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		Self-healing Curved Crystals Scientists discover novel method of removing defects by bending, twisting, flexing materials Released  September 30, 2012
		The Colors of Fall: Are Autumn Reds and Golds Passing Us By? Climate change, land-use change, introduced pests and diseases altering fall foliage Released  September 25, 2012
		Mission Possible: Adding Engineering to the K-12 Curriculum Museum director's dream to teach young students engineering spurs effort to bring technological literacy to all, with support from NSF Released  September 5, 2012
		Tropical Reefs Surviving Environmental Stresses: Corals' Choice of Symbiotic Algae May Hold the Key Corals that host fewer species of algae are less sensitive to disturbances Released  August 29, 2012
		From Lake to Land, in a Land of Lakes Moose act as conduits of nitrogen between water bodies and the edges of lakes, ponds Released  August 17, 2012
		Digitizing the Past to Protect and Preserve History Using supercomputers to help protect and preserve ancient sites and artifacts Released  August 14, 2012
		A Tree Stands in the Sierra Nevada A coniferous view of the link between snowmelt and water supplies in the U.S. West Released  August 7, 2012
		Into the Matorral: Scientists Track Avifauna in Coastal Chile's Thorn-Scrub Researchers discover ecological role of bird life in a biodiversity hotspot Released  July 26, 2012
		Acid Rain: Scourge of the Past or Trend of the Present? New connection between climate change and acidification of Northeast's forests and streams Released  July 25, 2012
		Where North Meets South in the Sea Small fish adapt to cold, warm water temperatures along 2,000 miles of Atlantic Coast Released  July 24, 2012
		All Washed Up and Somewhere to Go Seaweed on beaches is an ecological treasure trove Released  July 20, 2012
		Tiny Firefly Satellite Set To Flash Straight Into Lightning and Thunderstorms CubeSat will help solve mysteries of terrestrial gamma ray flashes, 1,000 times more powerful than northern lights Released  July 19, 2012
		It's Wildflower Season on Mountain Peaks, But Alpine Plants May Soon Miss the Date Study conducted over 38 years shows one species' timing has shifted by 13 days Released  July 11, 2012
		Hitchhiker's Guide to The Deep Creatures of the abyss invade surface world Released  June 8, 2012
		High-School Math in the Cloud North Carolina project strengthens students' math skills using cloud computing and videos Released  May 31, 2012
		A Legacy of the Race to the South Pole: New Scientific Discoveries in Antarctica Forbidding though Antarctica is, the stations located there are nevertheless irresistibly inviting to scientists, as Antarctica supports a cornucopia of unique life-forms, geologic wonders, and marine and atmospheric conditions Released  May 31, 2012
		Queen of Spades Key to New Evolutionary Hypothesis Microscopic ocean plankton mimic card also known as the Black Queen Released  May 10, 2012
		Nature Observation Database Receives One-Millionth Entry Key database monitoring climate change received its one-millionth report from a network of "citizen scientists" Released  May 3, 2012
		Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Develop New Model for Deep-water Oil Spills Call for a "whole new type" of marine ecology Released  April 20, 2012
		Novel Answer to That Perennial "Earth Day" Question: "What Can I Do to Help?" Groups of citizen scientists are making pivotal contributions to research on the Earth, its place in the universe and other natural phenomena Released  April 19, 2012
		Earth Week: A Stream Is a Stream Is a Stream: Or Is It? Scientists ford high-mountain waterways in North, South America to find out Released  April 16, 2012
		Long-term Ecological Research Reveals Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change New insights as NSF Long Term Ecological Research Network reflects on three decades of science Released  April 6, 2012
		CalWomenTech Scale Up Project: Proven Tools Attract Women to STEM Training Programs Project aims to increase recruitment and retention of women in community college STEM programs Released  April 6, 2012
		Predicting "Cosmic Fireworks" From Our Own Backyard Using the largest map of the cosmos ever, astronomers have counted nearby double white dwarfs, stars thought to cause an important type of supernova Released  March 13, 2012
		Cry Me a River: Following a Watershed's Winding Path to Sustainability National Science Foundation "Water, Sustainability and Climate" award fosters new view of urban rivers, lakes Released  March 9, 2012
		Six-month-old Word Learners Study of infants challenges developmental sequence of human language learning Released  March 8, 2012
		The Snows of Mount Washington Climate and environmental change in the U.S. northeast corridor Released  March 2, 2012
		Viewing the World Through a "Mathematical Lens" Can Help Young Children Learn Math Helping children identify and connect the mathematics ideas that they use in daily activities is crucial to learning math at an early age. Released  February 15, 2012
		Studying Nature's Rhythms: Soundscape Ecologists Spawn New Field Listen to biophony, geophony, anthrophony: the 'music' of Planet Earth Released  February 6, 2012
		Making Nature's Best Better to Produce Biofuels The National Renewable Energy Laboratory uses supercomputer simulations to explore designer enzymes for renewable fuels Released  January 31, 2012