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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 27, 2012

Protesters and scientists clash over GM wheat research
Telegraph.co.uk
Protesters gather near a scientific research centre in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where a genetically modified wheat crop is being grown.Scientists at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire are trialling a strain of wheat which has been modified to ...
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Scientists insist GM wheat is safe as protesters vow to tear up crop
Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have reacted with scorn as protesters gather near a scientific research centre where a genetically modified wheat crop is being grown. Security around the site in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, has been increased in preparation for the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower
Eureka! Science News
Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower. Determining the proper time to flower, important if a plant is to reproduce successfully, involves a sequence of molecular ...
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Eureka! Science News
Anti-GM protesters kept from tearing up wheat crop by police
The Guardian
Professor Douglas Kell, the chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the government body funding the trial, said: "Now that the protest at Rothamsted has ended peacefully I hope that the BBSRC-funded ...
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The Guardian
Protest held over GM wheat study
The Press Association
Hundreds of protesters have gathered near a scientific researchcentre where a genetically modified wheat crop is being grown. Security around the site in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, has been increased in preparation for the demonstration.
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Pediatric Research | Medical conferences showcase discoveries
Columbus Dispatch
The format includes hundreds of lectures by national and international experts and brief oral presentations byscientists and clinicians showcasing their latest work. Simultaneously, nearly a thousand poster boards depicting the latest research results ...
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Columbus Dispatch
Scientists develop ultra-sensitive test that detects diseases in their ...
Phys.Org
Scientists have developed an ultra-sensitive test that should enable them to detect signs of a disease in its earliest stages, in researchpublished today in the journal Nature Materials. The scientists, from Imperial College London and the University ...
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Scientists Find Existence Of Reduced Carbon On Mars: Life On The Red Planet ...
IBTimes India
The findings of the research, funded by Nasa, are published in Thursday's online edition of Science Express. The study on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon can originate on the Red ...
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As our languages make clear, context is a human specialty
Los Angeles Times
In any language, each kinship system balances simplicity with specificity, according to a study in Friday's edition of the journalScience. And that principle could potentially be applied to the way we talk about other domains, such as color or ...
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New MS program preps health professionals to take research from bench to bedside
State Journal
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute's (WVCTSI) new Master of Science program aims to develop the next generation of clinical and translational scientists through educational and mentored research training.
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Cool place for learning
TriValley Central
Columbia University managed it from 1996 to 2003 and reconfigured the structure for a very different type of scientific research, including astudy on the effects of carbon dioxide on plants. The center has over 2.3 million visitors a year, ...
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Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history
San Antonio Express
Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that "even the skeptics can accept it." "If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, ...
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Science breaks political barriers
The Keene Sentinel
Under the Obama administration, cooperation between scientificorganizations has increased, scientists say. Visas are being granted more regularly to Cuban scientists and it's easier for Americans to get the US government licenses needed to do research ...
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Device may let humans communicate with dolphins
Fox News
Yuka Mishima, the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology Acoustic research of dolphins to date has mostly focused on recording their sounds and measuring their hearing abilities. Relatively few audio playback experiments have been attempted, ...
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Scientists work to turn bad fat into good
Columbus Dispatch
But the OSU research team said it changed the fat makeup of mice in the absence of cold. The animals were housed at a temperature of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit. “It's a dramatic finding,” said Matthew J. During, who is thestudy leader and a ...
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Columbus Dispatch
Anti-psychotic drug kills cancer stem cells without side-effects: Study
Zee News
Vancouver: A team of Canadian scientists have discovered that thioridazine, a drug used to treat psychotic disorder, could successfully kill cancer stem cells in humans without the toxic side-effects on normal cells. Theresearch, published Thursday in ...
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Zee News
Interest in research wanes among UW-Madison Ph.Ds
Wisconsin State Journal
“It's a research degree.” A UW-Madison researcher is doing a five-yearstudy to find out whether training for doctoral students aligns with the types of jobs they get after graduate school. It's a $1.7 million project funded by the National Science ...
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New study dispels myth blaming climate change doubt on ignorance
Click Green
And the Yale research published today reveals that if Americans knew more basic science and were more proficient in technical reasoning it would still result in a gap between public and scientific consensus. Indeed, as members of the public become more ...
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'Unzipped' carbon nanotubes could help energize fuel cells and batteries ...
EurekAlert (press release)
"Platinum is very expensive and thus impractical for large-scale commercialization," said Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford and co-author of the study. "Developing a low-cost alternative has been a major research goal for several ...
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Cohen not walking away from UI
Iowa City Press Citizen
Today: Jordan Cohen, vice president for research and economic development. • Tuesday: Linda Maxson, dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. • Thursday: Curt Hunter, dean, Tippie College of Business. • Hobbies: Playing Bridge, traveling, ...
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Magma crystals can help predict volcano eruptions
Bend Bulletin
USGS scientist Dan Dzurisin collects information from a Global Positioning System station high on the east flank of Mount. St. Helens in 2004. Seismometers can detect imminent eruptions, but new researchsuggests the chemical signatures of magma ...
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Computer model pinpoints prime materials for efficient carbon capture
Science Codex
Smit and his colleagues at UC Berkeley, LBNL, Rice University and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, Calif., who will publish their results online May 27 in advance of publication in the journal Nature Materials, ...
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Science Codex
Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study
My Fox 8
In a project announced this week, Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology scientists appealed to museums, scientists and Yeti aficionados to share hair samples thought to be from the mythical ape-like creature. New genetic tests will be done ...
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My Fox 8
Drug could attack 'the root' of cancer cells: study
South Asia Mail
Mick Bhatia, lead author of the new study and scientific director of the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., likened it to cutting dandelions. “Unless you eliminate the root, it's just going to come back,” ...
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Is being top banana worth the stress?
Minneapolis Star Tribune
In a study reported last year in Science, a team that included ecologist Jeanne Altmann of Princeton University revealed that baboon alpha males had the highest levels of glucocorticoid hormones, such as cortisol, as well as testosterone in their feces ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Powerful new approach to attack flu virus
MSU News
MSU scientist Tim Whitehead and a team of international researchers have manufactured a new protein to combat deadly flu epidemics. Photo by Kurt Stepnitz. Click on an image to view a larger or high-resolution version. EAST LANSING, Mich.
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MSU News
Scientists Trace Mutation for Disease That Stunts Infants' Growth to Same Gene ...
Newswise (press release)
All of the family members agreed to send their DNA samples to UCLA for study. Vilain realized that he had stumbled across the scientificequivalent of winning the lottery. He assembled a team of UCLA researchers to partner with Bergada and London ...
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NASA helps company solve technical problems
Coshocton Tribune
AP CLEVELAND -- Scientists and engineers from NASA GlennResearch Center are helping to solve technical problems for northeast Ohio companies in manufacturing, energy research, vinyl record-making and other fields. The space agency is providing help ...
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'Prehistoric Safari': Museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall
The Times and Democrat
Paleontologists and scientists at the museum and the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in Hill City, SD, have worked tirelessly for three years to collect, clean and preserve artifacts designed to give visitors a look at how life evolved ...
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Fisheries scientists snapper happy on the job
Great Lakes Advocate
It is a crucial part of a new research project being undertaken by Fisheries Victoria to increase knowledge about the snapper that use the bay to spawn. The $210000 study - funded mostly by the proceeds of recreational fishing licence fees - will ...
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Scientists Find Deep-Voiced Males Have Lower Sperm Counts ...
By jonathanturley
The probability that a research claim is true may depend on studypower 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 each scientific field.
JONATHAN TURLEY
Kessler Foundation scientists present cognitive research findings at...
Kessler Foundation scientists present recent cognitive research studies in MS at 4th Cooperative Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers and ...
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012.../kf-kfs052112.php
Scientific research in a forest - Boing Boing
Scientific research in a forest ... Then it became forest again, studiedfirst by Harvard University's forestry program in the early 20th century, and then by ...
boingboing.net/2012/05/21/scientific-research-in-a-fores.html
Social Media and Cell Phones Aid Scientific Research - Psych Central
Accordingly, psychological researchers are investigating how new media and ... In a new study, psychological scientists Robert E. Wilson, Samuel T. Gosling ...
psychcentral.com/news/2012/05/21/social.../38977.html
Boulder Biofrontiers Scientist Joins $8.3M Research Study of ...
Gates-funded research study into children's malnutrition gets help from ... The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation exists to fund scientificprojects with the kind of ...
info.biotech-calendar.com/.../Boulder-Biofrontiers-Scientist-Jo...
Nature Neuroscience Study Shows Unique Scientific Support for ...
Nature Neuroscience Study Shows Unique Scientific Support for Potential New ... Compared to the controls, this research studyshowed fewer and smaller ...
www.specialneeds.com/.../nature-neuroscience-study-shows-u...
CV - Caltech: Geological and Planetary Sciences
Space Studies Board Intern, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2003. Student Science Consultant, Interdisciplinary Enviro. Law Clinic ...
www.gps.caltech.edu/people/behlmann/cv
Nature Neuroscience Study Shows Unique Scientific Support for ...
Nature Neuroscience Study Shows Unique Scientific Support for Potential New ... Compared to the controls, this research studyshowed fewer and smaller ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../nature-neuroscience-study-shows-uniqu...
How Reliable Are the Social Sciences? - NYTimes.com
The physical sciences produce detailed and precise predictions, but social ... from preliminary studies, designed to suggest further directions of research, ...
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/.../how-reliable-are-the-social-s...
'Rare' genetic variants are surprisingly common, life scientists report...
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Virginia G. Piper Cancer … more ... A team of life scientists studied 202 genes in 14002 people.
www.checkorphan.org/.../rare-genetic-variants-are-surprisingl...
Clinical Research Assistant, Pharmacology at Sterling Life Sciences...
Sterling Life Sciences - California- North Region (San Francisco Bay Area) ... collected during the conduct of clinical studies are of good analyzable quality and ...
www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=3092550
David Cribbs, Ph.D. Appointed to VA Scientific Merit Review Board ...
As a board member, Dr. Cribbs will provide advice on the scientificquality, budget, ... preclinical biomedical and behavioral research as well as clinical studies.
www.alz.uci.edu/david-cribbs-ph-d-appointed-to-va-scientific-...
Environmental Science Education Enhanced with Drexel-Academy ...
Drexel-Academy Partnership Ushers in the Future of EnvironmentalScience Education. Students perform field research in a coastal habitat in Barnegat Bay, N.J. ... University's unique academic affiliation with the Academy of Natural Sciences.
www.drexel.edu/.../Environmental-Science-Education-Enhanc...
Women Scientists Working to Formulate True Health | USANA ...
by USANA Health Sciences on May 18, 2012 ... She also manages all aspects of USANA's human clinical research studies (both in-house and contract research ...
blog.usana.com/.../women-scientists-working-to-formulate-tru...
Essential human sciences in 2 lessons (with extension if required)
How do Human Scientists investigate the world?3 main approaches toresearch; 1) Positivist – Scientific method (can be studied in the same way as the Natural ...
www.slideshare.net/.../essential-human-sciences-in-2-lessons-w...
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