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It's National Science & Technology Week '98!
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Exploring Polar Connections
National Science & Technology Week (NSTW) 1998 starts
on April 26th. This year's theme -- Polar Connections
-- highlights the fact that both the North and South
Poles are "natural laboratories" -- unique in the
matchless opportunities they offer scientists and
engineers to conduct research in pristine, natural
environments. Now in its 14th year, NSTW is designed
to engage the American public in the spirit of learning
and adventure that is the hallmark of science and
engineering.
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Infant
Dependency Drives Menopause, NSF-Supported Researcher
Reports
Why is there menopause?
Writing in the April 23rd issue of Nature,
University of Minnesota ecology professor Craig Packer
says evidence from lions and baboons points to menopause
as a simple result of aging. The timing of menopause,
however, is set by how long a species needs to raise
last-born infants to the age of independence, he says.
Packer's research is funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF).
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Scientists
Find Further Global Warming Evidence in Temperature
Reconstruction Study; Years 1997, 1995, 1990 are the
Warmest Since 1400 A.D.
NSF-funded climatologists
at the University of Massachusetts (U. Mass.) at Amherst
have reconstructed global temperature over the past
600 years and determined that 1997, 1995 and 1990
were the warmest years since at least 1400 A.D. The
study, conducted by Michael Mann and Raymond Bradley
of U. Mass., along with University of Arizona colleague
Malcolm Hughes, is detailed in the current issue of
the journal Nature.
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Shuttle
Mission's "Neulolab" Studies Nervous System; Science
in Space Features Snails, Fish
This April, dozens
of snails and fish are going where only a few men
and women have gone before: into outer space. The
snails and fish are traveling aboard NASA's Space
Shuttle Columbia, as part of a research project funded
by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study
the development of gravity sensors in space by animals
in the early stages of life. The snails and fish are
aboard Neurolab, a shuttle research mission dedicated
to the study of the life sciences.
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