National Science Foundation
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about $6.02 billion (fiscal year 2008), NSF funds approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
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Main Category: Genetics
Article Date: 07 Jan 2009 - 0:00 PST
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Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented
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Medical News Today
Kaduna — As the preparations for the forthcoming National Sports Festival intensify, Unity Bank Plc has donated the sum of 20 million naira to Kaduna State government in supporting the festival.
The Managing Director of the Bank, Malam Falalu Bello,
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AllAfrica.com
...University of Iowa has received a grant of $512,460 from the National Science Foundation, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, announced Tuesday in a news release. The Department of Chemistry at UI will use the funds to help pay for a cyber-enabled 500 MHz solid...
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Iowa City Press Citizen
... Tech researcher studies effect of pipes on taste Andrea Dietrich, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, is conducting research focused on determining which pipes are to blame for odd-tasting tap water. Her research group studies...
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Roanoke.com
...sixth-grade science and mathematics teachers whose innovative methods bring teaching to life in the classroom. The National Science Foundation, under the direction of the White House, selected finalists for the national award. About 100 national winners...
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Austin American-Statesman
...Tuesday in 50-game suspensions for Philadelphia Phillies reliever J.C. Romero and New York Yankees minor-league pitcher Sergio Mitre. Romero, who won two World Series games for the Phillies, and Mitre said they were unaware the over-the-counter supplements...
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USA Today
...ground droppings from infected mice. The study, published online Tuesday in the British science journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B , can help manage disease risk if data are used to compile maps indicating areas with the greatest concentrations of...
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Salt Lake Tribune
...man cross the street and he said. "Thank you, mam" -- the letters on her license plate . . . KeithHomeiel of Whittier blinked when a Cadillac came by with a little Nash Rambler on its tail. Then he saw the Rambler was a pickup car, hitched to the Cad's bumper...
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Los Angeles Times
...current space weather conditions please refer to: Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information...
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Space Ref
...It's a little like finding out that Superman is actually Clark Kent. A team of biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that two vital cellular components, nuclear RNA Polymerases IV and V (Pol IV and V), found only in plants, are actually...
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Science Daily
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...researchers to boost the accuracy of biological sensors and create a range of new 'lab on a chip' diagnostic tools. The Cornell University research team reports its findings in the Jan. 1, 2009, issue of the journal Nature. "For this research to emerge in...
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National Science Foundation
...research impressed the National Science Foundation, which recently presented him with their most prestigious honor for junior teacher-scholars, a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. The award brings with it $400,000 of funding over five...
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Nanotech Now
...under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions during cosmic impacts and found in meteorites, are concentrated in six northern American sites across US and Canada. Nanodiamonds can be produced on Earth, but only through high-explosive detonations or chemical...
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New Kerala
...in use in the classroom is River City, a game funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by programmers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Targeted at students in grades six through nine, River City looks a bit like Second Life and...
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Scientific American
...way. Housed in a long-abandoned nursing home outside Waynesburg, Greene County, off the R&D path trod by the likes of Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a firm that comprises primarily Ph.D.-educated researchers using...
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...This only served to stir up international interest in what the LHC was actually going to do, and by October 10th, a mix of concern and excitement built up to the grand "switch on". Although many would argue the LHC shouldn't be included in a "Top Ten Scientific...
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Universe Today
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Science
...delivered using nanotubes would target only affected tissues, potentially eliminating toxic side effects. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science...
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National Science Foundation
...the clock if they must meet two weeks deadline for the completion of the projects. Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sport Commission (NSC), Sani Ndanusa, made the charge Thursday while inspecting the Olympic size swimming pool project undergoing construction...
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AllAfrica.com
...With effect from Thursday, all MINDEF employees and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) active servicemen will be automatically insured for S$100,000. This initiative, which rides on the existing SAF Group Term Life (GTL) insurance scheme, is aimed at encouraging...
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Channel News Asia
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...demographic changes expected to occur in South Dallas after the new Fair Park DART station opens in September. The National Science Foundation is funding the study, which will involve research by economists, geographers, public health and education researchers,...
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Dallas Morning News
Soybean not only accounts for 70 percent of the world's edible protein, but also is an emerging feedstock for biodiesel production. Soybean is second only to corn as an agricultural commodity and is the leading U.S. agricultural export.
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Huliq.com
...public opinion survey and a 2007 poll by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center conducted under the auspices of the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University. The survey was led by Scheufele and...
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Nanotech Now
The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released a complete draft assembly of the soybean (Glycine max) genetic code, making it widely available to the research community to advance new breeding strategies for one of the
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Green Car Congress
...from across the United States, including Michigan State University, New York University and University of California at Irvine. The project has taken place in Los Alamos, N.M., since 2000. Goodman has been going to Los Alamos frequently, bringing faculty and...
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diamondback online
...the blood, and the blood simultaneously warmed the inspired air,” said Witmer, whose research is funded by the National Science Foundation. “These are the same kinds of physiological mechanisms we find all the time in warm-blooded animals today.” These twisty...
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Science Daily
...Hurston, a “Best Books” pick by the New York Times in 1978 and a Quality Paperback Book Club selection in 1991. Writer Alice Walker cites Hemenway’s “thoughtful and sensitive” biography as her inspiration to lead a national rediscovery of Hurston — “Zoramania”...
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Kansas City Infozine
...American Association for the Advancement of Science) The latest overview of science and engineering trends from the National Science Foundation includes lots of warning signs. In the meantime, above you can see the latest graphical portrait of taxpayer investments...
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The New York Times
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...grant is from the National Science Foundation. Bradley Barker is a University of Nebraska-Lincoln 4-H science and technology specialist and one of the project's leaders. He says the robotics curriculum helps get young people excited about science, technology,...
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Beatrice Daily Sun