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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