Science & Diplomacy: U.S.-Iranian Collaborations Promote Public Health

Despite the complex and often adversarial relationship between the governments of Iran and the United States, the countries' scientists have found opportunities to cooperate on important public health projects. Irene Jillson, a professor at Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health Studies, describes the fruits of these efforts in an article in the latest edition of Science & Diplomacy. 

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Science: New, Off-Road Robot Inspired by Nature

Researchers can learn a lot from a lizard scampering across the hot desert sand or an insect crawling atop a pile of plant litter. Chen Li and colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta took cues from such creatures and designed a robot that uses six legs to traverse a bed of dry, loose grains. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Students Hone Communications Skills at Emerging Researchers National Conference

On the final day of the 2013 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, Ashli Allen, a senior at Fort Valley State University in Georgia, stood smiling beside her poster and began to summarize her research to two scientist judges. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Science: Light From Distant Planet Hints at Its Formation

A distant planet named HR 8799c, located 130 light-years outside of our solar system, has water and carbon monoxide—but not methane—in its atmosphere, researchers say. Their findings suggest that a particular planet-forming mechanism, known as core accretion, brought the young planet into existence. .

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