COLORADO Science – According to a new report by the National Science Foundation, Colorado State University ranks second in the nation among public research universities without a medical school. In a survey of 711 public and private institutions the university ranks first in federally funded research and development. “Once again, our exceptional faculty members have elevated Colorado State University with cutting-edge research that benefits students, our state and the world around us,” said President Tony Frank.
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COLORADO Ecology – Scientists demonstrated the relativity theory using two optical atomic clocks in neighbouring labs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.
Physicist James Chin-wen Chou and his colleagues at NIST demonstrated the principles of time dilation – that someone close to a massive object (like Earth) experiences a slower movement of time than someone further from it and that someone in motion experience a slower progression of time than someone at rest. “People tend to just ignore relativistic effects, but these effects are everywhere,” said Chou. “Every day, people are moving; they are doing things like climbing stairs. It’s interesting to think about—are frequent fliers getting younger [because they move so much] or aging faster [because they spend so much time in the air]?”
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COLORADO Ecology – University of Colorado at Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Center have recorded the third lowest Arctic sea ice extent since satellite records began in 1979. Although somewhat greater than 2007 and 2008 lows, researchers at CU-Boulder say that we will probably be experiencing ice-free Arctic summers in the next 20 -30 years.
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COLORADO Ecology – Scientist Bruce Kimball, a chemical ecologist at the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, has a novel way to track the spread of Bird Flu – sniff it out! Bruce trained mice in his Colorado laboratory to identify droppings from ducks with Bird Flu. He says that if mice can do it then maybe dogs can be trained also.
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COLORADO Environment – After two summers of drilling, the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock on July 27. The international team, which includes the University of Colorado at Boulder, drilled down almost 2.5 kilometers in a study that will help to determine the consequences of abrupt climate change. Recovery ice from the Eemian interglacial period (115,000 to 130,000 years ago) when temperatures were four or five degrees Fahrenheit higher than today’s temperatures and sea levels were more than 15 feet higher. For more information visit: www.sciencecentric.com
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