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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 13, 2011

Mobile phones and antennae don't seem to pose a risk, researchers foundPhone radiation “affects biological processes”
swissinfo.ch
The four-year programme from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) concluded, however, that there were “no easy answers to these simple questions”. Some research projects have confirmed that non-ionising radiation affects biological processes in ...
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swissinfo.ch
Dairies, Idaho energy research center to cooperate
BusinessWeek
The Center for Advanced Energy Studies, based in Idaho Falls, includes the US Department of Energy, Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho's research universities. With this partnership, the parties say they will marry science-based information with ...
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Research Matters: 'Demand for researchers is higher than ever'
The Independent
Meanwhile, for those continuing in research, the placements offer excellent opportunities to develop the wider impact of their studies. BBSRC also offers policy placements with hosts including theParliamentary Office of Science and Technology, ...
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New centre at UCT to take Africa forward
Independent Online
The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) – created by the Department ofScience and Technology and administered through the National ResearchFoundation – was initiated to make South Africa competitive in the international knowledge ...
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Independent Online
Activated graphene makes superior supercapacitors for energy storage
EurekAlert (press release)
The work at Brookhaven was supported by DOE's Office of Science; the UT - Austin team'sresearch was supported by the Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and theAdvanced Technology Institute. The Center for Functional Nanomaterials at ...
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Study finds lung stem cells, likely to generate debate
Boston Globe
“At the same time, the technology being used has its own inherent limitations, which may make it difficult to draw firm conclusions and has led to difficulties in others easily replicating the work of the group.'' Anversa's work has fired vigorous ...
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Teaching fellows announced in Lansing include 12 headed for WMU
WMU News
WMU is one of six Michigan universities invited to recruit both recent college graduates and those seeking a different career for three-year fellowships designed to attract promising educators with strong backgrounds in science, technology, ...
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WMU News
Turning Climate Tech Transfer on Its Head
Huffington Post (blog)
Climate technology is then a one-way, conventional development aid strategy. And this conventional strategy will come at a huge cost -- studies show that this form of transfer could cost trillions of dollars. Our research in innovation theory and ...
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Every School Every Thursday - Urbandale, Dallas Center-Grimes, Johnston
DesMoinesRegister.com
Second-grade students will be going to the Blank Park Zoo to cap their animal research. Third-grade students will be going to Jester Park to study nature and connect to their study of animal life inscience. Fourth-graders went to Exercise Your ...
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Flying With Fossil Fuels May Sometimes Be Greener Than Biofuels - At Least In ...
Treehugger
(Science Daily) Hileman notes that coal-to-liquids fuels are not a green option either, however. Those cases of severe land use change? Looking at palm oil, Hileman's team's research confirms previous studies. When grown on newly cleared rainforest ...
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Treehugger
Ten Important Reasons to Include the Humanities in Your Preparation for a ...
Securities Industry News (blog)
Humanities study helps you understand the impact that science, technology, and medicine has had on society and understand the future scientific needs of society. The study of literature, history, and philosophy shed light on the influence science has ...
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Mind Reading: Technology Turns Thought Into Action
NPR
... a researcher who studies ECoG at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center in Albany. "It really goes pretty close to what people used to call mind reading." So perhaps it's not surprising that Schalk's research is funded by both ...
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How to Make a Human Antenna
Discovery News
He worked on the proof of concept with Desney Tan, senior researcher at Microsoft Research, and Shwetak Patel, University of Washington assistant professor of computer science and engineering. The researchers set up controlled experiments in 10 homes ...
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Gain or drain? How study abroad affects our economy
The Independent
These are precious imports: a number of UK postgraduate science, technology and engineering courses could collapse without international students. In biotechnology, 93 per cent of students are international; in computer science it's 82 per cent; ...
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Perspective on: The future of fusion
Princeton University
The first reason is US competitiveness, both the specific competitiveness in fusion and the general competitiveness in science and technology. Whoever controls the energy sector, whoever innovates with the science, is going to be economically dominant. ...
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Princeton University
Science Bound Graduates First Five Students
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
She graduated from Broad Ripple High School. She plans to attend graduate school for culturalstudies in either sociology or American studies. * Douglas Fletcher, who will receive a degree incomputer graphics technology this weekend. ...
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Don't pity moms of twins – they may outlive you
Globe and Mail
Smith, who teaches family and consumer studies and is director of the Utah Population Database at the university, says he and his colleagues are primarily concerned with longevity and disease prevention. They look at fertility very closely, ...
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Globe and Mail
Arrowhead Reports Fiscal 2011 Second Quarter Financial Results
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“We are looking to bring Ablaris' first anti-obesity compound into the clinic later this year, and MD Anderson is spearheading final toxicity studies to complete the pre-clinical package. In addition to the exciting implications of Ablaris' technology ...
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Blackketter selected as new Montana Tech chancellor
KBZK Bozeman News
... emphasis on engineering, science, business, health, informational sciences, liberal studies andtechnology, Montana Tech is positioned to continue to be an educational leader and to become nationally recognized as a leading research institution. ...
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University selects dean of technology
WLFI.com
... a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology and a professor of computer and information technology. He also is the executive director of the Center for ProfessionalStudies and Applied Research (ProSTAR), ...
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Universities Urged To Work With Artisanal Enterprises
Modern Ghana
Asenso-Okyere said all regions of the country needed sustainable technologies that increased the productivity, stability and resilience of production systems. He further called for the funding of agriculture and science research, which was key to ...
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Cancer Sleuths Uncovering DNA Mysteries for Novartis, Glaxo
Bloomberg
Source: MD Anderson Cancer Center Via Bloomberg A screenshot of cancerous tissue from theMolecular Pathology Research Program is shown at General Electric Co.'s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York. Photographer: Vijay Paruchuru/Bloomberg ...
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news In detail
Knowledgespeak
Laskey informed the first hearing of the UK's Commons Science and Technology Committee's inquiry into peer review. The engine of peer review had not seized but was misfiring, he was quoted as saying. There has been a dramatic rise in referees' demands ...
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Technology Strategy Board to invest £5m into the 'Internet of Things'
PR Web (press release)
Beginning with a series of workshops and the launch of a Special Interest Group in the Summer, which will be followed by investments in feasibility studies, research & development projects and pilots, the objective of the initiative is to help the UK ...
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Anything goes at THATCamp UWO
Western News
Quan-Hasse, an associate professor joint appointed in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and Sociology, and Martin, a PhD student in Library and InformationScience, are two of the organizers of THATCamp UWO (The Humanities andTechnology ...
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Western News
Nine candidates square off in Indiana Area
Blairsville Dispatch
He said his background in information technology can be an asset in developing a cyber school for Indiana Area. Ray, 65, is a novelist and retired legal studies professor at IUP. He graduated with abachelor's degree in political science from Grove ...
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