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Study Reveals Spirit of Adventure and Discovery for Science Strongest Amongst ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, Nov 17, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Lenovo announced today the results of the 2011 Global Student Science and TechnologyOutlook, a multi-country survey that concluded students in emerging countries - India, Mexico and Russia ...
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Genisphere Licenses RNA Amplification and MicroRNA Labeling Technologies to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Affymetrix will utilize the two technologies to further its position as the leader in the RNA microarray expression market, in particular for pre-clinical applications, such as formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples, central to the study of ...
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Rep. Fattah Wins Breakthrough Approval in Congress to Declare Neuroscience ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the senior House Democratic appropriator for science, research and technology, has won bipartisan Congressional support to designate neuroscience research as a top federal priority. ...
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Study nabs Kawasaki gene
ScienceAlert
Scientists at the Infectious Diseases department of the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of the Agency for Science, Technologyand Research (A*STAR), led a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on a world-wide collaboration on Kawasaki ...
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ScienceAlert
Simon Singh at the Hay Festival Kerala: Britain must lead the way in green...
Telegraph.co.uk
The only way Britain can get out of the economic crisis is to invest in the development of new technology, according to Simon Singh, one of Britain's most respected science writers. By Matthew Bayley, Kerala Simon Singh said that the study of pure ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Are those working in science more likely to have a child with autism?
Metro
He hopes the results will help establish whether or not a child is more likely to have autism if both their parents work in science, technology, engineering or maths. Earlier this year, he worked on a study that found that children living in Eindhoven ...
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Metro
Polluted air makes droughts, floods worse
Futurity: Research News
(Credit: NOAA) U. MARYLAND (US) — Rising air pollution can strongly affect cloud formation in a way that can make floods and droughts even worse, a new study finds. The research provides the first clear evidence of how aerosols—soot, dust, ...
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UR reflects national trends in STEM programs
Campus Times
... 2011 6:32 AM · News A recent New York Times article, “Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard),” reported that approximately 40 percent of college students intending to study science, technology, engineering or mathematics...
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Masdar Institute Hosts 11th Meeting Of UAE Academic And Research Library Directors
Middle East Events (press release)
Masdar Institute Library Director Dr. Abdullah Al Hefeiti Leads Discussions On Further Developing Libraries In UAE Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and...
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Republicans Cut Top Science Office by 1/3
Huffington Post (blog)
But we have let science slide as a national priority in funding, education, and public dialogue for the last several decades. US students, for example, fell from 7th in a 1972 ranking known as the First International Science Study to 23rd in the 2009 ...
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Having Problems Sleeping? You Are at Greater Risk for Fibromylgia,Study Says
Technorati
"Sleep problems are just one factor that may contribute to the development of fibromyalgia," says Paul J. Mork, Ph.D., a study coauthor and a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim. Mork and colleague TomI. ...
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Technorati
SLAC research cracks puzzle of enzyme critical to food supply
EurekAlert (press release)
"What the team has done would appear to be a classic case where new technologyleads to new science." SLAC is a multi-program laboratory exploring frontier questions in photon science, astrophysics, particle physics and accelerator research. ...
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Sex on the Brain
Slate Magazine
While Eliot and Hyde characterized the effect sizes in sex-differencestudies as small or near zero, Cahill argued that these effect sizes were no smaller than those typically found in other neuroscience research. (Indeed, I heard no complaints from ...
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Slate Magazine
Still Time To Decide On UUCA Issue - Khaled Nordin
Bernama
At the event, five other research studies were launched, involving Biomedical Science, Food Science and Technology, Maritime and Marine Science Education and Training, Counselling and Architecture. It is hoped that they would encourage more research ...
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A Rat's First Steps: How Humans and Other Animals Learn to Walk
The Atlantic
Could you explain the study methodology or any noteworthy technologies that led to these discoveries? We were the first to use such an extensive recording of electrical activity from multiple muscles in newborn babies, coupled with kinematics, ...
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Royal Society announces annual awards
Voxy
The top award for achievement in technology, the Pickering Medal and $15000, was awarded to Professor David Ryan FRSNZ, Professor of Operations Research and Deputy Dean of Engineering, at The University of Auckland for developing technologywhich is at ...
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Washington: Gov. says invest in education to keep Boeing jobs
USA Today (blog)
$1.5 million toward aerospace research at the UW and WSU. — $450000 to provide 12 high schools with aerospace curriculum support. — $250000 to add courses at 10 high schools for problem-solving using science, technology, engineering and math skills. ...
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The Search is On for 100 Vital Centenarians to Advance Genomic Science and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Studies conducted by the Medco Research Institute have paved the way for genetic testing programs that are becoming a part of routine pharmacy practice for millions of patients through DNA Direct by Medco. In addition, United BioSource Corp., ...
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CytoDyn Enters into Research Funding and Option Agreement With The Scripps ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In addition to the domestic and feral cats, the Company intends to study whether CytoFeline may potentially benefit the large cat population, specifically lions, tigers and other big cats found in zoos. "As we move forward on our research and ...
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Webcor Builders Selected as the General Contractor for First Phase of LA ...
Sacramento Bee
Webcor has been selected as the general contractor for the research park due to its industry-leading technology practices and unrivaled track record, led by an accomplished management team. Webcor has built more than 50 million square feet of projects ...
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New behavioral change research center underway in Chafee Social Science Center
URI The Good 5 Cent Cigar
Despite this, she said students still learn through "real research". "It fits in with this whole [idea of] experimental learning," she said. She believes that getting students involved with actual research dealing with their area of study can teach ...
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Where Science, Business Collide
Centre View
Both George Mason University and George Washington University offer professionalstudies classes at their Arlington campuses. "We do a lot of market research, and we also have advisory boards and professional groups that we talk to about what is ...
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Three women awarded L'Oreal science fellowship
Malaysia Star
She hopes to be ready with a “prototype” of her research work in two years. Her career in research began in 2000 when she was an associate researcher with Sirim Berhad. In 2002, she left the company to further herstudies. She has a PhD in chemical and ...
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Malaysia Star
Infosys Science Foundation Announces Infosys Prize 2011 Winners
EFYTimes (press release)
As the Infosys Science Foundation runs successfully into its third year, we have launched the Infosys Prize Lectures toinspire the future heroes of scientific researchand studies in our society.”
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Recently Asked Questions
Education Times
My future plan is to pursue my Post Graduation and then proceed for Ph.D. I was suggested to do my Post Graduation in USA as it is more valuable for its quality education and research than M.Tech in India. Is that so? Any how I am interested in doing ...
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A case study in crowdsourcing investigative journalism part 7: Conclusions
Online Journalism Blog (blog)
While the technology of Help Me Investigate allowed for modularity, for example, the community structure was rather flat. Leadbeater's research (2008) and that of Lih (2009) into the development of Wikipedia and Tsui (2010, PDF) into Global Voices ...
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PharmAthene to Present at the 2011 Chemical and Biological Defense Science and ...
Sacramento Bee
16, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PIP) announced today that data from its rPA anthrax vaccine and chemical nerve agent bioscavenger programs will be presented at the 2011 Chemical and Biological Defense Science andTechnology ...
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NASA Team Encourages Teens to "Get Connected" at TEDxYouth@NASA
Sacramento Bee
"Get Connected," the theme of this year's TEDxYouth@NASA, is meant to inspire teens to explore and exceed their own boundaries to study science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and potentially make a career out of their studies. ...
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The skills for our success
CanadianBusiness.com
Kim Carr, Australia's minister for innovation, industry, science and research, says that for Australia, the development of skilled trades and the pressure to compete internationally have been parallel forces. He says that along with investing in trades ...
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New Survey Shows Importance of Mobile Online Safety as More Americans Shop ...
PR Newswire (press release)
“These findings illustrate our ever-increasing reliance on mobile technology in our daily lives. Technology has enabled us to enhance our shopping experience with the ability to research pricing, reviews, and product purchase options with ease not ...
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Encouraging era for treating Down syndrome
Austin American-Statesman
Twice a year, he offers a six-week science course for approximately 10 students with Down syndrome and five UT students. During the most recent session, the students were conducting research with C. elegans to study Parkinson's disease. ...
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Tibet's High Education in Progress
China Daily
The number of scientific research projects and corresponding funds are rising by the year. Fields of research encompass Tibetology, digitalization of the Tibetan language, alpine ecology, alpine medical science, and regional economics and etc. ...
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The making of a creative economy needs talent
China Daily
According to the research study "Creating Prosperity: the role of higher education in driving the UK's creative economy", employment in creative industries hit 26 percent growth between 1997 and 2008 in the UK. Creative industries accounted for more ...
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JCVI Scientists along with International Team of Researchers Sequence the ...
Sacramento Bee
About the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)The JCVI is a not-for-profit research institute in Rockville, MD and San Diego, CA dedicated to the advancement of the science of genomics; the understanding of its implications for society; and communication ...
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CureVac, Sanofi Pasteur And In-Cell-Art Collaborate On A $33.1M
BioResearch Online (press release)
The company has completed Phase I/IIa studies with cancer vaccines based on its RNActive technology platform for the treatment of prostate cancer and nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In addition, CureVac also independently develops RNActive ...
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Social Networks Matter: Friends Increase the Size of Your Brain
Scientific American (blog)
A new study published in the November 4th edition of Science addressed this question by housing monkeys in different sized groups to find out if their neocortical gray matter increased as the number of individuals grew. A team of neuroscientists led by ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Russian-American collaboration finds herbs can assist overweight stress symptoms
NutraIngredients.com
"The Nutrilite Health Institute has conducted a number of assessmentstudies to measure health status and needs in various countries," said Amway technology strategist Keith Randolph, PhD. "In partnership with the Russian Institute of Nutrition, ...
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NutraIngredients.com
Scientist Eyeing Enzymes That Could Help Fight Flu
Newswise (press release)
Hahm received his doctorate in molecular virology from Pohang University of Scienceand Technology in South Korea and then joined the virology division at the ScrippsResearch Institute in La Jolla, Calif. At Scripps, Dr. Hahm studied viral immunology ...
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Scientists criticise handling of pilot project to 'geoengineer' climate
The Guardian
The project is backed by the government-funded Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), and involves scientists from Cambridge, Oxford, Reading and Bristol universities. They plan to investigate whether a giant balloon and a 20km long...
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Georgia Tech develops speedy software designed ... - Science Codex
By News
In the past, computer algorithms that study these noncovalent interactions have been very slow, limiting the types of molecules that can be studied using accurate quantum mechanical methods. A research team headed by Georgia Tech ...
Science Codex - Science news,...
Science news from the far North
By Mogens Bisgaard
Male circumcision leads to a bad sex life, according to new study. Your smartphone can... The international science press is dominated by news from Anglo-American researchinstitutions and periodicals –because they are published in English. But the ... This includes areas such as green technology, climate and the environment, oil and offshoretechnology, biotechnology, gender equality and the welfare state and its economy, says Nina Kristiansen, editor-in-chief at Forskning.no. ...
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New study finds that even the cleanest wastewater contributes to ...
Get science news via ... The study also suggests that standard wastewater treatmenttechnologies ... levels of bacteria are normally much higher than in the water studied in this research. ... The study is published in the most recent issue of EnvironmentalScience and Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society. ...
esciencenews.com/.../new.study.finds.even.cleanest.wastewater...
Even the cleanest wastewater contributes to more ... - Science Daily
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science ... of Environmental Science and Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society....
www.sciencedaily.com/.../111114152539.htm?...
Science News Daily || Study finds cooking increases energy from ...
Daily coverage of the most popular science and technology news ... Researchers at Harvard have discovered that cooked meat produces more energy than raw ...
www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology.../cluster120665456/
Baby poop study tracks alcohol use - Technology & Science - CBC ...
CBC News Technology & Science. Major StoriesIn The News ... Hospitalresearchers on P.E.I. have been collecting and studying human meconium – the first ...
www.cbc.ca/news/technology/.../pei-meconium-study-584.htm...
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