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Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars
New York Times
“Space is a wonderful place to use nuclear power, because it is already radioactive,” said Geoffrey Landis, a scientist at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Ohio (and ascience fiction author). More advanced nuclear engines could use reactors to ...
See all stories on this topic »

New York Times
New technologies set to revamp retail landscape: Report
StartupSmart
The report, titled Secure Insight: Changing the Way we Pay, was compiled by PayPal in conjunction with Forrester Research, Nielsen and the Australian Centre for Retail Studies. It identifies the factors influencing Australian online commerce, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Study says Obama the victim of negative press coverage
msnbc.com
The study was conducted by the staff of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in journalism, and used traditional content analysis as well as computer technology. More details about the methodology can be found here.
See all stories on this topic »
Does future hold 'Avatar'-like bodies for us?
msnbc.com
He claimed support from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Education and Science, as well as actor Seagal, to create a research center capable of giving humans life-extending bodies. Itskov's wildly ambitious plans include creating a humanoid avatar ...
See all stories on this topic »

msnbc.com
Scripps launches whole genome sequencing study to find root causes of ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Two of the study's participants are expected to be pediatric patients from Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla. Data analysis will be provided by the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI), a major research initiative at Scripps Health ...
See all stories on this topic »
Concussion research aims to help athletes, study of the brain
Princeton University
While other studies have used DTI scans to capture structural changes following more severe trauma, Dettwiler said their current work aims to push the technology further, exploring if scans are sensitive enough for patients with mild concussions. ...
See all stories on this topic »

Princeton University
Project leads next decade of ageing research across Europe
EurekAlert (press release)
The Road Map was launched today at a meeting of the European Parliament entitled Meeting the Grand Challenge of Ageing: the New European Research Agenda and hosted by MEPs of theScience and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Citizen Scientist 2.0
Science 2.0
I'm talking about actually participating in the research itself. Essentially, I see a huge boom in the future for Citizen Science. Citizen Scientists are non-scientists who contribute data and/or analysis to aid in scientific studies, or hobbyists, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Fluidigm and Research Instruments Enter Distribution Deal for Singapore and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Fluidigm is committed to continuing to bring the accuracy and efficiency benefits of integrated fluidic circuit technology to life science researchers in Southeast Asia," said Hana Gage, Fluidigm Commercial Director. "Research Instruments has built a ...
See all stories on this topic »
Research base for solar cells and batteries to be set up in Fukushima
The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
TOKYO --The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology plans to set up a research base in Fukushima Prefecture for promoting the research and development of next-generation solar cells and batteries. The ministry will include an 11...
See all stories on this topic »

The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
New Study: Maturation of Cloud Computing Helps Drive Adoption for IT Decision ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Tech Pulse is a self-funded quarterly study that covers a variety of current topics and issues facing IT decision makers. Additional findings can be downloaded here. Chadwick Martin Bailey is a Boston-based custom market research firm who works ...
See all stories on this topic »
New Study Finds Sperm Quality Decreases as Males Age
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the direction of Dr. Mandy Katz-Jaffe and her team of senior scientists and embryologists, NFFR research studies will continue to bring hope and new opportunities to couples seeking fertility treatment. ...
See all stories on this topic »
AVS International Symposium to Feature Frontier Science from the World of ...
Newswise (press release)
Phaedon Avouris, manager of the Nanometer Scale Science and Technology division at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, and his group strive to understand how graphene behaves in real-world technology applications and to use that ...
See all stories on this topic »
Neuroscientist Bradley Voytek is Bringing the Silicon Valley Ethos into Academia
Forbes
I saw the power of technology in science fiction, and realized it doesn't all have to be fiction. So I'm trying to help people and I also have a desire to see cool things happen. So last summer, after the talk, I got a phone call out of the blue from ...
See all stories on this topic »
Oracle Health Care Cloud Application Captures Data on Therapy Outcomes
eWeek
Oracle has unveiled version 3.0 of OutcomeLogix to help research organizations collect data on late-stage studies of diverse patient populations. Oracle Health Sciences has introduced OutcomeLogix On Demand 3.0, a Web-based application that enables ...
See all stories on this topic »
FAPESP Week symposium discusses scientific cooperation between Brazil and the US
PhysOrg.com (press release)
FAPESP Week is happening at a moment in which Brazilian research has reached its highest international projection, with indices that denote its greater participation in the global science andtechnology system. Greater Brazilian scientific production, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Lupus Research Institute Announces Groundbreaking Global Research Initiative
MarketWatch (press release)
A decade of documented success powered by novel, high-risk, high-reward innovative research has given us the basis to push even further with this bold initiative." "In science, great achievements are based on a willingness to undertake innovative but ...
See all stories on this topic »
BU recognized for 'green' building
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
The new Engineering and Science Building sits within the Innovative Technologies Center across Murray Hill Road from campus. The Engineering News-Record named the building “Best Green Project of the Year.” Binghamton University's recently-opened ...
See all stories on this topic »
Guidelines to Detect Miscarriage May Miss Viable Pregnancy
Medscape
"Many of us in clinical practice have been concerned for some time about possible errors relating to the diagnosis of miscarriage," Professor Dirk Timmerman, MD, PhD, from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, who coauthored the research studies, ...
See all stories on this topic »
New test to improve success rate of IVF pregnancies
Telegraph.co.uk
The novel technique is being taken seriously by the scientific community and the studythat explains it has won a prize from the US Society for Assisted ReproductiveTechnologies. Dr Dagan Wells from Oxford University, who led the research, ...
See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk
Caltech awarded $12.6 million for new Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
EurekAlert (press release)
The newly renovated historic Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and the IQI's home base in the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology will serve as two central hubs for IQIM faculty on campus. "When you bring innovative scientists and ...
See all stories on this topic »
NOAA gives nearly USD 1 mln for research on coral reefs
FIS
... agency scientists through NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Marine and AtmosphericStudies at the University of Miami in coordination with the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
See all stories on this topic »

FIS
University of Surrey to Implement Desire2Learn Learning Suite
MarketWatch (press release)
Programmes in science and technology have gained widespread recognition and it also boasts flourishing programmes in dance and music, social sciences, management and languages and law. In addition to the campus on 150 hectares just outside Guildford, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Penn researchers see link between autism, low birth weight
The Daily Pennsylvanian
These diagnostic evaluations marked the study separate from other autism-related research, since most other studies focus only on screened cases of autism rather than an actual diagnosis. A screening of autism is more likely to yield a positive ...
See all stories on this topic »
Do infections trigger colon cancer? Idea worth pursuing, two new studies find
Brandon Sun
TORONTO - Two new studies are raising a new possible culprit in the development of colon cancer. The research teams behind the work independently found high levels of a germ called fusobacterium in the tumours of people with colon cancer. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Advanced Technologies for Municipal Water Treatment
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
The report is primarily a study of the US market, but due to the international presence of some industry participants, global activities are included when appropriate. Both primary and secondaryresearch methodologies were used in preparing this study. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Living Lab Sets Up at a Seniors Residence
Wall Street Journal
"If we can bring our health span closer to our life span, we can compress the years of [illness]," says Nathan LeBrasseur, a researcher in Mayo's Center on Aging who studies age-related muscle loss. Back in the Mayo Clinic's labs, research in mice and ...
See all stories on this topic »
Mystery behind virgin births explained
msnbc.com
Holt believes the implications are that "some species have developed reproductive mechanisms that appear to promote inbreeding, much like cloning technology, and are therefore counter-intuitive in the context of maintaining genetic diversity as a way ...
See all stories on this topic »

msnbc.com
Gary Glazer, Pioneering Leader in Radiology at Stanford, Dies at 61
HealthNewsDigest.com
He was well-known for recruiting and supporting innovative researchers who used the technology available at Stanford to make important discoveries in both basic and clinical science. From 1989 through August of this year, when Glazer stepped down from ...
See all stories on this topic »

HealthNewsDigest.com
The Media's Gas Problem
STATS
As a result, the notion that natural gas represents a “greener” alternative to coal is increasingly being contested in the realms of science, public policy, and the media. This debate has heightened media interest in any new scientific study that ...
See all stories on this topic »
Reversing aging
EurekAlert (press release)
Technology developed through interdisciplinary research could reduce the time and cost to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease and help answer 1 of the greatest biological questions: Why do we age? Technology developed by researchers at The ...
See all stories on this topic »
Metabolon and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Open Metabolomics Lab in China
MarketWatch (press release)
The SJTU-Metabolon Joint Metabolomics Laboratory is a partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the oldest and most prestigious public research universities in China. Metabolon has licensed its proprietary metabolomics platform technology ...
See all stories on this topic »
Medical school dean, veterinary parasitologist elected to prestigious ...
UC Davis
Her accomplishments include establishing the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, creating the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center, starting the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health program at two institutions, ...
See all stories on this topic »

UC Davis
Pioneer in Information Visualization, Ben Shneiderman, Joins Centrifuge ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Currently a tenured Professor of Computer Science of the University of Maryland, Mr. Shneiderman is the Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, and a member of the ...
See all stories on this topic »
Electric Vehicles Present Challenges For Distribution Grids
Renew Grid
The effects will be very scenario-dependent, but many studies show potential problems. For example, Saifur Rahman, director of the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, recently indicated that in the case of a 25 kVA transformer serving three ...
See all stories on this topic »
The Potential for Increasing Quality and Reducing Costs
Annals of Internal Medicine
In addition, with increasing investments in health information technology fueled by the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act and “meaningful use” (4), we're likely to see even more studies examining the effect of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Custom Social Science Papers | Technology News Update
Social science papers usually stick to a particular format for the essays, research papers, termpapers, theses, project proposals, and literature dissertations/ reviews. Social science topics are many; you should always choose a topic that you ...
Technology News Update
Spinal Cord Injury Medical Leader Dr. Edward Wirth Joins InVivo ...
By iCELL News
Spinal Cord Injury Medical Leader Dr. Edward Wirth Joins InVivo Therapeutics as Chief ScienceOfficer. Posted by iCELL News, on 17th October 2011, in Stem Cell Research. Moves from Geron Corporation to Lead Human Studies in ...
Investor Stemcell

Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars
New York Times
“Space is a wonderful place to use nuclear power, because it is already radioactive,” said Geoffrey Landis, a scientist at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Ohio (and ascience fiction author). More advanced nuclear engines could use reactors to ...
See all stories on this topic »

New York Times
New technologies set to revamp retail landscape: Report
StartupSmart
The report, titled Secure Insight: Changing the Way we Pay, was compiled by PayPal in conjunction with Forrester Research, Nielsen and the Australian Centre for Retail Studies. It identifies the factors influencing Australian online commerce, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Study says Obama the victim of negative press coverage
msnbc.com
The study was conducted by the staff of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in journalism, and used traditional content analysis as well as computer technology. More details about the methodology can be found here.
See all stories on this topic »
Does future hold 'Avatar'-like bodies for us?
msnbc.com
He claimed support from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Education and Science, as well as actor Seagal, to create a research center capable of giving humans life-extending bodies. Itskov's wildly ambitious plans include creating a humanoid avatar ...
See all stories on this topic »

msnbc.com
Scripps launches whole genome sequencing study to find root causes of ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Two of the study's participants are expected to be pediatric patients from Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla. Data analysis will be provided by the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI), a major research initiative at Scripps Health ...
See all stories on this topic »
Concussion research aims to help athletes, study of the brain
Princeton University
While other studies have used DTI scans to capture structural changes following more severe trauma, Dettwiler said their current work aims to push the technology further, exploring if scans are sensitive enough for patients with mild concussions. ...
See all stories on this topic »

Princeton University
Project leads next decade of ageing research across Europe
EurekAlert (press release)
The Road Map was launched today at a meeting of the European Parliament entitled Meeting the Grand Challenge of Ageing: the New European Research Agenda and hosted by MEPs of theScience and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Citizen Scientist 2.0
Science 2.0
I'm talking about actually participating in the research itself. Essentially, I see a huge boom in the future for Citizen Science. Citizen Scientists are non-scientists who contribute data and/or analysis to aid in scientific studies, or hobbyists, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Fluidigm and Research Instruments Enter Distribution Deal for Singapore and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Fluidigm is committed to continuing to bring the accuracy and efficiency benefits of integrated fluidic circuit technology to life science researchers in Southeast Asia," said Hana Gage, Fluidigm Commercial Director. "Research Instruments has built a ...
See all stories on this topic »
Research base for solar cells and batteries to be set up in Fukushima
The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
TOKYO --The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology plans to set up a research base in Fukushima Prefecture for promoting the research and development of next-generation solar cells and batteries. The ministry will include an 11...
See all stories on this topic »

The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
New Study: Maturation of Cloud Computing Helps Drive Adoption for IT Decision ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Tech Pulse is a self-funded quarterly study that covers a variety of current topics and issues facing IT decision makers. Additional findings can be downloaded here. Chadwick Martin Bailey is a Boston-based custom market research firm who works ...
See all stories on this topic »
New Study Finds Sperm Quality Decreases as Males Age
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the direction of Dr. Mandy Katz-Jaffe and her team of senior scientists and embryologists, NFFR research studies will continue to bring hope and new opportunities to couples seeking fertility treatment. ...
See all stories on this topic »
AVS International Symposium to Feature Frontier Science from the World of ...
Newswise (press release)
Phaedon Avouris, manager of the Nanometer Scale Science and Technology division at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, and his group strive to understand how graphene behaves in real-world technology applications and to use that ...
See all stories on this topic »
Neuroscientist Bradley Voytek is Bringing the Silicon Valley Ethos into Academia
Forbes
I saw the power of technology in science fiction, and realized it doesn't all have to be fiction. So I'm trying to help people and I also have a desire to see cool things happen. So last summer, after the talk, I got a phone call out of the blue from ...
See all stories on this topic »
Oracle Health Care Cloud Application Captures Data on Therapy Outcomes
eWeek
Oracle has unveiled version 3.0 of OutcomeLogix to help research organizations collect data on late-stage studies of diverse patient populations. Oracle Health Sciences has introduced OutcomeLogix On Demand 3.0, a Web-based application that enables ...
See all stories on this topic »
FAPESP Week symposium discusses scientific cooperation between Brazil and the US
PhysOrg.com (press release)
FAPESP Week is happening at a moment in which Brazilian research has reached its highest international projection, with indices that denote its greater participation in the global science andtechnology system. Greater Brazilian scientific production, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Lupus Research Institute Announces Groundbreaking Global Research Initiative
MarketWatch (press release)
A decade of documented success powered by novel, high-risk, high-reward innovative research has given us the basis to push even further with this bold initiative." "In science, great achievements are based on a willingness to undertake innovative but ...
See all stories on this topic »
BU recognized for 'green' building
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
The new Engineering and Science Building sits within the Innovative Technologies Center across Murray Hill Road from campus. The Engineering News-Record named the building “Best Green Project of the Year.” Binghamton University's recently-opened ...
See all stories on this topic »
Guidelines to Detect Miscarriage May Miss Viable Pregnancy
Medscape
"Many of us in clinical practice have been concerned for some time about possible errors relating to the diagnosis of miscarriage," Professor Dirk Timmerman, MD, PhD, from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, who coauthored the research studies, ...
See all stories on this topic »
New test to improve success rate of IVF pregnancies
Telegraph.co.uk
The novel technique is being taken seriously by the scientific community and the studythat explains it has won a prize from the US Society for Assisted ReproductiveTechnologies. Dr Dagan Wells from Oxford University, who led the research, ...
See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk
Caltech awarded $12.6 million for new Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
EurekAlert (press release)
The newly renovated historic Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and the IQI's home base in the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology will serve as two central hubs for IQIM faculty on campus. "When you bring innovative scientists and ...
See all stories on this topic »
NOAA gives nearly USD 1 mln for research on coral reefs
FIS
... agency scientists through NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Marine and AtmosphericStudies at the University of Miami in coordination with the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
See all stories on this topic »

FIS
University of Surrey to Implement Desire2Learn Learning Suite
MarketWatch (press release)
Programmes in science and technology have gained widespread recognition and it also boasts flourishing programmes in dance and music, social sciences, management and languages and law. In addition to the campus on 150 hectares just outside Guildford, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Penn researchers see link between autism, low birth weight
The Daily Pennsylvanian
These diagnostic evaluations marked the study separate from other autism-related research, since most other studies focus only on screened cases of autism rather than an actual diagnosis. A screening of autism is more likely to yield a positive ...
See all stories on this topic »
Do infections trigger colon cancer? Idea worth pursuing, two new studies find
Brandon Sun
TORONTO - Two new studies are raising a new possible culprit in the development of colon cancer. The research teams behind the work independently found high levels of a germ called fusobacterium in the tumours of people with colon cancer. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Advanced Technologies for Municipal Water Treatment
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
The report is primarily a study of the US market, but due to the international presence of some industry participants, global activities are included when appropriate. Both primary and secondaryresearch methodologies were used in preparing this study. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Living Lab Sets Up at a Seniors Residence
Wall Street Journal
"If we can bring our health span closer to our life span, we can compress the years of [illness]," says Nathan LeBrasseur, a researcher in Mayo's Center on Aging who studies age-related muscle loss. Back in the Mayo Clinic's labs, research in mice and ...
See all stories on this topic »
Mystery behind virgin births explained
msnbc.com
Holt believes the implications are that "some species have developed reproductive mechanisms that appear to promote inbreeding, much like cloning technology, and are therefore counter-intuitive in the context of maintaining genetic diversity as a way ...
See all stories on this topic »

msnbc.com
Gary Glazer, Pioneering Leader in Radiology at Stanford, Dies at 61
HealthNewsDigest.com
He was well-known for recruiting and supporting innovative researchers who used the technology available at Stanford to make important discoveries in both basic and clinical science. From 1989 through August of this year, when Glazer stepped down from ...
See all stories on this topic »

HealthNewsDigest.com
The Media's Gas Problem
STATS
As a result, the notion that natural gas represents a “greener” alternative to coal is increasingly being contested in the realms of science, public policy, and the media. This debate has heightened media interest in any new scientific study that ...
See all stories on this topic »
Reversing aging
EurekAlert (press release)
Technology developed through interdisciplinary research could reduce the time and cost to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease and help answer 1 of the greatest biological questions: Why do we age? Technology developed by researchers at The ...
See all stories on this topic »
Metabolon and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Open Metabolomics Lab in China
MarketWatch (press release)
The SJTU-Metabolon Joint Metabolomics Laboratory is a partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the oldest and most prestigious public research universities in China. Metabolon has licensed its proprietary metabolomics platform technology ...
See all stories on this topic »
Medical school dean, veterinary parasitologist elected to prestigious ...
UC Davis
Her accomplishments include establishing the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, creating the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center, starting the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health program at two institutions, ...
See all stories on this topic »

UC Davis
Pioneer in Information Visualization, Ben Shneiderman, Joins Centrifuge ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Currently a tenured Professor of Computer Science of the University of Maryland, Mr. Shneiderman is the Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, and a member of the ...
See all stories on this topic »
Electric Vehicles Present Challenges For Distribution Grids
Renew Grid
The effects will be very scenario-dependent, but many studies show potential problems. For example, Saifur Rahman, director of the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, recently indicated that in the case of a 25 kVA transformer serving three ...
See all stories on this topic »
The Potential for Increasing Quality and Reducing Costs
Annals of Internal Medicine
In addition, with increasing investments in health information technology fueled by the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act and “meaningful use” (4), we're likely to see even more studies examining the effect of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Custom Social Science Papers | Technology News Update
Social science papers usually stick to a particular format for the essays, research papers, termpapers, theses, project proposals, and literature dissertations/ reviews. Social science topics are many; you should always choose a topic that you ...
Technology News Update
Spinal Cord Injury Medical Leader Dr. Edward Wirth Joins InVivo ...
By iCELL News
Spinal Cord Injury Medical Leader Dr. Edward Wirth Joins InVivo Therapeutics as Chief ScienceOfficer. Posted by iCELL News, on 17th October 2011, in Stem Cell Research. Moves from Geron Corporation to Lead Human Studies in ...
Investor Stemcell

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