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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 13, 2012

Science journal could give recipe for deadly avian flu virus
WTVR
By Libby Lewis, CNN Radio (CNN) – A science journal is poised to publish a study that some experts believe could give a recipe to bioterrorists. The study is from an experiment by a Dutchscientist who engineered the avian flu virus to make it more ...
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WTVR
Makers of flame retardants manipulate research findings
Sacramento Bee
Later, in response to additional questions from the newspaper, the trade group highlighted a different study as evidence that flame retardants work well: research based largely on the obscure Swedish report. In reviewing key scientific studies and ...
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Juvenon's Newest Product Offers Solution To Age-Related Metabolism Issues
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Juvenon researchers culled the latest scientific findings to develop the best natural solution for the health consequences of an aging metabolism. Bothersome middle-aged spread was at the top of list, but the scientistswere equally intent on remedying ...
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Parkfield quake study offers new clues on a California fault's mystery
San Jose Mercury News
Someday, exercises like this could help scientists make predictions about the worst-case scenario for different spots along a fault line, said Nadia Lapusta, co-author of a study about the research published Thursday in the journal Science.
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Emory elected to National Academy of Sciences
WSLS
By: | AP ATLANTA (AP) An Emory University biologist has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Bruce Levin was elected for his excellence in original scientific research. Membership is one of the highest honors given to a scientist ...
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Chinese scientists advance teleportation technology
GlobalPost
The Chinese research team accounted for this and invented a steering mechanism which they used to guide the laser to keep the photons precisely on target. The research group believed this invention would be the most prolific finding from their research ...
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Satellite tracking used for first time to learn manta rays' secrets
msnbc.com
Now, in the first study using satellite tracking of the creatures,scientists have teased out a few secrets, including that the beasts travel a lot. The new study tracked six manta rays — four females, one male and a juvenile (undetermined sex) — for...
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msnbc.com
Federal research funds seem to flow past Memphis
Memphis Commercial Appeal
By Ted Evanoff Memphis has missed a wave of federal research cash, slowing efforts to spur the city's tech economy. In an era when science and technology prime the jobs engine, Memphis leaders are trying to fire up innovation.
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Visions of Science Network for Learning Earns NSERC Award for Science Promotion
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, ONTARIO, May 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Toronto-based Visions of Science Network for Learning has received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Award for Science Promotion. This award recognizes the ...
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Scientists spot unseen planet in Kepler scope data
GMA News
In a report published in the journal Science, David Nesvorny, with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and colleagues describe a third technique that takes a Kepler observation into a new and literally unseen domain.
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Waist To Height Ratio Better Than BMI
Medical News Today
Waist to height ratio is a better predictor of heart disease and diabetes risk than BMI, according to new research presented at a scientific meeting recently. Study leader Dr Margaret Ashwell, an independent consultant and former science director of ...
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Jeff and Judy Henley
Nanotechnology News (press release)
A new philanthropic gift from Jeff Henley, Chairman of the Board of Oracle and a UC Santa Barbara alumnus, and his wife, Judy, will advance scientific research and technology innovation. The Henleys have committed $50 million to UCSB for the The ...
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Nanotechnology News (press release)
Teens compete in international science research fair's Pittsburgh finals
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Two runners-up will each receive the Intel Foundation Young ScientistsAward of $50000. Three finalists will receive the Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award -- all-expenses-paid trips to the Stockholm International YouthScience Seminar that includes ...
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Grant funds Huntley teacher's research in Beartooths
Billings Gazette
The Murdock grants provide opportunities for high school teachers to collaborate on scientific research. The goal is to revitalize teachers while helping them guide students toward science careers and to foster long-term collaborations between high ...
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Scientist pleads guilty to stealing Logan company's formulas
StandardNet
Investigators say that relative was setting up a competing company to undercut Frontier Scientific on prices it charges for pharmaceutical chemicals. Frontier Chemical, which supplies chemicals for research and drug discovery, says no other company in ...
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Scientists plan $1b ghost town
Fox News
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology -- but no people. A $1 billion city without residents will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, ...
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Google's Brin makes strides in hunt for Parkinson's cure
The News Journal
Brin, who began donating to Parkinson's research in 2005, accelerated that giving after he learned in 2008 he has a flawed gene that presents him with a 50 percent chance of getting the disease by age 70. So far Brin has donated $132 million, ...
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Social network may be driving loneliness
The Australian
WHILE Facebook gives the impression new friends are just a click away,scientific research suggests that rather than helping its adherents to gather friends, Facebook may actually be making its 901 million users lonelier. Some believe that with an ...
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Jeff Flake's plan to politicize the National Science Foundation
Washington Post (blog)
to prohibit the National Science Foundation from funding political science research. And, in doing so, it politicized one of the main ways this country funds scientific research. Rep. Jeff Flake wants to tell the NationalScience Foundation what is and ...
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Google's Brin funds research
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The collaboration helps share the risk of drug discovery and gives Pfizer access to a network of LRRK2 experts, said Michael Ehlers, chief scientificofficer for Pfizer's neuroscience research, in a telephone interview.
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A share in the cosmos
Jindabyne Summit Sun
As the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's project scientist for the world's biggest telescope - the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - she knows the scientific value of the remote site, having helped prepare Australia's ...
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Girl named Grace a gift to family, science
Boston Globe
The laboratory studies families from all over the world and spends several afternoons a month reviewing medical histories and brain scans and meeting with families. Walsh's office is decorated withthe covers of scientific journals, each displaying a ...
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Boston Globe
MU students present research
The Sunday Dispatch
The presentations were the culmination of research and work on a variety of topics by students during the spring semester in the Colleges of Health Sciences, Arts and Sciences and Professional Studies and Social Sciences. The students presented their ...
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The Sunday Dispatch
Do You Believe in the Healing Power of Prayer?
Patch.com
Scientific research varies from "Yes," "No," to "Maybe" and "Inconclusive," but tell any of that to the parents of Aaron Garcia of Loganville, Ga. or Aimee Copeland of Snellville, Ga. Ever since biblical times, people have believed in the healing power ...
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Masdar Institute organizes two-day course on water science and technology for ...
AME Info
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, announced it hosted a two-day course on water science and technology for 25 members of its ...
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New Treatments Could Reduce Odors in Cotton Fabric
PoliticalNews.me (press release)
In studies at the Southern Regional Research Center operated there by USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a team of scientists is seeking to inhibit microbial growth in cotton using silver particles ranging from 2 to 6 nanometers in size.
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Paula Walcott-Quintin
The Cutting Edge
Sarkar, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and his research team have been able to take a new pharmacological approach to activate the immune cells to prevent cancer growth ...
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The Cutting Edge
Mission to asteroid answers, raises questions
WRAL.com (blog)
You can see a piece of Vesta in the Postcards from Space exhibit at the recently opened Nature Research Center at Raleigh's Museum of Natural Sciences. A sizable sample from the nearly 600 pounds observed falling in Western Australia in 1960 is on ...
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WRAL.com (blog)
Toxic roulette
Sacramento Bee
Without more study, though, there was no way to determine if it was dangerous. "We end up finding a chemical mixture that's produced in large volumes, yet there was next to nothing available in the public scientificliterature about whether or not it ...
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Jobs Statistics - RP # 7372 Associate Professor/Professor in ...
By GenoXan
Serve as the Senior Biostatistician for the R-CENTER Study Design, Biostatistics, and Data Management Core (SDBDMC) and is responsible for leadership in research infrastructure support for statistical analysis ofscientific data, study design ...
TheScienceJobs.com
PLoS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False ...
By David Tribe
The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in eachscientific field.
GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe
Science journal could give recipe for deadly avian flu virus | WTVR ...
By Nick Dutton
(CNN) – A science journal is poised to publish a study that some experts believe could give a recipe to bioterrorists. The study is from an experiment by a Dutch scientist who engineered the avian flu virus to make it more deadly to mammals by ...
WTVR.com – Richmond News &...
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...
Political Scientists' Research Isn't Just Political Science — The ...
Sean Richey emails: I just wanted to mention that political scientists also ...Political Scientists' Research Isn't Just Political Science .... Empirical Legal Studies ...
themonkeycage.org/.../political-scientists-research-isnt-just-pol...
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
Women researchers more likely to conduct scientific outreach | R&D ...
"Ultimately, it is the public that funds much of the scientific research taking place today," said Elaine Howard Ecklund, coauthor of the study and an associate ...
www.rdmag.com/.../Policy-And-Industry-Women-Researchers...
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...
Clinical Affairs Specialist at Sterling Life Sciences in Maine - Job ...
View and apply for the Clinical Affairs Specialist Job at Sterling Life Sciencesin ... 5) Initiate and monitor assigned clinical/research studies in compliance with all ...
www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2999103
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
Scientists identify protein that stimulates brown fat to burn calories ...
The research, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge Metabolic ...of the study from the Institute of Metabolic Science and a member of the MRC Centre ...
www.cam.ac.uk/.../scientists-identify-protein-that-stimulates-br...
When it comes to scientific research, it isn't just the “weird” studies ...
Is using science an answer to survey fatigue? Duncan Smith, managing director of scientific research consultancy Mindlab, discusses experimental ways to grab ...
prmoment.com/.../when-it-comes-to-scientific-research-it-isnt-j...
Science journal could give recipe for deadly avian flu virus - CNN.com
A debate rages among scientists about the value vs. the risk of a study on the ... Part of that debate is over where this research could lead, and whether it is worth ...
www.cnn.com/2012/05/12/us/journal-avian-flu/index.html
Essential Science: A Scientists Mission To Bring Essential Oils ...
There is a disconnect between the exciting scientific research currently happening and ... We want to apply science to a field of study that, for too long, had been ...
doterralife.wordpress.com/.../essential-science-a-scientists-missi...
Plant Study Flags Dangers of Warming World: Scientific American
Science in Action Award; Bring Science Home; 1000 Scientists in 1000 Days ... faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change,research in the ...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=plant-study...
Why (Some) Scientists Avoid the Public | Science Public Outreach ...
Female scientists and researchers with kids are the most likely to reach out and communicate their science to the public, a new study finds. The results are ...
www.livescience.com/20201-scientists-avoid-public-outreach....
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