SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jun 24, 2012

What was he thinking? Study turns to ape intellect Businessweek By Seth Borenstein on June 24, 2012 ... Researcher Joel Fagot at the French National Center for Scientific Research figured they could memorize at least 10000 ... See all stories on this topic »

First paternity study of southern right whales finds local fathers most ... Eureka! Science News Updated by artificial intelligence Sat, 23 Jun 2012, 23:01:56 EDT Learn more... found a surprisingly high level of local breeding success for males,scientists say, ... Science Center in Newport, Ore., initiated the geneticstudy of right whales in ... See all stories on this topic »

“Stand your ground” laws lead to more homicides Boston Globe And more surprising insights from the social sciences. ...Evidence from Castle Doctrine,” National Bureau of EconomicResearch (June 2012). Stop her ... See all stories on this topic » Boston Globe

Years of reasearch lost: Fingers pointed but fault unclear after ... The Herald Journal ... a decade of scientific research is feared lost after a laboratory-grade freezer ... Posted: Sunday, June 24, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 1:46 am, SunJun 24, 2012. ... study by scientists in the Animal, Dairy and VeterinarySciences department in ... See all stories on this topic »

Sea rise faster on East Coast than rest of globe Boston.com AP Science Writer / June 24, 2012 ... U.S. Geological Survey scientists call the 600-mile swath a "hot spot" for climbing sea levels caused by global warming. See all stories on this topic »

QU holds annual research forum Peninsula On-line QU holds annual research forum Sunday, 24 June 2012 02:16 ... Al Shaqab Independent Primary School receiving an award for her study on 'Improving ...“This is an important scientific event that gives teachers the opportunity to highlight their ... See all stories on this topic »

Animal reservoir mystery solved Eureka! Science News Updated by artificial intelligence Sat, 23 Jun 2012, 15:01:18 EDT Learn more ... led by Robert E. Thach, PhD, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, report that a more sensitive ... Lisa S. Goessling, now a research lab supervisor in the School of ... See all stories on this topic » Eureka! Science News

Experts say science lacking on 9/11 and cancer By The Associated ... Laramie Boomerang ... lacking on 9/11 and cancer By The Associated Press • Sunday, June 24,2012 ... But scientists say there is little research to prove that exposure to the toxic ... to 9/11 responders, survivors and their loved ones," Howard said in a June 8 ... See all stories on this topic »

Controversial H5N1 bird flu papers published, fuels fears of airborne ... Ars Technica by Brandon Keim, wired.co.uk - Jun 24, 2012 3:15 pm UTC ...Many scientific questions are raised by the findings, and the same safety concerns remain that provoked massive public outcry and a temporary halt to the research. ... In a studyaccompanying ... See all stories on this topic » Ars Technica

Rice receives grant to study science and religion in the United States Ultimate Bellaire Sunday, June 24, 2012 ... by | June 24, 2012 12:54 pm ... She is also the director of the Social Sciences Research Institute's Religion and Public Life Program ... See all stories on this topic »

Open Letter to University of Texas Regarding Professor Mark ... The New Civil Rights Movement ... has engaged in unethical so-called scientific research in a study about children of gay parents funded by Robert George. ... by Scott Rose on June24, 2012 ... See all stories on this topic »

Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters New York Times Published: June 23, 2012. DESPERATE “Action Alerts” land in my in-box. They're from the American Political ScienceAssociation and colleagues, many of ... to the study of international relations claiming both foresight and competence should ... My ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Bird flu study published after terrorism debate San Francisco Chronicle Scientists said the results could help them spot dangerous virus strains in nature. [. ... June 21, 2012 ending a saga that pitted concerns about terrorism against fears of a ... The two teams that conducted the controversial research eventually ... On ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle

Mars' interior contains as much water as Earth: Study Business Standard Press Trust of India / Washington June 24, 2012, 13:36 ... "This newresearch makes sense and suggests that volcanoes may have been the primary ... For their study, the scientists examined two Martian meteorites that formed in the planet's ... See all stories on this topic »

Indian science: Why you should care CNN (blog) June 23rd, 2012 ... Our problems are overwhelming and need scientificsolutions.” ... She focused not just on India's scientific discoveries andresearch but also ... See all stories on this topic »

HMC Honored as Best Recruitment Center for a Worldwide ... Zawya (registration) (press release) Doha, 24 June 2012: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) was honored with the Award of Excellence in a recent internationalscientific meet for achieving the ... of Qatar's Perinatal Neonatal Outcomes Research Study (PEARL Study), which is ... See all stories on this topic » Zawya (registration) (press release)

Calif. sea level may be half-foot higher by 2030 azcentral by Jeff Barnard - Jun. 24, 2012 12:11 AM ... The study by the NationalResearch Council gives planners their best look yet at how melting ice ... also is the director of the Institute for Marine Sciences at the University of California-Santa Cruz. See all stories on this topic »

DVS Sciences and Cytobank announce partnership to analyze and ... Business Wire (press release) DVS Sciences, Inc., a privately held innovator and manufacturer of novel CyTOF® multi-parameter single-cell ... June 24, 2012 12:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time ... See all stories on this topic »

NERI Continues to Be in Forefront in Pediatric Clinical Research ... MarketWatch (press release) WATERTOWN, Mass., Jun 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Seventy percent... for its scientific credibility, efficiency and expertise in conducting clinicaltrials in ... See all stories on this topic »

Arizona forests' future hinges on delicate balance Arizona Republic 23, 2012 10:44 PM ... On a recent June afternoon, 5600 pine seedlings waited for shipment to a site in the ... The huge fires brought together competing interests that will allow that work, long overdue in the view of scientists, to begin. ... SRP ... See all stories on this topic »

Mid-South Memories: June 24, 2012 Memphis Commercial Appeal ... Memphis market and provide 100000 square feet of research space forscientists at University of Tennessee, Memphis, ... Posted June 24, 2012 at midnight ... See all stories on this topic »

Gene mutations cause massive brain asymmetry EurekAlert (press release) In a paper published in the June 24, 2012, online issue of Nature Genetics, a team ... Gleeson's lab studied a group of 20 patients with hemimegalencephaly upon whom ... department of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, ... Funding ... See all stories on this topic »

Bird flu paper released after terror fears allayed San Francisco Chronicle The second of two bird flu studies once considered too risky to publish was ... Scientists have long worried that if the virus picked up mutations that let it spread easily ... The two teams that conducted the controversial research submitted revised ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle

Faster, cheaper gas and liquid separation using custom designed ... EurekAlert (press release) Using a new process they describe as "reverse fossilization," scientists at Kyoto University's WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences have succeeded in creating custom designed porous ... Public release date: 24-Jun-2012 ... strong fields ... See all stories on this topic »

Foundational Concept of Ecology Tested: Purple Loosestrife Altered ... Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (June 23, 2012) — An elementary school science activity asks... adjunct professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis .... at the Tyson Research Center, WUSTL's field station for ecosystem studies. See all stories on this topic »

Biomed sciences ideal for those interested in research Times of India Biomed sciences ideal for those interested in research. The writer has posted comments on this article TNN | Jun 24, 2012, 03.40AM IST. Article · Comments ... See all stories on this topic »

Survival-of-the-Catchiest: How Music “Evolves” TIME By Patience Haggin | June 24, 2012 | + ... to kill or be killed: The researchers had more than 6000 study participants listen to the diverse ... The research team, led by U.K. computational biologists, hopes to expand the ... A paper explaining their ... See all stories on this topic » TIME

Calendar and FYI for June 24, 2012 Daily Herald Recently published in the academic journal Leisure Sciences, a study by Lydia Buswell and BYU professors Ramon ... 2012-06-24T00:03:26Z Calendar and FYI for June 24, 2012 Daily Herald ... Danish research: 9 a.m.-noon July 14. See all stories on this topic »

MU participates in land grant milestone Columbia Daily Tribune The goal is to more closely align research and studies from departments across campus. ... This article was published on page D4 of the Sunday, June 24, 2012 edition of .... associate dean of the College of Human Environmental Sciences. See all stories on this topic » Columbia Daily Tribune

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness 22 June 2012 (Recent Space ... NASA Spaceline Current Awareness 22 June 2012 (Recent Space LifeScience Research Results). Source: Spaceline; Posted Saturday, June 23, 2012. image. Next list: July 6, 2012. Papers deriving from NASA support: 1. Zhang S, Cheng J, Qin YX. .... We applaud the continued efforts of NASA and the authors to study the causes of this outer space ocular syndrome, and encourage the authors to consider the relationship between IOP and CSF pressure in future studies." The authors ... SpaceRef ISS Top Stories

Science in Chile: Falling short or aiming high? By Chileno Contrary to the impression given by Astudillo et al., CONICYT has indeed made research plans, which have been published in the media and discussed in forums with university authorities and scientists (5). ... share of CONICYT's budget is devoted to the scholarship program Becas Chile, an effort amounting to about US$200 million in 2012, allowing 3240 Ph.D. students to complete studies in Chile or abroad in 150 universities and programs ....Science 22 June 2012: 1505-1506. 'The' blog about Chile

Open Letter to University of Texas Regarding Professor Mark ... By Scott Rose In an open letter to the president of University of Texas Scott Rose methodically lays out the case that Professor Mark Regnerus has engaged in unethical so-called scientific research in a study about children of gay parents funded by Robert ... best long-term interest of science; 2) Regnerus converted from evangelical Protestantism to Catholicism; his Church is very aggressively involved worldwide in fighting against gay rights, including in the United States, where in June – July 2012, ... The New Civil Rights Movement

Seven days: 8–14 June 2012 : Nature News & Comment On 6 June, parliamentarians also asked the research minister about INRiM's use of ... be fit for study after a freezer malfunction at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource ... Three days earlier, a report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific ... www.nature.com/news/seven-days-8-14-june-2012-1.10819

Study shows how easily pandemic H5N1 bird flu could evolve ... guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 June 2012 19.11 BST ... Results from a controversial research project in which scientists created a pandemic strain of the ... In an accompanying study in Science, Derek Smith, professor of infectious disease ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../results-published-pandemic-h5n1-bird...

Psychologist wins Vision Sciences Society award | Research News ... Research at Vanderbilt ... by David Salisbury | Posted on Thursday, Jun. 21, 2012 — 2:27 PM ... studies, represent true excellence in vision sciences research.” ... news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/06/vision-sciences-society-award/

Short Sharp Science: Today on New Scientist: 19 June 2012 Look for Science Jobs ... Today on New Scientist: 19 June 2012 ...scientists are debating how they can safely get their research up and running ... genetic epidemiologist Tim Spector reveals what twin studies tell us about nature versus nurture ... www.newscientist.com/.../today-on-new-scientist-19-june.html

Hulk smash? Maybe not anymore: Scientists ... - e! Science News Updated by artificial intelligence Wed, 20 Jun 2012, 16:32:11 EDT Learn more... In a study appearing June 19 in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchersfrom ... esciencenews.com/.../hulk.smash.maybe.not.anymore.scientists...

NTU researchers study little mighty creature for scientific breakthrough NTU researchers study little mighty creature for scientific breakthrough. Published on : 13-Jun-2012. A scientist from Nanyang Technological University ( NTU) ... news.ntu.edu.sg/pages/newsdetail.aspx?URL...

2012 » June IFAS News: Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ... Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences – University of Florida ... UF/IFASstudy shows how diet affects lab-raised mosquitoes in medical studies.June 14, 2012 ... hungry mosquitoes, but for some medical researchers it's a different story. news.ifas.ufl.edu/2012/06/

Climate change will reduce renewable energy capacity, warn ... News and analysis of science in the developing world ... conference that is taking place on 11-15 June 2012, and looking at science and policy before Rio+20 ... m.scidev.net/.../climate-change-will-reduce-renewable-energy-...

NTU researchers study little mighty creature for scientific breakthrough NTU researchers study little mighty creature for scientific breakthrough. 13 June 2012 Nanyang Technological University. A scientist from Nanyang ... www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=120981...en

Vacancy No. 2012/068 - Research Scientist (P-3) Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications ... Issue Date: 19 June 2012 ... and natural radionuclides and radiotracers to study element transfer through food ... The Research Scientist is a conceptual thinker, conceptualizing the scientific ... https://recruitment.iaea.org/vacancies/p/2012/2012_068.html

18 Social Scientists Respond to Attempt to Discredit Regnerus Study ... June 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm ... As social scientists, our hope is that more suchstudies will be forthcoming shortly, and that future journalistic coverage of such ... www.nomblog.com/24657/

June | 2012 | adayinthelifesciences.com Monthly Archives: June 2012 ... If I write for the public, I promise to not just write in Scientific American, Discover ... I may study developmental biology in worms. ... The ultimate goal of neuroscience research is to decipher the mysteries of ... adayinthelifesciences.com/2012/06/

SCIENTIFIC NEWS - WSEAS: Science Blog (in this message: 14 ... Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:26 AM PDT ... in the field of Petroleum Science Research , we cordially ... wseas-science.blogspot.com/.../science-blog-in-this-message-1...

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