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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Feb 12, 2012

For some scientific energy
Livemint
India's science research agenda needs institutions that nurture talent and autonomy. Many existing institutions are decaying The normally low-profile Indian scientific establishment has been jolted by the action to debar three recently retired senior ...
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Antrix-Devas deal: Game of intrigue and deceit
MSN India
There's nothing unusual about prime ministers using the forum to make important pronouncements, but what made the scientific establishment sit up was the money committed - 10000 crore - in the three announcements. Just three projects - the ...
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Experts praised scientist before dumping
The Canberra Times
BY ROSSLYN BEEBY, SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTER An expert science review panel recommended CSIRO boost support for oceanographer Trevor McDougall's globally significant climate research, just months before Australia's peak science agency dumped the ...
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Humans May Have Played Role In Loss of African Rainforests
RedOrbit
... a team of French scientists claim in a new study. According to Rachel Nuwer of Science Now, lead author Germain Bayon, a geochemist at the French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea in Plouzané, and colleagues originally intended to study...
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RedOrbit
Nahyan bin Mubarak opens 4th ICDDT
Khaleej Times
DUBAI - Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan opened in Dubai today the 4th International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy (ICDDT).
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Team seeks to learn how humans adapt to high places
Boston Herald
That's what Mark Aldenderfer, dean of the University of California Merced's School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, is trying to find out. "That's really one of the major questions that lies behind our (research) project," he said.
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New research reveals how protein protects cells from HIV infection
EurekAlert (press release)
Recent studies have found that immune cells, called dendritic cells, containing the protein are resistant to infection by HIV. Since the discovery,scientists have sought to understand how SAMHD1 works to protect these cells, with hopes that science ...
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Human brain cells created from skin
Telegraph.co.uk
British scientists are claiming to have made a major breakthrough after creating brain tissue from human skin. By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent The researchers have for the first time generated crucial types of human brain cells in the laboratory ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Michael Callahan finds meteorites might seed Earth life
EarthSky
Research published in August, 2011 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – suggests that meteorites are likely the source of certain nucleobases – the building blocks of our genetic material on Earth – in greater diversity and quantity ...
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Scientific research links health problems to coal-fired pollution
Billings Gazette
Thank you to Ron Robertson, of Worden, for his concern about asthma rates in Montana and the quest for cleaner, healthier sources of energy than the status quo at Colstrip. ("Don't blame coal-fired plant for asthma problems," Feb.
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Hamdan Award Supports Scientific Research in Sharjah University
WAM - Emirates News Agency
Hossam Hamdy, Vice Chancellor, Medical and Health Sciences Colleges, Sharjah University, discussed supporting ways of cooperation between the Award and Centre for Arab Genomic Studies, and College of Medicine, in the field of Continuing Medical ...
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SAN MARCOS: Millions flow to students in technology
North County Times
Malfavon-Borja, 23, studied under a Palomar College program aimed at boosting minorities' role in STEM fields, and then earned a university scholarship that provides stipends and services to guide minority students into graduate study and research ...
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Seattle's Sage Bionetworks seeks a drug-discovery revolution
The Seattle Times
The former head of cancer research at Merck, Stephen Friend formed a Seattle nonprofit, Sage Bionetworks, that's shaking up science. Thanks to surgery when she was an infant and regular check-ins with Cunningham's team, Olivia Bush is just like any ...
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Jacob Bleacher Gives Free Talk at Library of Congress: NASA's Desert RATS
Space Ref (press release)
The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team ofscientists and engineers, because this rough, dusty terrain, with its extreme temperatures that swing from hot to ...
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Scientists discover molecular secrets of 2000-year-old Chinese herbal remedy
PhysOrg.com
This study, which involved an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and elsewhere, will be published online February 12 in Nature Chemical Biology. Prior research had shown that HF reduced scarring in tissue, ...
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Dr. Karen Ashe: Stalking Alzheimer's
Minneapolis Star Tribune
If you believe the research, they all contain something that's good for the memory. As a neurologist, Ashe was skeptical. But when she took a closer look, she found that dozens of substances appeared to prevent memory loss in studies of lab mice.
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$1M donation for AIDS research highlights Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards
The Desert Sun
Such a study would cost at least $3 million. Leichman compares the project to the research that changed treatment for cervical cancer. Thirty years ago, the scientific community recommended hysterectomies for women with the disease.
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Mystery Disease Killing Thousands May Be Caused by Manual Labor
Fox News
Brooks, the epidemiologist at Boston University, told the AP that the studysimply said there was no definitive scientific proof of the cause, but that all possible connections remained open to future research. In comparison with Nicaragua, ...
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Strengthening agriculture, livestock sectors: speakers for conducting advanced ...
Business Recorder (blog)
Speakers on Saturday stressed the need of advanced scientific research in the agriculture and livestock fields to augment country's key export sectors and making the nation self-sufficient with regard to several edible commodities.
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What's the potential for a bird flu pandemic? A Q&A
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
This research was not performed in a classified setting; it was public domain, as biomedical research has been historically. It's been seen by editors at the scientific journals, externalscientific reviewers and dozens of US federal agencies.
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
She follows in Darwin's footsteps
Omaha World-Herald
In the Galapagos, off the coast of Ecuador, Gaulter works with Ecuadoreanscientists and the Charles Darwin Foundation on scientific research they hope will help solve their own local problem of biting flies. River blindness hasn't hit the islands yet, ...
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First human induced climate change may have occured 3500 years ago
ZME Science
While there are still a lot of climate change skeptics out there that argue that the human influence exerted upon Earth's climate is minimal, if not non-existent, a myriad of research studiestackling the subject would say otherwise.
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ZME Science
Dean Ornish Talks Lifestyle As Treatment At NYC's Integrative Healthcare Symposium
Huffington Post
But that is exactly the message -- hard-earned through 35 years of scientific research -- that Dean Ornish, MD, best-selling author and HuffPost's medical editor, communicated in his recent keynote address at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New ...
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New Study Points to Unknown Nuclear Tests by North Korea in 2010
New York Times (blog)
But now a new study by a Swedish scientist, Lars-Erik De Geer, argues that the North Korean claim, which first appeared in the Rodong Sinmun, might not have been so ridiculous. In his analysis of radioisotope emissions, Mr. De Geer suggests that North ...
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New York Times (blog)
Scientists collar elk as part of study
Helena Independent Record
This year is the second that cow elk have been captured as part of the study. The GPS collars are designed to mark a location every 4 to 6 hours for a year. When the year is complete, the collars automatically fall off and are collected by the research ...
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Center for Private Forests Created by College of Ag Sciences
Gant Daily
To better serve these landowners and advise them about forest conservation, Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has created the Center for Private Forests. The focus of the center will be applied research, education and outreach to students, ...
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Gant Daily
Norton Medical and Scientific Research & Biotechnology: Military to ...
By admin
Feb 8, 2012-Allstate Parkway,Markham,Canada- (Kazor.com) – Military personnel can have their brains connected directly to weapons system in the near future, thanks to the latest progress in the Norton Medical and Scientific Research & Biotechnology neuroscience field. Such situations are ... into consideration. The proponents of the study insists that even if there are obvious hostile uses of the new technologies, many scientists appear to be oblivious from this double-edged sword.
Kazor.com World Community News
Stuyvesant Takes the Lead With Thirteen Intel Semifinalists | The ...
By Administrator
This strenuous contest requires participants to create proposals in math,science or social studies, and to further develop them into projects through intense research. With 13 semifinalists this year, Stuyvesant has the most in... With the help of Dr . Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, a research scientist in Chemistry at Williams College, Cho used Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) to date the earliest period of human life found in Northern Europe. He analyzed quartz from the Thames River region in ...
The Spectator
New Research Reveals How Protein Protects Cells From HIV Infection
Since the discovery, scientists have sought to understand how SAMHD1 works to protect these cells, with hopes that science might find a way to synthetically apply that protection to other cells. ... Funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the study was conducted in collaboration with researchers at several institutions, including the University of Rochester Medical Center and The Cochin Institute, in Paris. About NYU School of ...
HIV-Aids: Definition, Transmission,...
Meta-analysis, game theory, and incentives to do replicable research
By Andrew
In an article from 1989, “Meta-analysis in medical research: Strong encouragement for higher quality in individual research efforts,” Keith O'Rourke and Allan Detsky apply this principle to the process of publication ofscientific research: From the statistical point of view ... One can either judge the effectiveness of a therapy based solely on the most recent study and ignore all previous studies, a method which is equivalent to giving the most recent study weight 1.Oand all previous studies ...
Statistical Modeling, Causal...
Laura's Psychology Blog » readings in psychology for 12 february ...
By Laura Freberg
“The goal of our project is to provide a window into the brain of the man who helped establish the scientific study of memory and unfailingly forgot the enormously generous contribution he made to medical research. “ how our nervous system ...
Laura's Psychology Blog
LBN Blog - | LBN E-Lert
By admin
But — as we and our co-authors argue in an article to be published this month in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest — the past 80 years of scientific research about what makes people romantically compatible suggests that such sites are unlikely to do what they ... For example, study after study has shown that the way that couples discuss and attempt to resolve disagreements predicts their future satisfaction and whether or not the relationship is likely to dissolve.
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Following the shifting of tectonic plates to understand Mediterranean ...
By TANN
Nonetheless, no scientific study had confirmed that possibility. With thisresearch, we prove for the first time that the distribution of the genus Parachtes is linked to the tectonic events that occurred in the Mediterranean more than 25 million ...
The Archaeology News Network
The Canadian National Newspaper: Scientists confirm ...
By Laura Tyco
In today's “global economy” an “official science” which denies the analyticalstudy of spiritual phenomena, as a legitimate context for understanding human reality, has been created over time. The “science” which is ...Collaborative exo-scientific research efforts inspired by Dr. Michael Salla, suggest that within the estimated over 20 types of extraterrestrial genes within human DNA, lies psycho-kinetic abilities associated with the genetic memories of ancient extraterrestrial races.
2012 Indy Info - LRC
Interview: Sino-European research collaboration in life sciences ...
Interview: Sino-European research collaboration in life sciences eyes great... to life science research are well-known to Yang, who studied genetics as a PhD ...
news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012.../c_131404985.htm
How to make photosynthetic solar panels, MIT scientist explains
If you're reading this post via e-mail or RSS, please visit the post's page on the website to view the video interview. MIT researchers, guided by And.
www.zmescience.com/.../photosynthetic-solar-panels-mit-3213...
UD College of Arts & Sciences: DENIN research symposium
DENIN Research Symposium discussion panel participants are (from left) Tom ... Sarzynski then covered her research agenda, including her studiesin ... Additionally, Holly Michael, assistant professor of geological sciences, joined the panel.
www.cas.udel.edu/news/Pages/denin-research-symposium.aspx
Animal Scientist
Animal scientists study a variety of domestic animal species. ... Those animal scientists that are primarily involved in research may be responsible for designing ...
animalcareers.about.com/od/Careers/a/Animal-Scientist.htm
Media Coverage Of Ecological Science: A Rare Occurrence
When scientific research is discussed, which aspects of the studies are highlighted by journalists? Finally, are the studies that journalists find newsworthy also ...
www.science20.com/.../media_coverage_ecological_science_r...
Can Cloud Computing Address Scientific Computing Requirements ...
Can Cloud Computing Address Scientific Computing Requirements for DOE Research? Well, Yes, No and Maybe. After a two-year study of the feasibility of ...
www.scientificcomputing.com/news-HPC-Can-Cloud-Computi...
Research chat: Political scientist John Sides on election 2012 ...
Journalist's Resource provides access to timely, unbiased studies from major research ... Research chat: Political scientist John Sides on election 2012 ...
journalistsresource.org/.../research-chat-political-scientist-john-...
Traditional Inuit knowledge essential to scientific research: NTI
Traditional Inuit knowledge essential to scientific research: NTI. Recentstudy on killer whales shows scientists take traditional knowledge more seriously ...
www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/.../65674traditional_inuit_knowledge...
What's The Value Of Scientific Research? | Co.Exist: World changing ...
What's The Value Of Scientific Research? When you hear about a goofystudy, you might ask yourself what scientists are doing. Well, some otherscientists have ...
www.fastcoexist.com/.../whats-the-value-of-scientific-research
Experts Weigh In on Bird Flu Research: Scientific American
What began as a question on whether scientific journals should publish the complete research has grown into an argument on whether to conduct thesestudies, ...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-weigh...
BEACON Researchers at Work: Professional Scientist, Amateur ...
And when you start that pitch with, “I study evolution,” things can get dicey pretty ... We become the face of scientific research to friends and family who may not ...
beacon-center.org/.../beacon-researchers-at-work-professional-...
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