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AUEs: Miniature Robots To Swarm The Oceans For Science

LiveScience | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

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Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology. ...

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Papaya Hermaphrodites Sought By Farmers, Researchers

LA Times | Jodi S. Cohen | Posted 11.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Papaya Sex Changes, Male Papayas, Papaya Gender, Agriculture, Ray Ming, University of Illinois, Hermaphroditic Papayas, Female Papayas, Papayas, National Science Foundation, Nsf, Fruit, Farmers, Food, Hermaphrodite Papayas, Reasearch, Fruit Gender, Green News

Papayas, it turns out, have not just one but three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite. The third produces the yummy fruit, but the male and females...

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Porn Surfing Rampant At U.S. Government Agency

Posted 09.29.2009 | Technology

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An investigative report by The Washington Times reveals porn surfing by employees has been rampant at the National Science Foundation, a government ag...

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Why Science Deserves Its Stimulus Money

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: National Science Foundation, Science, National Public Radio, Economic Stimulus Package, Iraq War Funding, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Barack Obama, National Institutes of Health, Google, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

In the car the other day, we caught a bit of Marketplace on NPR. We like Marketplace -- it puts economic news in social and political context, making ...

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The Bronx: Making News Again... This Time in Science Education with GreenFab

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

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Linda Cronin-Gross

Today, Kenny Nava, Cathy Jones, Jorge Flores, Samantha Bonilla and about 70 other Bronx high school students will "graduate" from a new, innovative sc...

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President Obama and the National Academies of Science

James M. Gentile | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

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James M. Gentile

It's now up us -- states, colleges and universities, school districts and school boards -- to rise to the occasion to use the resources now available to move the U.S. back to "the head of the class."

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A New Movement

Amy Ephron | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, National Science Foundation, Ben Nelson, Bail-Out, Exxon, Gm, Kyoto Agreement, Gray Collar Movement, Climate Change, Amtrak, Stimulus Package, Wall Street Bailout, Economic Stimulus Package, Bank Bailout, Politics News
Amy Ephron

There is a movement to strip billions of dollars from the stimulus bill led by Ben Nelson of Omaha (whose Democratic status is debatable) and Susan Collins (Republican) of Maine.

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Jason Linkins

GOP Lawmaker Up In Arms Over Porny Scientists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

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Iowa Senator Charles Grassley is going on a hunt -- a hunt for perversion! -- and he's got the National Science Foundation square in his sights. What'...

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Bush Climate Change Denier Burrows Into National Science Foundation

Talking Points Memo | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

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The Bush administration's participation in the personnel tactic known as "burrowing" has been well-reported in recent weeks. The practice isn't unique...

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