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Embryology

Embryology
Monday, August 23, 2010
Educational Pioneer BioEYES Goes Down Under

The innovative, educational, outreach program BioEYES has now been adopted by Monash University and the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. The down-under partnership program debuts this August. BioEYES is designed to foster an interest in and a love for science in elementary, middle, and high school students. Over the course of one week, students watch the transparent zebrafish, Danio rerio, grow from a single-celled zygote to a larval fish complete with a beating heart.

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Geophysical Laboratory

Geophysical Laboratory
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Roller Coaster Superconductivity Discovered

Superconductors are more efficient at carrying electricity than copper wires. But these materials have to be cooled below an extremely low, so-called transition temperature for electrical resistance to disappear. Researchers at the Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory, have unexpectedly found that the transition temperature can be induced under two different intense pressures in a three-layered bismuth oxide crystal. They believe this unusual two-step phenomena comes from competition of electronic behavior in different layers.

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Global Ecology

Global Ecology
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Progreso excepcional en el mapeo de carbono

Mediante la integración de mapeo satélital, tecnología láser aerotransportada, y estudios a nivel de parcelas, los científicos de la Institución Carnegie Departamento de Ecología de Global, con colegas del Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza WWF y en coordinación con el Ministerio Peruano del Ambiente (MINAM), han revelado los primeros mapas de alta resolución de carbono almacenado en la vegetación de bosques tropicales y emitido por prácticas de uso de la tierra. Estos nuevos mapas marcan el camino para el monitoreo preciso de el almacenamiento de carbono y emisiones en el marco de la propuesta de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación (REDD).

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Observatories

Observatories
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The University of Chicago Joins Giant Magellan Telescope Project

The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) Corporation is pleased to announce that the University of Chicago has joined the partnership that will construct the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), a state of the art astronomical observatory. The GMT will be used to address fundamental questions in cosmology and astrophysics and to explore worlds around other stars.

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Plant Biology

Plant Biology
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Private Support Helps Public Plant Research

The private sector and an Austrian research institute are chipping in to help support one of the most widely used public biological databases in the world. Although the majority of funding continues to come from the National Science Foundation, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) database is now receiving support from other organizations as well. Two corporations have recently signed on as TAIR sponsors: Dow AgroSciences and most recently Syngenta Biotechnology Inc.

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Terrestrial Magnetism

Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Asteroid Found in Gravitational “Dead Zone”

There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable called Lagrangian points. So-called Trojan asteroids have been found in some of these stable spots near Jupiter and Neptune. Now Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and Chad Trujillo have discovered the first Trojan asteroid in a difficult-to-detect stability region at Neptune—the Lagrangian L5 point.

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