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With one week to go until Sigma Xi’s international gathering in Atlanta, learn what you shouldn’t miss, whether you will be there in person or following along on social media using #SigmaXimtg.
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Are you a postdoc looking to further your research abroad? The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme supports you on a stipend of EUR 2,650/month to conduct long-term research in Germany! Read more
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Scientists from Wyatt Technology Corporation in Santa Barbara, California, have been inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Wyatt Technology is a family-owned company that develops light scattering instrumentation and software for determining the absolute molar mass, size, charge, and interactions of macromolecules and nanoparticles in solution.
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| MEMBERS AND CHAPTERS NEWS |
Eckerd College
The Eckerd College Chapter in St. Petersburg, Florida, will host a science talk on November 3 about quantifying biodiversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs.
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Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter
The Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter in Erie, Pennsylvania, will host a Science Café on November 9 titled, "What’s Up with Climate Change?"
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Alfred University
The Alfred University Chapter in Alfred, New York, continued their tradition of helping Girl Scouts earn STEM-related badges. The chapter has helped local Girl Scouts for multiple years.
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The Sigma Xi Annual Meeting kicks off in Atlanta on November 10, with Student Research Conference events beginning November 11. Registrants can prepare by reading yesterday’s "Know Before You Go" email.
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Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Jim O’Connor, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Portland Oregon, will share his research on landscape evolution, mainly involving rivers and floods, during a YouTube Live broadcast. The broadcast will be held on November 30 from 3:30–4:15 p.m. EST. He will answer questions from Katie L. Burke, American Scientist’s digital features editor, and take questions from the audience. Make sure to tune in!
American Scientist
Innovations in data science and disease surveillance are changing the way we respond to public health threats.
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American Scientist
New, large telescope dishes and widespread arrays of receivers continue to provide insights into the nature of the universe.
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American Scientist
Single layers of carbon atoms give airplane wings a boost in strength and performance.
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| RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNMENT NEWS |
Council of Graduate Schools
The latest issue of GradEdge: Insights and Research on Graduate Education has an update on the 2016 New Deans Institute, the new Deans-in-Residence on the Council of Graduate Schools staff, and information on the council’s Annual Meeting.
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National Institutes of Health
Michael Lauer, National Institutes of Health’s deputy director for Extramural Research, explains how researchers can evaluate whether they should resubmit a funding application.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map and recommendations to help U.S. cities work toward sustainability, measurably improving their residents’ economic, social and environmental well-being.
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National Science Foundation
A new partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aims to provide the necessary tools to ensure people respond appropriately to dangerous weather systems.
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The Washington Post
MIT researchers have engineered a bionic plant that can detect explosives and send a warning signal – without wires! – to scientists nearby.
Talk about spinach as superfood, Popeye!
In a new paper in the journal Nature Materials, the scientists explain how they can turn plants into bomb-sniffing machines with the help of tiny cylinders of carbon that can detect "nitroaromatics" – chemical compounds often used in explosives.
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Scientific American
Marc Kuchner writes: "Alex Rogan masters a video game called 'Starfighter' where he defends 'the Frontier' from 'Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada' in a space battle. Soon after he becomes the world’s highest scoring player, the teenager meets an alien who informs him that the battle is real! The video game was a test and a recruiting tool, meant to find those with 'the gift' to pilot a real Starfighter spacecraft. Now it will be up to Alex to save the Galaxy. That’s the plot of the 1984 space opera The Last Starfighter. And I think it’s a useful model for citizen science projects, where untrained laypeople are invited to take part in performing professional scientific research."
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EurekAlert
A group of researchers from RIKEN and Michigan State University have used the powerful K computer to show how molecules move within the extremely crowded interior of a bacterial cell.
In vitro studies – studies performed in test tubes – have given us great understanding of how molecules interact with one another. However, little is really known of how they interact in vivo – in actual cells – because due to the crowding, they can act based in ways that are difficult to model in test tubes. Approximately 70 percent of the cytosol is composed of water, and the remaining 30 percent is made up of macromolecules such as ribosomes, biomolecules such as proteins and DNA, metabolites such as ATP and amino acids, and ions.
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