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Spilled Coffee: Mathematical Model For Sloshing Beverage Addresses Cup Design

Huffington Post
But new research suggests how to avoid one of the more common pitfalls: spilled coffee. "I cannot say for sure if coffee spilling has been detrimental toscientific research to any significant extent," says study author Rouslan Krechetnikov, ...
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Scientists "switch off" brain cell death in mice
Reuters
* Possible common pathway with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's * Study an important step in understanding brain diseases By Kate Kelland LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out how to stop brain cell death in mice with brain disease and say ...
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Study suggests climate affecting Antarctic waters
Calgary Herald
"This is a response to changes that are happening to climate in the polar regions, both natural and human causes," lead researcher Steve Rintoul, from the Australian government's science body the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research ...
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Researchers tinker with bird flu: Are enough safeguards in place?
AXcess News
A second research paper on the topic, from a team led by Ron Fouchier, ascientist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is slated for publication in an upcoming issue of the journal Science. Dr. Fouchier's team reportedly has used ...
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Scientists hail gamma rays study
The Press Association
Scientists have shown that gamma rays can be bent like ordinary light in an experiment that opens the door to far-reaching new fields of imaging research. Gamma rays are essentially a highly energetic form of light. Having the ability to bend and focus ...
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Thunderstorms Could Be Ozone Factories
Our Amazing Planet
This spring, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other organizations will explore what happens when storms bring air from Earth's surface many miles up into the atmosphere using research aircraft, mobile radars and lightning ...
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Scientists "switch off" brain cell death in mice
Firstpost
by FP Staff 3 mins ago LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have figured out how to stop brain cell death in mice with brain disease and say their discovery deepens understanding of the mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and ...
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Colorado to join studies of air quality around oil and gas fields
Denver Post
By Mark Jaffe Research scientist Jessica Gilman of the NOAA Earth SystemResearch Laboratory is on the tower of the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory on Wednesday in Erie. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post) Sitting on a tower just above the rooftops in the ...
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Advanced clinical trials on cancer treatment coming to RMC
Chicago Tribune
Certain Regional Medical Center patients will soon have access to cutting-edge treatments for cancer as part of research to fight the disease. The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Cancer Care Network is enrolling patients for the first phase of a ...
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Woodbridge Student Represents CT at Science Program
Patch.com
Delegates to the NYSC are challenged to explore new ideas in the biological and physical sciences, art, music, and to present seminars covering their ownresearch interests. Matthew Chauvin Quallen is a National Merit finalist and a member of the ...
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Climatic effects of a solar minimum
Phys.Org
Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in collaboration with Swedish and Dutch colleagues provide evidence for a direct solar-climate linkage on centennial timescales. Using the most modern methodological approach, they analysed ...
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'Raven's Seed,' Play At Detroit's Matrix Theatre, Mixes Cartoon Slapstick With ...
Huffington Post
The play takes place in the vicinity of a mountain top nuclear research facility whose scientific experiments are polluting the nearby wilderness. The sickness unleashed by a radioactive spill at Liverwurst Laboratories forces the creatures of the ...
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'Low oxygen levels drive cancer growth'
TwoCircles.net
... and computational biology at Georgia University's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The research team analysed samples of messenger RNA data, also called transcriptomic data, from seven different cancer types in a publicly available database.
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Range of brain diseases could be treated by single drug
BBC News
The study has been broadly welcomed by other scientistsalthough many point out that the research is in its infancy. Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at King's College London, Roger Morris, said it was a "breakthrough in understanding what kills ...
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BBC News
Plant study flags dangers of warming world
Reuters India
By Nina Chestney | LONDON (Reuters) - Plants are flowering faster thanscientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday, which could have devastating knock-on effects for food chains and ecosystems.
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Beehive extract may arrest prostate cancer
New York Daily News
But the compound has not gained acceptance in the clinic due to scientificquestions about its effect on cells, the journal Cancer Prevention Researchreports. Researchers combined traditional cancer research methods with cutting-edge techniques to ...
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Why do religious people distrust science?
The Express Tribune (blog)
Arguably, almost all-modern scientific progress can be attributed to the 19 th century. For the first half of that century, sciencewasn't vehemently opposed by any major religions. However, onescientific theory based on research and evidence, ...
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The Express Tribune (blog)
Scientists discover key contribution to Melanesian blonde hair colour
PressZoom (press release)
The study, entitled 'Melanesian blond hair is caused by an amino acid change in TYRP1' is published in Science [3 May 2012] and funded by the MRC and a Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research grant. The researchhas been covered by The ...
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Govt Invests US$ 100 Million in Agrarian Scientific Research Programme
AllAfrica.com
He said that the fund was already approved by the Cabinet Council and this why his ministry started the rehabilitation of some infrastructure of the provinces of Huambo, Huíla, Cabinda and it is intended to build other scientificstructures in the ...
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NMSU collaborating with research institutions in Costa Rica and Chile
Las Cruces Sun-News
One NMSU faculty member is already involved in research in that area: Andres Cibils, associate professor of range science, has been working with a Chilean animal scientist colleague on a rangeland sheep nutrition project and has made additional ...
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Defect risk 'higher for assisted births'
The Independent
... defects in babies, according to the largest scientific study of its kind. Babies conceived by assisted techniques are at least one-third more likely to suffer from congenital problems than those conceived naturally, the newresearch has found.
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Ants go marching under the watchful eye of Texas' top scientist
Austin American-Statesman
University of Texas professor Lawrence Gilbert conducts hisresearch in the Brackenridge Field Laboratory, where he and his team study a fly that terrifies fire ants as well as the co-evolution of plants and animals. 'I'm not sure why I'm distinguished ...
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Austin American-Statesman
Scientists "switch off" brain cell death in mice
Reuters India
By Kate Kelland | LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out how to stop brain cell death in mice with brain disease and say their discovery deepens understanding of the mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and ...
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Video: Watch 'Marvel's The Avengers' trailer
msnbc.com
Here are some of the amazing feats of physics to check out while you're watching: Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Sometimes it takes a cartoon to make sense of the Higgs boson — the prime scientific tar... Captain America harnesses the power of ...
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Meteorite hunters strike pay dirt
Pioneer Press
But when he spotted a dark space pebble, he immediately recognized it as carbonaceous chondrite, meteorites containing water and carbon - the typescientists long to study for insights into how life began on Earth and possibly in other places.
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Five awesome ways they bent physics for 'The Avengers'
msnbc.com
“The property that lends Vibranium its remarkable characteristics is its ability to store or channel energy in its atomic structure,” said Suveen Mathaudhu, a program manager in the materials science division of the US Army ResearchOffice.
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Work emails are bad for your health, study finds
Arizona Daily Sun
The workers who abandoned email had a variety of different roles within the organization, including managers, administrators, research scientists and technologists, and all of them usually use email during the course of a regular workweek.
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E-Waste Bikini Makes Painful Statement About Women In Tech
EarthTechling
And as this infographic shows, only 20 percent of women who obtain a degree in math and sciences actually go on to have jobs in a related field. We know that diversity in the workplace, especially fields of scientific research and technology, ...
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Australia Must Realize Science Potential, Says Academy President
Asian Scientist Magazine
AsianScientist (May 7, 2012) – Speaking at the Science at the Shine Dome 2012 on Thursday last week, Australian Academy ofScience President, Professor Suzanne Cory, expressed confidence that Australia's scientific potential has never been greater, ...
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Asian Scientist Magazine
Beamed-up lemon shark shows research promise (w/ Video)
Phys.Org
Last month, marine biologist Luke Tipple, armed with a career in the study of sharks, accepted the request from handheld laser manufacturers, Wicked Lasers, to attach a Wicked Lasers laser beam to a shark's fin, which he did with success.
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Research Physical Scientist Assistant Climate and Radiation ...
Job Title:Research Physical Scientist, AST, Climate & Radiation Studies. Department:National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Agency:Goddard Space ...
federalgovernmentjobs.us/.../Research-Physical-Scientist-Assist...
Open Science and Access to Medical Research - Scientific ...
This would permit fellow researchers to help evaluate and analyze the results, so that the broader scientific community as well as the public can weigh in on the ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../open-science-and-access-to-m...
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Scientists ...
Scientists Across U.S. Launch Study of Thunderstorm Effects on Upper ...level," says National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientistChris Cantrell, ...
www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124021
Balloon Litter Research: Citizen Scientists needed to collect
Earth Day "Launch" of new research study - citizen scientists are needed for data ... Aquarium & Marine Science Center are launching a research study to better ...
www.jamesriverjournal.com/.../18109-balloon-litter-research-c...
Science-Based Medicine » The problem with preclinical research ...
Real scientists know that cutting edge (or even not-so-cutting edge) scientific..... More troubling, some of the research has triggered a series of clinicalstudies ...
www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/.../the-problem-with-preclinic...
Two Vanderbilt professors elected to National Academy of Sciences ...
“It's an incredible feeling to join such a distinguished group of scientists ...Most of the NAS science policy and technical work is conducted by the National Research ... engineers and other experts to volunteer their time tostudy specific issues.
news.vanderbilt.edu/.../two-vanderbilt-professors-elected-to-na...
THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING ON ...
Office of Research and Development. 1. EPA's Study of Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water. Resources. Scientific Integrity. In 2010, the ...
www.epa.gov/hfstudy/pdfs/scientific-integrity-of-hf-study.pdf
Iowa City Principal Research Scientist Job - IA, 52240
Iowa City Principal Research Scientist Job - IA, 52240. ... techniques and processes, and conduct cutting-edge research studies. ... Quality, Quality Assurance, Research, Research Scientist, Science, Scientific, Scientist, Technology, Training ...
jobs.pearson.com/job/Iowa-City-Principal...Job.../1854988/
Boston Scientific | Speaking of Research
Tag Archives: Boston Scientific. Dogs in Medical Research ... and heart failure ( including the study mentioned by the BBC above), scientistsdemonstrated in that ...
speakingofresearch.com/tag/boston-scientific/
Scripps Research Institute scientists show how a ... - e! Science News
A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has shown that an extra ... Polleux specializes in the study of human brain development, and, several ...
esciencenews.com/.../scripps.research.institute.scientists.show.h...
New technique will transform epigenetics research - Research ...
Professor Wolf Reik who led the study at the Babraham Institute, which receives strategic funding from the Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) said, ...
www.cam.ac.uk/.../scientists-have-demonstrated-a-new-techniq...
Scientists Discover Bilayer Structure in Efficient Solar Material
Detailed studies of one of the best-performing organic photovoltaic materials reveal an ... with even better properties. energy, NSLS, NSLS-II, photonsciences, physics. ... The research, published in Nature Communications April 24, 2012, was ...
www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1405
scientific research | IdeaScale Blog
The results of the study are published in this month's Nature Genetics magazine. How will this change the field of scientific research? Does collaboration mean ...
blog.ideascale.com/tag/scientific-research/
Marine Ecology from Antarctica to Micronesia - Scientific Research ...
Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife ... as they work hands-on with local scientists and resource managers to study ecosystem management strategies, ...
uscdiving.wordpress.com/.../usc-dornsife-scientific-diving-mar...
Fridley Sr Scientist Job - MN, 55421
Experience planning and conducting pre-clinical scientific research studies.Research experience should be supported by specific publication record in relevant ...
jobs.medtronic.com/job/Fridley-Sr-Scientist-Job.../1851743/
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