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Week of April 14th, to April 20th, 2014

Start-Up Business Activity and the Health of the U.S. Economy

Good Moon Risin’ – Red Moon At Night, Everyone’s Delight

Hornworts Loan Genes to Ferns for Shady Environments

Runaway/Throwaway Children: Predictors and Preventions

Post-It-Notes For Feet: Sticky Protein Enhances Starfish Stride

Weather Around The World This Week: Pick Your Poison

Major Earthquakes in the Western Pacific and Nicaragua: 11-17 April 2014

New Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa:

Who’s in Danger?

Mexico’s Good Friday Earthquake: M7.2, 18 April 2014

Solar System Chemistry: Snow Line, Thermodynamics, and the Proto-planetary

Disk

Relative Social Status by Gender and Intimate Partner Violence in India

Kepler-186f: How Astronomers Discovered an Earth-Sized Planet in a Star’s Habitable

Zone

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Start-Up Business Activity and the Health of the U.S. Economy

APRIL 14, 2014 BY WALTER MCLAUGHLIN

President Obama meets with small business owners in the Roosevelt Room, recognizing that start-up businesses are an important barometer of the overall economy. Image by Pete

Souza

Good Moon Risin’ – Red Moon At Night, Everyone’s Delight

APRIL 14, 2014 BY JON PLOTKIN

The totally eclipsed moon looks blood red. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Hornworts Loan Genes to Ferns for Shady Environments

APRIL 14, 2014 BY VIJAY SHANKAR BALAKRISHNAN, PHD

How did ferns evolve the ability to utilize low levels of light? Image courtesy of Fay-Wei Li

Runaway/Throwaway Children: Predictors and Preventions

APRIL 14, 2014 BY GINA PUTT

What makes a kid run away? Image by taliesin

Post-It-Notes For Feet: Sticky Protein Enhances Starfish Stride

APRIL 15, 2014 BY VIJAY SHANKAR BALAKRISHNAN, PHD

Starfish walk by moving their tiny “tube feet” which resemble minuscule elephant feet. Image by Jade.

Weather Around The World This Week: Pick Your Poison

APRIL 15, 2014 BY JON PLOTKIN

Winter Storm Zephyr, now just a cold front along the eastern seaboard, left cold temperature records in Her

wake. Courtesy of NOAA

Major Earthquakes in the Western Pacific and Nicaragua: 11-17 April 2014

APRIL 17, 2014 BY JENNIFER YOUNG

Earthquakes 11-17 April 2014. Image credit: USGS

New Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Who’s in Danger?

APRIL 18, 2014 BY JANELLE VAESA, MPH

This slide shows the changes in the tissue due to the Ebola Virus, as well as the presence of the virus. Image by the

CDC.

Mexico’s Good Friday Earthquake: M7.2, 18 April 2014

APRIL 18, 2014 BY JENNIFER YOUNG

The location of the M7.2 Good Friday earthquake, 2014. Image credit: USGS

Solar System Chemistry: Snow Line, Thermodynamics, and the Proto-planetary Disk

APRIL 18, 2014 BY JOHN JAKSICH

Our solar system is visually-striking, but what is the chemistry behind it? Image courtesy of NASA

Relative Social Status by Gender and Intimate Partner Violence in India

APRIL 20, 2014 BY JENNIFER DUBOIS

Education, employment, and intimate partner violence are all related. Image by singhajay

Kepler-186f: How Astronomers Discovered an Earth-Sized Planet in a Star’s Habitable Zone

APRIL 20, 2014 BY PAUL A. HECKERT, PH.D.

This is an artist’s depiction of Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the

habitable zone. Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech