A Sampling of Clips for November 25^th, 2008

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Bush Meets with Three Nobel Prize Winners at White House
USA Today, Nov. 24 -- Three 2008 Nobel laureates from the United States lined up with President George W. Bush on Monday for an Oval Office photograph to mark their achievements. Bush visited with Martin Chalfie of New York and Roger Tsien of UCSD, two of three U.S.-based scientists who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for turning a glowing green protein from jellyfish into a revolutionary way to watch the tiniest details of life within cells and living creatures. Osamu Shimomura, a Japanese citizen who works in the United States, shared the prize. More

Oceans Ten Times More Acidic Than Thought
National Geographic, Nov. 24 -- Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may make Earth's oceans more acidic faster than previously thought—unbalancing ecosystems in the process, a new study says. (Quotes Nancy Knowlton, a marine biology professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who was not involved in the study) More

Troubled Waters: Striped Bass Moms Pass on Harmful Pollutants to Babies
Scientific American, Nov. 25 -- The striped bass population in San Francisco Bay has been plummeting since the 1970s and now scientists know why: fish moms are passing down damaging pollutants in the water to their young, according to a new study published today and co-authored by UCSD researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More

Red Tides Stemmed by 'Alien'-like Parasites
MSNBC, Nov. 25 -- For the first time ever, marine biologists have tracked the control of red tides to a virulent parasite with a gruesome lifestyle not entirely unlike those in the movie "Aliens." (Quotes Xavier Mayali of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

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Building Boom at Scripps
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 25 -- Construction is winding down on a state-of-the-art conference center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, but campus officials won't get much of a break before their next building project begins.  More

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