SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jul 16, 2011

Search engines 'rewire our memory' Telegraph.co.uk The research is the result of four studies examining the way that memory works. One study asked participants to answer trivia questions before presenting them with a series of words, colour-coded in red or blue. Participants were quicker at identifying ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

The truth about NASA's space tech spinoffs msnbc.com And different economic studies have suggested that investment in the space program has per dollar payoffs ranging from 3:1 all the way up to 21:1. But signs exist all around us in daily life. For instance, NASA's need for smaller, lighter electronics ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Private-Public Partnership Gives Entertainment Creative Community Access to ... DigitalJournal.com (press release) Ready on the SET was established to help encourage young people to pursue studies and careers inscience, engineering and technology through authentic portrayals in popular entertainment in order to ensure there is a next generation of creative problem ... See all stories on this topic »

SMART Scholars Visit NAF Washington DVIDS The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and ... See all stories on this topic »

Cross, Stephen Irish Central Georgia Tech Ireland was officially opened in 2006 at the IDA Business and Technology Park,Athlone. Established by Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the applied research and real-world problem-solving arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology, ... See all stories on this topic »

In school visits, Brizard studies CPS strengths, weaknesses WBEZ New CEO looks hard at teaching, lack of technology. by Linda Lutton Jul. 15, 2011 CEO Jean-Claude Brizard, left, and Garvey principal Michelle Van Allen visit a third grade classroom. Chicago's new schools chief has been getting to know the school ... See all stories on this topic » WBEZ

Michael Laiskonis Asks Dave Arnold: Hydrocolloids and Eggshells Eater National In food science, research follows economic incentive, so there are a lot of papers out there on eggshells. After sifting through 30 or 40 articles, I can safely say you have no hope of figuring out a priori how thick a shell will be. ... See all stories on this topic » Eater National

B.Tech, LL.B. (Hons.) – A Bold Experiment from the University of Petroleum and ... Bar & Bench The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the fast evolving techno-legal issues in the science and technology sectors. With companies spending huge exhaustive amount of capital for the research and development purpose, ... See all stories on this topic »

Trawls and Trash Represent One-Two Punch for Threatened Turtles Scientific American Research published in Nature more than 10 years ago warned that current fisheries activities would doom Pacific sea turtles, and a paper in Science in 1972 identified the threat of microplastics in the ocean. (Scientific American is part of Nature ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific American

New finding shows a research area to expand in EMSL Radiochemistry Annex PhysOrg.com More information: Felmy AR, et al. 2011. "Heterogeneous Reduction of PuO2 with Fe(II): Importance of the Fe(III) Reaction Product." Environmental Science &Technology 45:3952-3958. DOI: 10.1021/es104212g. See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com

World Education Summit 2011 Day 2: 'Desire to innovate, research is must' India Education Diary Therefore, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has tied up with the Ministry of Science and Technology for an increase in the level of fellowship, so that researchoutput is much higher. Each ministry must have a certain percentage devoted to ... See all stories on this topic » India Education Diary

NASA Solicitation: Research Opportunities in Fundamental Physics Space Ref (press release) While NASA's Science Mission Directorate plans to study dark matter and dark energy through observational means, and to seek clues to when General Relativity might fail through studies of physics in the strong gravity environment near black holes, ... See all stories on this topic »

Professor receives NSF grant to study language patterns in STEM classrooms William and Mary News Charity Hudley was able to pursue that research with support from the William & Mary Office of the Provost, her community studies professorship, the William & Mary School of Education, the Charles Center and the Virginia Commonwealth University's ... See all stories on this topic »

Four Professors Earn Highest Faculty Distinction at Carnegie Mellon TMC Net She is a past member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's InformationScience and Technology Board. See all stories on this topic »

The Science of Research: Students Put Classroom Learning into Laboratory Practice Loyola University New Orleans After graduation, Reeves plans on attending graduate school to further his studies in stream fish conservation. Promoting one's research is almost as important as doing the research itself. The students' research culminates with the Annual Biological ... See all stories on this topic » Loyola University New Orleans

Personalized Medicine And the Future of Cancer Treatment Voice of San Diego Greg Faulkner lives in San Diego and writes as a member of the San Diego Center for Ethics inScience and Technology Writing Group. The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and the San Diego Center for Ethics in Science and Technology will be hosting a free ... See all stories on this topic »

news In detail Knowledgespeak Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes studies in clinical and laboratory medicine, clinical research, basic science research, clinical epidemiology, health policy and general and internal medicine. The journal also offers unique features such as Concise ... See all stories on this topic »

Ratted Out: Science Finds Source of Fatty Food Cravings TakePart - Inspiration to Action University of California, Irvine, and the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa performed studies on rats that recorded the reactions to a series of foods. Upon immediately ingesting fatty foods, the rats began producing chemicals in the gut called ... See all stories on this topic »

14 Northwest Florida School Districts get $3.6 million Grant WJHG-TV The Florida Department of Education is giving a $3.6 million grant to the panhandle area educational consortium, or PAEC, for technology studies. The new grant will help fund improved science,technology, engineering and math, or stem, programs. ... See all stories on this topic »

Pentagon Rattles Its Cyber-Saber TechNewsWorld Meanwhile, US armed forces' growing dependence on technology is making it increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. The DoD's been working on its cyberstrategy for some time, Robert Rodriguez, chairman and managing principal of SINET, told TechNewsWorld ... See all stories on this topic »

AGU journal highlights -– July 15, 2011 EurekAlert (press release) The following highlights summarize research papers that have been recently published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) and Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed). Anyone may read the scientific abstract for any already-published paper by ... See all stories on this topic »

Katharine Gammon, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor LiveScience.com We asked some of the leading traffic science experts, and here's what we found. Life's Little Mysteries: Why does traffic in LA suck so much? Mark Hallenbeck, director of the Washington State Transportation Center at the University of Washington: The ... See all stories on this topic » LiveScience.com

National Crowdsourcing Project Designed to Better Predict World Events PR Newswire (press release) ... economics, science and technology, and social affairs. "This kind of enhanced predictive analysis capability will help the intelligence community provide early warning and leading indicators of events," said Stone, who has published studies on the ... See all stories on this topic »

UNE Summer Intern Program Mixes Medicine, Research and Entrepreneurship PR Web (press release) Bilsky added, “The program is intended to address some of the key recommendations of the 2010 Maine Science and Technology Action Plan and is in line with the goals of the Maine Technology Asset Fund awards made to the university. ... See all stories on this topic » PR Web (press release)

What's Right With Our Schools: TCC website WBIR-TV ... technology this fall to help teach sometimes difficult subjects including math andscience. Teachers from across Tennessee are spending part of the summer inMaryville working on a project which could change what your child studies this fall. ... See all stories on this topic » WBIR-TV

See The Stars At Buehler Observatory Patch.com “We generally get 40 to 50 people at a viewing and have had as many as 100,” said Dr. Joseph Sivo, a science professor at BCC. In summer, starting time is 9 pm and observation is usually held outdoors, near the campus Technology Building, ... See all stories on this topic »

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