NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION'S update

NSF Plans Headquarters Move to Alexandria The General Services Administration signed a 15-year lease for a new state-of-the-art building to house the NSF’s headquarters. The selected construction site is at the Hoffman Town Center in Alexandria, Va. A 2016 move is anticipated.

Follow the Puma: Tracking Animals With Smart-Phone, Video-Game Technologies Wildlife researchers in California created a collar that simultaneously tracks the location and the behavior of an animal. The collar uses GPS and satellite-tracking technology and is being employed to monitor the location and activities of pumas that live close to urban populations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Magnetic Material Removes Heavy Metal From Water  Polluted water can contain a toxic and carcinogenic form of the heavy metal chromium. Researchers in Texas demonstrated the ability of a magnetic material to remove this metal from water for recycling.

Migration of the Monarchs: A Movie and a Role for Citizen Scientists  The monarch butterfly makes one of the longest migrations on Earth, crossing an entire continent to reach a remote location in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. The IMAX film "Flight of the Butterflies" follows the journey and tells the story of the researcher and citizen scientists who found the butterfly haven.

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