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  'Music Instinct' Documentary Takes Paris Prize

  By John Casey | Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  of music has won the prestigious Grand Prix award at the international science film festival Pariscience 2009, according to a press release from the National Science Foundation. Titled The Music Instinct: Science and Song, the NSF-funded television documentary examines the work of a number o Read More

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  Culture, Not Genes, Help Us Give Unto Others

  By John Casey | Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  of California, Davis."Altruism has perplexed evolutionary and social scientists and biologists for a long time," Bell said in an interview on the National Science Foundation's Web site. "It's hard to argue how behaviors that are so costly to an individual [could be evolutionary] when they pu Read More

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  Girl Scouts, NSF Fund All-girl Science Camp

  By John Casey | Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:04 PM ET

  they feel is important to them as a career, whether or not it's in science and tech or something else." Photo courtesy of stevendepolo, vi Read More

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  NSF Funds Research Competitiveness

  By John Casey | Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:42 PM ET

  conversion." Photo courtesy of NSF/National Tropical Botanical Gardens and the Center for Conservation Research and Training, University o Read More

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  Keyboard Connection

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Wed Sep 2, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  a company called Project Blue Skies is now developing games based on orbiTouch to support learning and development of social skills. According to a National Science Foundation press release, "Teachers guide the students and monitor their progress, ultimately helping the kids better communicat Read More

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  Science Fairs to the Extreme

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:30 PM ET

  Diego Science Festival. Now, the fun is going national. Last month, the University of California, San Diego, received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to take the idea of a citywide science festival to the extreme, with year-round activities and annual fairs across th Read More

  More like this in: Technology, California, San Francisco, Science, United States, Education, University of California, San Diego, Festivals, Philadelphia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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  Squeezing Gas From Grass

  By John Casey | Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  found in all plant material," researcher George Huber told Baime.Huber works at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and uses funding from the National Science Foundation to make gas from wood chips. He and his colleagues take the wood, which is "superheated to a vapor state, and the vapo Read More

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  Rap Connects Inner-City Kids To Science

  By John Casey | Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:45 PM ET

  in Washington state taught by Nalini M. Nadkarni, the pair found they had, surprisingly, common interests.On a field trip co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Duke improvised a few rap lines on the experience:Wet and green moss,I'm at a lossto describe the beautyfalling on m Read More

  More like this in: Music, Science, Evergreen State College, Science, Social Responsibility, Environment, Activism
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  You Go, Supernova Girl!

  By John Casey | Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:58 PM ET

  said Moore. "We really try to not get just kids involved, but the public involved in astronomy."(Photo courtesy of Robert E. Moore and the National Scienc Read More

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  More Students Turning To Science and Engineering

  By John Casey | Wed Jul 1, 2009 10:32 AM ET

  from the 2007 survey are available in newly restructured public use file Read More

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