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The College's scheme to support outstanding early career researchers celebrates its fifth birthday with the arrival of 23 new Fellows. The Fellowship scheme was set up in 2009 to help promising researchers make the transition from postdoc to independent investigator by providing them with a competitive salary for three years and by encouraging them to build their research careers without any teaching or administrative obligations.

ATTENTION : Reporters & editors covering science WHAT: During Monday morning's launch countdown for NASA's newest mission to Mars, called Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), many of t

Paleoclimatologist Peter B. deMenocal was on one of the last research vessels to ply the waters off the Horn of Africa before the region was declared off limits to scientists due to the threat

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Life inside Japan's disaster shelters following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster has been revealed by the only researcher to stay alongside evacuees and survivors.

CS Lewis, creator of some of the most-loved children's stories and also a scholar of medieval and early modern literature, died half a century ago on 22 November.

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Andy Deans is searching high and low for a 130-year-old insect. He knows it's around here somewhere - but among the nearly 2 million insect specimens in the collection room of Penn State's Frost Entomological Museum - the museum's oldest specimen could be anywhere.

ANU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Young AO, has just published research that will help you every morning with the surf report.

In this map, prepared by an 8-year-old San Francisco girl, the potential connections between hungry pigeons and a few of the mapmaker's favorite bakeries are explored with a scientific precision.

For those who live in the shadow of the world's highest mountain range, the snow-capped peaks have long been an indicator of the 'health' of their community. Now researchers are raising awareness of the value of local knowledge as a proxy for gauging environmental change. Scientific investigations can discover and harness a host of unusual 'proxies' - mountains and lakes, ice and snow, clouds and dew, birds and grasses - to address sustaining the environment Hildegard Diemberger The everyday lives of the Porong people of southwestern Tibet are shaped by their mountain landscape.

Vortrag von Raquib Ahmed, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Mo 11. Uhr, HS 414.

About 3 million years ago, prior to the last Ice Age, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels were roughly the same level they are now - about 400 parts per million.

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25 October 2013 Lakes and mountains of western Uganda are captured in this Envisat radar image. The area pictured is part of the Albertine Rift, a branch of the East African Rift where the Somali Plate is splitting away from the rest of the continent.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for global science research and education in the world.

We are not the first to experience environmental change. Does the past have anything to teach us as we search for ways to adapt? It's clear from our work in Egypt that there was climate change going on all the time, and this affected different people in different ways Judith Bunbury Climate change today is considered different to climate change at any other time in Earth's history because of its link to human activities.

During the 2005 and 2010 droughts, satellites detected decreased vegetation greenness-or a lower Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI)-over the southern Amazon rainforest (orange and red regions).

The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena is a unique natural marine environment and historic ship graveyard with the potential to be a major tourism and new business driver in northeastern Michigan, according to University of Michigan researchers.

17 October 2013 Have you ever wondered which places on Earth most resemble other planets? For some of us, imagining the landscape of other worlds might just be for fun, but scientists and engineers wo

Did our skeletons evolve for protection or for violence? The earliest vestiges of our skeleton are encountered in 500million-year-old fossil fishes, some of which were armour-plated filter feeders, while others were naked predators with a face full of gruesome, vicious teeth. For decades, it was thought that our skeleton and all its characteristic bony tissues originated in the predators, known as 'conodonts'.

16 October 2013 Braving high winds, dust devils and unpredictable terrain, ESA's test rover has completed its exploration across - and under - Chile's Mars-like Atacama Desert.

Deep ocean coral such as this Anthomastus reef off Eel River, Calif., represent the type of organisms that can survive in low oxygen conditions and may become prevalent as ocean oxygen declines due to climate change. An ambitious new study that includes Lisa Levin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego describes the full chain of events by which ocean biogeochemical changes triggered by manmade greenhouse gas emissions may cascade through marine habitats and organisms, penetrating to the deep ocean and eventually influencing humans.

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This week saw the most ambitious test yet of the European Space Agency's ExoMars Rover, when - remotely controlled by scientists the UK - it explored the Atacama Desert in South America.

Harvard-led research shows nitrogen compounds carried on the wind are sufficient to disrupt pristine, protected environments Cambridge, Mass.

10 October 2013 Ripped apart by tectonic forces, Hebes Chasma and its neighbouring network of canyons bear the scars of the Red Planet's early history.

After nearly tripling its planned lifetime, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer - GOCE - has completed its mission and will soon reenter our atmosphere.

How will regions around the world adapt to an increase in sea levels? A project looking at how Venice can manage its rising waters is a remarkable case study for flood-prone environments elsewhere.

9 October 2013 ESA's test rover has been fitted with scientific sensors and made its first tracks in the sands of Chile's Atacama Desert.

Although California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill last week to create a statewide earthquake early warning system, the United States is still behind the curve in embracing technology that has proven to save lives, lessen damage and speed recovery after a major quake.

PA 312/13 A report by experts at The University of Nottingham shows that the recent protests at Balcombe may have had a negative impact on the public's perceptions of shale gas.

Lorraine Craig has chaired the Exploration Board since 2006 and has overseen and advised on many successful adventures to every corner of globe.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change late last week released its summary for policy-makers, the CliffsNotes version of the massive international assessment released about every six years.

By Pristine Ong 30 September 2013 Colombia has a diverse natural landscape, with the Pacific Ocean on the east and the Andes mountain range on the west.

About the writer Mary Ellen joined the College of Letters & Science as a senior university relations specialist in 2012.

During the nearly 14 months that it has spent on the red planet, Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, has scooped soil, drilled rocks, and analyzed samples by exposing them to laser beams, X-rays, and alpha particles using the most sophisticated suite of scientific instruments ever deployed on another planet.

David Lobell was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship for research on the impact of climate change on crop production and food security.

New fossil find reveals that trilobites were able to roll themselves defensively far earlier than was originally thought The tail covers the underside of the head completely - a typical characteristic of enrolment Javier Ortega-Hernández Trilobites are some of the most iconic and recognizable fossils for any palaeontologist.

Flower-dotted marginal land in the foreground contrasts sharply with more uniform traditional croplands of corn and alfalfa in the distance. Photo: Randy Jackson/GLBRC In their quest to make cellulosic biofuel a viable energy option, many researchers are looking to marginal lands - those unsuitable for growing food - as potential real estate for bioenergy crops.

Further evidence that long-range wind transport of an infectious agent might result in human disease After more than four decades of research, strong evidence now shows that Kawasaki disease has a distinct seasonal occurrence shared by regions across the Northern hemisphere. The first global analysis of the seasonality of Kawasaki disease, published September 18 by PLOS ONE , was carried out using data obtained between 1970 and 2012.

A move from cattle herding to camel keeping among Kenyan farmers is more than an economic transition, it represents a fundamental shift in age-old customs.

This year Imperial is celebrating 100 years of petroleum related research and education.

Since humans first stumbled across mysterious dinosaur bones protruding from the earth, the fascination with these gigantic creatures has captivated the imagination.

Since humans first stumbled across mysterious dinosaur bones protruding from the earth, the fascination with these gigantic creatures has captivated the imagination.

After almost seven weeks at sea, University of Washington scientists and engineers have installed pieces for a historic observatory.