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Cray Signs $40 Million Supercomputer Agreement With the National Energy ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Cray Signs $40 Million Supercomputer Agreement With the National EnergyResearch Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). SEATTLE, WA, Jun 27,2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ:CRAY) today ...
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A Helpful Online Safety Guide for People With Autism Spectrum Disorders
People from all walks of life and all kinds of backgrounds fall victim to online bullying and cybercrime, but studies have shown that those with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more susceptible to online threats than others 
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Director of Wellcome Trust Chosen for UK Chief Scientific Adviser
Science Now
The director of the Wellcome Trust, an independent charity in the United Kingdom that funds much of the nation's biomedical research, has been appointed as the U.K. government's next Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA). Mark Walport will take up the ...
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Global H1N1 death toll may be 15 times higher than previously reported
CNN (blog)
A vast majority of the studies are extremely flawed and do not actually use accurate scientific meathods. June 26, 2012 at 03:36 | Report abuse |. jane. Yeah. You are so right. Just keeping us used to living in fear. June 25, 2012 at 20:12 | Report ...
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Two cups of coffee may help protect your heart
CNN (blog)
"Heart failure shares risk factors with other cardiovascular diseases and high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes are particularly strong risk factors for heart failure," explains Elizabeth Mostofsky, the first author of the analysis and a post ...
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Thomson Reuters Announces New 2011 Journal Citation Reports
Reuters
Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:02am EDT. JCR Uncovers the Impact and Influence of Scholarly Journals in its Largest Release. _. Philadelphia, PA, June 28, 2012- The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of ...
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Scripps Research Institute scientists find easier way to make new drug compounds
Eureka! Science News
"This is a basic tool for making novel chemical compounds, and it should have a wide range of applications," said Jin-Quan Yu, PhD, a professor at Scripps Research and senior author of the new report, published in the June 28, 2012 issue of the journal ...
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Eureka! Science News
8000-year quake record improves understanding of Alpine Fault
Phys.Org
June 28, 2012. 8000-year quake record improves understanding of Alpine Fault. (Phys.org) -- A geological study of the southern section of the New Zealand's Alpine Fault spanning the past 8000 years has given scientists an improved understanding of the ...
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Star Scientific Announces Noteworthy Anatabloc® Scientific Presentation at...
MarketWatch (press release)
GLEN ALLEN, Va., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- StarScientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:CIGX) announced today that the results of a successful animal study supporting the potential thyroid benefit of nutritional supplementation with Rock Creek ... The ...
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Scientists urge new approaches to plant research
Phys.Org
Scientists urge new approaches to plant research. June 29, 2012. You'd be amazed at how much you can learn from a plant. In a paper published this week in the journal Science, a Michigan State University professor and a colleague discuss why if humans ...
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Scientists—They're Just Like Us! They Don't Like Equations Either
Scientific American (blog)
Evelyn is an AAAS mass media fellow with Scientific American for the summer of 2012. Follow on Twitter ... I expected the story to be about occasions when scientists had misunderstood, misinterpreted, or misapplied mathematical formulas in their ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Adoption of advanced techniques could propel crop improvement
Phys.Org
Adoption of advanced techniques could propel crop improvement. June 28,2012 by Brian Wallheimer. (Phys.org) -- Scientists could take greater strides toward crop improvement if there were wider adoption of advanced techniques used to understand the ...
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London Olympics on track to be 'most costly Games ever'
Phys.Org
June 26, 2012. London Olympics on track to be 'most costly Games ever'. Musée Olympique in Lausanne, Switzerland. Credit: Fanny Schertzer. Oxford University research says the London Games are on track to be among the most expensive to date with a ...
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Argonne scientist works to contain mercury, protect fish
Phys.Org
Earth Sciences · Astronomy · Environment · Space Exploration. Argonnescientist works to contain mercury, protect fish. June 26, 2012. Argonnescientist works to contain mercury, protect fish. Enlarge. Bhoopesh Mishra works on the MRCAT/EnviroCAT x-ray ...
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news In detail
Knowledgespeak
Scientific Reports is committed to publishing technically sound researcharticles quickly and efficiently. From June 2011 to April 2012, ... France New European Science Foundation report identifies hot research topics in and on Central and Eastern ...
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Report shows overspending on cultural institutions in boom years
Phys.Org
June 28, 2012. Civic leaders, arts organizations, donors and government officials can better plan new or expanded arts facilities by first focusing on the arts organizations' missions and assessing demand for the projects, according to a new study from ...
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Study: Hawkmoths use humidity to sense nectar
Phys.Org
... nectar and, thereby, pollinate the plant. But new research shows that a more relevant sensory apparatus may help some insects hunt for a flower's sweet juice: hygroreceptors that sense humidity. ... June 28, 2012 By Krishna Ramanujan. Study ...
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Noted Researcher Urges New Scientific Study of UFOs
PR Newswire (press release)
Noted Researcher Urges New Scientific Study of UFOs. ... BOULDER, Colo., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UFO researcher Robert Hastings recently addressed The Society for Scientific Exploration's 31st Annual Conference here. His presentation ...
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From Ballet to Biochemistry: BC Undergraduate's ResearchPublished By ...
Boston College Chronicle
(June 2012)—A fresh insight into a decades-old question regarding cellular regulation has been provided by new College of Arts and Sciences alumna Alexis Peterson '12, and published in Biochemistry, a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American...
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Boston College Chronicle
Researchers synthesize printable, electrically conductive gel
Phys.Org
June 28, 2012 By Max McClure. Stanford researchers synthesize printable, electrically conductive gel. Enlarge. Postdoctoral fellow Guihua Yu, Associate Professor Zhenan Bao and visiting scholar Lijia Pan examine the hydrogel made in the Bao lab ...
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Study challenges the notion that a calorie is just a calorie
Eureka! Science News
A new study published June 26 in the Journal of American Medical Association challenges the notion that "a calorie is a calorie." The study, led by Cara Ebbeling, PhD, ... Updated by artificial intelligence Tue, 26 Jun 2012, 22:11:00 EDT Learn more ...
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Scientists develop spray-on battery
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in the United States have developed a paint that can store and deliver electrical power just like a battery.Traditional lithium-ion batteries power most portable ... LONDON | Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:56pm EDT. LONDON (Reuters ...
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Wimbledon strawberry prices would almost double without bees
Phys.Org
June 29, 2012. (Phys.org) -- Wimbledon fans were today warned they would face price rises on their strawberries of 84% if bees disappeared, according to new research. This price increase would mean forking out £4.14 for a 10-strawberry punnet at the ...
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Time travel virtually possible
Phys.Org
A virtual time-machine will be officially unveiled in St Andrews this weekend (June 23-24, 2012), allowing people the opportunity to explore St Andrews Cathedral, Scotland's largest medieval church, as it was in its prime. ... The virtual cathedral is ...
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Dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded: study
Phys.Org
Dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded, scientists said Wednesday, in a finding that could debunk one of the most commonly-held images of the extinct giants. ... Jun 27, 2012. Rank: 3.2 / 5 (9). It's frustrating that writers commenting on research ...
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NPL scientists help create an extra second of summer
Eureka! Science News
Updated by artificial intelligence Sat, 30 Jun 2012, 19:30:24 EDT Learn more. Tell your friends. Get science news via. Astronomy Space · Biology Nature · Environment Climate · Health ... Peter Whibberley, Senior Research Scientist in NPL's Time and ...
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Scientists measure soot particles in flight
Eureka! Science News
Updated by artificial intelligence Wed, 27 Jun 2012, 15:08:14 EDT Learn more. Tell your friends. Get science news via. Astronomy Space · Biology ... the team captured images of single soot particles floating through the laser beam. "We now have a ...
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Eureka! Science News
It's true - you can practice in your sleep
CNN (blog)
Participants in the study, published June 26 in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience, learned two different musical sequences on a computer screen while watching moving circles that went along with them, similar to video games such as Guitar Hero ...
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Computer science tackles 30-year-old economics problem
Phys.Org
In 2007, the University of Chicago's Roger Myerson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences — in part for research he had published, in 1981, on auction design. ... June 25, 2012. Computer science tackles 30-year-old economics problem. In ...
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Scientists compile first study of potential for tsunamis in northwestern ...
Phys.Org
June 27, 2012. Using studies that span the last three decades, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have compiled the first evidence-based comprehensivestudy of the potential for tsunamis in Northwestern California. The paper, "Paleoseismicity of the ...
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How proteins find their way on chromosomes
Phys.Org
June 25, 2012. A research team at Uppsala University has managed to clarify how proteins that regulate the activity of genes quickly find their way on chromosomes among millions of possible binding sites. The study also confirms a more than 30-year-old ...
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ScholarshipsFeed; Doctoral Research Fellowship in European Studies at University Oslo, Norway; Women Leadership Program in Agriculture, Rwanda; Prof. R. Rahamimoff Travel Grant Program for ... Posted: 30 Jun 2012 05:19 PM PDT. List of scholarships today, ... Brief desription of DoctoralResearch Fellowship The Doctoral Research Fellowship candidate will be admitted to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. The purpose of the fellowship is ...
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Psychedelic drugs can unlock mysteries of brain – former ...
David Nutt says research into mental illness is hampered by the prohibition of drugs such as ... guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 June 2012 17.16 BST ... the number of scientific studies has dropped to virtually zero, and there have been no studies ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../psychedelic-drugs-mysteries-brain-go...
Seven days: 22–28 June 2012 : Nature News & Comment
Open data Hoarding research data is a “serious impediment” to thescientific process, the UK Royal Society notes in a 21 June report, ...
www.nature.com/news/seven-days-22-28-june-2012-1.10892
Director of Wellcome Trust Chosen for U.K. Chief Scientific Adviser ...
by Angela Saini on 28 June 2012, 6:20 PM | ... nation's biomedical research, has been appointed as the U.K. government's next Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).
news.sciencemag.org/.../director-of-wellcome-trust-chose.html
Vacancy No. 2012/068 - Research Scientist (P-3)
Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications ... Issue Date: 19 June 2012 ... and natural radionuclides and radiotracers to study element transfer through food ... The Research Scientist is a conceptual thinker, conceptualizing the scientific ...
https://recruitment.iaea.org/vacancies/p/2012/2012_068.html
June 2012 Issue - Biomedical Beat - National Institute of General ...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health, supports all research featured in this digest. ...abbreviated APP) is somehow linked to Alzheimer's disease, recent studieshave implicated a ...
publications.nigms.nih.gov/biobeat/12-06-21/
Publication of flu study reveals full nature of threat - health - 21 June ...
Publication of flu study reveals full nature of threat. 19:01 21 June 2012 by Debora MacKenzie. It's one of the most troubled scientific gestations on record.
www.newscientist.com/.../dn21958-publication-of-flu-study-re...
DOST Calls for Scientific Research Proposals
DOST Calls for Scientific Research Proposals ... Thursday, 28 June 2012 00:00 ... It aims to cope with highly productive research on all scientificfields. ... Study says cilostazol has no significant effect on post-coronary angioplasty patients ...
www.pcierd.dost.gov.ph/index.php?option...
Scripps Research Institute scientists find easier ... - e! Science News
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a powerful new... Updated by artificial intelligence Sat, 30 Jun 2012, 17:00:14 EDT Learn more ... In the new study, Yu and his team showed just how to do this with a chemical ...
esciencenews.com/.../scripps.research.institute.scientists.find.ea...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Launches 2012 Discovery in Motion ...
(June 26, 2012) — Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launched its nationwide... and anyone else involved in life sciences and chemistry and materialsresearch. ... Keeping Departing CEO as Board Chair Holds Greater Risk than Reward: Study ...
www.labmanager.com/?articles.view/articleNo/8016/...
Cedars-Sinai researchers, with stem cells and global colleagues ...
Cedars-Sinai scientists have joined with expert colleagues around the globe in ... Public release date: 28-Jun-2012 ... It's a new way of doing trailblazingscience." ... study in which stem cell research helps to advance understanding of human ...
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012.../cmc-crw062712.php
18 Social Scientists Respond to Attempt to Discredit Regnerus Study ...
June 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm ... As social scientists, our hope is that more suchstudies will be forthcoming shortly, and that future journalistic coverage of such ...
www.nomblog.com/24657/
Khalil's Picks (22 June 2012) - Scientific American Blog Network
This week, a young science journalist goes on a boat with a research team and liveblogs it, cells are becoming ... By Khalil A. Cassimally | June 22, 2012| ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../khalils-picks-22-june-2012/
Noted Researcher Urges New Scientific Study of UFOs | Reuters
... New Scientific Study of UFOs PR Newswire BOULDER, Colo., June 25,2012. ... UFO researcher Robert Hastings recently addressed The Society for Scientific ...
www.reuters.com/.../idUS93061+25-Jun-2012+PRN20120625
Fracking in the United States: Scientists' research addresses ...
GeoSpace · Home · About · Contact Us · Home - Science Policy - Fracking in the United States: Scientists' research addresses multiple concerns. 28 June 2012 ...
blogs.agu.org/.../fracking-in-the-united-states-scientists-researc...


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