But while collecting water samples for this project, they keep their eyes peeled for their true passion, the dolphins.

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That project will seek to return samples of organic materials from an asteroid to help scientists understand how the building blocks for life may have been seeded on the early Earth.

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But the work has begun: the Human Serum Metabolome Project at Manchester University is collecting samples from over 5, 000 people.

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For CNN iReport's cultural census project, we collected more than 200 handwriting samples and selected a handful to be analyzed by an expert.

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In addition to a sea floor mapping project, the researchers will make chemical analyses of water samples that will help them determine the temperature, salinity and composition of a strong circumpolar current that flows around the boundary of the Arctic Ocean.

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Sharing what trip afar or film project is next, attendees were given product demonstrations, gratis samples (whether a taste of Brugal Rum or Goose Island beer) and treated as if on the red carpet at the Kodak Theater, Hollywood, instead of just off sandy Long Beach and now in Greenwich Village, NYC.

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Armed with three samples of mitochondrial DNA, Dr. Turi King, the project geneticist, was able to prove that the new descendant Schurer had found was, in fact, related to the known Plantagenet Michael Ibsen.

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So we will carefully study the experience of the Silicon Valley, and without replicating, we will use the best practices and samples that exist in California in the framework of that major project that is called the Silicon Valley.

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