NSF Multimedia Gallery http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/ The latest images, video and audio posted on the NSF website, http://www.nsf.gov en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 06:05:01 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss olpa-webmaster@nsf.gov <![CDATA[Plant genome research is already revolutionizing the field of biology.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=61504 Graphic with text Secrets of Plant Genomes Revealed!

Plant genome research is already revolutionizing the field of biology. Currently, scientists are unlocking the secrets of some of the most important plants in our lives, including corn, cotton and potatoes. Secrets of Plant Genomes: Revealed! takes viewers on a lively, upbeat journey that ...

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]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 01:05:36 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=61504 <![CDATA[Fossil Evidence for Early Terrestrial Vertebrate]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59664 illustration of a Tiktaalik, a transitional fossil, emerging from the water


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A lively, informal look at a fossil that may represent the first vertebrate to emerge from the ancient seas, discovered by scientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard University and the Academy of Natural ...

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:44 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59664 <![CDATA[New Techniques Make Products from Forestry Scrap]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59659 cartoon bunnies in field of flowers in front of car with kayak and mountains in background


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A lively, informal look at research from the University of Maine, where scientists are turning forest-industry waste into fuel, construction materials, textiles and polymers for space-age plastics.

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:20 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59659 <![CDATA[Scientists Reveal Properties of Bacterial Adhesive]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59663 Two cells of the aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus


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A lively, informal look at the amazing "superglue" produced by aquatic bacteria, discovered by scientists at Brown University and Indiana University in Bloomington.

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:31 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59663 <![CDATA[Testing Wooden Home Designs in Earthquakes]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59658 several people and an earthquake-damaged house


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A lively, informal look at earthquake research conducted by NSF's NEESWood project, featuring a full-size, three-bedroom house built on an indoor "shake table" at the State University of New York at ...

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:31 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59658 <![CDATA[Predicting Solar Activity Years Ahead of Time]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59660 coils of hot, electrified gas, known as coronal loops, arc above active sunspots


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A lively, informal look at solar research describes a worrisome new set of predictions for the upcoming sunspot cycle issued by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:37 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59660 <![CDATA[Lizard Altruism Is Controlled by Genes]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59662 close-up photo of three lizards


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A lively, informal look at animal research by scientists from UC-Santa Cruz. They studied a common lizard species and found that slight genetic variations (as revealed by different throat colors) make a big ...

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:02 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59662 <![CDATA[Biomechanics of Underwater Motion]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59661 Madeleine, a biologically inspired underwater robot


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A lively, informal look at research into the most efficient ways to move in the water, based on studies by Vassar College scientists. What they found about using flippers may surprise you.

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:48 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=59661 <![CDATA[Seal Nose]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62242 The nose of a Weddell seal pokes through a hole in the ice, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

Seal Nose

The nose of a Weddell seal pokes through a hole in the ice. The photo was taken on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound at Penguin Ranch, an Emperor Penguin study site.

Studies of seals is just one of the vast numbers of ongoing research projects that take place ...

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]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 04:05:50 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62242 <![CDATA[Popular poplar, the advent of "green gasoline"]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62271 The Discovery Files

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees.

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]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:04:51 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62271 <![CDATA[New South Pole Station (Image 3)]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62262 The exterior of the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

New South Pole Station (Image 3)

The exterior of the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at the Earth's axis, atop a constantly shifting continental ice sheet nearly two miles thick. Perhaps the world's most remote research ...

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]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:04:47 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62262 <![CDATA[Ice Berg, Greenland]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62263 An ice berg in the Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

Ice Berg, Greenland

An ice berg in the Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland. (Date of Image: April 25, 2005)

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]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:04:37 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62263 <![CDATA[New South Pole Station (Image 2)]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62261 The exterior of the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

New South Pole Station (Image 2)

The exterior of the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at the Earth's axis, atop a constantly shifting continental ice sheet nearly two miles thick. Perhaps the world's most remote research ...

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]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:04:20 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62261 <![CDATA[New South Pole Station (Image 1)]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62260 The exterior of the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

New South Pole Station (Image 1)

The exterior of the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at the Earth's axis, atop a constantly shifting continental ice sheet nearly two miles thick. Perhaps the world's most remote research ...

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]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:04:31 EST http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=62260 <![CDATA[Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination--Museum Exhibit]]> http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=60390 Photo of Darth Vader and 2 storm troopers, for Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

"Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination," is an exhibit developed, with NSF support, by Boston's Museum of Science in collaboration with Lucasfilm, Ltd. The exhibit explores the fantasy technologies featured in the Star Wars films and new technologies that scientists and ...

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