Science gets short shrift in California elementary schools, study finds Sacramento Bee The Berkeley research blames the pressure to score well on standardized tests in English and math for the little time spent teaching science. Forty percent of the California elementary teachers surveyed for the study say they spend 60 minutes or less... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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A life-size lab chases the wind Minneapolis Star Tribune "It shows that to apply new technology to a new industry requires a strong partnership between the industry making the product and a research center where we can do very complex research studies," Izzi said. Down the road, other experiments could help ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Global warming: Who has the burden of proof? Summit County Citizens Voice So why does the science community continue to do attribution studies and assume that humans have no influence as a null hypothesis?” To show precedent for his position Trenberth cites the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Diving into space Sacramento Bee Also in September, NASA held its first simulation of a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid in northern Arizona during its 14th Desert Research and Technology Studiescampaign called D-RATS. They used the extreme conditions of the Black Point Lava ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
American Academy of Arts and Sciences to honor behavioral economics pioneer Wicked Local Founded in 1780, the American Academy is an independent research center that draws from its members' expertise to conduct studies in science and technology policy, global security, the humanities and culture, social policy, and education. See all stories on this topic » | ||
Is handwriting dying? Local schools weigh in on typing vs. writing Foster's Daily Democrat By RONI REINO DOVER — The days of passing notes in class are getting shorter as more and more students reach for technology to communicate, setting aside traditional handwriting for typing and texting. Studies have shown although texting and typing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
College Town Worcester Telegram Supported by a National Science Foundation grant awarded to the college, the scholarship is an incentive for talented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to become middle- andsecondary-school teachers in these disciplines.... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Bonita Springs is becoming a hub for bioscience The News-Press Biotech is one of those catch-all words that applies to a wide variety of scientificendeavors, including agricultural research, environmental science, studies of the human genome and pharmaceutical development. Many states and cities see the field as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Movers & Shakers for Nov. 6, 2011 Daily News Transcript Studies focus on financial management, technology, lending, marketing and other strategic industry issues. To complete the program, students enroll in a one-year course of study, including two one-week residential sessions held at the Babson Executive ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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MarketTools Showcases Mobile Research and Online Communities at The Market ... Sacramento Bee MarketTools customer Kelly Gallagher, Vice President of Publisher Services, RR Bowker, LLC, will present this session describing how consumer market research studies are used to uncover retail strategies to maintain volume and profit in a market ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Guest commentary: Business incubators give birth to businesses, keeps them in ... Naples Daily News Several studies indicate that companies that use an incubator process have doubled the likelihood of remaining in business. Other studies indicate that incubator companies hire more than double the average number of employees and have twice the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Vaccine policy under scanner for favouring manufacturers India Today ... produced has poor efficacy or its market price is much lower than the committed price," Y. Madhavi from the National Institute of Science, Technology and DevelopmentStudies, says. The arrangement was first used for pneumococcal vaccine research. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
EDITORIAL: Check out scanners better Clarksville Leaf Chronicle The flying public should be glad to see that the Transportation Security Agency is going to conduct a new study on whether X-ray body scanners at airports truly are as harmless as people have been led to believe. Back in 1998, an expert panel ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb: 'Drone boom' may be in Oklahoma's future NewsOK.com America's current UAS edge didn't happen by accident. Our government invested in thisresearch for years. Even during lean times, like the 1990s “procurement holiday,” planners supported game-changers like the UAS technology. Because of this commitment ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Teen 'sexting' more common than you may think Detroit Free Press BY LISA ESPOSITO Parents need to take back control of the technology, she said, whether it's by setting online time limits on the home wireless router or limiting access and privacy, experts say. / SCOTT ROBERSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS Some Boston parents ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
People-to-people contact needed for peace in S Asia The Nation, Pakistan Dr Jaffar Ahmed, Chairman Pakistan Studies Centre, Dr Riaz Shaikh of the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Senior journalist Ghazi Salahuddin, Dr Mutahir Shaikh of the Karachi University's International ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Former soldier Michael Blois Toronto Star But studies suggest the shock wave enters the body — through the torso or possibly the eyes, or even by slightly compressing the skull. Internal pressure surges are created, which pulse through the skull, causing the brain within to move, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Prolia® (denosumab) Open-Label Extension Trial Showed Continued Increase in ... NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release) 8, 2011, at the 2011 American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago. Results of the open-label extension study showed that postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who received up to six years of continued Prolia treatment ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Library without books is on UF 'wish list' Gainesville Sun Dr. Terry Harpold, a UF associate professor of English, film and media studies and member of the university library committee, sees a shift toward electronic texts in university libraries. “I think (a bookless library is) welcome by students because ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Your Health, Our Hospital The Ultimate Loss of Hope PennLive.com A study by the National Institute for Healthcare Research indicates that divorced people are three times as likely to die by suicide as those who are married. Job loss and tough economic conditions are major contributors to a spike in the instance of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
'Promotion of trade a must for peace in South Asia' The News International Dr Jaffar Ahmed, Chairman, Pakistan Studies Centre, Dr Riaz Shaikh of the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Senior journalist Ghazi Salahuddin, Dr Mutahir Shaikh of the International Relations Department of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
News Digest: Nov. 7 Federal Times The council's findings are diametrically opposed to several studies published in the last two years that claim federal employees earn much more than private-sector workers. Critics such as the Cato Institute and some federal pay experts say that the ... See all stories on this topic » |
Social Science - Science, Technology & Engineering Careers ... By GenoXan The successful candidate will have a higher degree in a relevant social sciencediscipline, the knowledge and understanding of longitudinal studies and the data inresearch across a range of disciplines and the ability to negotiate and deal ... TheScienceJobs.com |
Scientists develop technology revolutionizing single-cell studies News@UH newsletter · Malamalama magazine ... Scientists develop technologyrevolutionizing single-cell studies ... Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in collaboration with scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute, have made ... www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4754 |
Humanities researchers and digital technologies ... - e! Science News By drawing on a number of case studies, the report demonstrates that digital RIs ...scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the ... esciencenews.com/.../humanities.researchers.and.digital.techno... |
News | Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, All School Sites ... The SeniorResearch Fellow will lead an interdisciplinary research programme : Integrating ... www.stis.ed.ac.uk/.../senior_research_fellowship_in_integratin... |
Alien abductions may be vivid dreams: study - Technology & science ... In a sleep study by the Out-Of-Body Experience Research Center in Los Angeles, 20 volunteers were ... More science news from MSNBC Tech & Science ... www.msnbc.msn.com/.../alien-abductions-may-be-vivid-drea... |
Science and Technology - Science and Technology News Special Issue Highlights Environment Canada Research on Border Air Quality. By: S&T... study, presenting research that contributes significantly to our scientific ... www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n...1... |
Beam me up Scotty – NASA researches tractor beam technology ... Trekkies might rejoice at the news that NASA has recently decided to fund a researchgroup employed to study how tractor beam technology might become. ... “Though a mainstay in science fiction, and Star Trek in particular, laser-based ... www.zmescience.com/research/nasa-tractor-beam-technology/ |
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Arizona SciTech Festival set for Feb 2012 - Arizona Biosciences News Top bioscience news, October 10-25: Arizona Science and Technology Festival set to... Alzheimer's studies in metro Phoenix; Bayer's Maricopa cotton research ... www.flinn.org/news/1037 |
NASA Researchers Aim to Reel In Tractor Beam Tech Any science fiction fan or Trekkie knows what tractor beams are -- those beams that pull ... Search ECT News Network ... The studies could lead to technology able to clear the space around Earth of debris that endangers spaceflight missions. ... www.technewsworld.com/story/73668.html |
EU Biofuels Are As Carbon Intensive As Petrol - Science News ... “We are very excited by the outcomes of our research – our study has already been accepted and used by several scientists, NGOs, economists and policy ... www.redorbit.com/news/science/.../eu...are.../index.html |
Advanced BioMedical Technologies Inc. Announces ... - PR Newswire PR Newswire: news distribution, targeting and monitoring ... He has been awarded with more than 10 prizes in scientific research. Two of his studies, "Bone Tumor Clinical Pathology Research" and "Children Stock Bone Necrosis ... www.prnewswire.com/.../advanced-biomedical-technologies-i... |
Kids try field research through N.C. State program - Science ... About 80 percent of their parents don't have college degrees and science is not a ...your usual N.C. State entomologists collecting data for an academic population study..... Get the biggest news in your email or cellphone as it's happening. ... But hospitals are using virtual tour technology to reach out to patients and diffuse ... www.newsobserver.com/2011/.../citizens-become-scientists.ht... |

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