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Cool Jobs: Green Science

By Sharon Oosthoek / March 14, 2013

White spruce grow across northern North America, from Alaska to Labrador. As Arctic temperatures rise, spruce are spreading even farther north. Credit: Mark W. Skinner at USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database

Scientists get at the root (and stem, leaf, flower, fruit and seed) of the relationship between plants and their environment

Posted in Agriculture, Plants, STEM Careers | Tagged air pollution, air pollution control, albedo, allelopathy, arabidopsis, benzene, Bill Wolverton, birch, botany, climate change, contaminants, cool jobs, ecology, feature, forests, formaldehyde, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse effectPlants, herbicide, houseplants, Joseph Jez, juglone, Labrador, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, plant chemistry, plants, Pollination, pollinator, Quebec, rice, seeds, Serge Payette, sorghum, spruce, topstories, transpiration, tree line, trees, trichloroethylene, tundra, Université Laval, Washington University, weed killers, X-ray crystallography

The first moon walker

By Janet Raloff / August 29, 2012

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Neil Armstrong made history in 1969 when he planted his feet — and a flag — on the moon

Posted in Space | Tagged Apollo 1, Apollo 11, Barack Obama, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Bolden, cosmonauts, Eagle lander, Edward White, feature, Michael Collins, moon walk, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Neil Armstrong, Roger Chaffee, Sea of Tranquility, topstories, Virgil Grissom, Vladimir Komarov, X-15