomar Observatory Is Last Stop on 24-Hour Webcast Linking Telescopes Around the Globe and in Space
  
  
• PR 09-051 - March 25, 2009
  Tornado-like Rotation Is Key to Understanding Volcanic Plumes
  
  
• PR 09-050 - March 24, 2009
  Someone Else's Experience Can Make You Happy
  
  
• PR 09-049 - March 23, 2009
  Wild Grass Became Maize Crop More Than 8,700 Years Ago
  
  
• PR 09-048 - March 23, 2009
  National Science and Technology Council Releases Strategy for Digital Scientific Data
  
  
• PR 09-047 - March 18, 2009
  New Evidence From NSF-funded ANDRILL Demonstrates Climate Warming Affects Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability
  
  
• PR 09-046 - March 18, 2009
  Earth's Crust Melts Easier Than Thought
  
  
• PR 09-045 - March 17, 2009
  Fruit Flies' Response to Wind Offers New Window to Neural Circuits
  
  
• PR 09-044 - March 17, 2009
  British, NSF-funded Researchers Deploy Automated Submarine to Better Understand the Mechanics of Antarctic Ice Sheets
  
  
• PR 09-043 - March 16, 2009
  Arctic and Antarctic-themed Activities to Bring a Breath of Polar Air to Baltimore
  
  
• PR 09-042 - March 16, 2009
  Climate-related Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula Being Driven from the Top and the Bottom of the Ecosystem
  
  
• PR 09-041 - March 12, 2009
  Radio Series on Women in Science Wins Gracie Award
  
  
• PR 09-040 - March 9, 2009
  Millie Dresselhaus to Receive 2009 Vannevar Bush Award
  
  
• PR 09-039 - March 6, 2009
  NSB Names Recipients of 2009 Public Service Awards
  
  
• PR 09-038 - March 5, 2009
  Evidence of Earliest Known Domestic Horses Found in Kazakhstan
  
  
• PR 09-037 - February 27, 2009
  NSF Announces 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award Recipient
  
  
• PR 09-036 - February 26, 2009
  Understanding How Earth's Biological Systems Respond to and Influence Its Physical and Chemical Conditions
  
  
• PR 09-035 - February 26, 2009
  Scientists to Study Interactions among Earth's Environment, Society and the Economy
  
  
• PR 09-034 - February 26, 2009
  Not Just a Guy in a White Coat
  
  
• PR 09-033 - February 26, 2009
  National Science Foundation Requests $7 Billion for Fiscal Year 2010
  
  
• PR 09-032 - February 25, 2009
  Data Travels Six Times Faster in the Clouds
  
  
• PR 09-031 - March 2, 2009
  Geologic Findings Undermine Theories of Permian Mass Extinction Timing
  
  
• PR 09-030 - February 23, 2009
  Determining Risk for Pancreatic Cancer
  
  
• PR 09-029 - February 24, 2009
  U.S.-led, International Research Team Confirms Alps-like Mountain Range Exists under East Antarctic Ice Sheet
  
  
• PR 09-028 - February 20, 2009
  Revolutionary Method Generates New Template for Microelectronics
  
  
• PR 09-027 - February 23, 2009
  Marine Scientists to Investigate Role of Equatorial Pacific Ocean in Global Climate System
  
  
• PR 09-026 - February 19, 2009
  Open Access to Scientific Papers May Not Guarantee Wide Dissemination
  
  
• PR 09-025 - February 18, 2009
  "The Linguists" Premieres at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris
  
  
• PR 09-024 - February 17, 2009
  Catalyzing Change
  
  
• PR 09-023 - February 13, 2009
  Quantum Twist: Electrons Mimic Presence of Magnetic Field
  
  
• PR 09-022 - February 12, 2009
  Scientists' Next Big Discoveries Predicted in Online Report on the 150th Anniversary of "On The Origin of Species"
  
  
• PR 09-021 - February 6, 2009
  First North American Antenna Enables the ALMA Observatory to Do Its Thing
  
  
• PR 09-020 - February 8, 2009
  Iron on its Route to the Sea-Floor: A New Path
  
  
• PR 09-019 - February 5, 2009
  Could Sea Level Rise to the Steps of the U.S. Capitol?
  
  
• PR 09-018 - February 5, 2009
  Researchers Observe Evolution Chain Reaction
  
  
• PR 09-017 - February 4, 2009
  Keeping an Eye on the Inauguration
  
  
• PR 09-016 - February 5, 2009
  Microbe Survives in Ocean's Deepest Realm, Thanks to Genetic Adaptations
  
  
• PR 09-015 - February 4, 2009
  Fossil Steroids Record the Advent of Earliest Known Animals
  
  
• PR 09-014 - February 4, 2009
  Prehistoric Fossil Snake is Largest on Record
  
  
• PR 09-013 - February 3, 2009
  Early Whales Gave Birth on Land
  
  
• PR 09-012 - February 2, 2009
  Astronomers Discover Link Between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation
  
  
• PR 09-011 - February 2, 2009
  The National Science Foundation Contributes to Newest Version of "Google Earth"
  
  
• PR 09-010 - January 30, 2009
  "Hot Spot" for Toxic Algal Blooms Discovered Off Washington Coast
  
  
• PR 09-009 - January 26, 2009
  U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Vessel Sets Sail for Science Sea Trials
  
  
• PR 09-008 - January 26, 2009
  (Computational Linguistic) Olympiad Trials Start Soon
  
  
• PR 09-007 - January 21, 2009
  Conference Features Climate Change, Predatory Jellyfish, Other Hot Topics in Marine Science
  
  
• PR 09-006 - January 16, 2009
  Leading Research Agencies Announce New International Competition: "The Digging into Data Challenge"
  
  
• PR 09-005 - January 15, 2009
  Modeling Genomic Erosion
  
  
• PR 09-004 - January 15, 2009
  International Year of Astronomy Kicks Off With Strong Support from the National Science Foundation
  
  
• PR 09-003 - January 14, 2009
  Learning Science in Informal Environments
  
  
• PR 09-002 - January 8, 2009
  NSF, NASA Successfully Flight-Test New Balloon Over Antarctica
  
  
• PR 09-001 - January 7, 2009
  Scientists Take off on Historic Mission to Measure Greenhouse Gases That Have an Impact on Climate
  
  
• PR 08-221 - January 1, 2009
  Mother Nature Knows Nano
  
  

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PRESS RELEASES FOR 2008

• PR 08-222 - December 31, 2008
  Nano "Tractor Beam" Traps DNA
  
  
• PR 08-220 - December 29, 2008
  Viruses, Start Your Engines!
  
  
• PR 08-219 - December 22, 2008
  NSF Announces New Ice-Core Drilling Agreements for Polar Research
  
  
• PR 08-218 - December 18, 2008
  Next Generation Microscopy: No Stain, Big Gain
  
  
• PR 08-217 - December 14, 2008
  Researchers Make Breakthrough in the Production of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• PR 08-216 - December 12, 2008
  New Online Report on Massive Jellyfish Swarms Released
  
  
• PR 08-215 - December 11, 2008
  New Studies Reveal Differing Perceptions of Nature-Altering Science
  
  
• PR 08-214 - December 19, 2008
  Beginning Scientists Receive Presidential Awards
  
  
• PR 08-213 - December 10, 2008
  New Earth System Science Results Reported at Conference
  
  
• PR 08-212 - December 10, 2008
  National Science Foundation Assistant Director for Biological Sciences to Address American Society for Cell Biology Conference
  
  
• PR 08-211 - December 10, 2008
  National Science Foundation Assistant Director for Geosciences to Address American Geophysical Union Conference
  
  
• PR 08-210 - November 25, 2008
  Dancing Atoms Now Understood
  
  
• PR 08-209 - November 25, 2008
  An ACE for Visually Impaired Students in Computer Science
  
  
• PR 08-208 - November 20, 2008
  Historical Ecology Increases Understanding of Earth's Past and Future
  
  
• PR 08-207 - November 21, 2008
  NSF Priority Area Awards $28 Million in New Grants and Ends Its Run
  
  
• PR 08-206 - November 24, 2008
  Unlocking Climate Mysteries and Engaging Students from Harlem to Antarctica
  
  
• PR 08-205 - November 17, 2008
  Small Satellite Takes on Large Thunderstorms
  
  
• PR 08-204 - November 13, 2008
  Planetary "First Family" Discovered By Astronomers Using Gemini and Keck Observatories
  
  
• PR 08-203 - November 18, 2008
  Discovery Questions Intelligence of Human Ancestor
  
  
• PR 08-202 - November 13, 2008
  Mysterious Microbe Plays Important Role in Ocean Ecology
  
  
• PR 08-201 - November 9, 2008
  Sedimentary Records Link Himalayan Erosion Rates and Monsoon Intensity Through Time
  
  
• PR 08-200 - November 10, 2008
  When A Good Nanoparticle Goes Bad
  
  
• PR 08-199 - November 7, 2008
  Bullies May Enjoy Seeing Others in Pain
  
  
• PR 08-198 - November 7, 2008
  Ecologists Use Oceanographic Data to Predict Future Climate Change
  
  
• PR 08-197 - November 6, 2008
  Using Mathematical Models to Predict Global Migration
  
  
• PR 08-196 - November 6, 2008
  Dry Spells Spelled Trouble in Ancient China
  
  
• PR 08-195 - November 6, 2008
  Obscure Fungus Produces Diesel Fuel Components
  
  
• PR 08-194 - November 5, 2008
  NSF Plays Major Role in Complex International Evacuation of an Injured Australian from Antarctica
  
  
• PR 08-193 - November 2, 2008
  In Alaska's Forests, Dried Mushrooms to the Rescue?
  
  
• PR 08-192 - October 30, 2008
  The Building Blocks of Life
  
  
• PR 08-191 - October 28, 2008
  NSF Enables Pakistan to Connect to Global Research Community through New High Speed Link
  
  
• PR 08-190 - October 27, 2008
  Advancing Transparency
  
  
• PR 08-189 - October 27, 2008
  NSF Awards 20 New Projects for Plant Genome Research
  
  
• PR 08-188 - October 29, 2008
  Researcher Links Agricultural Chemicals to Infections in a Declining Amphibian Species
  
  
• PR 08-187 - October 23, 2008
  World's Smallest Storage Space ... the Nucleus of an Atom
  
  
• PR 08-186 - October 17, 2008
  Inmates Conduct Ecological Research on Slow-growing Mosses
  
  
• PR 08-185 - October 17, 2008
  National Science Foundation Congratulates 2008 Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economics
  
  
• PR 08-184 - October 16, 2008
  More Spring in the Double Helix's Step
  
  
• PR 08-183 - October 16, 2008
  Building Better Kids
  
  
• PR 08-182 - October 16, 2008
  Key to Function of Dinosaur Crests Found in Brain Structure
  
  
• PR 08-181 - October 15, 2008
  Details of Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Land Animals Revealed
  
  
• PR 08-180 - October 15, 2008
  Star Count Goes Global
  
  
• PR 08-179 - October 14, 2008
  As Sticky as a Gecko ... but Ten Times Stronger!
  
  
• PR 08-178 - October 14, 2008
  U.S.-Led, International AGAP Team Poised to Probe One of Antarctica's Last Unexplored Places
  
  
• PR 08-177 - October 9, 2008
  Fitness in a Changing World
  
  
• PR 08-176 - October 9, 2008
  Health Standards Exceeded by Ozone Pollution in Wildfires
  
  
• PR 08-175 - October 8, 2008
  Future Risk of Hurricanes: The Role of Climate Change
  
  
• PR 08-174 - October 6, 2008
  NSF Launches Third Generation of Engineering Research Centers with Awards Totaling $92.5 Million
  
  
• PR 08-173 - October 3, 2008
  NSF Awards 10 Grants for Studies of Coupled Natural and Human Systems
  
  
• PR 08-172 - October 3, 2008
  Gas From the Past Gives Scientists New Insights into Climate and the Oceans
  
  
• PR 08-171 - October 2, 2008
  Beetles Get by With a Little Help From Their Friends
  
  
• PR 08-170 - October 2, 2008
  Paleozoic 'Sediment Curve' Provides New Tool for Tracking Sea-floor Sediment Movements
  
  
• PR 08-169 - October 2, 2008
  New Research to Probe Human Mind and Future Infrastructure Systems
  
  
• PR 08-168 - October 1, 2008
  National Science Foundation Awards Grant to Build "CubeSats"
  
  
• PR 08-167 - September 30, 2008
  NSF Awards 14 Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers
  
  
• PR 08-166 - September 26, 2008
  Eight National Medals of Science Awardees Honored at Gala, Then the White House
  
  
• PR 08-165 - September 25, 2008
  Oldest Known Rock on Earth Discovered
  
  
• PR 08-164 - September 25, 2008
  All Students Proficient on State Tests by 2014?
  
  
• PR 08-163 - September 25, 2008
  2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
  
  
• PR 08-162 - September 24, 2008
  Pine Bark Beetles Affecting More than Forests
  
  
• PR 08-161 - September 18, 2008
  National Science Board Nominees Sent to the U.S. Senate
  
  
• PR 08-160 - September 18, 2008
  NSF, NIH Award Ecology of Infectious Disease Grants
  
  
• PR 08-159 - September 18, 2008
  Walnut Trees Emit Aspirin-Like Chemical to Deal With Stress
  
  
• PR 08-158 - September 18, 2008
  Some Political Views May be Related to Physiology
  
  
• PR 08-157 - September 17, 2008
  Doppler on Wheels Deployed at Hurricane Ike
  
  
• PR 08-156 - September 17, 2008
  From Sugar to Gasoline
  
  
• PR 08-155 - September 17, 2008
  NSF and EPA Establish Two Centers for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
  
  
• PR 08-154 - September 16, 2008
  Thomas W. Peterson to Become NSF Assistant Director for Engineering
  
  
• PR 08-153 - September 4, 2008
  Climate Computer Modeling Heats Up
  
  
• PR 08-152 - September 3, 2008
  NSF Funds New Center to Bring Together Biologists, Mathematicians
  
  
• PR 08-151 - September 3, 2008
  White House Announces 2007 National Medal of Science Laureates
  
  
• PR 08-150 - September 2, 2008
  Multi-Core Chip Research to Lead to Performance Gains, Power Reduction for High- and Low-End Computing with $6 Million Support from NSF, SRC
  
  
• PR 08-149 - August 28, 2008
  Understanding the Science of Solar-Based Energy: More Researchers Are Better Than One
  
  
• PR 08-148 - August 27, 2008
  Yellowstone's Ancient Supervolcano: Only Lukewarm?
  
  
• PR 08-147 - August 27, 2008
  Real-World Lessons in Virtual World
  
  
• PR 08-146 - August 25, 2008
  DNA Barcodes: Are They Always Accurate?
  
  
• PR 08-145 - August 22, 2008
  Geophysicist Robert Detrick Named NSF Division Director for Earth Sciences
  
  
• PR 08-144 - August 21, 2008
  Universities Detail Declines in Federal R&D Funding for Science and Engineering Fields
  
  
• PR 08-143 - August 19, 2008
  Alfred Wilson Named HealthierFed Leader by U.S. Office of Personnel Management
  
  
• PR 08-142 - August 18, 2008
  Greenland Ice Core Reveals History of Pollution in the Arctic
  
  
• PR 08-141 - August 18, 2008
  NSF Announces Expeditions in Computing Awards
  
  
• PR 08-140 - August 15, 2008
  Team USA Brings Home the (Linguistics) Gold
  
  
• PR 08-139 - August 13, 2008
  Robot Vehicle Surveys Deep Sea Off Pacific Northwest
  
  
• PR 08-138 - August 7, 2008
  Scientists to Assess Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Control Efforts
  
  
• PR 08-137 - August 7, 2008
  Universally Speaking, Earthlings Share a Nice Neighborhood
  
  
• PR 08-136 - August 6, 2008
  NSF Hosts the Second U.S.-China Computer Science Leadership Summit
  
  
• PR 08-135 - August 5, 2008
  Cora Marrett Honored by American Sociological Association
  
  
• PR 08-134 - August 4, 2008
  Antarctic Fossils Paint a Picture of a Much Warmer Continent
  
  
• PR 08-133 - August 4, 2008
  NSF Issues Solicitation for Basic, Human Sciences Research on Social and Behavioral Dimensions of National Security, Conflict and Cooperation
  
  
• PR 08-132 - August 6, 2008
  The Shape of Things to Come
  
  
• PR 08-131 - July 31, 2008
  Cold and Ice, and Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago
  
  
• PR 08-130 - July 30, 2008
  NSF Announces Partnership with Industry, Academia to Further Explore Data-Intensive Computing
  
  
• PR 08-129 - July 31, 2008
  Water Refineries?
  
  
• PR 08-128 - July 25, 2008
  The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal
  
  
• PR 08-127 - July 23, 2008
  Transcending Boundaries
  
  
• PR 08-126 - July 23, 2008
  Parasites Outweigh Predators in Pacific Coast Estuaries
  
  
• PR 08-125 - July 22, 2008
  Scientists Test System to Forecast Flash Floods along Colorado's Front Range
  
  
• PR 08-124 - July 21, 2008
  Outflow from World's Largest River --the Amazon--Powers Atlantic Ocean Carbon "Sink"
  
  
• PR 08-123 - July 21, 2008
  NSF Awards Grant to Track 'Space Weather' in Earth's Near-Space Environment
  
  
• PR 08-122 - July 21, 2008
  Tongue Drive Technology
  
  
• PR 08-121 - July 17, 2008
  Sorry, Charlie, You and Nemo Aren't the Only Fish That Talk
  
  
• PR 08-120 - July 17, 2008
  Research Publications Online: Too Much of A Good Thing?
  
  
• PR 08-119 - July 17, 2008
  A Single Boulder May Prove that Antarctica and North America Were Once Connected
  
  
• PR 08-118 - July 10, 2008
  A Colorful Approach to Solar Energy
  
  
• PR 08-117 - July 3, 2008
  Radicals Shake Up Molecules in a Tug o' War
  
  
• PR 08-116 - July 3, 2008
  In Unique Stellar Laboratory, Einstein's Theory Passes Strict, New Test
  
  
• PR 08-115 - July 3, 2008
  Species Have Come and Gone at Different Rates than Previously Believed
  
  
• PR 08-114 - July 2, 2008
  NSF Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Department of Defense for National Security Research
  
  
• PR 08-113 - July 1, 2008
  Crossed (Evolutionary) Signals?
  
  
• PR 08-112 - July 1, 2008
  The Day the World Changed
  
  
• PR 08-111 - June 30, 2008
  Lasers, Software and the Devil's Slide
  
  
• PR 08-110 - June 30, 2008
  Despite Frustrations, Americans Are Pretty Darned Happy
  
  
• PR 08-109 - June 27, 2008
  Metals Shape Up with a Little Help from Friends
  
  
• PR 08-108 - June 26, 2008
  July 15 Deadline to Apply for High-Performance Computational Time on Teragrid
  
  
• PR 08-107 - June 26, 2008
  What It's Like to Be a Bat
  
  
• PR 08-106 - June 24, 2008
  Where Are You Now, My Love?
  
  
• PR 08-105 - June 19, 2008
  Microscopic "Clutch" Puts Flagellum in Neutral
  
  
• PR 08-104 - June 18, 2008
  Newly Born Twin Stars Are Far From Identical
  
  
• PR 08-103 - June 17, 2008
  The Mystery of Mass Extinctions Is No Longer Murky
  
  
• PR 08-102 - June 12, 2008
  If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does Climate Change?
  
  
• PR 08-101 - June 12, 2008
  Field Project Seeks Clues to Climate Change in Remote Atmospheric Region
  
  
• PR 08-100 - June 11, 2008
  Diamonds Are Forever Revealing New Insights Into Earth's Development
  
  
• PR 08-099 - June 10, 2008
  LSU Center for Computation & Technology Director To Head National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure
  
  
• PR 08-098 - June 9, 2008
  Tapping Computer Science for a More ACCURATE Vote
  
  
• PR 08-097 - June 6, 2008
  National Science Foundation Funds Research Addressing Enduring Questions of Life
  
  
• PR 08-096 - June 5, 2008
  Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
  
  
• PR 08-095 - June 5, 2008
  Study of Glacial Earthquakes Shakes Up Idea of How Ice Streams Move
  
  
• PR 08-094 - June 4, 2008
  A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells
  
  
• PR 08-093 - June 2, 2008
  Small Planet, Small Star
  
  
• PR 08-092 - June 2, 2008
  Engaging the YouTube Generation in Hands-on Science
  
  
• PR 08-091 - May 30, 2008
  A Computer That Can 'Read' Your Mind
  
  
• PR 08-090 - May 29, 2008
  State of Play
  
  
• PR 08-089 - June 1, 2008
  Large-Scale Experiments Needed to Predict Global Change
  
  
• PR 08-088 - May 29, 2008
  Scientists Discover Stinging Truths About Jellyfish Blooms in the Bering Sea
  
  
• PR 08-087 - May 28, 2008
  Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt, Far-Reaching Climate Change
  
  
• PR 08-086 - May 28, 2008
  Bacteria "Feed" on Earth's Ocean-Bottom Crust
  
  
• PR 08-085 - May 27, 2008
  Hold the Old Lace: Arsenic and Iron Material Is a Remarkable Superconductor
  
  
• PR 08-084 - May 22, 2008
  When Plants "Think" Alike
  
  
• PR 08-083 - May 22, 2008
  Getting to the Roots of Sunflower Cultivation
  
  
• PR 08-082 - May 21, 2008
  Finding Answers in the Clouds
  
  
• PR 08-081 - May 16, 2008
  How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox?
  
  
• PR 08-080 - May 15, 2008
  Why Nations Fail to Act
  
  
• PR 08-079 - May 9, 2008
  Aerospace Business Leader, Supreme Problem Solver, and Innovative Science Communications Programs Capture Public's Interest in Science
  
  
• PR 08-078 - May 9, 2008
  Designer Isotopes Push the Frontier of Science
  
  
• PR 08-077 - May 8, 2008
  Ancient Beachcombers May Have Travelled Slowly
  
  
• PR 08-076 - May 7, 2008
  Platypus Genome Decoded
  
  
• PR 08-075 - May 1, 2008
  Closing the Achievement Gap in Math and Science
  
  
• PR 08-074 - May 1, 2008
  Top Science and Math Teachers Receive Presidential Award
  
  
• PR 08-073 - May 1, 2008
  Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star
  
  
• PR 08-072 - April 30, 2008
  Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake
  
  
• PR 08-071 - April 30, 2008
  Research Team Is First to Model Photochemical Compass for Bird Navigation
  
  
• PR 08-070 - April 30, 2008
  Ancient "Nutcracker Man" Challenges Ideas on Evolution of Human Diet
  
  
• PR 08-069 - April 24, 2008
  Injecting Sulfate Particles into Stratosphere Could Have Drastic Impact on Earth's Ozone Layer
  
  
• PR 08-068 - April 24, 2008
  Genetic Sequencing of Protein from T. rex Bone Confirms Dinosaurs' Link to Birds
  
  
• PR 08-067 - April 23, 2008
  Catching a Glimpse of a Black Hole's Fury
  
  
• PR 08-066 - April 23, 2008
  A CluE in the Search for Data-Intensive Computing
  
  
• PR 08-065 - April 16, 2008
  National Science Board to Honor Norm Augustine with Prestigious Vannevar Bush Award
  
  
• PR 08-064 - April 16, 2008
  Attraction at the Atomic Level
  
  
• PR 08-063 - April 16, 2008
  Star Wars Exhibition Brings Reality to Fantasy
  
  
• PR 08-062 - April 15, 2008
  National Science Foundation Announces Graduate Research Fellows for 2008
  
  
• PR 08-061 - April 11, 2008
  Geologists Discover New Way of Estimating Size and Frequency of Meteorite Impacts
  
  
• PR 08-060 - April 10, 2008
  Picture This: Explaining Science Through Drawings
  
  
• PR 08-059 - April 10, 2008
  And the First Animal on Earth Was a ...
  
  
• PR 08-058 - April 10, 2008
  Forecasters Implement New Hurricane-Tracking Technique
  
  
• PR 08-057 - April 10, 2008
  NSF to Bestow Waterman Award to UCLA's 'Mozart of Math'
  
  
• PR 08-056 - April 7, 2008
  Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, But Gasoline Might
  
  
• PR 08-055 - April 8, 2008
  Misery, Not Miserly
  
  
• PR 08-054 - April 3, 2008
  NSF Advances TeraGrid Computing Capacity with $65 Million Grant to Build Kraken
  
  
• PR 08-053 - April 3, 2008
  New Data Show Strong Labor Market for Scientists and Engineers
  
  
• PR 08-052 - April 2, 2008
  Emission Reduction Assumptions for Carbon Dioxide Overly Optimistic, Study Says
  
  
• PR 08-051 - April 2, 2008
  National Science Board Names 2008 Public Service Award Winners
  
  
• PR 08-050 - April 1, 2008
  Small is Big During NanoDays
  
  
• PR 08-049 - April 1, 2008
  New Star Systems First of Their Kind
  
  
• PR 08-048 - March 27, 2008
  Is Graphene the New Silicon?
  
  
• PR 08-047 - March 26, 2008
  Coming Together to Help Grow the Next Generation of Computing Leaders
  
  
• PR 08-046 - March 26, 2008
  Rich Terrorist, Poor Terrorist
  
  
• PR 08-045 - March 26, 2008
  A Planet in Progress?
  
  
• PR 08-044 - March 24, 2008
  Online Magazine for Elementary Teachers Brings Polar Issues Into Classrooms Nationwide
  
  
• PR 08-043 - March 20, 2008
  Countering an Approaching Water Crisis
  
  
• PR 08-042 - March 20, 2008
  "Nanominerals" Influence Earth Systems from Ocean to Atmosphere to Biosphere
  
  
• PR 08-041 - March 17, 2008
  Tiny Torrents
  
  
• PR 08-040 - March 18, 2008
  Tell Them Where it Hurts
  
  
• PR 08-039 - March 12, 2008
  New Window Opens on the Secret Life of Microbes: Scientists Develop First Microbial Profiles of Ecosystems
  
  
• PR 08-038 - March 11, 2008
  "Telework" Benefits Employers, Employees and the Environment
  
  
• PR 08-037 - March 10, 2008
  High-School Scientists Decode DNA Sequence, Present Findings
  
  
• PR 08-036 - March 6, 2008
  Memory on Trial
  
  
• PR 08-035 - March 4, 2008
  Attend Capital Science 2008, a Premier Showcase of Scientific Talent, at NSF
  
  
• PR 08-034 - February 28, 2008
  Tax Rebates Versus Tax Bonuses
  
  
• PR 08-033 - February 26, 2008
  Tim Killeen to Become NSF Assistant Director for Geosciences
  
  
• PR 08-032 - February 26, 2008
  Ranger Supercomputer Dedicated by NSF and Texas Advanced Computing Center
  
  
• PR 08-031 - February 25, 2008
  NSF Partners With Google and IBM to Enhance Academic Research Opportunities
  
  
• PR 08-030 - February 25, 2008
  And the Oscar Goes To...a Professor?
  
  
• PR 08-029 - February 28, 2008
  All Eyes and Ears on the Corn Genome
  
  
• PR 08-028 - February 20, 2008
  Leading Engineers and Scientists Identify Advances That Could Improve Quality of Life Around the World
  
  
• PR 08-027 - February 20, 2008
  Scientists Say Tropics Are Next Emerging Disease Hotspot
  
  
• PR 08-026 - February 19, 2008
  NOVA Documentary About Percy Julian Wins AAAS Science Journalism Award
  
  
• PR 08-025 - February 18, 2008
  Scientists Discover "Giant Fossil Frog from Hell"
  
  
• PR 08-024 - February 14, 2008
  Scientists Reveal First-Ever Global Map of Total Human Effect on Oceans
  
  
• PR 08-023 - February 14, 2008
  Volunteers Across Nation to Track Climate Clues in Spring Flowers
  
  
• PR 08-022 - February 8, 2008
  Model Checking Pioneers Receive Turing Award, Most Prestigious in Computing
  
  
• PR 08-021 - February 14, 2008
  A Newly Discovered Solar System Contains Scaled-Down Versions of Saturn and Jupiter
  
  
• PR 08-020 - February 13, 2008
  Remarkable New Clothing May Someday Power Your iPod®
  
  
• PR 08-019 - February 11, 2008
  Fossil Record Suggests Insect Assaults on Foliage May Increase with Warming Globe
  
  
• PR 08-018 - February 7, 2008
  Natural Ocean Thermostat Helps Protect Pacific Ocean Coral Reefs
  
  
• PR 08-017 - February 7, 2008
  Effects of Urbanization Extend to the Global Scale
  
  
• PR 08-016 - February 4, 2008
  National Science Foundation Requests $6.85 Billion for Fiscal Year 2009
  
  
• PR 08-015 - January 30, 2008
  Texas High School Students Present Research Results at National Astronomy Conference
  
  
• PR 08-014 - January 30, 2008
  National Science Foundation Awards $50 Million for Collaborative Plant Biology Project to Tackle Greater Science Questions
  
  
• PR 08-013 - January 29, 2008
  The Pitter Patter of Little Feet . . . Climbing Straight Up a Wall
  
  
• PR 08-012 - January 28, 2008
  Foreign Science and Engineering Graduate Students Returning to U.S. Colleges
  
  
• PR 08-011 - January 25, 2008
  Lithium and Beryllium No Longer "Lack Chemistry"
  
  
• PR 08-010 - January 23, 2008
  Agriculture Changing Chemistry of Mississippi River
  
  
• PR 08-009 - January 22, 2008
  New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet
  
  
• PR 08-008 - January 17, 2008
  Molecular Walker Takes Baby Steps
  
  
• PR 08-007 - January 17, 2008
  Feeding the World: New Method for Producing High-Vitamin Corn Could Improve Nutrition in Developing Countries
  
  
• PR 08-006 - January 15, 2008
  NSF Dedicates New South Pole Station
  
  
• PR 08-005 - January 15, 2008
  National Science Board Releases Science and Engineering Indicators 2008
  
  
• PR 08-004 - January 9, 2008
  9/11 Attacks American Hearts
  
  
• PR 08-003 - January 9, 2008
  Digital Library for Geosciences Moves to National Center for Atmospheric Research
  
  
• PR 08-002 - January 8, 2008
  "The Linguists," Documenting Vanishing Voices, Premieres at Sundance
  
  
• PR 08-001 - January 4, 2008
  Scientific Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record
  
  

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PRESS RELEASES FOR 2007

• PR 07-189 - December 21, 2007
  NSF-chartered Plane Crashes While Taking Off from Remote Antarctic Field Camp
  
  
• PR 07-188 - December 20, 2007
  Missing Link Between Whales and Four-Footed Ancestors Discovered
  
  
• PR 07-187 - December 18, 2007
  Metal Foam Has a Good Memory
  
  
• PR 07-186 - December 12, 2007
  NSF Appoints New Director of Office of Integrative Activities
  
  
• PR 07-185 - December 11, 2007
  U.S. Middle School Math Teachers Are Ill-prepared Among International Counterparts
  
  
• PR 07-184 - December 7, 2007
  New Results Presented at Conference: Climate Change, Weather and Ecosystems; Urban Air Quality; Earth Observing Systems; Seafloor Drilling
  
  
• PR 07-183 - December 10, 2007
  Web Surfers Can Follow Researcher as She Seeks to Collar and Study Pandas in Chinese Reserve
  
  
• PR 07-182 - December 4, 2007
  Did Life Originate in a Mica Sandwich Sitting in Primordial Soup?
  
  
• PR 07-181 - December 4, 2007
  Broken Homes Damage the Environment
  
  
• PR 07-180 - November 28, 2007
  Understanding How Humans Cause, Respond and Adapt to Change
  
  
• PR 07-179 - November 27, 2007
  Newly Unveiled Satellite Map of Antarctica Is a Unique Tool for Scientists, Educators and the Public
  
  
• PR 07-178 - November 26, 2007
  NSF Awards Grants for Three Critical Zone Observatories
  
  
• PR 07-177 - November 26, 2007
  NSF Awards Focus on Policy Implications of Global Change Throughout the Americas
  
  
• PR 07-176 - November 23, 2007
  Illuminating Study Reveals How Plants Respond to Light
  
  
• PR 07-175 - November 26, 2007
  Children's Bad Behavior Gives Insights to Academic Achievement and Later Career Success
  
  
• PR 07-174 - November 20, 2007
  U.S. Awards Record Number of Science and Engineering Doctorates
  
  
• PR 07-173 - November 20, 2007
  National Science Foundation Makes Documenting Endangered Languages Permanent Program
  
  
• PR 07-172 - November 19, 2007
  President Honors Mentors of Scientists and Engineers
  
  
• PR 07-171 - November 19, 2007
  Wildfire Letdowns and Wake-up Calls
  
  
• PR 07-170 - November 16, 2007
  NSF, NASA to Test Lunar Habitat in Antarctica's Extreme Environment
  
  
• PR 07-169 - November 16, 2007
  Mobile Microbes: Viruses Living in Yellowstone's Hot Springs Travel Near and Far
  
  
• PR 07-168 - November 12, 2007
  Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate
  
  
• PR 07-167 - November 6, 2007
  NSF Science and Technology Center Wins United Nations Prize
  
  
• PR 07-166 - November 6, 2007
  New Planet Discovered Around Nearby Star
  
  
• PR 07-165 - November 2, 2007
  Risking Wildfire
  
  
• PR 07-164 - November 1, 2007
  Beginning Scientists Receive Presidential Awards
  
  
• PR 07-163 - October 31, 2007
  U.S. Fires Release Enormous Amounts of Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• PR 07-162 - October 31, 2007
  World's Smallest Radio Fits in the Palm of the Hand . . . of an Ant
  
  
• PR 07-161 - October 31, 2007
  Paleontologists Discover Ancient Jurassic Mammal with New Type of Teeth
  
  
• PR 07-160 - October 31, 2007
  Wildfire Drives Carbon Levels in Northern Forests
  
  
• PR 07-159 - October 30, 2007
  Fossil Record Reveals Jellyfish More than 500 Million Years Old
  
  
• PR 07-158 - October 30, 2007
  Digital Eyes in the Sky Play Key Role in Battling Flames in Southern California
  
  
• PR 07-157 - October 29, 2007
  NSF, NIH Award Ecology of Infectious Diseases Grants
  
  
• PR 07-156 - October 29, 2007
  New Type of Retinal Cell Discovered in Primates
  
  
• PR 07-155 - October 26, 2007
  Researchers View Swimming Tactics of Tiny Aquatic Predators
  
  
• PR 07-154 - October 25, 2007
  Newly Created Forms of Magnesium and Aluminum
  
  
• PR 07-153 - October 25, 2007
  Seismologists See Earth's Dynamic Interior as Interplay of Temperature, Pressure, Chemistry
  
  
• PR 07-152 - October 25, 2007
  William T. Golden: Appreciation
  
  
• PR 07-151 - October 24, 2007
  Forming Groups Stabilizes Populations of Predators and Prey
  
  
• PR 07-150 - October 24, 2007
  Solar Telescope Reaches 120,000 Feet on Jumbo Jet-Sized Balloon
  
  
• PR 07-149 - October 19, 2007
  California Wolf Center Takes Wolves Into Classrooms During National Awareness Week
  
  
• PR 07-148 - October 19, 2007
  Cultivating Math and Science Teachers for High-need School Districts
  
  
• PR 07-147 - October 17, 2007
  Scientists Estimate Mercury Emissions from U.S. Forest Fires
  
  
• PR 07-146 - October 17, 2007
  National Science Foundation Congratulates 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics Laureates
  
  
• PR 07-145 - October 16, 2007
  Earliest Evolution of Vision Genes Discovered
  
  
• PR 07-144 - October 16, 2007
  NSF Awards 12 Grants for Research on Coupled Natural and Human Systems
  
  
• PR 07-143 - October 16, 2007
  Getting Light to Bend Backwards
  
  
• PR 07-142 - October 12, 2007
  National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities Award New Grants to Document Endangered Languages
  
  
• PR 07-141 - October 12, 2007
  New Technique Reveals Subtle Force-induced Changes in Biomolecule's Conformation
  
  
• PR 07-140 - October 11, 2007
  NSF Awards 26 New Grants to Seed Plant Systems Biology
  
  
• PR 07-139 - October 11, 2007
  Scientists Sequence Genome of Soil-Dwelling Green Alga
  
  
• PR 07-138 - October 11, 2007
  Technology to the RESCUE
  
  
• PR 07-136 - October 21, 2007
  Photonic Gel Films Hold Promise
  
  
• PR 07-135 - October 5, 2007
  Opening New Possibilities for Deaf Students in Computer Science
  
  
• PR 07-134 - October 5, 2007
  Scientists to Sick Plants: Take Two Doses of an Aspirin-Like Hormone and Call Me in the Morning
  
  
• PR 07-133 - October 9, 2007
  Explorers Club to Honor NSF-Funded Researchers and Glaciologist for Climate-Science Breakthroughs
  
  
• PR 07-132 - October 4, 2007
  Geologists Recover Rocks From San Andreas Fault
  
  
• PR 07-131 - October 4, 2007
  NSF Provides Funding to Transform Computing Education
  
  
• PR 07-130 - October 4, 2007
  National Science Foundation and ResearchChannel Form Programming Partnership
  
  
• PR 07-129 - October 1, 2007
  Research and Development Bolsters U.S. Economic Growth
  
  
• PR 07-128 - October 1, 2007
  NSF Announces $26 Million Solicitation for Projects That Advance Innovative Computational Thinking
  
  
• PR 07-127 - September 27, 2007
  Oxygen on Earth: 50 to 100 Million Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought
  
  
• PR 07-126 - September 27, 2007
  2007 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
  
  
• PR 07-125 - September 26, 2007
  Program Provides Blueprint for Recruiting Minorities to Science and Engineering
  
  
• PR 07-124 - September 24, 2007
  NSF and Department of Homeland Security Partner to Drive Frontier Research in Nuclear Detection
  
  
• PR 07-123 - September 24, 2007
  Nutrient Pollution Drives Frog Deformities by Ramping Up Infections
  
  
• PR 07-122 - September 18, 2007
  Interbreeding Between Invasive and Native Salamander Species Creates Hardy Hybrids Likely to Replace Parental Populations
  
  
• PR 07-121 - September 18, 2007
  "Earth & Sky" Launches Spanish-language Radio Series
  
  
• PR 07-120 - September 11, 2007
  Can a Robot Get High School Students Interested in Studying Science and Engineering in College?
  
  
• PR 07-119 - September 11, 2007
  Nanomaterials With a Bright Future
  
  
• PR 07-118 - September 10, 2007
  Scientists Use the "Dark Web" to Snag Extremists and Terrorists Online
  
  
• PR 07-117 - September 7, 2007
  Acid Rain Has Disproportionate Impact on Near-Shore Ocean Waters
  
  
• PR 07-116 - September 7, 2007
  Einstein Fellows Begin Year at National Science Foundation
  
  
• PR 07-115 - September 6, 2007
  Dinosaur Fossil Shows Signs of Early Flight Mechanism
  
  
• PR 07-114 - September 6, 2007
  Change from Arid to Wet Climate in Africa Altered Early Human Evolution
  
  
• PR 07-113 - September 5, 2007
  Moray Eels Are Uniquely Equipped to Pack Big Prey Into Their Narrow Bodies
  
  
• PR 07-112 - August 30, 2007
  New Approach Encourages Engineers to Pursue Paradigm Shifts
  
  
• PR 07-111 - August 30, 2007
  One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another Species' Genome
  
  
• PR 07-110 - August 30, 2007
  Scientists Find Elusive Waves in Solar Corona
  
  
• PR 07-109 - August 29, 2007
  Volcanic Activity Key to Oxygen-rich Atmosphere
  
  
• PR 07-108 - August 27, 2007
  Back to School: Five Myths about Girls and Science
  
  
• PR 07-107 - August 23, 2007
  Light Brings Out the Worst in Some Disease-Causing Bacteria
  
  
• PR 07-106 - August 22, 2007
  U.S. Records Yet Another Trade Deficit in Technology Product Markets
  
  
• PR 07-105 - August 20, 2007
  Catching Some Rays
  
  
• PR 07-104 - August 20, 2007
  Scientists Verify Predictive Model for Winter Weather
  
  
• PR 07-103 - August 17, 2007
  Team USA Takes the Prize at the International Linguistics Olympiad in St. Petersburg, Russia
  
  
• PR 07-102 - August 16, 2007
  Scientists Retrace Evolution of an Important Human Protein
  
  
• PR 07-101 - August 14, 2007
  Origami Electronics?
  
  
• PR 07-100 - August 10, 2007
  New, More Direct Pathways from Outside of Cells to Cell Nuclei Discovered
  
  
• PR 07-099 - August 9, 2007
  National Science Board Approves National Action Plan for 21st Century STEM Education
  
  
• PR 07-098 - August 9, 2007
  Man-Made Soot Contributed to Warming in Greenland in the Early 20th Century
  
  
• PR 07-097 - August 9, 2007
  National Science Board Approves NSF Plan to Emphasize Transformative Research
  
  
• PR 07-096 - August 8, 2007
  National Science Foundation Releases Survey on the Impact of Proposal and Award Management Mechanisms
  
  
• PR 07-095 - August 8, 2007
  National Science Board Approves Funds for Petascale Computing Systems
  
  
• PR 07-094 - August 7, 2007
  Link Between Sunspots, Rain Helps Predict Disease in East Africa
  
  
• PR 07-093 - August 3, 2007
  Ecosystem Stability and Resilience Highlighted at National Conference
  
  
• PR 07-092 - August 3, 2007
  Young Inventors' Research Transforms the Marketplace
  
  
• PR 07-091 - August 3, 2007
  A New Wrinkle in Thin Film Science
  
  
• PR 07-090 - August 2, 2007
  Mark Abbott to Remain at Oregon State University
  
  
• PR 07-089 - August 2, 2007
  Science and Technology Investments Strengthen Asia's Economic Future
  
  
• PR 07-088 - August 2, 2007
  System Brings Innovative Flood Forecasts to Vulnerable Residents of Bangladesh
  
  
• PR 07-087 - August 1, 2007
  "Brown Cloud" Particulate Pollution Amplifies Global Warming
  
  
• PR 07-086 - August 1, 2007
  Shining Light on Pancreatic Cancer
  
  
• PR 07-085 - July 30, 2007
  Frequency of Atlantic Hurricanes Doubled During Last Century
  
  
• PR 07-084 - July 26, 2007
  Innovative Research Technique Reveals Another Natural Wonder in Yellowstone Park: A Unique, Photosynthesizing Life-Form
  
  
• PR 07-083 - July 19, 2007
  Glaciers and Ice Caps to Dominate Sea Level Rise Through 21st Century
  
  
• PR 07-082 - July 19, 2007
  Number of Published Science and Engineering Articles Flattens, But U.S. Influence Remains Strong
  
  
• PR 07-080 - July 18, 2007
  Student Results Show Benefits of Math and Science Partnerships
  
  
• PR 07-079 - July 17, 2007
  President to Award 2005-2006 National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology Honoring Nation's Leading Researchers, Inventors and Innovators
  
  
• PR 07-078 - July 13, 2007
  NSF Announces First Annual Computer and Information Science and Engineering Distinguished Education Fellows
  
  
• PR 07-077 - July 13, 2007
  Geologists Witness Unique Volcanic Mudflow in Action in New Zealand
  
  
• PR 07-076 - July 12, 2007
  Erb Honored by French Republic for Contributions to International Scientific Cooperation
  
  
• PR 07-075 - July 10, 2007
  Team Selected for the Proposed Design of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory
  
  
• PR 07-074 - July 10, 2007
  Mark Abbott of Oregon State University to Become NSF Assistant Director for Geosciences
  
  
• PR 07-073 - June 28, 2007
  Family-Related Issues Top List of Reasons for Migration of Immigrant Scientists and Engineers to the U.S.
  
  
• PR 07-072 - June 27, 2007
  New Imaging Technique Could Promote Early Detection of Multiple Sclerosis
  
  
• PR 07-071 - June 21, 2007
  Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming
  
  
• PR 07-070 - June 21, 2007
  Antarctic Icebergs: Unlikely Oases for Ocean Life
  
  
• PR 07-069 - June 15, 2007
  NSF Funding to Advance Research on Interplay Between Biology and Society
  
  
• PR 07-068 - June 15, 2007
  The Kapok Connection: Study Explains Rainforest Similarities
  
  
• PR 07-067 - June 12, 2007
  First Buoy to Monitor Ocean Acidification Launched
  
  
• PR 07-066 - June 8, 2007
  Caribbean Frog Populations Started with Single, Ancient Voyage on South American Raft
  
  
• PR 07-065 - June 6, 2007
  Columbine Flowers Develop Long Nectar Spurs in Response to Pollinators
  
  
• PR 07-064 - June 4, 2007
  Nitrate in Lake Superior: On the Rise
  
  
• PR 07-063 - May 31, 2007
  Report Offers Guidance on How to Safely Explore Vast Aquatic Systems Buried Under Antarctic Ice
  
  
• PR 07-062 - May 31, 2007
  Gazing up at the Man in the Star?
  
  
• PR 07-061 - May 31, 2007
  Ecologist, Limnologist Robert Sterner Appointed NSF Division Director for Environmental Biology
  
  
• PR 07-060 - May 29, 2007
  Magnetic Field Uses Sound Waves to Ignite Sun's Ring of Fire
  
  
• PR 07-059 - May 29, 2007
  "Nurse Cells" Make Life and Death Decisions for Infection-Fighting Cells
  
  
• PR 07-058 - May 22, 2007
  Follow the "Green" Brick Road?
  
  
• PR 07-057 - May 21, 2007
  Three Wishes for a Future Internet? GENI Project Will Soon Be At Your Command
  
  
• PR 07-056 - May 10, 2007
  Real-Time Seismic Monitor Installed on Growing Underwater Volcano
  
  
• PR 07-055 - May 10, 2007
  The Longest Carbon Nanotubes You've Ever Seen
  
  
• PR 07-054 - May 9, 2007
  NSF Wins Blue Pencil, Gold Screen Awards for Science Communications
  
  
• PR 07-053 - May 15, 2007
  Berkeley Nanotechnology Pioneer to Receive $500,000 Waterman Award
  
  
• PR 07-052 - May 7, 2007
  Scientists Offer New View of Photosynthesis
  
  
• PR 07-051 - May 2, 2007
  Students Benefit from Undergraduate Research Opportunities
  
  
• PR 07-050 - May 7, 2007
  Healthy Coral Reefs Hit Hard by Warmer Temperatures
  
  
• PR 07-049 - May 1, 2007
  Urban Sediments After Hurricanes Katrina, Rita Contained High Levels of Contaminants
  
  
• PR 07-048 - April 30, 2007
  Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Type 2 Diabetes Similar at Molecular Level
  
  
• PR 07-047 - May 3, 2007
  Mercury's Soft Center
  
  
• PR 07-046 - April 26, 2007
  Ocean's "Twilight Zone" May Be a Key to Understanding Climate Change
  
  
• PR 07-045 - April 26, 2007
  Biology in the 21st Century
  
  
• PR 07-044 - April 20, 2007
  Palmer Station, Antarctica Celebrates Earth Day With an Underwater Clean Up
  
  
• PR 07-043 - April 19, 2007
  Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, to Speak on Global Energy Security
  
  
• PR 07-042 - April 18, 2007
  Scientists Track Impact of Asian Dust and Pollution on Clouds, Climate Change
  
  
• PR 07-041 - April 18, 2007
  New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, Life Form Discovered
  
  
• PR 07-040 - April 16, 2007
  The "Numb3rs" Add Up: Popular TV Show and Its Creators Receive Public Service Award
  
  
• PR 07-039 - April 16, 2007
  Chemist, Educator, Communicator Receives 2007 National Science Board Public Service Award
  
  
• PR 07-038 - April 12, 2007
  Ancient T. rex and Mastodon Protein Fragments Discovered, Sequenced
  
  
• PR 07-037 - April 11, 2007
  Misclassified for Centuries, Medicinal Leeches Found to Be Three Distinct Species
  
  
• PR 07-036 - April 5, 2007
  Minuscule Generators Convert Motion Into Nanoscale Electricity Source
  
  
• PR 07-035 - April 4, 2007
  Thirty-Two Mile Cable Installed for First Deep-Sea Observatory
  
  
• PR 07-034 - March 27, 2007
  Getting a Feel for the Nano World
  
  
• PR 07-033 - March 27, 2007
  New Modeling Study Forecasts Disappearance of Existing Climate Zones
  
  
• PR 07-032 - March 22, 2007
  Shirley Ann Jackson, Leader in Higher Education and Government, to Receive the Vannevar Bush Award
  
  
• PR 07-031 - March 22, 2007
  New Study Says Women and Their Managers Differ on Career Advancement in Chemical Companies
  
  
• PR 07-030 - March 21, 2007
  Survey Reveals Family Ties and Traditional Activities Keep Arctic Communities Vital
  
  
• PR 07-029 - March 19, 2007
  A Mathematical Solution for Another Dimension
  
  
• PR 07-028 - March 15, 2007
  Black Carbon Transported from Asia Plays Role in Pacific Ocean Climate
  
  
• PR 07-027 - March 15, 2007
  Scientists Explain Source of Tiny Tremors Emanating from Fault Zones
  
  
• PR 07-026 - March 14, 2007
  Paleontologists Discover New Mammal from Mesozoic Era
  
  
• PR 07-025 - March 13, 2007
  Biologists Develop Large Gene Dataset for Rice Plant
  
  
• PR 07-024 - March 8, 2007
  How Plants Manage Calcium May Reduce Effects of Acid Rain
  
  
• PR 07-023 - March 7, 2007
  Scientists Uncover Link Between Ocean's Chemical Processes and Microscopic Floating Plants
  
  
• PR 07-022 - March 5, 2007
  Scientists Genetically Engineer Tomatoes with Enhanced Folate Content
  
  
• PR 07-021 - March 5, 2007
  National Science Foundation Releases Statistics on Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities
  
  
• PR 07-020 - March 1, 2007
  New Coating Is Virtual Black Hole for Reflections
  
  
• PR 07-019 - February 28, 2007
  Scientists Expand Microbe "Gene Language"
  
  
• PR 07-018 - February 28, 2007
  New Information Links Atlantic Ocean Warming to Stronger Hurricanes
  
  
• PR 07-017 - February 28, 2007
  United States Launches New International Polar Year
  
  
• PR 07-016 - February 26, 2007
  Landmark Completion of South Pole Telescope to Help Scientists Learn What the Universe Is Made of and How it Got Here
  
  
• PR 07-015 - February 26, 2007
  Students Enter Competition to Produce a Zero-Emissions Snowmobile
  
  
• PR 07-014 - February 22, 2007
  Northwest Atlantic Ocean Ecosystems Experiencing Large Climate-Related Changes
  
  
• PR 07-013 - February 21, 2007
  Lizards Shout Against a Noisy Background to Get Points Across
  
  
• PR 07-012 - February 20, 2007
  National Science Foundation and Department of Homeland Security Partner to Address Nuclear Threats
  
  
• PR 07-011 - February 16, 2007
  From Farm Waste to Fuel Tanks
  
  
• PR 07-010 - February 5, 2007
  National Science Foundation Requests $6.43 Billion for Fiscal Year 2008
  
  
• PR 07-009 - January 31, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Professor Jeannette Wing Chosen to Head Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate at NSF
  
  
• PR 07-008 - January 30, 2007
  Non-Venomous Asian Snakes 'Borrow' Defensive Poison from Toxic Toads
  
  
• PR 07-007 - January 26, 2007
  National Science Foundation Issues Impact Report on Math and Science Partnership Program
  
  
• PR 07-006 - January 25, 2007
  Blood-Cell-Sized Memory Device Beats Industry Estimates for Computing Capacity
  
  
• PR 07-005 - January 24, 2007
  NSF's Math and Science Partnerships Demonstrate Continued Increases in Student Proficiency
  
  
• PR 07-004 - January 22, 2007
  Hydrogen-Powered Lawnmowers?
  
  
• PR 07-003 - January 9, 2007
  You Still Can't Drink the Water, But Now You Can Touch It
  
  
• PR 07-002 - January 9, 2007
  NSF Provides $14 Million to Advance Research in Comparative Genomics of Economically Important Plants
  
  
• PR 07-001 - January 8, 2007
  Diamonds from Outer Space: Geologists Discover Origin of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds
  
  
• PR 05-032 - August 29, 2007
  Powerful Tool Crunches Commutes
  
  

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PRESS RELEASES FOR 2006

• PR 06-178 - December 26, 2006
  Latest Statistics Reveal Increase in Federal Agency Support of U.S. Research & Development
  
  
• PR 06-177 - December 21, 2006
  Researchers Observe Rare Light-emitting Decay of Neutrons
  
  
• PR 06-176 - December 19, 2006
  Multinational Scientific Expedition Kicks Off International Polar Year 2007-2008
  
  
• PR 06-175 - December 18, 2006
  Universe's Oldest Objects Emerge from the Background
  
  
• PR 06-174 - December 11, 2006
  Scientists Predict Carbon Dioxide Emissions Will Reduce Density of Earth's Outermost Atmosphere by 2017
  
  
• PR 06-173 - December 11, 2006
  Volcanic Blast Likely Killed and Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur Found in Antarctica
  
  
• PR 06-172 - December 7, 2006
  Melts in Your Body, Not in Your Hand
  
  
• PR 06-171 - December 7, 2006
  Mixed Prairie Grasses Better Source of Biofuel Than Corn Ethanol and Soybean Biodiesel
  
  
• PR 06-170 - December 11, 2006
  Online Journal Combines Teaching Math and Studying How Students Learn
  
  
• PR 06-169 - December 7, 2006
  NSF Assistant Director for Geosciences Accepts Position in Industry
  
  
• PR 06-168 - December 6, 2006
  Graduate Students Study Links Between African and U.S. Weather Systems
  
  
• PR 06-167 - December 4, 2006
  Genetic Archaeology Finds Clues to Pregnancy in Male Pipefish, Seahorses
  
  
• PR 06-166 - November 27, 2006
  Scientists Catch Underwater Volcanic Eruption "In Action" in Pacific Ocean Depths
  
  
• PR 06-165 - November 21, 2006
  Advanced Technological Education Program Brings Two-Year Colleges and Industry Together to Educate New Workforce
  
  
• PR 06-164 - November 20, 2006
  The Smell of Money
  
  
• PR 06-163 - November 13, 2006
  Phosphorus Found to Be Another Culprit in Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone"
  
  
• PR 06-162 - November 9, 2006
  Decoded Sea Urchin Genome Shows Surprising Relationship to Humans
  
  
• PR 06-161 - November 6, 2006
  "LouseBuster" Instrument Shown to Kill Head Lice
  
  
• PR 06-160 - November 2, 2006
  Accelerating Loss of Ocean Species Threatens Human Well-Being
  
  
• PR 06-159 - November 2, 2006
  Plant Studies Reveal How, Where Seeds Store Iron
  
  
• PR 06-158 - October 31, 2006
  On the Verge of the International Polar Year, NSF Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of First Flight To Land at the South Pole
  
  
• PR 06-157 - October 30, 2006
  Newly Discovered Genes, Brain Chemicals Likely Play a Role in Complex Bee Behavior
  
  
• PR 06-156 - October 27, 2006
  NSF, NIH Award Ecology of Infectious Diseases Grants
  
  
• PR 06-155 - October 26, 2006
  Bacterial "Switch Gene" Regulates How Oceans Emit Sulfur into Atmosphere
  
  
• PR 06-154 - October 24, 2006
  New Technologies Could Make Airport Screening More Effective and Less Cumbersome
  
  
• PR 06-153 - October 23, 2006
  Vitamin C and Water Not Just Healthy for People -- Healthy for Plastics, too
  
  
• PR 06-152 - October 23, 2006
  Female Pronghorns Choose Mate Based on Substance as Well as Show
  
  
• PR 06-151 - October 18, 2006
  Long-Term Ocean Data Confirm Fishing Puts Species in "Double Jeopardy"
  
  
• PR 06-150 - October 17, 2006
  More Than a Meteor Likely Killed Dinosaurs 65 Million Years Ago
  
  
• PR 06-149 - October 17, 2006
  Novel Laboratory Model Reveals Clues to How Blood Starts Clotting
  
  
• PR 06-148 - October 17, 2006
  NSF Awards 17 Grants for Research on Biocomplexity in the Environment
  
  
• PR 06-147 - October 10, 2006
  NSF Report Reveals Century of Doctoral Education Trends in the United States
  
  
• PR 06-146 - October 5, 2006
  NSF Awards $76 million for 2006 Science and Technology Centers
  
  
• PR 06-145 - October 6, 2006
  NSF Announces New Awards to Tackle Biology's Most Challenging Questions
  
  
• PR 06-144 - October 4, 2006
  Researchers Develop Method to Sort Carbon Nanotubes by Size and Electrical Properties
  
  
• PR 06-143 - October 4, 2006
  Researchers Link Ice-Age Climate-Change Records to Ocean Salinity
  
  
• PR 06-142 - October 3, 2006
  Analysis Shows Research and Development Adds to Economic Growth
  
  
• PR 06-141 - October 3, 2006
  "Killer" B Cells Provide New Link in the Evolution of Immunity
  
  
• PR 06-140 - October 2, 2006
  NSF Announces Goals, Priorities for Next Five Years
  
  
• PR 06-139 - October 2, 2006
  NSF Supports 24 New Projects to Get at the Root of How Genes Control Plant Growth
  
  
• PR 06-138 - September 29, 2006
  National Science Board Proposes Major Initiative in Hurricane Science and Engineering
  
  
• PR 06-137 - September 29, 2006
  National Science Foundation Awards Texas Advanced Computing Center $59 Million for High-Performance Computing
  
  
• PR 06-136 - September 27, 2006
  Taking Science to School
  
  
• PR 06-135 - September 27, 2006
  Massive Star Formation: Inside, Outside and All Around
  
  
• PR 06-134 - September 25, 2006
  Cora Marrett to Become Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources at NSF
  
  
• PR 06-133 - September 22, 2006
  2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
  
  
• PR 06-132 - September 20, 2006
  International Polar Year Funds Research and Exploration by Teachers, Students and the Public
  
  
• PR 06-131 - September 19, 2006
  Tree Rings Provide a 200-Year-Old Hurricane Record
  
  
• PR 06-130 - September 19, 2006
  Bird Moms Manipulate Birth Order to Protect Sons
  
  
• PR 06-129 - September 12, 2006
  Ecological Change, Climate Variation Addressed at International Conference Sept. 20-24
  
  
• PR 06-128 - September 12, 2006
  Hurricane Breeding Grounds Heat Up
  
  
• PR 06-127 - September 11, 2006
  The Art of Engineering
  
  
• PR 06-126 - August 31, 2006
  High-Flying Balloons Track Hurricane Formation
  
  
• PR 06-125 - August 31, 2006
  Genome Info from "Plant Destroyers" Could Save Trees, Beans and Chocolate
  
  
• PR 06-124 - August 30, 2006
  Real-Time Traffic Routing from the Comfort of Your Car
  
  
• PR 06-123 - August 29, 2006
  Remembering Katrina
  
  
• PR 06-122 - August 24, 2006
  Wanda E. Ward Named Acting Head of NSF’s Education Directorate
  
  
• PR 06-121 - August 22, 2006
  Chemical Cause of Antarctic Ozone Hole Discovered 20 Years Ago This Month
  
  
• PR 06-120 - August 21, 2006
  Astronomers 'See' the Invisible
  
  
• PR 06-119 - August 21, 2006
  NSF Awards $75.3 Million for Five New Engineering Research Centers
  
  
• PR 06-118 - August 18, 2006
  Stellar Pinwheels at Our Galaxy's Core
  
  
• PR 06-117 - August 14, 2006
  A Science or Engineering Bachelor's Degree Is Good for You
  
  
• PR 06-116 - August 10, 2006
  Overall Antarctic Snowfall Hasn't Changed in 50 Years
  
  
• PR 06-115 - August 10, 2006
  NSF Announces Six New Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials
  
  
• PR 06-114 - August 10, 2006
  Richard O. Buckius to Head NSF Engineering Directorate
  
  
• PR 06-113 - August 8, 2006
  Amphibian Declines, Disease Ecology, Biodiversity Are Highlighted at Conference
  
  
• PR 06-112 - August 7, 2006
  Flatworms at Forefront of Regeneration Research
  
  
• PR 06-111 - August 1, 2006
  New Report Says Human Tampering Threatens Planet's Life-Sustaining Surface
  
  
• PR 06-110 - August 1, 2006
  Forecast: Showers and Thunderstorms
  
  
• PR 06-109 - July 26, 2006
  Communications Team Erects Lifeline for Firefighters Battling California Wildfires
  
  
• PR 06-108 - July 26, 2006
  Top Researcher-Educators Receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  
  
• PR 06-107 - July 21, 2006
  Rise in Sea Level, Loss of Wetlands May Account for Unstable Ground in Mississippi Delta
  
  
• PR 06-106 - July 13, 2006
  Paleontologists Establish First Age Distribution of Non-Avian Dinosaur Population
  
  
• PR 06-105 - July 12, 2006
  Increased Risk of Hantavirus Forecast for U.S. Southwest
  
  
• PR 06-104 - July 11, 2006
  Self-Cooling Soda Bottles?
  
  
• PR 06-103 - July 10, 2006
  NSF, NEH Boost Efforts to Make Digital Records of Dying Languages
  
  
• PR 06-102 - July 7, 2006
  Researchers Create New Organic Gel Nanomaterials
  
  
• PR 06-101 - July 5, 2006
  NSF Launches Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron Scattering
  
  
• PR 06-100 - July 5, 2006
  Report Warns of Rising Carbon Dioxide Threats to Marine Life
  
  
• PR 06-099 - July 3, 2006
  Protecting the Liberty Bell
  
  
• PR 06-098 - June 29, 2006
  Collaboration Will Preserve Digital Research Data
  
  
• PR 06-097 - June 29, 2006
  A Link Between Rainfall and Magnetism
  
  
• PR 06-096 - June 28, 2006
  The Ones That Get Away
  
  
• PR 06-095 - June 26, 2006
  Scientists Accurately Simulate Appearance of Sun's Corona During Eclipse
  
  
• PR 06-094 - June 20, 2006
  Tropical Rainforest Nutrients Linked to Global Carbon Dioxide Levels
  
  
• PR 06-093 - June 20, 2006
  UCLA's Tony F. Chan to Head Math and Physical Sciences at NSF
  
  
• PR 06-092 - May 31, 2006
  Ecosystems With Many Plant Species Produce More and Survive Threats Better
  
  
• PR 06-091 - May 24, 2006
  U.S. National Science Foundation Celebrates Opening of Beijing Office
  
  
• PR 06-090 - May 24, 2006
  Lobsters Avoid Virus by Detecting Illness in Their Own Kind
  
  
• PR 06-089 - May 23, 2006
  Scientists Uncover New Clues to Limb Formation (and Loss) in Some Sea Mammals
  
  
• PR 06-088 - May 22, 2006
  Researchers Release Draft Final Report on New Orleans Levees
  
  
• PR 06-087 - May 19, 2006
  National Science Foundation Announces New Director for Legislative and Public Affairs
  
  
• PR 06-086 - May 18, 2006
  Gold Nanoparticles Could Improve Antisense Cancer Drugs
  
  
• PR 06-085 - May 18, 2006
  A Cool Way to Strip Hydrogen
  
  
• PR 06-084 - May 17, 2006
  Ancient Plant Provides Clues to Evolutionary Mystery
  
  
• PR 06-083 - May 12, 2006
  A Better Algorithm for Detecting Cancer Genes
  
  
• PR 06-082 - May 11, 2006
  NSF Web Site Wins People's Voice Award
  
  
• PR 06-081 - May 11, 2006
  National Science Board Elects Physician and Former Astronaut to be New Officers
  
  
• PR 06-080 - May 11, 2006
  Pollution, Greenhouse Gases and Climate Clash in South Asia
  
  
• PR 06-079 - May 9, 2006
  Cooperation Keeps Lizards' Blue Genes from Fading
  
  
• PR 06-078 - May 5, 2006
  Astronomers Dedicate CARMA Telescope Array
  
  
• PR 06-077 - May 4, 2006
  Industry Funding of Campus Research Declines for Third Straight Year
  
  
• PR 06-076 - May 2, 2006
  NSF Awards $1.8 Million to Study High-School Advanced Placement Work in Math and Science
  
  
• PR 06-075 - April 28, 2006
  President Honors Nation's Leading Math and Science Teachers
  
  
• PR 06-074 - April 27, 2006
  National Science Board Announces 2006 Public Service Awards
  
  
• PR 06-073 - April 27, 2006
  Physicist and Robotics Pioneer Receive 2006 Vannevar Bush Awards for Lifetime Contributions and Statesmanship to Science
  
  
• PR 06-072 - April 26, 2006
  Hyena Mothers Give Their Cubs a Helpful Dose of Hormones
  
  
• PR 06-071 - April 20, 2006
  Geologists Drill Into Fossil Magma Chamber Deep Under the Ocean
  
  
• PR 06-070 - April 18, 2006
  Crew Member on Antarctic Research Vessel Missing
  
  
• PR 06-069 - April 17, 2006
  Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (AUAVs) Take to the Skies to Track Pollutants
  
  
• PR 06-068 - April 17, 2006
  Caltech's Emmanuel Candes to Receive $500,000 Waterman Award
  
  
• PR 06-067 - April 17, 2006
  Crystal Sieves, Born Anew
  
  
• PR 06-066 - April 13, 2006
  NSF Web Site Nominated for Webby Award
  
  
• PR 06-065 - April 13, 2006
  New Fossils Link "Ape-men" to More Primitive Ancestors
  
  
• PR 06-064 - April 13, 2006
  Nanogenerators May Spark Miniature Machines
  
  
• PR 06-063 - April 12, 2006
  Volcano-like Tremors Detected Deep Within Earth's Crust Near San Andreas
  
  
• PR 06-062 - April 12, 2006
  Higher Carbon Dioxide, Lack of Nitrogen Limit Plant Growth
  
  
• PR 06-061 - April 12, 2006
  U.S.-Taiwan Constellation of Satellites Launched
  
  
• PR 06-060 - April 11, 2006
  Waterproof Superglue May Be Strongest in Nature
  
  
• PR 06-059 - April 7, 2006
  New Key Fits Old Lock
  
  
• PR 06-058 - April 6, 2006
  Ancient Ants Arose 140-168 Million Years Ago
  
  
• PR 06-057 - April 6, 2006
  A Blue Ring Around the Planet Uranus
  
  
• PR 06-056 - April 7, 2006
  Frictionless Motion Observed in Water
  
  
• PR 06-055 - April 5, 2006
  New Fossils Fill the Evolutionary Gap Between Fish and Land Animals
  
  
• PR 06-054 - April 4, 2006
  Collaboration Will Investigate Vulnerabilities of Rapidly Growing Internet Phone and Multimedia Systems
  
  
• PR 06-053 - April 3, 2006
  Device Only Atoms Across May Allow Infinitesimal But Powerful Computers
  
  
• PR 06-052 - March 30, 2006
  First Result from New Experiment Confirms Neutrino Oscillation
  
  
• PR 06-051 - March 27, 2006
  Freshwater Copepod May Be Several Species, Not Just One
  
  
• PR 06-050 - March 23, 2006
  Arctic, Antarctic Melting May Raise Sea Levels Faster than Expected
  
  
• PR 06-049 - March 23, 2006
  Supercomputer Maps One Million Atoms of a Complete Virus in First Simulation of a Life Form
  
  
• PR 06-048 - March 23, 2006
  Scientists Discover Interplay Between Genes and Viruses in Tiny Ocean Plankton
  
  
• PR 06-047 - March 21, 2006
  Large Centrifuge Helps Researchers Mimic Effects of Katrina on Levees
  
  
• PR 06-046 - March 17, 2006
  Project Takes Fish Collection into the Digital Age
  
  
• PR 06-045 - March 16, 2006
  New Process Builds Electronics Into Optical Fiber
  
  
• PR 06-044 - March 16, 2006
  Small, Ultra-fast and Ultra-versatile Scanner Takes Chemical Analysis to the Field
  
  
• PR 06-043 - March 9, 2006
  New "Crystal Sponge" Triples Hydrogen Storage
  
  
• PR 06-042 - March 9, 2006
  Bering Sea Ecosystem Responding to Changes in Arctic Climate
  
  
• PR 06-041 - March 6, 2006
  Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle
  
  
• PR 06-040 - March 2, 2006
  Easy Up, Not-So-Easy Down
  
  
• PR 06-039 - March 2, 2006
  Mexico City Field Campaign to Study Megacity Pollution
  
  
• PR 06-038 - March 1, 2006
  Study of 2004 Tsunami Forces Rethinking of Giant Earthquake Theory
  
  
• PR 06-037 - March 2, 2006
  New NSF Aircraft to Probe Hazardous Atmospheric Whirlwinds
  
  
• PR 06-036 - February 23, 2006
  Hear, Hear!
  
  
• PR 06-035 - February 23, 2006
  Doodle Search
  
  
• PR 06-034 - February 23, 2006
  Science Leaders Cite a "Changed World" in Call for Bold Efforts to Improve K-12 Science and Mathematics Education
  
  
• PR 06-033 - February 15, 2006
  New Clues in the Plant Mating Mystery
  
  
• PR 06-032 - February 15, 2006
  And Baby Counts Three...
  
  
• PR 06-031 - February 10, 2006
  Cargo, Fuel Safely Unloaded at Antarctic Research Station
  
  
• PR 06-030 - February 10, 2006
  Making Sense of Plant Smells
  
  
• PR 06-029 - February 9, 2006
  NSF's Math and Science Partnerships Make the Grade
  
  
• PR 06-028 - February 9, 2006
  Instruments on Alaska's Augustine Volcano Provide New Insights into Volcanic Processes
  
  
• PR 06-027 - February 8, 2006
  Declining Snowpack in Rockies Cools CO2, Slows Gas Release from Winter Forest Soils
  
  
• PR 06-026 - February 8, 2006
  Scientists Discover Oldest-Known and Most-Primitive Tyrannosaur
  
  
• PR 06-025 - February 8, 2006
  NSF Names Daniel Atkins to Head New Office of Cyberinfrastructure
  
  
• PR 06-024 - February 7, 2006
  Icy Overland Trip May Add Ground Vehicles to South Pole Supply Missions
  
  
• PR 06-023 - February 7, 2006
  Sound Waves Rock a Star to Death
  
  
• PR 06-022 - February 6, 2006
  Request for National Science Foundation Fiscal Year 2007 Is $6.02 Billion
  
  
• PR 06-021 - February 2, 2006
  High-Tech Sieve Sifts for Hydrogen
  
  
• PR 06-020 - February 6, 2006
  Outbreak: Rapid Appearance of Fungus Devastates Frogs, Salamanders in Panama
  
  
• PR 06-019 - January 31, 2006
  Excavated Teeth Likely Came from First Africans Brought to the New World
  
  
• PR 06-018 - January 30, 2006
  NSF Awards First Partnership for International Research and Education Grants
  
  
• PR 06-017 - January 26, 2006
  For Plants, Size Doesn't Matter When it Comes to Metabolism
  
  
• PR 06-016 - January 26, 2006
  Sequencing Our Seas
  
  
• PR 06-015 - January 26, 2006
  Worldwide Study Reveals Nature Encourages Diversity in Tropical Forests
  
  
• PR 06-014 - January 25, 2006
  Closer to Home
  
  
• PR 06-013 - January 18, 2006
  Increased Competition for Pollen May Lead to Plant Extinctions
  
  
• PR 06-012 - January 17, 2006
  Managing Metal
  
  
• PR 06-011 - January 17, 2006
  Engineering Educators Receive Prestigious Gordon Prize
  
  
• PR 06-010 - January 17, 2006
  NSF Releases "Sensors for Environmental Observatories" Report
  
  
• PR 06-009 - January 15, 2006
  The Most Resilient Nanosprings in Nature
  
  
• PR 06-008 - January 11, 2006
  Climate Change Drives Widespread Amphibian Extinctions
  
  
• PR 06-007 - January 11, 2006
  2005: Year in Review
  
  
• PR 06-006 - January 9, 2006
  Ben Franklin Web Portal Brings the Man to the Masses
  
  
• PR 06-005 - January 5, 2006
  A New Family of Self-Assembling Nanolattices
  
  
• PR 06-004 - January 5, 2006
  Tiny Marine Organisms Reflect Ocean Warming
  
  
• PR 06-003 - January 4, 2006
  Global Warming Can Trigger Extreme Ocean, Climate Changes
  
  
• PR 06-002 - January 3, 2006
  All In a Week's Work
  
  
• PR 06-001 - January 3, 2006
  New NSF Centers Encourage Collaboration Between Ocean Scientists, Educators