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The premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.http://www.eurekalert.org en-usCopyright 2012 by the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceThu, 26 Jan 2012 13:25:47 ESTEurekAlert!http://www.eurekalert.org/images/logo.gifhttp://www.eurekalert.org The premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.60webmaster@eurekalert.org (EurekAlert!)(<i>McGill University</i>) Could depression in adulthood be tied to a parent's level of education? A new study led by Am?lie Quesnel-Vall?e, a medical sociologist from McGill University, suggests this is the case.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/mu-eha012612.php Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/mu-eha012612.php(<i>Iowa State University</i>) Iowa State University's Dionysios Aliprantis is developing several technologies that could improve the performance of electric motors and generators. And that could make a real difference in building sustainable energy systems.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/isu-ise012612.php Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/isu-ise012612.php(<i>University of Alberta</i>) Everyone knows a high-school high achiever who has floundered in university. Now U of A researcher and Reading Research Lab director George Georgiou may have an explanation for the problem.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uoa-hsw012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uoa-hsw012512.php(<i>New Jersey Institute of Technology</i>) Check your calendars so as not to miss one of NJIT?s famous free architecture lectures scheduled from February through April.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/njio-ld012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/njio-ld012512.php(<i>Research!America</i>) Research!America's Board chair, former Congressman John Edward Porter (R-Ill.), applauds President Obama's commitment to protect our nation's investment in basic research.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/r-sot012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/r-sot012512.php(<i>American Sociological Association</i>) Research continues to support a connection between instability in the home and school performance in adolescents, but a new study in the January issue of Sociology of Education takes the research a step further by exploring how the relationship between family structure change and adolescent academic careers is also affected by the kinds of schools they attend.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/asa-saf012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/asa-saf012512.php(<i>Donald Danforth Plant Science Center</i>) "The USDA-ARS lab at the Danforth Center can rapidly analyze large genetic populations of the diverse staple crop with the statistically powerful resource of Nested Association Mapping," said Baxter. "The grant addresses issues critical for agriculture, the environment and human health and will further our understanding of how soil conditions affect the elemental composition of maize."http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/ddps-nsf012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/ddps-nsf012512.php(<i>American Geological Institute</i>) The American Geosciences Institute in coordination with the American Institute of Professional Geologists presents the second webinar as a part of the Geoscience Online Learning Initiative. The webinar, titled Critical and Strategic Minerals: Concepts and Status, will air on Feb. 1, 2012 at 2 p.m. EST.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/agi-gol012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/agi-gol012512.php(<i>Lemelson-MIT Program</i>) The 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index indicates that young Americans are acutely aware of the importance of invention and innovation in their personal lives, and within the context of the nation's economy.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/lp-yar012412.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/lp-yar012412.php(<i>BioMed Central</i>) Today, Oxfam GB adopts "Open Repository" -- the service from open-access specialist BioMed Central, which allows organizations to build, launch, host and maintain their own repositories.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/bc-fpt012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/bc-fpt012512.php(<i>Wiley-Blackwell</i>) New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development compared to females. The research, published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, focused on umbilical cord blood to explore the presence of testosterone when the language-related regions of a fetus' brain are undergoing a critical period of growth.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/w-ptl012312.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/w-ptl012312.php(<i>Ohio State University</i>) On any given weekend, at least 10 percent of students at a single college could be hosting a party, and on average, party hosts who live off campus are drinking more and engaging in more alcohol-related problem behaviors than are the students attending their bashes, research suggests. In contrast, hosts of parties held on campus tend to drink less than do the students attending their gatherings, according to the study.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/osu-so012412.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/osu-so012412.php(<i>University of Missouri-Columbia</i>) While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of "intuitive physics."http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uom-bab012412.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uom-bab012412.php(<i>Economic & Social Research Council</i>) New software has significant benefits for primary school children and their understanding of elementary physics, research shows. Studies funded by the Economic and Social Research Council focused on what primary school children know when they begin studying physics, and how much they still have to learn. The studies looked at how much children understand about the movement of objects such as direction and speed.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/esr-spc012412.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/esr-spc012412.php(<i>American Geological Institute</i>) The American Geosciences Institute is pleased to announce that the theme of Earth Science Week 2012 will be ?Discovering Careers in the Earth Sciences.? This year?s event will boost awareness about the geosciences and the many exciting career and job opportunities in the field.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/agi-esw012312.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/agi-esw012312.php(<i>University of California - San Francisco</i>) After people with low-grade glioma, a type of brain cancer, undergo neurosurgery to remove the tumors, they face variable odds of survival -- depending largely on how rapidly the cancer recurs. Even though their doctors monitor the tumor closely with sophisticated imaging, it is difficult to determine with certainty whether cancer has returned in a more malignant state that requires aggressive treatment.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uoc--tfn012312.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uoc--tfn012312.php(<i>Rice University</i>) A new study by scientists at Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has determined that gold, copper and silicon get just as wet when clad by a single continuous layer of graphene as they would without.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/ru-wsr012312.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/ru-wsr012312.php(<i>Brandeis University</i>) Nurturing mothers have garnered accolades for rescuing skinned knees on the playground and coaxing their children to sleep with lullabies. Now they're gaining merit for their offspring's physical health in middle age. In a recent study published in the journal Psychological Science, Brandeis psychologist Margie Lachman and colleagues reveal that while children raised in families with low socioeconomic status frequently go on to have high rates of chronic illness in adulthood, a sizable minority remain healthy across the life course.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/bu-nmr012312.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/bu-nmr012312.php(<i>University of the Witwatersrand</i>) An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus -- revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behavior in early dinosaurs.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uotw-adn012312.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uotw-adn012312.php(<i>Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary</i>) Research to Prevent Blindness has awarded Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, a $30,000 Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship. The award will support the work of Mamta Shah.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/meae-mea012012.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/meae-mea012012.php(<i>Carnegie Institution</i>) Carnegie's educational outreach program, BioEYES, will be the recipient of the 2012 Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize from the Society for Developmental Biology. BioEYES founders Steve Farber and Jamie Shuda (University of Pennsylvania), will accept the award at the upcoming annual meeting of the society in Montreal in July. BioEYES, with program manager Valerie Butler, is also currently featured in a video on the front page of the Baltimore City Schools' website.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/ci-cb011912.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/ci-cb011912.php(<i>Office of Naval Research</i>) The Office of Naval Research's biennial 2012 Naval Science and Technology Partnership Conference will take place Oct. 22-24, officials announced Jan. 18. This year?s event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va. Registration will open in the spring. The conference offers a chance for members of industry, academia and other government agencies to meet with ONR leaders and program managers, and investigate possibilities for collaboration.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/oonr-osd011912.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/oonr-osd011912.php(<i>University of Colorado Denver</i>) A detailed analysis of American pop music data shows musicians that hit the album charts spend, on average, a little more than five years there. More than one third will be 'one-hit wonders.'http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uocd-fmo011912.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uocd-fmo011912.php(<i>Ohio State University</i>) For students to accept the theory of evolution, an intuitive "gut feeling" may be just as important as understanding the facts, according to a new study. In an analysis of the beliefs of biology teachers, researchers found that a quick intuitive notion of how right an idea feels was a powerful driver of whether or not students accepted evolution -- often trumping factors such as knowledge level or religion.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/osu-wic011912.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/osu-wic011912.php(<i>American Geological Institute</i>) Supervolcanoes are one of nature's most destructive forces. In a matter of hours, an eruption from a supervolcano can force thousands of cubic meters of molten rock above ground, and scar landscapes with massive calderas and craters. These catastrophic eruptions have a global impact, and yet scientists still do not fully understand them. Today, a team of scientists studying Bolivia's Uturuncu volcano is trying to shed some light on how supervolcanoes can become so powerful.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/agi-eso011912.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/agi-eso011912.php

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