The world premiere of the film "Ordinary Extraordinary Junco: Remarkable Biology from a Backyard Bird" - a fascinating science documentary developed by biologists at Indiana University about one of North America's most beloved songbirds - was a local success and a box office sell-out. Now the team of scientists and filmmakers says the film, along with a package of complementary educational resources, is ready for distribution to inspire, educate, and entertain public and student audiences worldwide

A series of collaborative research agreements between Indiana University Cyclotron Operations, Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center and ProNova Solutions aim to develop advanced proton therapy technologies, including a new pencil beam scanning nozzle.

"Eternal flames" fueled by hydrocarbon gas could shine a light on the presence of natural gas in underground rock layers and conditions that let it seep to the surface, according to research by geologists at the Department of Geological Sciences and the Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University Bloomington.

With privacy concerns addressed, Indiana University has re-released the free app Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors.

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury will have a spectacular series of conjunctions in evening twilight during the last half of May. Skywatchers will need a clear view of the western horizon to see the stately dance of the planets as it unfolds.

A team of American and Italian neuroscientists has identified a cellular change in the brain that accompanies obesity and could explain a tendency for the body to maintain undesirable weight levels -- rather than ideal weight -- and identify possible targets for pharmacological efforts to address obesity.

Indiana University confirmed its leadership in high performance, data-intensive computing by unveiling Big Red II, a powerful new supercomputer with a processing speed of one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second (one petaFLOPS).

Indiana University's new supercomputer is expected to further advance international collaborations reliant on big data research at a time when the globalization of education, science and research is omnipresent.

About 20 IU undergraduate women participated in a full day of tours and meetings at Argonne National Laboratory just outside Chicago as part of IU initiatives focused on science, technology and mathematics careers. Argonne employs 1,250 scientists, and also 650 graduate and undergraduate students, who work on some of the most advanced research topics related to energy, the environment and national security.

The IU School of Optometry will move services from its Community Eye Care Center on North Monroe Street and begin meeting those same patients May 6 at the centralized $3 million Atwater Eye Care Center that opened in 2009 on the edge of IU's campus at 744 E. Third St.

Michael Hamburger, professor in the Department of Geological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been chosen to receive the Indiana University Bloomington Distinguished Service Award for 2012-13. He is being recognized for his contributions to his academic discipline, the university and the IU Bloomington campus, and the larger community -- especially his leadership in issues of environmental sustainability.

Taking data from cosmic rays for the first time and moving closer to the day later this year when physicists can begin measuring neutrino energies, the international NOvA experiment -- with the fingerprints of Indiana University researchers all over it -- began recording its first three-dimensional images last week.

Eric F. Wieschaus, the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking work with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, will deliver the 31st Tracy M. Sonneborn Lecture on April 16 at Indiana University Bloomington.

A recently published study ranks the science education faculty at the Indiana University School of Education as the second-most productive in research based on articles published in the first decade of the 21st century. The study "U.S. Institutional Research Productivity in Major Science Education Research Journals: Top 30 for 2000's" is published in the Journal of Education and Learning.

Saturn will gleam at its biggest and brightest for the year during April, remaining near its peak of visibility for most of the night throughout the month. The bright yellow planet will be opposite the sun in our sky ("at opposition") on April 28, when it will rise in the east at sunset and be visible all night as it crosses the sky.

An Indiana University professor of mathematics credited by his peers with teaching the most diverse set of courses in the history of the department -- 38 courses with distinct catalog numbers -- has received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

A former post-doctoral researcher at Indiana University's Cyclotron Facility -- now a professor in the Physics Department at Western Michigan University -- who converted one of the world's most popular gasoline automobiles to full electric power will bring the story of this conversion to an April 3 Physics Department colloquium.

Indiana University Bloomington's 2012-13 Outstanding Junior Faculty awards will support the creation of innovative textile art and research on public investments in energy, the worldwide loss of coastal mangrove forests, the development of anti-malarial drugs, the relationship between vision and balance, and the appropriateness of cancer screenings.

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Adam G. Riess, leader of the team which provided the first direct and published evidence that the expansion of the universe was accelerating and filled with dark energy, will deliver the 23rd Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Memorial Lecture in Physics at IU Bloomington on Tuesday, March 19.

In new research published last week in Physical Review Letters the professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics, reports that the most sensitive test ever conducted to identify a new force acting on neutrons as evidenced by a corkscrew motion of the neutron spin axis uncovered no such result.

Indiana University Bloomington chemists Erin Carlson and Sara Skrabalak have been named Sloan Research Fellows, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced. They are among 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers to receive the fellowships for 2013.

The late Indiana University physicist Brian David Serot -- a four-time winner of the IU Trustees' Teaching Award still remembered for his calm rationality and encyclopedic knowledge of the field -- will be honored with a one-day symposium March 6 at IU's Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter.

At the beginning of March, gleaming white Jupiter will be more than half way up the western sky at dusk, and it will still be almost that high at month's end. During March the giant planet will pass north of the orange star Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus the Bull.

IU research associate Jane Stout's stunning image of a dividing mammalian cell with chromosomes shown aligned on cell division machinery at the sites of attachment was announced as a winner in the international GE Healthcare Life Sciences' 2012 Cell Imaging Competition.

Indiana University Rudy Professor of Statistics Karen Kafadar helped produce a 2009 report from the National Academies of Science that found most areas of forensic science analysis failed to meet the stringent criteria seen in other scientific disciplines. She updates that work at 2013 AAAS.