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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Feb 26, 2012

'Indian scientific research enters new era under PM Singh'
IBNLive.com
PTI | 02:02 PM,Feb 26,2012 From Lalit K Jha Washington, Feb 26 (PTI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who brought about a sea change inscientific research and development in India, has received "high marks" from Indian scientists who now enjoy access to ...
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Classic Maya Civilization Collapse Related to Modest Rainfall Reductions
ThinkProgress
By Joe Romm on Feb 26, 2012 at 11:05 am Large parts of the arable and populated land of the world faces sharp increases in aridity and dust-bowlification thanks to human-caused climate change. “It is well established that the [Mayan] civilization ...
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ThinkProgress
Indian scientists give high marks to Manmohan
Northern Voices Online
“Despite challenges like India's vaunted bureaucracy, many Indian researchers who studied abroad and opened labs in other countries have begun flocking back home,” says the Feb 24 issue of the magazine focusing on the state of “Science in India”.
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Canadian team redefining the kilo
Victoria Times Colonist
By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News February 26, 2012 10:08 AM Carlos Sanchez, Barry Wood and Dave Inglis, members of the NationalResearch Council's kilogram research team with their "watt balance," a high-precision, mass-measuring instrument.
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Coffee – a cause for concern or a cure?
Scienceline
By Benjamin Plackett | Posted February 26, 2012 Coffee drinkers are used to being told off. Warnings to drink cups of joe in moderation are all too frequent. The bulk of researchers do — or at least did — think that coffee lovers could seek solace by ...
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Activists rally against Africa dictator's UN prize
Boston.com
By Michelle Faul AP / February 26, 2012 JOHANNESBURG—Human rights groups are urging UNESCO to abandon a prize named after Africa's longest-ruling dictator, one they say could be tainted by some of the millions he allegedly has looted from oil-rich but ...
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Boston.com
Scientist Wirelessly Power Super Miniature Implants Capable Of Travelling ...
Mobile Magazine
By Leslie Pulipa, February 26, 2012 @ 9:18am The 1966 Sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage was something wasn't it? A shrink ray let a CIA agent and a pilot enter the human body to perform a life saving procedure to remove a clot. Miniature rays and pilots ...
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Deal to end long-running human rights case falters
Ottawa Citizen
By Andrew Duffy, Ottawa Citizen February 26, 2012 Former NationalResearch Council scientist Chander Grover and government lawyers have been unable to agree on wording to close the book on 25 years of human rights investigations, tribunal hearings, ...
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Why Does Rick Santorum Feel Compelled to Assure Us He's "Pro-Science?"
ThinkProgress
By Climate Guest Blogger on Feb 26, 2012 at 8:10 am AP Photo by Jonathan D. Moreno “(w)hen it comes to the management of the Earth, they [the Democrats] are the anti-science ones. We are the ones who stand forscience, and technology, and using the ...
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ThinkProgress
Report: Women have rare egg-producing stem cells
Huffington Post
LAURAN NEERGAARD | February 26, 2012 01:01 PM EST | AP WASHINGTON — For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dogma, saying they've discovered the ovaries of ...
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China far ahead of India in science, says PM
IBNLive.com
PTI | 03:02 PM,Feb 26,2012 From Lalit K Jha Washington, Feb 26 (PTI) China is in "many ways far ahead" of India in the field of science, says a concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who last month pledged to more than double the country's R&D ...
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Ex-ISRO chief seeks fresh probe into Devas deal
Northern Voices Online
Terming the government's Jan 13 action of blacklisting him and three other senior scientists for their alleged lapses in finalising the deal as ill-conceived and against established norms, Nair said the current scenario unfolded due to the gross ...
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Prime Minister Opens e-Therapeutics' Drug Discovery Centre Near Oxford
MarketWatch (press release)
OXFORD & NEWCASTLE, United Kingdom, Feb 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- e-Therapeutics announces that the UK's Prime Minister, the Right Honourable David Cameron, MP, has opened the Company's new drug discovery centre at Long Hanborough near Oxford.
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Volcanoes deliver 2 flavors of water
EurekAlert (press release)
The research is published in the February 26, 2012, advanced on line publication of Nature Geoscience. As Carnegie coauthor Erik Hauri explained, "Hydrogen and boron have both light and heavy isotopes. Isotopes are atoms of the same element with ...
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DRDO facility to test mechanisms to mitigate CBRN emergencies
IBNLive.com
PTI | 09:02 AM,Feb 26,2012 New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) The DRDO is setting up a facility in Nagpur to test equipment and technologies developed by it to mitigate chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) emergencies.
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Man loses $49K collection of poison snakes
CBS News
The creatures were taken to the state natural sciences museum in Raleigh. by democracy8 February 26, 2012 7:59 AM EST by DidHeSayThat February 26, 2012 10:55 AM EST Talk about him all you want, but he probably has taken the taxpayers for a ride for a ...
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Clouds dropping closer to Earth
Yahoo!7 News
By Alison Caldwell, ABC Updated February 26, 2012, 10:09 am New research has found clouds are dropping closer to the Earth, with scientists measuring their height for the first time on a global basis. Experts from the University of Auckland suggest the ...
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Genes Discovered That Identify Macular Degeneration
eMaxHealth
By Deborah Mitchell on February 26, 2012 - 8:26am for eMaxHealth Scientists have discovered more than 50 genes that can help identify macular degeneration, according to a new study in Genome Medicine. The top 20 genes on the list were capable of ...
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eMaxHealth
Two killed in blaze at Brazil Antarctica base
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | Regional News | Sunday, February 26,2012 BRASILIA (Reuters) – A fire broke out at Brazil's research station in Antarctica yesterday, killing two navy personnel and forcing the evacuation by helicopter of about 40 other ...
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Early ripening of grapes pinned to warming, soil moisture
The West Australian
PARIS, Feb 26, 2012 (AFP) - - Researchers in Australia say they have pinpointed key factors in the early ripening of grapes, providing potential answers for wine growers threatened by global warming. In Australia and Western Europe, ...
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The elk shrink: With parks under siege, one researcher tries to unravel ...
StarPhoenix
By Ed Struzik, Postmedia News February 26, 2012 University of Alberta biologist Rob Found is conducting a study to determine the personality of elk in Jasper National Park. The idea that elk and other wild animals have personalities is often dismissed ...
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Tanzania: GMOs Were Released Without Rigorous Tests
AllAfrica.com
By Anne Outwater, 26 February 2012 AMONG the many claims made by the biotechnology industry as a whole and Monsanto (who controls 90% of the GM seed market) in particular have repeatedly made, is that genetically modified organisms are safe to eat.
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Two dead after blast destroys Brazil's Antarctic base
Jakarta Globe
by Gerard Aziakou | February 26, 2012 An explosion destroyed a Brazilian research base in Antarctica, killing two navy personnel and injuring a third, according to authorities. Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim confirmed the deaths of ...
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Jakarta Globe
DARPA releases formal solicitation for HACMS cyber security initiative for ...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
ARLINGTON, Va., 26 Feb. 2012. Computer scientists at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., released a formal solicitation (DARPA-BAA-12-21) to industry Thursday for the agency's High-Assurance Cyber Military ...
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Military & Aerospace Electronics
Scientists discover elusive platelet count and limb development gene
PhysOrg.com
As a result, this research is now being transformed into a medical test that allows prenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling in affected families. The team used genetic sequencing to discover that TAR results from low levels of the protein called Y14 ...
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And the Oscar winner is ... white (mostly)
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
HOLLYWOOD, Feb 26, 2012 (AFP) -Black actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer are Oscar frontrunners Sunday, but the reality is that non-whites remain hugely under-represented at the Academy Awards, a new study says. Halle Berry and Denzel Washington ...
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Gauging the progress of the ETP
The Borneo Post
Posted on February 26, 2012, Sunday GROWTH CATALYST: Most of the funding will come from the private sector with public sector investment being used as a catalyst to spark private sector participation. — Bernama photo KUCHING: Malaysia is well on its ...
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UGA researchers' gene map to speed biofuel development
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Ina Damm Muri | February 26, 2012, 5:47 AM PST Researchers at the University of Georgia have mapped the genomes of a large perennial grass that can be used as a source for bio-energy, EarthSky reports. Miscanthus, a candidate for biomass farming, ...
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Business ready to take flight
The Province
By Andrew A. Duffy, Victoria Times Colonist February 26, 2012 A BC company is hoping to turn its theoretical work into a business that could literally take off. Quaternion Aerospace, which is tucked into the industrial park just east of the Victoria ...
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Four congressmen: Use climate policies to reduce debt
Capital Times (blog)
Posted: Sunday, February 26, 2012 5:30 am At the end of this year, the United States will confront a trifecta of difficult fiscal challenges: The Bush tax cuts will be set to expire; the defense budget and spending on civilian programs will face a $110 ...
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Two missing in blast at Brazil's Antarctic base
Jakarta Globe
by Gerard Aziakou | February 26, 2012 An explosion caused by a fire left one navy personnel wounded and two others missing at a Brazilian base in Antarctica early Saturday and forced dozens of researchers to evacuate, authorities said.
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Jakarta Globe
Kombucha Tea Mothers and Babies, Healthy or Crazy?
eMaxHealth
By Deborah Mitchell on February 26, 2012 - 9:52am for eMaxHealth Among the latest health kicks is kombucha tea, a fermented beverage that has resurfaced in popularity after it faded from the limelight in the 1990s. For those old enough to remember ...
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eMaxHealth
Kelly Scientific Resources Hiring Senior Clinical Data Analyst in ...
By Iza
Kelly Scientific Resources is currently hiring Senior Clinical Data Analyst in Research Triangle Park North Carolina: Sunday, February 26201211:25:59 GMT. Senior Clinical Data Analyst jobs in Research Triangle Park North Carolina, jobs in ...
Lexxio
Ifrccee » New research in science
By admin
New research in science February 262012. Photosynthesis is ... Des plans are made by scientists and researchers in the United Kingdom and the United States to exploit the sun's energy to the production capacity of more. As the latest ...
Ifrccee
Brazil to rebuild scientific research base destroyed by fire in ...
By Admin1
Brazil to rebuild scientific research base destroyed by fire in Antarctica. Posted on February 262012 • Filed under: Antartica, Brazil. The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, “dismayed” by the fire that destroyed the base today the country's ...
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Michigan State Professor Finds Racial Disparty in Military Death ...
By Editor
Filed in Research & Studies on February 262012Research conducted by Catherine Grosso, an associate professor of law at Michigan State University in East Lansing, has found that Blacks and other minorities in the military are twice as ...
The Journal of Blacks in Higher...
Biology in Science Fiction: Feb. 26, 2012 Link Roundup
By Peggy
Life is extremely tough. (from +Scientific American) "Using a special method that he devised to humidify the desiccated cells, repair their damaged membranes, and jump-start their arrested metabolisms, he coaxed a community of yeasts, which had lain dormant in the entombed vessels since A.D. 680, back to life. ... Research Nimravus | Ratha and the Named Series The big cats in ... Studies that linked specific genes to intelligence were largely wrong, experts say. If you were hoping ...
Biology in Science Fiction
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Latest Global Warming Scare ...
By ZIP
Sifrhippus shrank from about 12 pounds average weight to about eight and a half pounds as the climate warmed over thousands of years, according to a report published by a team of researchers and reported in the journal Science on Thursday. ... Seriously, how do AGW scientistsview anything? Especially, when their heads are shoved so far up ManBearPig's @ss! Chris Berry says: February 262012 at 12:17 pm. We've had gasoline for 56 million years? I didn't even think humans ...
Weasel Zippers
First Health Conference of Khartoum College for Medical Sciences ...
By almuharrir_algeneral
Feb 262012, with Comments: 0. Gms: Sudanradio.info, 26 Feb The First Health Conference of Khartoum College for Medical Sciences is due to be held today at the Friendship Hall in Khartoum, under auspices of the First Vice – President of ...
Global Media Services (SUDAN)
Indian scientists give high marks to Manmohan Singh | sarkaritel.com
By admin
Washington, Feb 26 Indian scientists give high marks to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for bringing about a “sea change” in India's scientificenvironment and showing grit on issues of importance to them, according to the top US “Science” ...
sarkaritel.com
LENR Poses a Challenge and a Problem for Big Science « Cold ...
By jennifer
LENR Poses a Challenge and a Problem for Big ScienceFebruary 26,2012 ... Seventy years of big scientific research in the field since the end of World War II have yielded nuclear reactors that aren't much better than those used in the 1950s. Giant nuclear power plants like that at Fukushima use about the same level of technology as a tube television set. The old cassette recorder you pitched in the dumpster a few years ago employed far more advanced technology than today's ...
Cold Fusion News
Let's Conduct Some Research! « ThanksUSA Blog
By thanksusa
Let's Conduct Some ResearchFebruary 262012 by thanksusa. Welcome back Treasure Hunters! Just a reminder that we are currently in Phase I of TH7 which means that school and youth group participants are eligible for prizes. If you are the adult teacher or leader who registered the group, ... Once you have determined which scientific mind we are honoring, remember to locate your answer in the wordsearch to the left. I do hope that if you are a teacher or youth group leader that ...
ThanksUSA Blog
One Researcher's Solution to the Data Deluge: Enlist 'Citizen ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012 ... He's a professor of distributed scientificcomputing at Tsinghua University, which he describes as the Chinese equivalent of the ...
chronicle.com/article/One-Researchers-Solution-to/130936/
Scientists build Robot Fish to study behaviors of fish schools | Fresh ...
Sunday 26 February, 2012 ... Published On: Sun, Feb 26th, 2012 ...Researchers at New York's Polytechnic Institute has made a new fish related project to ... have managed to find out many scientificdiscoveries with this new study and the ...
freshinfos.com/2012/02/26/scientists-build-robot-fish/
'Indian scientific research enters new era under PM Singh' - India ...
India | Posted on Feb 26, 2012 at 02:21pm IST. 'Indian scientific research enters new era under PM Singh'. Press Trust of India ...
ibnlive.in.com/news/indian-scientific.../233886-3.html
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