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Batteries included on Nottingham’s buses

Britain’s first full-size battery-powered bus will be in service in Nottingham by the autumn.

Nottingham European Arts & Theatre Festival 2011

The festival will take place 26 May – 12 June 2011 and will feature an exciting range of ground-breaking European theatre, music, performance, film and visual art for adults and children.

Use your cycle helmet campaign launched

The Nottinghamshire Road Safety Partnership has launched an initiative to encourage more cyclists to use helmets and wear high visibility clothing.

New View of Undersea Giant Kelp Forest "Canopy"–From Satellites Above

Photo taken underwater of the giant kelp canopy in the Santa Barbara Channel. Marine scientists discover wave disturbance, nutrient levels affect California giant kelp growth
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http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=119642&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1


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Placing Landmarks on the Genome Map

Schematic diagram showing human chromosome 21 with a small region outlined in red. Vishy Iyer and colleagues use supercomputers and next-generation gene sequences to explore DNA and heredity
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New Fishing Hook Reduces Shark Catch

Photo of Shark Defense researcher Patrick Rice with a bonnethead shark. SMART Hook™ combines two shark repellent technologies into standard fishing hooks in order to reduce the number of sharks caught from commercial fishing
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Transforming Robotics With Biologically Inspired Learning Models

Aisha Sohail, Heather Ames and Jasmin Leveille running simulations of artificial visual system. Aisha Sohail describes the Neuromorphics Lab at CELEST and the work of building artificial brains to be used in robotics
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Nighttime Lights Clarify Economic Activity

Image of nighttime lights visible on earth from outer space. Combining lights and statistics may yield high-resolution global economic data
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Why Context Matters in the Long and Short of Words

Horizontal and vertical words in red, blue and green. MIT researchers improve 75-year-old language theory
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E. coli Offers Insight to Evolution

Photo of Richard Lenski and another researcher examining a Petri dish used in a study of evolution. Richard Lenski’s two decade experiment on E. coli sheds new light on evolutionary processes
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http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=119814&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1


This is an NSF Discoveries item.