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Archive for November, 2010
Web Site Allows Citizen Scientists to Analyze Galaxy Collisions
by Mason Spirit contributor on November 1st, 2010
Galaxy Zoo Mergers, a new web site developed by researchers at Mason and Oxford University, will give anyone—scientist or not—the chance to contribute to space research. By playing a “cosmic slot machine,” site visitors can compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic pileups. These collisions, which astronomers call “galactic mergers,”…
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Novel Personalized Medicine Trial Launched for Colorectal Cancer
by Mason Spirit contributor on November 1st, 2010
Imagine if treatments for disease could be based not on patients’ diagnoses, but rather on the characteristics of their tissues. That’s exactly what researchers at Mason’s Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) are trying to accomplish. Lance Liotta and Emanuel Petricoin III, codirectors of CAPMM, have launched a clinical trial in partnership with…
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New Study Finds Link between Marine Algae and Whale Diversity
by Mason Spirit contributor on November 1st, 2010
A new paper by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Otago in New Zealand shows a strong link between the diversity of organisms at the bottom of the food chain and the diversity of mammals at the top. Mason geologist Mark D. Uhen says that throughout the past 30 million years, changes…
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Some Bullies Are Just Shy
by Mason Spirit contributor on November 1st, 2010
When you think of people suffering from social anxiety, you probably characterize them as shy, inhibitive, and submissive; however, new research from Mason psychologists Todd Kashdan and Patrick McKnight suggests that a subset of socially anxious people act out in aggressive, risky ways—and that their behavior patterns are often misunderstood. In their new study, “The…
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My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
by Mason Spirit contributor on November 1st, 2010
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer Anousheh Ansari, BS Electrical Engineering ’89 (with Homer Hickam) Macmillan, March 2010 My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer tells the story of space pioneer Anousheh Ansari’s childhood in Iran and her family’s move to the United States after the…
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