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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Nov 12, 2011


Paper towels least green way of drying hands, study finds
The Guardian
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Scientists at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology have completed what is believed to be the first major study to assess the greenest way of drying your hands. The research paper compared the seven most common ...
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UT MD ANDERSON STUDY FINDS ACUPUNCTURE CAN PREVENT RADIATION-INDUCED CHRONIC ...
The Cypress Times
... Ph.D. and Genming Zhao, Ph.D., both in Department of Statistics. Support for thestudy was provided, in part, through grants from the National Cancer Institute and the Chinese Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality.
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Technology necessary to feed growing population in world
Times Record News
Even long-term studies of pesticides are only now showing results for 50 years. USDA funding for research at land-grant colleges is dwindling, while research funded by chemical companies is now the norm. With today's technology in sustainable ...
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Future wars may be fought by synapses
Science News
Some scientists have already committed to resisting the application of their research to what they consider illegal or immoral military purposes. “It's not enough just to study the issue of ethics,” says Curtis Bell of Oregon Health & Science ...
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Feds choose Houston physicist to develop solar technologies
Bizjournals.com
Alex Freudlich, a University of Houston physicist, was selected to participate in an $18.5 million research group funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy to develop new solar technologies. ...
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Recommended: NASA's top techie speaks out
msnbc.com
Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+. An artist's conception shows a solar sail rising above Earth in space. Solar sailing is one of the fields supported by NASA's technology ...
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Informatics Convergence Presents Opportunities and Challenges
Scientific Computing
Not only did content management solutions and “high science” systems merge capabilities, but the use of ELN expanded beyond early discoveryresearch. In early discovery, workflows tend to be dynamic depending on the study being pursued. ...
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Scientific Computing
Conscientious Guys Wow Women on the Dance Floor
LiveScience.com
Their studies use motion-capture technology much like that used in computer-animated movies to record men's dance moves and transfer them onto featureless avatars. That technique ensures that the women watching the dance moves won't be distracted by ...
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Future Convention Cities Initiative takes benefits beyond tourism study global
Focus on Travel News
The Future Convention Cities Initiative (FCCI) has confirmed it will work with the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) to take a global perspective on Business Events Sydney's leading research into the benefits of business events, beyond the tourism ...
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Govt introduces Form 6 for science students
The Times Group (blog)
Government says best science secondary school students will now have to go up to form 6, and thereafter government will provide them with scholarships for further studies, Minister of Education, Science and Technology, George Chaponda has said. ...
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Rethinking How Kids Learn Science
NPR
You study informal science education. Tell us what that informal part means. DIERKING: Well, it's about all the kinds of ways that we learn. And I would say, we've been talking - I know in the information you've provided, talked a lot about children. ...
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Santa Clara Valley Water District to vote on fluoridation
San Jose Mercury News
... cite decades of studies, including research from the Centers for Disease Control showing fluoride in drinking water reduces tooth decay between 18 and 40 percent. "This is not rocket science or something new," said Ferrer. "We are way behind. ...
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"Lost" Fortresses of Sahara Revealed by Satellites
National Geographic
What's more, the scientists were surprised that the sites—which include cemeteries and agricultural fields—are so tightly clustered. For instance, an area of 1.5 square miles (4 square kilometers) contained at least ten village-size settlements ...
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National Geographic
New GPU Applications Accelerate Search for More Effective Medicines and Higher ...
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
As a result, scientists can study larger molecular models for longer time periods with greater accuracy, leading to increased knowledge of the potential impact of drugs and the effectiveness of new materials. Drug developers could also benefit from ...
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Genome Explorations Searches Genetic Code for Cancer Cause
Memphis Daily News
Williams said two types of research institutions exist. On one end are institutions that aren't top-tier and are without the latest technology, that can use such an outside service to get things off the ground both technically and for the scientific ...
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Memphis Daily News
New tech to make milk safer
DigitalJournal.com
The Wikipedia has listed many active microfluidics research groups by world region and country with brief descriptions of their work, and the peer-reviewed journal Lab on a Chip has published details about many diverse microfluidics studies and ...
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DigitalJournal.com
How the Telecom Industry Seeks to Confuse About the Dangers of Cell Phones
Food Consumer
Davis also points out that the current study also found increased risks that are not being recognized by the researchers or reported by the media as such. "Statistical significance tests are tools used in science to help understand the chance that a ...
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SRI International Report: Missed Opportunities for Innovative Teaching Around ...
Bradenton Herald
The new report, ITL Research 2011 Findings: Evolving Educational Ecosystems, summarizes results of Phase 1 of the ITL program and offers insights into how schools and systems can best support more innovative teaching practices. The studies were ...
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Joint and Bone Health Dietary Supplement Ingredients: From All Angles
Nutritional Outlook
(Shao was CRN's senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs and is now vice president, global product science and safety, for Herbalife.) “The fact is the majority of published studies involving glucosamine and/or chondroitin are ...
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Robotics team mixes fun with life lessons
Seacoastonline.com
Tracey Tucker, New Heights executive director, said Lego Robotics is helping to keep the participants interested in science and technology because studies show that, by sixth and seventh grade, many students lose interest in those subjects. ...
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Anticipatory bail of accused in 30-yr-old murder case confirmed
Times of India
PUNE: Industrialist Baba Kalyani has said that research-driven technologyprogrammes in the universities with close mentoring and monitoring by the industry, are critical to saving the country from becoming a slave nation in the field of manufacturing....
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Brain Scan Overload
Wall Street Journal
Over the last two decades, the technology has become one of the most popular tools of modern neuroscience, generating an average of eight peer-reviewed papers every day. These studies have spanned a stunning range of topics, attempting to locate ...
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Wall Street Journal
Build a knowledge economy
The News International
Prof Michael Rode, former chairman of the United Nations Commission on Science,Technology and Development stated: “The progress made was breathtaking and has put Pakistan ahead of comparable countries in numerous aspects.” Alas, this was short-lived ...
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Truth and lies: Conspiracy theories are running rampant thanks to modern ...
The Independent
"There isn't a great deal of data out there on why people believe in conspiracy theories – in terms of research it is a bit of a blank slate," she says. Studies have identified a core set of psychological variables which correlate to belief in ...
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Spherix Announces Third Quarter Financial Results
PR Newswire (press release)
Spherix Incorporated was launched in 1967 as a scientific research company under the name Biospherics Research. The Company now leverages its scientific and technical expertise and experience through its two subsidiaries – Biospherics Incorporated and ...
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Omega-3 Bioavailability: Is One Form of Omega-3 More Bioavailable than Another?
Nutritional Outlook
“The science is divisive—some claim that the triglyceride form is better absorbed in the body, and some studies show that there is no difference really. We offer both forms, and it's up to our customers to choose which.” “It is more expensive to buy a ...
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Trial Of RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Ends
Ghana
In Ghana the trial is currently been conducted in Agogo and Kintampo Health ResearchCentres respectively with support from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science andTechnology in the Ashanti Region. At a stakeholder's workshop in Kumasi, ...
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Cromwell College senior prizes
Otago Daily Times
Zeda Booth, diligence Maori by correspondence; Cory Hoffman, diligence physical education; Jamie Moseley, diligence alternative science; Equaline Rorovanua, diligence alternative science; Simon Taylor, 1st materials technology; Shannon Jones, ...
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Otago Daily Times
University of Waterloo
Sun.Star
What brought me to Waterloo known as the Most Intelligent City in Canada is because Telly Moran's son Eric studies in the University of Waterloo. Eric is a scholar of the University taking up Actuarial Science. We were looking at his notebooks and ...
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Wall Street Fights Autism
MarketWatch (press release)
When open in 2014, the Center's 5-acre campus will feature a state-of-the-art on siteresearch institute; the world's first university-level school of autism studies; an educational center applying the latest research and technology to the special ...
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2012-2013 Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Merit Scholarship ...
Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Merit Scholarship Programme for High Technology for PhD & Postdoctoral studies in world's Top Ranked Universities, ... A proposed field ofstudy and/or research in one of the fields listed under the approved fields of study with itsscientific and development relevance to the country being clearly demonstrated in aresearch proposal. -Eligibility Criteria for Post Doctoral: Applicants for the IDB Merit Scholarship Programme should have: 1. Age below 40 ...
College Scholarships, PhD Scholarship...
'Protein microarrays' may reveal new weapons ... - Science Daily
A new research technology is revealing how humans develop immunity to malaria, and could assist ... ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science ..."Our studies show that this is partly because they have not developed ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111101095400.htm
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...
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...
Researchers using new technology to study breath for toxins
Researchers using new technology to study breath for toxins ... paper in the journal Environmental Science & Technology that details how to learn just that, using ...
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-technology-toxins.html
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/rsstory/73668.html
Advanced Cell Technology | Speaking of Research
Improving understanding about Animal Research / Animal Testing ... medical science, and it is an emerging field that owes a lot to animal studies performed by ... In September of this year embryonic stem cells were in the news again with the ...
speakingofresearch.com/tag/advanced-cell-technology/
SEK 73 million in science and technology research funding - UmeÃ¥ ...
The Swedish Research Council has reached the decision to grant SEK 73 ... to 27 new research projects within the natural sciences and technology at UmeÃ¥ University. ...Richard Bindler, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science ...
www.umu.se/.../sek-73-million-in-science-and-technology-res...
Scientific Collaboration Between India And Germany Reaches New ...
Increasing number of research collaborations with outstanding results / study on ... ofScience, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS) and the DFG, ...
www.redorbit.com/news/science/.../scientific.../index.html
HIV study identifies key cellular defence ... - Bioscience Technology
Daily news and top headlines for life science research professionals ... (TEM)technology increase the power of this imaging tool for the study of cell biology. ...
www.biosciencetechnology.com/.../sections-international-news...
Laboratory Equipment - Scientist of the Week: Anders Högberg
Anders Högberg from Lund Univ. performed research which found that advanced crafting of stone spearheads ... Get daily news for laboratory professionals - Sign up now! ... A: Do not take a technology you are about to study for granted. ...
www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-sow—Anders-Hogberg-...
Virginia Tech to Lead NSF-funded Amphibian Microbe Study ...
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A group of scientists led by Virginia Tech will use funding from the National Science Foundation to study the microbes living ...
www.genomeweb.com/.../virginia-tech-lead-nsf-funded-amphi...
New professors signal fresh ambitions for science policy research at ...
News of the appointments follows hot on the heels of the UK Government's stated ... a three-year study of the changing landscape for science and innovation in Asia, Latin ...SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research is a world- leading ...
www.sussex.ac.uk/research/news?id=10477
Warbling wrens don't just tweet, they sing duets - Technology ...
More science news from MSNBC Tech & Science ... who studies psychology and brain science, to begin his research, seeking to learn how the brain handles ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../warbling-wrens-dont-just-tweet-they-...
Sci-Tech Today | Study Links Autism to Brain Growth Problems
In recent years, mounting scientific evidence has proved that concerns about a link ...For the autism study, he used the same technology being applied to examine ... Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in a news release. ...
www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Study-Links.../story.xhtml?
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