Chicago Tribune
The Fermi and Franck institutes “continued the dialogue between pure science andtechnology that the Manhattan Project had initiated, and helped ease the barriers between traditional scientific disciplines,” according to the release. ...
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Chicago Tribune
Are you afraid of your cell phone now?
Salon
While WHO was careful to point out that the decision doesn't reflect any ironclad documentation of cancer risks -- and virtually all studies on the topic have been inconclusive -- the news still cast an ominous shadow over a technology virtually ...
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Salon
Reinventing the Standard Model of Science Presentations
ScienceCareers.org
By Sarah Reed But why should scientists spend more time crafting their talks when they are presenting research to peers who expect a PowerPoint presentation at conferences where alternatives are discouraged? You wouldn't normally find scenes from a ...
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Halifax Marine Research Institute Launches
Newswise (press release)
The Scientific Director for the Institute is Doug Wallace, who is Dalhousie University's first Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Science and Technology. Dr. Wallace has made significant scientific contributions throughout his career to ...
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UC Davis awards 8200-plus degrees as year ends
UC Davis
4 pm at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts; 25 doctoral degrees and 131 master's degrees (all included in totals for Graduate Studies) as well as completion of studies for 158 teaching credentials. June 9 — Graduate Studies: 4 pm in the ...
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Striving for more accurate long-range forecasts
MiamiHerald.com
A symposium on the science of hurricanes reveals that research is advancing at (near) hurricane speed. By Howard Cohen Hurricane Charley, the second major hurricane of 2004, vexed forecasters because it intensified from a Category 2 to a 4 in less than ...
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Developmental disease is recreated in an adult model
EurekAlert (press release)
Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) in Houston is recognized as a premier academic healthscience center and is known for excellence in education, research and patient care. It is the only private medical school in the greater southwest and is ...
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New model can help determine physical fitness and cardiac health
News-Medical.net
Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have managed exactly that: they have developed a model that can help doctors - and individuals - determine just how fit an individual is, and what that means for overall health. ...
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India's Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) - Recent ...
Washington Bangla Radio
Agreements for co-operation / co-development in frontline areas of science, technology and engineering were signed with several countries. With “Balasya Mulam Vigyanam” as the mool mantra, DRDO continues its march towards building self-reliance in ...
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Science and Society
Project Syndicate
Above all, there is a constant need for humility about “science-based decisions.” Andy Stirling isResearch Director at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex. Alister Scott is a leadership consultant and Visiting ...
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Implement textbook development policy in full-Dr Opoku-Amankwa
Ghana News Agency
Kumasi, June 2, GNA - Dr Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, Senior Lecturer, Department of PublishingStudies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has appealed to the government to ensure full implementation of the textbook development and ...
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News in Brief: Body & Brain
Science News
By Science News Staff A 2009 finding of a mouse virus called XMRV in chronic fatigue patients (SN: 11/7/09, p. 13) might have stemmed from tainted laboratory compounds. In two studies published online May 31 in Science, two separate teams of US ...
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New tech program for schools
Brant News
The new Science and Technology Program for Grade 8 students will replace the existing Design and Technology/Family Studies Program as of September 2012. The program, which was recently passed by the board, will include enhancements like technology ...
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Senior awarded international scholarship to study in Peru
Media Newswire (press release)
Nationally ranked among the top research institutions of its kind, Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences focuses on the science and business of living systems through learning, discovery, and engagement. ...
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Farmer networks hold key to agricultural innovation in developing countries ...
EurekAlert (press release)
"Most people tend to think that technology information flows to farmers through a direct pipeline from scientists, but that isn't true," said lead author Ellen McCullough, a former research fellow at Stanford's Program on Food Security and the ...
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Science Educators Honored as "Teacher of the Year" - Challenger Center Names ...
Space Ref (press release)
Four elementary and middle school teachers were named as recipients, which recognizes educators who exemplify the spirit of Challenger Center's education mission and share a commitment toscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning ...
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UCSB Grads Recognized
Santa Barbara Edhat
An expert in information technology, social movements, and the legal system, Earl has received major grants and awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for young scholars. Her dedication to fostering undergraduate research is ...
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news In detail
Knowledgespeak
The journal will also accept significant studies that apply previously developed techniques to new materials, setting the research in the context of current debates on past human and animal health. Paper types encouraged are original research articles, ...
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Chlorhexidine Varnish Touted for High-Risk Caries Groups
Medscape
June 2, 2011 (San Diego, California) — Treating pregnant women with chlorhexidine varnish (Prevora, CHX Technologies, Inc.) can help prevent early childhood caries in their children, the CHXTechnologies president announced here at the International ...
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Young lab rats tackle disease and hunger
Globe and Mail
Top 20 under 20 Science and Technology winners. (from bottom left clockwise): Jennifer Cloutier, Yale Michaels, Grant Sparling, Michael Lim, Rui Song. —JP Moczulski for The Globe and Mail The research interests of these award recipients range from ...
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Globe and Mail
Pivotal Therapeutics Inc. Opens United States Commercialization and ...
Marketwire (press release)
Established in 1985, the 94-acre Research Park is home to 26 mature technology companies working in conjunction with the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science, the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and the FAU Adams Center for ...
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Outreach 4 Change: Building a culture of inclusivity within outreach programs
InTech
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals have a unique insight to improve participation among future engineers, working collaboratively to create an inclusive, diverse environment. Ultimately, this environment will attract more ...
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'Star Trek' Sensors Light Safest Route for Evacuations
Government Technology
The building hallways look like something out of Star Trek when illuminated, but there's nothing science-fiction about the technology. Developed by Lightstep Technologies, the system operates on the same principle as an aircraft's emergency lighting, ...
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Government Technology
This Week in Climate Science: Fruits and Nuts, Reindeer, and a Renewable Future
Climate Central (blog)
By David Kroodsma Welcome to Climate Central's science roundup. This roundup summarizes noteworthy climate science studies published in the previous two weeks, with a special emphasis on work that might not have been covered by major media outlets. ...
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Sul Ross students receive degrees at commencement
Alpine Avalanche
... MEd, counseling; Travis G. Tippit, BA, general studies Fort Stockton: Glenna J. Cornett Dulaney, MEd, educational diagnostician; MonaLisa Gonzales, BA, English Fort Worth: Lauren E. McBride, BS, animal science, cum laude, AA, veterinary technology.
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Regional and international accolades for Leicester researcher
24dash (press release)
The research subject is an important area in clinical cardiology with unmet need. “In my group, talented researchers are working across the disciplines of basic science, engineering and clinical translational science to address mechanisms underlying ...
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24dash (press release)
US unplugged: manifold benefits of disconnected learning
Times Higher Education
"Now is the time of repentance," jokes Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies ofscience and technology at MIT, founder of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, and a clinical psychologist. "We have to force ourselves to shift our ...
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Times Higher Education
Hepregen Awarded $500000 Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Grant
OneMedPlace (blog)
Hepregen's lead product HepatoPac, launched in March 2011, is a microliver platform for use in clearance predictions, metabolite profiling, transporter studies, drug-drug interactions, and toxicity determination during the drug development process. ...
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OneMedPlace (blog)
Dr Faessel - Report from the Roskamp meeting in Sarasota, Florida
Benzinga
Final speaker at the conference was famed science author and economist Patrick Cox of Breakthrough Technologies who spoke eloquently about what anatabine (RCP-006) will do for mankind. Patrick didn't mince any words and I believe that the scientists in ...
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Technology-Driven Education in New Jersey: More than Child's Play
NJ Spotlight
Beth McGrath, executive director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, said technological advances keep changing so rapidly that it's hard for educators to keep track of new ...
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Social media fortifies bond between scientists
N.C. State University Technician Online
ResearchGate social network website now has over one million users in the scientific researchworld. The science lab may seem like a lonely and impersonal setting, but Ijad Madisch has started a social network website to bridge the gap between ...
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Cybersecurity, the next frontier for NASA engineers
SC Magazine
If one were to map where the nation's brightest science, technology, engineering and mathematics minds are concentrated, the epicenter might fall somewhere along an eastern stretch of central Florida known as the Space Coast. ...
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Year-End Roundup | Language Arts, Journalism, Culture and Academic Skills
New York Times (blog)
Check the post from Tuesday for all of the year's lessons in social studies, American history and civics, global history, economics and geography and Wednesday inscience, health, technology and math. (Even if those aren't your primary subject areas, ...
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New York Times (blog)
Cell Phone Radiation: How to Reduce the Risks
BNET (blog)
By Rick Broida | June 2, 2011 A technology writer for more than 15 years, Rick Broida is a regular contributor to CNET, Popular Science, Wired and other publications. He's also the author of numerous books, including How to Do Everything with Your Zune ...
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Norwood resident selected as U.S. Presidential Scholar semifinalist
NorthJersey.com
Norwood resident Jae Seong No, a senior in the Academy for the Advancement of Science andTechnology at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, has been selected as a semifinalist in the 2011 US Presidential Scholars competition. ...
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Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June ...
PhysOrg.com (press release)
ORNL researchers are working alongside state troopers to test and validate screening technologiessuch as an infrared system that can automatically detect brake, wheel and tire problems as a vehicle enters the weigh station. Data from the ORNL studies ...
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Apricus: Making Movies With Critical Events Ahead
Seeking Alpha
There's few among the general public who have the desire to sit through videos about the sciencebehind NexACT. If clinical studies show it works, and if the regulatory agencies agree and approve the technology and its products, then that's good enough ...
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BT's Science and Technology Heritage recognised
BT's historic research archives are among just 20 collections to be added to ... and as a resource for future study of the history of science and technology the ... which provided broadcast telegraph press and news services, and time ...
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