SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jun 25, 2011

Radiology's Beauty on Display at American Museum of Natural History Diagnostic Imaging The images in Picturing Science were taken as part of current research at the Museum, includingstudies of evolving supernovas, long-buried ancient villages, microscopic hairs on wasp antennae, biological fluorescence, and more. ... See all stories on this topic »

CU appoints groups to examine new communication college Boulder Weekly 5 - This group will discuss journalism science, the environment and related issues (Tom Yulsman of journalism, Alan Townsend of environmental studies, Len Ackland of journalism and Sandra Fish of journalism). Group No. 6 – This group will discuss arts, ... See all stories on this topic »

Raising the Temperature on Cold-Blooded Dinosaurs New York Times Robert Eagle, an evolutionary biologist at the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues analyzed 11 dinosaur teeth from sauropods. The researchers report their findings in the current issue of the journal Science. ... See all stories on this topic »

Singapore scientists discover how to control fate of stem cells PhysOrg.com Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of the Agency for Science,Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI), have discovered how the body uses a single ... See all stories on this topic »

Science News Corner introduces nanotechnology 7thSpace Interactive (press release) The exhibition, with content provided by the research teams of the Hong Kong University of Scienceand Technology (HKUST), introduces the insights gained from research on nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, which studies how to manipulate matter at the ... See all stories on this topic »

'Media needs to focus more on science' Gulf Today “There are no proper research or studies in science in this part of the world. Science is being studied only to become a science teacher and not for any research purposes,” Khatib pointed out. “For example, our people did not differentiate between a ... See all stories on this topic »

Ankeny school district updates science curriculum DesMoinesRegister.com The final round of reviews - social studies and music - will be during the upcoming school year. Health and physical education programs were reviewed during the 2010-11 year along with science. The board is expected to approve the updates at its July ... See all stories on this topic »

High energy approach to renewable power Irish Times DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: THE DUBLIN Energy Lab (DEL) at the Dublin Institute of Technology is a unique energy research centre in terms of the breadth of its work, which takes in everything from energy generation to systems to marketing and... See all stories on this topic » Irish Times

BHS Seniors Garner Awards, Honors Housatonic Times English Department—Public Speaking: Mary Mitchell; Science Fiction: Mark Koh; Visual Literature: Stefan Roeder; Gender Studies: Kayla Norkowski; English IV- Honors: Peter George Baumgartel; Literature: advanced placement: Matthew Goodrich. ... See all stories on this topic »

Jolley: Five minutes with the AMI's Dr. Betsy Booren and E. coli CattleNetwork.com This annual biggest gathering of meat science professionals takes a serious look at the issues that affect meat science and event organizers devoted hours of time to reviewing the latest findings about E. coli and discussing what new studies need to be ... See all stories on this topic »

China aims to draw more EU scientists China Daily "Europe understands the huge potential for scientific research and is keen on working closely with nations that are important in the area of science and technology. In this regard there has been an increase in the level of research in China, ... See all stories on this topic » China Daily

'Now You See It' Inside Higher Ed Q: Your doctorate is in English, while your faculty positions are in English and "interdisciplinary studies." How did you end up writing a book on "the brain science of attention"? A: I was a math geek as a kid, and diverted from my first love of AI ... See all stories on this topic » Inside Higher Ed

Getting Serious About Male Grooming Bernama Lastly, metabolomics studies how changes in genes and proteins impact biochemical processes within the cell. John Oblong, a PhD scientist working to identify breakthrough skin-caretechnologies for Procter & Gamble, which aspires to be the world's ... See all stories on this topic »

RNAi-based Genetic Screening: Past, Present & Future The New York Academy of Sciences The successful application of these technologies in various areas of biology and translationalscience such as vesicular transport, cancer, and infectious diseases was a focus of this meeting. Norbert Perrimon, from Harvard Medical School and Howard ... See all stories on this topic »

CIO Finance Summit Welcomes Novarica Head of Banking Research as Master of... PR.com (press release) Madhavi Mantha is the Head of Banking Research at Novarica. Since joining the firm, she has worked closely with the CIO members of the rapidly growing Novarica Banking Technology Research Council, exploring a wide range of issues ranging from channel ... See all stories on this topic »

Brookhaven Lab's Joanna Fowler receives Distinguished Women in Chemistry Award PhysOrg.com (press release) The honorees were chosen based on their exceptional accomplishments in basic or appliedresearch, teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership/managerial excellence in an organization within the chemical sciences. Brookhaven Women in Science ... See all stories on this topic »

South African PhD Student to Bring Hope Home Newswise (press release) Then she heard about the American-based Fulbright scholarships available to outstanding international students to pursue graduate studies in the US. She applied and received a Fulbright to attend Michigan Tech. Through the Fulbright network, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Future in Nano Miniatures? InTechWeb Blog “The primary goal of NMNT is to publish research manuscripts that include cutting-edge studies on nanoscale science and technology, bringing together the science and applications of nanoscale and nanostructured materials” underlines Dr. Prete. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dinosaurs were hot-blooded creatures, claim scientists who measured their body ... Daily Mail The research, reported in the journal Science, involved analysing 11 teeth from Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus, two giant sauropods that lived more than 150million years ago. Mineral formation in tooth enamel is influenced by temperature. ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Static electricity shocks researchers ABC Science Online Hair raising research Research that will make your hair stand on end shows many of the assumptions about static electricity are incorrect. In a paper, published online in today's Science Express, Professor Bartosz Grzybowski and colleagues from ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Science Online

Up Front: Introducing The Mechanic Muse New York Times Today, the field of writers, technology and science is newly charged, and newly vexed. The e-book has upended the business of publishing and the act of reading; vast databases confront literary scholars with novel answers and novel questions; ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA's Next-Generation Spacecraft to Land at Tallahassee Challenger Learning ... Space Ref (press release) The non-profit Challenger Center for Space Science Education is the nation's premier provider ofscience education and career inspiration and plays an essential leadership role in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. ... See all stories on this topic »

Timothy Faust: Junk science Summit Daily News I am certainly no advocate of long-term dependency on nuclear power, but I am less of a fan of junkscience, which his letter clearly was. First, has to do with the lethality of plutonium. Most studieshave put the LD50 dose (the amount of a substance ... See all stories on this topic »

Being human Financial Times Such institutions should support citizens in making autonomous choices, they argue, in which case they are optimistic that new developments in science and technologycan “empower the creative individual”. Which is a view shared by Brian Christian in ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Agriculture is still risky sector of economics The Voice of Russia Interview with Rajeshwari Reina, economist and researcher with the National Institute ofScience, Technology and Development Studies and the Center for Policy Studies in New Deli, India. I think that there are two major trends partly since 1980s when ... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

Waldman-Brown, fulbright scholarship winner, to spend next year in Ghana MIT News Anna Waldman-Brown demonstrates hands-on science using a bicycle gyroscope at Takorardi Technical Institute. What do the science of chocolate, the construction of small-scale wind turbines, negotiating with the CEO of a petroleum company, ... See all stories on this topic » MIT News

Blaine High School graduates, class of 2011 All Point Bulletin At the Blaine high school recognition night she was selected as the outstanding senior for social studies. She was also on the Blaine high school tennis team. For three of her four years in high school Hanna was active in the Imagine Tomorrow science ... See all stories on this topic » All Point Bulletin

Which Brand of Flosser Will Save Your Life? We'll Tell You! Village Voice (blog) 24 2011 at 9:43 AM ​Each week, Death by Science kicks down science andtechnology's door and demands to see where they're hiding the primo goods. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up ... See all stories on this topic » Village Voice (blog)

The UD wind turbine in Lewes has generated research funding and also energy ... University of Delaware Students are also taking advantage of the educational and research opportunities afforded by the turbine. The turbine is probably the most coastally placed wind turbine in the mid-Atlantic, making it ideal for studies that can inform the wind industry, ... See all stories on this topic » University of Delaware

Texas A&M Selected To Partner In National Study Of STEM Master's Degree Programs Texas A&M University WASHINGTON, DC, June 24, 2011 — Texas A&M University has been selected by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) as one of five institutions to partner in a national study on completion and attrition in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) ... See all stories on this topic » Texas A&M University

Biotech billionaire The Daily Deal His legal studies weren't his only interest. Kirk says he learned language assembly programming on a single-board computer that allowed him to write and play his own music -- this was the late 1970s, when personal computers were still in their infancy. ... See all stories on this topic »

Study finds single photons cannot exceed the speed of light PhysOrg.com The physicists, led by Professor Shengwang Du from The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology in Hong Kong, China, have published their study on the ultimate speed of a single photon in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters. ... See all stories on this topic »

NIH awards $64 million grant to Mayo Clinic Post-Bulletin According to Mayo, during the past five years, the CTSA has aided 30 discoveries that improved medical practice, cut average study approval time in half and increased Clinical Research Unitstudies 20 percent. Rizza said the center's job is to speed up ... See all stories on this topic »

National Geographic honors four at inaugural 'Evening of Exploration' celebration PhysOrg.com (press release) Broad is a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and director of the University of Miami's Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for EcosystemScience and Policy. He also co-directs the Center for Research on Environmental ... See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com (press release)

Fox Panel Teams Up To Promote A Bushel Of Misinformation On Health Care Reform Media Matters for America Floyd Fowler, "a Senior ResearchFellow at the Center for Survey Research at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and author of the book Survey Research Methods," said of the McKinsey survey: "There is no doubt that the answers one would get after ... See all stories on this topic »

Researchers Use Gold Nanoparticles to Diagnose Early-Stage Liver Tumor AZoNano.com By Cameron Chai A Brown University-led research team has made use of gold nanoparticles coated with a charged polymer ring and an X-ray scatter imagingtechnology to detect tumor-like masses as small as 5 mm. The American Chemical Society's Nano ... See all stories on this topic » AZoNano.com

Diamond-Graphite Sandwiches for Electronic Devices Russia-InfoCenter This technology is a result of long-term studies of microphysics of diamond graphitization – first order phase transition in solid state of matter. Diamond and graphite are in fact very simple substances, made of carbon”, one of the authors of the ... See all stories on this topic »

New Research selected by LSE Library: Social Science sites of the week By Heather Dawson Social Science sites of the week. Archives portal Europe. A project of the participants of the APEnet project supported by the European Commission. Currently in Beta testing. Providing information on archives from 17 European countries. ... a free open map of facilities and providing news services. For local citizens and community actiivists. The blog provides descriptions of the implementation of the project which discusses the uses and promotion of mapping technology. ... New Research selected by LSE Library

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