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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jan 01, 2012

NASA's Daniel Schumacher answers 10 Questions about Earth and spacescience at ...
The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
From the beginning of the Space Age with the launch of Explorer I to studythe Van Allen Belts, Wernher von Braun realized science and exploration were intrinsically linked. With the completion of Apollo, science researchbegan to grow. ...
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The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
Iran Produces 1st N. Fuel Rod Needed for Tehran Research Reactor
Fars News Agency
Iranian scientists transferred the home-made nuclear fuel rod into the heart of the Tehran research reactor after conducting all the necessary physical and dimensional tests to study its function in operational conditions. According to the report, ...
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Fars News Agency
Editorial: Flirting with pandemic
Calgary Herald
The NSABB might urge other scientists to put the publication of similar studies and their presentation at scientific meetings - though not the studies themselves - on hold. Paul Keim, a microbial geneticist at Northern Arizona University who chairs the ...
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Scientists Find a Way to Make the Spinal Cord Transparent for Study
The Atlantic
The new method is a leap forward in regeneration research. By using fluorescent dyes to stain individual nerve cells, scientists can now trace their path from all angels in an otherwise transparent spinal cord section. This enables them to ascertain ...
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Jackson Laboratory poised to put state on science frontier
TheDay.com
"It's like Christmas," said Greg Cox, a scientist at "Jax," who studies neuromuscular diseases. He's perpetually on the lookout for thin, wasted or paralyzed mice - "sort of the sad mice" - that might have mutations that could lead him to the genes ...
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Roche scientist provides a look at drugmaker's early pipeline
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
It means that all the tools born out of the life sciences revolution, we bring them to the table to understand the viability of a given disease and the potential markers that will indicate a subpopulation (of patients) is more likely to respond. ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Concern Rages Over Mutated Flu Research
MedIndia
The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has asked two journals that want to publish the work to make only redacted versions ofstudies available. The advisory board's 23 voting members — all academicscientists and public health ...
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MedIndia
For scientist, woods are the natural choice
Boston.com
At the time, [the request] was just a scientific research venture.'' In 2007, Kittredge met fellow naturalist Bryan Hamlin of Medford, who now serves as the Friends' board chairman. Hamlin explained that the group needed someone with Kittredge's ...
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Stephen Hawking at 70: still the brightest star in the scientific universe
The Guardian
His quantum cosmology has brought the study of the universe's origin within the realm of the physical sciences, and with this the profound questions its study raises. Even at 70 he remains one of the world's foremost experts in this domain. ...
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The Guardian
Iranian, German scientists identify 50 mental retardation genes
Iranian Students News Agency
An Iranian medical scientist and the Director of Genetics Research Center at Iranian University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences Hossein Najmabadi noted mental retardation includes two or three percents of the whole retardations in the ...
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New year holds hope for particles, planets
Columbus Dispatch
Enroll now. By Spencer Hunt Scientists don't make predictions. They hypothesize. So in that spirit, 2012 might — hypothetically — be a banner year for science. Research in a variety of fields could bring new insights on such things as the structure ...
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Columbus Dispatch
Keep Older Brains Sharp with Omega 3, Vitamins
Arutz Sheva
Scientists from the Departments of Neurology and Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Center for Research in Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland; Portland VA Medical Center, and the Linus Pauling ...
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Arutz Sheva
Scientists hope slime holds cleverness key
News24
Masashi Aono, a researcher at Riken, a natural science research institute based in Saitama, says his project aims to examine the mechanism of the human brain and eventually duplicate that brain with slime moulds. "I'm convinced that studying the ...
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Qatar research fund's collaborative efforts bear fruit
Gulf Times
The Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) is working to support scientific researchthrough joint collaborations between researchers in Qatar and their counterparts across the Arab world, including those from Nile University (NU) who won five research ...
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Kolhapur scientist finds key to disposal of chicken feathers
Daily News & Analysis
Incidentally, Jadhav was recently honoured with the young woman scientist award of the Biotech Research Society India. A fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, she has authored more than 50 research articles. She is well-known for her work on ...
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Bioterrorist Battles
Scientist
All of the research uses the same scientific platform: ordinary baker's yeast that is injected with artificial chromosomes—created by Evolva using plants, animals, and fungi—in one billion different combinations. Of those billion “souped-up” yeasts, ...
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Scientist
Sea snails may lead to possible cure for learning impairments
Times of India
WASHINGTON: A species of sea snail known as Aplysia californica is helping scientistsin their efforts to find cure for people with learning impairments. The mollusk, which is used by researchers to study the brain, has much in common with other ...
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NASA research orbiter starts circling moon
CNN
They will fly in tandem orbits, measuring the gravity field and ideally answering "longstanding questions about the moon and (giving) scientists a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed," according to NASA. ...
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Kalamazoo's top business stories of 2011: MPI Research donates lab building
Michigan Business Review - MLive.com
KALAMAZOO — Mattawan-based scientific research firm MPI Researchannounced on Dec. 8 that it was donating one of two large laboratory buildings it was planning to renovate in downtown Kalamazoo to Western Michigan University. ...
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Michigan Business Review - MLive.com
Uncommon science projects are common at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville
The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
A friend or the neighbor next door may be a NASA scientist working on groundbreaking Earth or space research. Like Dr. Jonathan W. Cirtain, an astrophysicist at Marshall Space Flight Center, who recently was given an award from President Obama for his ...
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The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
State board approves Beverly tax break for life sciences firm
Boston.com
The company, which creates research tools for the life sciences industry, now plans to fully renovate the remainder of the 87000-square-foot building, which will provide it with new space for production and research and development. ...
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Finishing touches to Indian Science Congress arrangements on
IBNLive.com
The five-day mega event, to be attended by about 20 Nobel laureates, corporate bigwigs,scientists and leaders, is being hosted by Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER). ...
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Farming practices threaten widely grown corn crop
USA TODAY
"Right now, quite frankly, it's very profitable to grow corn," said Michael Gray, a University of Illinois crop sciences professor who's tracking Bt corn damage in that state. A scientist recently sounded an alarm throughout the biotech industry when ...
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USA TODAY
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowships - Applications Sought
Space Ref (press release)
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers scientists and engineers unique opportunities to conduct research at NASA Centers. Each NPP fellowship opportunity is designed to advance NASA research in a specific project related to space science, ...
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SWFREC scientists have been busy studying new diseases
TheGrower
By Pamela Roberts Editor's note: This is the Immokalee Report, a monthly column written by researchers at the University of Florida's Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee. This column appeared in the Jan. ...
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Outside temperatures, sun exposure and gender may trigger glaucoma
EurekAlert (press release)
Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., set out to find ...
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The Study of Scientific Research's Process Evaluation | Economics ...
By rain
Scientific research's evaluation, as the combining product of scientific researchmanagement and market mechanism, has become necessary for modern management and important for scientific decision-making. It plays more and more ...
Economics Papers,Economics Term...
The American Political Climate is Heating Up to Dangerous Levels ...
By malialitman
The study and pursuit of scientific research and the advancement of technology is the reason America has been a world leader for the last century. Regardless of the political party in power over the last century, the United States has historically ...
Malia Litman's Blog
I Want To Lose My Weight Forum - Diets and Diet Plans - Live ...
Our Bios Life products have been clinically proven in the scientific trials and clinicalstudies at some of the top universities, hospitals and research institutions around the world. Many of these studies have been published in prominent medical ...
Live Health Club Forum
What happens to studies that accept the null hypothesis? « JEPS ...
By Ivan Flis
“The literature of social sciences contains horror stories of journal editors and others who consider a study worthwhile only if it reaches a statistically significant, positive conclusion; that is, an equally significant rejection of a hypothesis is not considered ...Usually, the psychologist in me would go all defensive of our precious little socialscience, but then one discovers this: a couple of researchers trying to publish a paper debunking Bem's research on ESP (in layman terms, ESP means ...
JEPS Bulletin
Top 10 Scientific Discoveries Of 2011
Now that 2011 has come to a close, we will take a look at the top 10 scientificdiscoveries and breakthroughs of this past year. ... Some of the first genetic evidence that early Homo sapiens mated and reproduced with Homo neandertalensis was actually introduced back in 2010, but it was findings of a study published back in July of this year that solidified it. The study determined that some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals, but only in people of non-African ...
Zidbits.com
Physics*** « A central Central University
By Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor UoH
Agarwal have been recognized: he has received all the major awards of India for scientific research, including the S S Bhatnagar award and many international recognitions. At UoH he was the first to attract some major international awards ...
A central Central University
Netherlands : PhD Student on Information Visuallization applied to ...
It is located at the Science Park Amsterdam and is part of the “Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research” (NWO). The institute ... SEN1 studies software systems: their design, their construction and their inevitable evolution. The mission ...
International Scholarship Updates
Top 11 Citizen Science Projects of 2011 | SciStarter Blog
By John Ohab
Here are SciStarter's top 11 citizen science projects from the past year (according to the number of visits). Thanks for joining our journey. Wait until ... Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. Researchers are collecting data to find out if ... The Dragonfly Swarm Project uses the power of the Internet to allow everyone to participate in a large-scale study of dragonfly swarming behavior. Participants observe dragonfly swarms ...
SciStarter Blog
UNC HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the ...
UNC scientists funded to study genome sequencing in clinical settings · UNC Health ...UNC HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year ...
news.unchealthcare.org/.../unc-hiv-prevention-research-named...
Bird flu researchers fear gov't block may stall scientific progress
Bird flu researchers fear gov't block may stall scientific progress ... to ask two topscientific journals to withhold details of upcoming bird flu studies might impede ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../bird-flu-researchers-fear-govt-block-ma...
HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year ...
HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year. Enlarge. The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, M.D. of the ...
medicalxpress.com/.../2011-12-hiv-scientific-breakthrough-ye...
Major Cases of Scientific Studies Proven Wrong in 2011 Reviewed ...
This year, NPR reports, four highly-publicized scientific studies or findings researchedby reputable sources or published in peer-reviewed journals were ...
www.theblaze.com/.../was-2011-the-year-of-scientific-retractio...
Studies of deadly H5N1 bird flu mutations test scientific ethics ...
Studies of deadly H5N1 bird flu mutations test scientific ethics. Dutch scientists have created a version of the deadly H5N1 bird flu that's easily transmitted. ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-sci-bird-flu-20111227,0,7406435.stor...
U.S. Asks Journals to Censor Articles on Bird Flu Virus - NYTimes.com
Seeing Terror Risk, U.S. Asks Journals to Cut Flu Study Facts ... For the first time ever, a government advisory board is asking scientific journals not to ... The journals, the panel, researchers and government officials have been grappling with ...
www.nytimes.com/.../fearing-terrorism-us-asks-journals-to-cen...
Shady Scientific Research is Rampant [Infographic] | Geekosystem
Anyone gonna question which 'scientific mind' came up with the research for this post? Easy to stick references on but who compiled the data from all these? ...
www.geekosystem.com/shady-scientific-research-is-rampant-i...
allAfrica.com: Africa: Malaria Scientist Does Groundbreaking Research
Malaria Scientist Does Groundbreaking Research ... The next three years were spent doing both clinical studies and working on larger research projects. One of ...
allafrica.com/stories/201112272824.html
US asks scientific journals to censor bird flu studies | World news ...
He said scientists who study influenza have a need to know the details of the researchto protect the public. He said Science was evaluating how best to proceed ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../bird-flu-science-journals-us-censor
US tells scientists to censor flu research - Science - News - The ...
US tells scientists to censor flu research ... His work was submitted to Science, while the manuscript of a similar study carried out by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../us-tells-scientists-to-censor-flu-rese...
Social selection and peer influence in an online social network
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ...Disentangling the effects of selection and influence is one of social science's ...designed research, performed research, analyzed data, and wrote the paper. ...
www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/12/13/1109739109
  
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