China 'to overtake US on science'
BBC News
An analysis of published research - one of the key measures of scientific effort - reveals an "especially striking" rise by Chinese science. The study, Knowledge, Networks and Nations, charts the challenge to the traditional dominance of the United ...
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From targeted grants to basic research, federal R&D spending is threatened
WTN News
Of that total, about $30 billion is spent on “basic” research, the kind of unfettered inquiry that can lead to game-changing technologies. Some members of Congress say cuts to the federal sciencebudget are long overdue, calling some programs wasteful ...
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FOR KIDS: Enthusiasm and reward for science
Science News
In particular, she wanted to study how technology influences the ways people act. Hackman, who is blind, relies on technology in her own life, but her research was driven by a curiosity about howtechnology influences the way people act around each ...
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Wellness, Cost-Cutting Main Themes at Health 2.0 Spring Event
California Healthline
Love's Army of Women initiative blasts e-mail updates announcing new breast cancer studies to women in the Army. She believes one key to making progress in clinical research is usingtechnology to allow scientists to share their findings directly to ...
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UT Southwestern receives $36.7 million CPRIT grant for cancer studies
News-Medical.net
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded more than $36.7 million in new grants to investigators at UT Southwestern Medical Center to support cancer-related projects and to recruit pre-eminent cancer investigators. ...
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Research and Markets: Solar Thermal Power
SunHerald.com
This report on Solar Thermal Energy analyzes the technology, discusses solar thermal plants financing, discusses hybrid solar thermal power plants, and provides profiles of solar thermal companies and case studies. A diagrammatic representation of the ...
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SciArt: Deciphering the Elements of Iconic Pottery
LiveScience.com
Now, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation Chemistry and MaterialsResearch in Cultural Heritage Science program, a collaborative group of California scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), The Aerospace Corporation, ...
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LiveScience.com
GW Researchers Receive Grants to Study How Mobile Technology Can Help Patients ...
Newswise (press release)
... and will continue to focus its funding priorities on diabetes management and research through March 2012. “These studies are a part of an ongoing Foundation effort to tie innovative technologiesto low-cost scalable health solution in order to ...
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Intensive Care Unit Telemedicine
Archives of Internal Medicine
Primarily, this meta-analysis provides an opportunity to reframe and refocus the lines of research. Although questions remain about the effect of ICU telemedicine on patient mortality, additional before-and-after studies are unlikely to be helpful. ...
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Improved technology is improving outcomes for cardiac stent patients
News-Medical.net
... Director of Cardiovascular Research at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and principal investigator of the study. "Although many studies have compared these two treatments, all of thestudies to date have used older technology for the PCI ...
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India joins international group to study the sun
Livemint
The project, estimated to cost `150 crore, is being evaluated by the department of science andtechnology. The world's largest telescope now is the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope in the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, US, which has a diameter ...
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Earth Getting Mysteriously Windier
National Geographic
The study, the first to look at wind speeds across such a large swath of the planet, bolsters some earlier findings, according to study leader Ian Young, of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. "Some regional studies had ...
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National Geographic
Chevron launches centre for energy efficiency
Peninsula On-line
By Nasser Al Harthy DOHA: The Minister of Energy and Industry, HE Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada yesterday inaugurated Chevron's Center for Sustainable Energy Efficiency at the QatarScience and Technology Park (QSTP). Al Sada said in his address at the ...
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Conversation on Teaching, Continued: Going Global
Harvard Magazine
Such studies, she suggested, were bounded not only geographically but intellectually: they formed part of the “global North” view of the world. That view, in turn, derived from the Western Enlightenment tradition of science, which stood in opposition ...
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GE Healthcare Announces New Clinical Research Management Solution
Business Wire (press release)
Centricity Research will help improve the efficiency and efficacy of clinical research studies, enterprise-wide, by driving better management of treatment plans, processes, and protocols while supporting research billing compliance. ...
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Thinkbox appoints new research director
Digital Spy
Mortensen, currently research director at Opera OMG, will oversee all Thinkbox's research and planning activity, including the Tellyporting studies into how families consume TV and the Brainwaves project that uses neuroscience to better understand how ...
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Israel, Russia expand space cooperation
Israel 21C
... planetary studies and space medicine. "We have abilities and advantages over many other countries and the fact that Russia, a pioneer in space, wants to acquire Israeli expertise is a great honor for the State of Israel," Science and Technology ...
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Lumenis Technology Featured at 2011 American Society for Laser Medicine and...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Ronald Moy, MD, one of the leading Dermatologists and Cosmetic Surgeons in Beverly Hills, California, will present results from his recent research, the first of its kind, which studies the histological characteristics of mature burn scars before and ...
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Altitude Research Center wins major Pentagon grants
PhysOrg.com (press release)
"And we also believe these studies will save lives." This PHYSorg Science News Wire page contains a press release issued by an organization mentioned above and is provided to you “as is” with little or no review from PhysOrg.com staff.
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Genomic research projects receive $60M in funding
Laboratory Products News
This will bring immediate benefits to breeders, enhance product traceability and lay the foundation for the next generation of technologies aimed at environmentally sustainable production. It is estimated that this research will generate benefits in ...
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The Sun rises on Chinese space science
BBC News (blog)
Now, we get whole presentations on very detailed technical studies. I think the Chang'e 1 and 2 missions - the success of them, technically - have given the Chinese huge confidence that they really can do stuff. "Now, China is very good on the ...
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BBC News (blog)
Center hosts national conference: 'Barack Obama and American Democracy'
Arizona State University
Hines, who specializes in Caribbean and African Diaspora Studies, discusses Obama's record in foreign policy. Michael Mitchell is an associate professor of political science at ASU. Mitchell's teaching and research focuses on democratization in Latin ...
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Are British inventions at risk from Chinese students?
International Business Times
"They go back home taking that science and technology knowledge with them and then they start competing with us," Dyson told The Sunday Times. He even hinted that foreign states and companies could be behind this and said that it was "disheartening" to ...
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International Business Times
Brazilian fossil linked to South Africa
Xinhua
The South African Department of Science and Technology responded to questions about the recent Brazilian find saying that the University of the Witwatersrand had a "formidable research record." The Department of Science and Technology has a very ...
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VG Energy Retains BioProcess Algae For Project
Domestic Fuel
“I have Richard Branson and Mike Willis from Virgin Green to thank for the introduction to Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) and BioProcess Algae,” said Ord. “We have repeated our proof of principle research studies multiple times, internally and ...
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Ugandan Joins Commission to Protect Human Subjects Used for Studies
Black Voice News
President Obama has tapped Julius Ecuru, a Ugandan environmental scientist, for an internationalresearch panel studying the use of human subjects in scientific studies. The commission will address such controversial studies as one in Guatemala where ...
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Cost-Effectiveness Research Needs to Be Considered in Developing ...
By Health
The effects of science and technology on health care costs depend on the policy context in which those technologies are developed and applied, ... Policy Studies and its Department of Economics. He is director of the University's Center for Health and the Social Sciences. The center, founded in 2005, promotes interdisciplinary health research and training initiatives across campus. ...Subscription. You can subscribe by e-mail to receive news updates and breaking stories. ...
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Infrared Light Pulses Could Make Better Bionics for Deafness ...
By Rebecca Boyle
In a new study, researchers at the University of Utah used brief, low-power light pulses to control the actions of inner-ear cells, potentially leading to therapies that let those with auditory disorders hear the light. ... Download Our iPhone App. Stay up to date on the latest news of the future of scienceand technology from your iPhone with full articles, images and offline viewing ...
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Most states unclear about storage, use of babies' blood samples ...
By News
News stories about the outrage expressed by parents—who claimed the practice violated their right to genetic privacy and full disclosure—spawned headlines such as CNN's: "The government has your baby's DNA." "States have developed a wide range of policies regarding the retention and use of residual dried blood samples," says Lewis, "ranging from prohibiting their use for research under any circumstances, to allowing research with anonymous samples without parental consent ...
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ADVANCE Purdue and the Center for Faculty Success (CFS) invite ...
We are seeking a highly-motivated up-and-coming researcher to help develop and administer a series of research studies associated with increasing the number of women, particularly women of color, in faculty positions in the Colleges of Science, Technology, Agriculture and Engineering ...Project 2 New models: develop alternative models that provide other explanations of career pathway decisions experienced by women STEM faculty members of different ethnicities at Purdue. ...
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No screening of people coming from Japan: Regulator
Besides Sharma, the committee includes AERB Vice-Chairman S.K. Chande, Director, Health and Safety, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) A.K. Ghosh, Director, Technical, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) S.A. Bharadwaj, ... Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology's B.N. Goswami, Pune-based Central Water and Power Research Station's I.D. Gupta and Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai's C.V.R. Murthy. EmailPrintSave as PDF. RelatedNews Articles ...
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First Practical Artificial Leaf Debuts - Solar Novus Today
Nocera, who is a chemist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, points out that the artificial leaf is not a new concept. The first artificial leaf was developed more than a decade ago by John Turner of ... In laboratory studies, Nocera showed that an artificial leaf prototype could operate continuously for at least 45 hours without a drop in activity. The key to this breakthrough is the recent discovery of several powerful new, ...
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Large earthquakes don't trigger others far away | ZME Science
By Mihai Andrei
However, the good news is that, even for a brief period of time, seismologic studies are given the attention they very much deserve. Such is the case with a study conducted by the Royal Geographic Survey and the University of Texas which ... Previous research seemed to indicate that a major earthquake could trigger smaller aftershocks throughout the whole planet, so the team set out to study if this is actually true, by studying seismic data from the past 30 years; ...
ZME Science - http://www.zmescience.com/
Genetic Conspirators in the Development of Acute Myeloid Leukemia ...
By Teacha Hamilton
"Our studies in the mouse, using novel methods to alter genes, complement the work of human cancer genomics. Together, we can more rapidly give biological context about just how genetic changes can cause the disease." Researchers can now look in closer detail at the processes identified and divide .... Stay on top of the essential trends and best practices within your sector through fresh daily news, exclusive reports and industry resources from world-leading sources. ...
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New ERC initiative helps scientists to bring their research much ...
(Nanowerk News) Innovation is high on the EU agenda, and the European Research Council (ERC) is helping secure this target by introducing a new funding initiative called 'Proof of Concept'. Under this new initiative, ... 'Frontier research always yields some unexpected results,' explains ERC President Helga Nowotny, who is also Professor Emerita of Social Studies of Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). 'These may be scientific findings, ...
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Research News and Events at York » Archive » SSHRC-funded study ...
By eamw
[The] study was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.It is a part of a larger study into the mental health and well-being of adolescents in military families. The studywas covered by parentcentral.ca, ...
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Chevron Opens Energy Efficiency Centre in Qatar >> LNG World News
By dt_com
The Minister of Energy and Industry, H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada yesterday inaugurated Chevron's Center for Sustainable Energy Efficiency at the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP). ... Maini said QSTP has a comprehensive strategy for technology evaluation and research-led development in solar energy in Qatar, which in the long term is sustainable and self reliant. ...
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'Holy Grail' of science, world's first practical 'artificial leaf ...
By BioNews
“A practical artificial leaf has been one of the Holy Grails of science for decades. We believe we have done it,” said Daniel Nocera, who led the research team. The new discovery shows particular promise as an inexpensive source of ...
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