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May 18, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, May 18, 2011 (2)


Astropark for Kazan

The Voice of Russia
The foundation-stone laying ceremony will take place in August this year, as part of an international conference on astronomy, planned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin's flight into space and the 100th birthday of Mstislav Keldish, ...
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The Voice of Russia
 George Mitchell commits $25 million to Giant Magellan Telescope
EurekAlert (press release)
Those partners include Astronomy Australia Ltd., the Australian National University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, theSmithsonian Institution, Texas A&M University, ...
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A big leap from Vizag to NASA
Times of India
That's when I started getting curious about space and astronomy. I signed up for a paid mail ID on Nasa's official website so I can be in the loop for any opportunities. I've always wanted to be different from everyone else. It's not enough if I am one ...
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Out-of-this-world Ideas On Offer
RedOrbit
Of the patents that ESA has so far licensed for non-space applications to industry, one of the most successful has been a patent for a terahertz imaging system originated for deep space astronomynow used in systems for security checks. ...
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Chippewa Hills teacher selected to study with NASA
The Morning Sun
He was recently selected, along with five other educators from across the country to participate inNASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy program. “SOFIA is a telescope that is inside a 747. More than 10 years ago the mission was ...
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Endeavour final flight
ITV.com
Endeavour is heading to the International Space Station to to deliver a multi billion dollar astronomyand physics experiment. It is the penultimate flight for the entire 30-year-old space shuttle fleet. Endeavour's isn't the final shuttle mission. ...
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What Really Sank Donald Trump's Presidential Bid?
E! Online (blog)
Then I shall weigh in with whatever astronomy, or deep-space-physics knowledge is required. Many believe that Trump's presidential utterings were just a bunch of hot air from the get go, a bid for ratings or publicity or whatever feeds Trump's ...
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Homegrown: Karin Sandstrom keeps her eyes to the skies
Longview Daily News
Karin Sandstrom, who earned a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley, displays a small telescope her grandfather, Ed Sandstrom, built for her when she began studying astrophysics at Harvard University. ...
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"Unknown Stories from Space" lecture and booksigning
MyCentralJersey.com
Mr. Zimmerman has written four inspiring histories about the first forty years of space exploration and over one hundred magazine and newspaper articles about the adventure of science and astronomy. He posts numerous commentaries and updates on his ...
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Titan reveals its secrets
The Voice of Russia
This suggestion is quite substantiated, says a leading fellow at the Institute ofAstronomy, Valery Shematovich. “This may be inline with reality because Titan is a large moon. We are aware from the previous missions to Jupiter, which has four large...
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The Voice of Russia
Bread loaf-sized nanosatellite to hunt down extra terrestrial life
Newstrack India
... in astronomy: to find 'Exoplanets' beyond our solar system, which could support life like Earth. Seamus Tuohy, director of space systems at Draper Laboratory, which has developed the ExoPlanetSat with the MIT, said the mission was ground breaking. ...
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Finding an Ocean of Fire on Jupiter's Moon Io
TIME
(Watch "Galileo and the Year of Astronomy.") It was in 1979 that astronomers first learned how hot and geologically active Io is, when the Voyager I spacecraft returned images of a massive volcanic plume rising 160 miles (257 km) into space. ...
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Award-winning teacher prefers real-world application
Knoxville News Sentinel
Wood explained how the kinetic energy they created could actually propel a space shuttle. "I linked it into astronomy in order to give it a little more pizzazz," Wood said. "So then they would be interested in doing the computations. ...
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Valley third-graders exhibit art at Wildling
Santa Ynez Valley News
The exhibit, “Dark Skies-Bright Art,” was a culminating activity for science units on astronomy. Parents, grandparents, friends, teachers, principals and distinguished guests, county Superintendent of Schools Bill Cirone and Supervisor Doreen Farr ...
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Charles Harker School students in Woolwich Township get a closer look at the ...
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
"We're just getting them excited for astronomy." The kids climbed through a tunnel to reach the inside of the traveling planetarium a large fan-operated bubble with a night sky projection. They learned what constellations they can find in this area at ...
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Willard Boyle
Telegraph.co.uk
CCD technology gradually entered the arena of commercial photography, but Boyle remained most proud of the CCD sensor's applications in astronomy. The device is used to capture images from the Hubble Space Telescope and Mars rovers. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Host a "From Earth to the Solar System" Exhibit
Space Ref (press release)
Image contributions include those from backyard astronomers, large telescopes in space, and even point-and-shoot cameras of field researchers. Updates about the project are also available via Twitterand Facebook. Look for the links on the website. ...
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Marietta Graduates Latest Class from Citizens Police Academy
Patch.com
... program for astronomy enthusiasts called "What's New in the Universe? Starry, Starry Night." Retired educator and writer Chris Miller will lead the program and discuss the types of home telescopes and display photos from the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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Master the cosmos with Universe Sandbox
ComputerActive.co.uk
Unlike a lot of free to use astronomy software, Universe Sandbox really lets you play around with the physics and find out how things work. There is an endless amount of detail to get to grips with and so much stuff to play around with. ...
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Alexander Gemignani, Will Swenson Set for MOVIE KING Reading, 5/19
Broadway World
His multi-media adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 had its world premiere at The Empty SpaceTheater and was directed by Allison Narver. His short play Controlling Interest, has been produced all over the world, and was a finalist in the National ...
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Paleo-Pioneer Camp at Gray Fossil Site now registering for summer
TriCities.com
“This year is exciting because we are offering many new activities about dinosaurs, astronomy, and ecology in addition to our other fossil-themed activities,” says education coordinator Sarah Mullersman. “We are also working with Bays Mountain to offer ...
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Nintendo Store Update: Chrono Trigger fires on Virtual Console
GameSpot
The game sports multiple categories, including astronomy, currency, and rivers. Further, each puzzle is scrambled upon completion, meaning that no puzzle will be repeated. The last new game out now is Hellokids - Vol. 1: Coloring and Painting (200 DSi ...
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Ballard High students' experiment on board Endeavour
KING5.com
Inside one Ballard High School classroom is where astronomy and biotech students came up with and worked on their idea. That's also where they found out about the big honor being one of 16 schools chosen to have an experiment launched into space Monday ...
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US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets - World ...
Posted 4 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Astronomy News. NASA puts Earth's nearest neighbor, 'the Moon', within reach. Posted 4 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Space ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, May 18, 2011

Art can be a tool in planetary exploration
USA Today
Artistic depictions of alien worlds have blossomed into their own genre of space art in the last decade, even as planet hunting has emerged as one of astronomy's hottest pursuits. A 2010 National Academies of Science report named planet detection one ...
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USA Today
Explore changes in night sky at free astronomy program
Mableton.11alive.com
Cobb County, GA -- (submitted by Cobb County Communications) Astronomy enthusiasts of all ages will have an opportunity to discuss current discoveries in deep space at the program "What's New in the Universe? Starry, Starry Night. ...
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Kepler data scoured for extraterrestrial signals
San Francisco Chronicle
... than the Hubble Space Telescope gathered during its first 20 years of observations. Werthimer's principal colleague in the new search is Andrew Siemion, an astronomy graduate student who is also involved in another SETI project called SERENDIP, ...
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'Science for development: the case for astronomy', Brussels, Belgium
Cordis News
The conference programme also will include plenary sessions on how astronomy partnerships can make a significant contribution to the implementation of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy's Science,Space and Information Partnership, including details of ...
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The problems with large telescopes
Keremeos Review
Most objects we observe in astronomy are faint, and as we dig further and further out in space, back in time towards the beginning of the universe, objects become incredibly faint. Because there is inevitably a sensitivity threshold for any detector or ...
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An unforgettable event at NASA's Goddard
Weekly Blitz
This Center manages many of NASA's Earth Observation, Astronomy, and SpacePhysics missions. The GSFC Facility also maintains the adjacent Magnetic Test Facility and Propulsion Research site and many other outlying sites including the Antenna ...
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Weekly Blitz
'Rocket Boys' legacy lives on at NASA
MassLive.com
It also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions and is responsible for operating NASA's DeepSpace Network, an international array of antennas and communications facilities that supportinterplanetary space missions.
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Galileo's Conversion
Forbes (blog)
In the latest issue of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, Harvard professor Owen Gingerich, a world famous historian of Copernicus and author of The Book That Nobody Read, and Albert Van Helden, professor of the history of science at the ...
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Cannes '11 Day 7: Planet Terror
Boston Globe (blog)
At some point, Dunst gazes skyward and notices an space oddity. It's later it's explained, by Sutherland's astronomy buff, that a runaway planet intends to pass just by Earth. It's called Melancholia, and in one of the more eerily divine images von ...
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Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriation Act restricts ...
Daily Bruin
Matt Siegler, a graduate student in planetary astronomy, looks for ice on the moon and regularly works with dirt from Mars as part of his research at the UCLA Department of Earth and SpaceSciences. He and Paige conduct research for the Diviner Lunar ...
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New SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Now that NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified 1235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most Earth-like of these worlds to see ...
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Space Daily
CSIRO sourcing hardware for Pawsey SKA supercomputing environment
Computerworld Australia
The second stage of the project was announced in March, with the agency stating that the Pawsey centre would act as a real-time processing facility for data, storage and analysis of data products from the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory (MRO) and ...
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Producer's Notes: Finding Light
QUEST (blog)
In fact, he's gotten so good at it, he was honored as one of the winners of the InternationalAstronomy Photographer of the Year, 2010 awards in the “People and Space” category. Here's his winning photo, taken at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, California. ...
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N.J. Woman's Spectacular Shuttle Launch Photos From ... - News
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Carnival of Space #116 @ Habitation Intention | Astronomy - Top ...
Astronomy - The Carnival is back with a new issue and a new host. Habitation Intention is all about envisioning humans living in space.
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Astronomy & Spaceflight News - Space Shuttle Endeavour to Launch ...
NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour's launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16. After a meeting on Friday, they also extended the length ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 18, 2011 (2)

Daejon chosen as home to big science project
JoongAng Daily
KoRIA, a 470 billion won particle accelerator, is regarded as crucial for developing the nation's basic science research. Experts say the accelerator can be used in a wide range of studies, such as astrophysics, biology and medical science, ...
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JoongAng Daily
Online graduate course combines fieldwork and technology for science teachers
PRLog.Org (press release)
The course, Environmental Science Education: Summer Ecological Field Studies (EDCI 580), begins May 31 and ends July 8. It is offered entirely online and is designed for educators of children aged 6 - 12. Teachers who complete the course will earn ...
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Students Protest 'Unfair' Allocations of Principals
Voice of San Diego
"If they deserve one principal, so do we," said Shanique Davis, a junior at the School of Science andTechnology on the same campus. "It's not fair. We knew we'd be merging soon. But the IS parents were trying to say they didn't need to merge like ...
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Yeung Center for Collaborative China Studies announces first grants
The JHU Gazette
“The Johns Hopkins–Nanjing Center for Synthetic Genomics”: Jef Boeke, School of Medicine, and Yilu Chen, Nanjing University of Technology. • “Education and Research Partnership in Environmental Engineering, Science and Management”: Edward Bouwer, ...
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Music and Creativity
WebWire (press release)
And those musical experiences that feed the mind may also spark greater proficiency in science andtechnology. "Creativity lies at the heart of the modern economy" he says. The research in this episode was funded by NSF through the American Recovery ...
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Dot Earth: Lester Lave – An Appreciation
New York Times (blog)
Lester's early study laid the methodological foundation for these later studies. As an economist, he had made a major advance at the junction of epidemiology, atmospheric chemistry and public policy. David Keith: Academic energy and environmental ...
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Stanford Bioethics Expert to Speak May 21 at NC Biotechnology Center
NCTechNews (press release)
His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedicaltechnology, the biological basis of moral awareness and studies in the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. He is the author of numerous ...
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End-of-the-Year Report from the Dean
William and Mary News
Joyce has served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, where she directs the Science, Technology, and Society Program and the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Program. At William and Mary, she helped organize the Mercury ...
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William and Mary News
2011 Washburn University Graduates
Topeka Capital Journal
Laura Manganiello, bachelor of science in nursing, nursing, Topeka, Kan. • Ashley Manis, bachelor of arts, psychology, Topeka, Kan. • Richard Martin, bachelor of arts, religious studies, Topeka, Kan. • Lana Matney, bachelor of business administration, ...
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Researchers examine procedure utilization trends in patients with clinically ...
EurekAlert (press release)
WASHINGTON, DC (May 15, 2011)末New techniques in science and technology allow the medical community to continually improve patient care and experience, but as these new procedures are introduced, physicians must closely consider the relative risks and ...
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National Academies Alarmed About Climate Control: More Hot Gas
24/7 Wall St. (blog)
... which includes The National Academy of Science and the National Research Council among its members, has released its America's Climate Choices study which is the final volume of a series. “The goal of the America's Climate Choices studies is to ...
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ADVA FSP 3000 ENABLES UNPRECEDENTED SERVICES FOR ITALIANRESEARCH AND ...
Reuters (press release)
More than 40000 users are encompassed across LightNet's project partners, including the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Tartini; the AREA Science & Technology Park; the Consortium GARR (Italian NREN); the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ...
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Babraham Research Campus visited by local MP and MEP to see impact of investment
Cambridge Network
This recent further investment will help to maximise the impact of public investment in bioscienceresearch and strengthen the campus as a cluster for science and innovation in the UK.” Derek Jones, Chief Executive of Babraham Bioscience Technologies, ...
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Waters Welcomes Duke University Proteomics Core Facility into Centers of ...
R & D Magazine
Waters Centers of Innovation Program recognizes and supports the efforts of scientists facilitating breakthroughs in health and life science research, food safety, environmental protection, sports medicine and many other areas. ...
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Driving errors increase with age among older drivers
EurekAlert (press release)
The study was co-authored by Joanne Wood, PhD, a professor of optometry at Queensland University of Technology. Despite the study results, Anstey doesn't believe that driver's licenses should be restricted based on age. "In other research, we have ...
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Endicott Offers New Internet Studies Major
RedOrbit
Endicott College is proud to announce that beginning in the Fall of 2011, the School of Communication will offer a major in Internet Studies, one of the first available in the country. Students earning a Bachelor of Science in Internet Studies will ...
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GoodGuide rates products on ingredients' safety
San Francisco Chronicle
O'Rourke, a UC Berkeley environmental science professor who studies global supply chains, then began to research the rest of his daughter's belongings and found that her shampoo, favorite toys and furniture all included questionable ingredients. ...
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Lay-language summaries of latest research at Acoustical Society meeting now online
EurekAlert (press release)
Reporters attending the meeting or covering the sessions remotely now have access to a wide array of easily approachable summaries covering all aspects of the science of sound. There are no embargoes on these presentations. The following are excerpts ...
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Babies enlisted in brain research
Boston Globe
In other studies, researchers are imaging the brains of babies born prematurely, who are more prone to learning disabilities and other cognitive problems, and the brains of children with Tourette syndrome. In those disorders, as with dyslexia, ...
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Boston Globe
2011 ESF Graduates Plan a Green Future
SUNY-ESF Headlines
He earned a bachelor of science degree in conservation biology Sunday and will return to ESF in the fall to begin graduate studies. McCoy's fellow Centennial year classmates chose him to serve as their speaker at ESF's annual convocation Saturday, ...
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Scientists looking to burst the superconductivity bubble
EurekAlert (press release)
Bubbles are blocking the current path of one of the most promising high temperature superconducting materials, new research suggests. In a study published today, Monday, 16 may, in IOP Publishing's journal Superconductor Science and Technology, ...
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ISRO to expand research facilities in critical areas
domain-B
The new capabilities will include a hypersonic wind tunnel which will conduct studies in re-entrytechnologies and a plasma wind tunnel, which will study behaviour of materials at high speed. This facility would be set up at the Vikram Sarabhai Space ...
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WaferGen Reports First Quarter 2011 Financial Results
PR Newswire (press release)
Such statements include statements relating to the expected benefits and advantages of the SmartChip service for gene-expression research, the expected benefits and advantages of the SmartChip technology to other applications, the expected throughput ...
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Studes told to enroll in suggested courses
Sun.Star
... Pharmacy Radiology Technology and Medical Technology; and Information Technology (10%) which includes Information Technology and Computing Studies, Multi Media, Animation, Programming, Computer Science and Information System Management however, ...
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Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
ProPublica
But the letter to the White House science adviser, signed by five professors at University of California, San Francisco, and one at Arizona State University, points out several flaws in the tests. Studies published in scientific journals in the last ...
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ProPublica
Delano High senior earns prestigious $100000 scholarship
Bakersfield Californian
A Delano High School, Harvard-bound senior -- who came to the United States in the fifth grade not knowing English -- was one of only four students in the United States chosen Monday to receive a $100000 college scholarship to seek science studies. ...
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Good Chemistry
Emporia Gazette
Today's technology is laborious and expensive, he says, which prevents scientists from setting up critical long-term studies. “Is low-dose exposure a problem?” he asked in our interview. “We can't answer that right now. Generally, I would say no; ...
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Lebanon's girls set to Take back the Tech this summer
Daily Star - Lebanon
Jabbour, who will begin her studies in political science at St. Joseph University in the fall, sees a parallel in the technology sector. “In 'Take Back the Night' marches I took a stand in order to take back the streets, but the technology field is ...
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Daily Star - Lebanon
Common Anti-Inflammatory Coaxes Liver Cancer Cells to Commit Suicide
Newswise (press release)
This research was published in the April 15 issue of the journal Biochemical and BiophysicalResearch Communications. Co-authors of the liver cancer and rhabdomyosarcoma studies include Yan Liu, Aiguo Liu and Suzanne Reed of the Center for Childhood ...
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When is it worth remanufacturing?
PhysOrg.com
The study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is the latest from Gutowski and his students that, as he puts it, “takes what appears to be a simple, straightforward problem and shows that the world is a far more complicated ...
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PhysOrg.com
Reductions in the brain's deep gray matter volumes help explain fetal alcohol ...
EurekAlert (press release)
... Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Alberta Science and Research Authority, AHFMR, and the University Hospital Foundation. This release is supported by the Addiction Technology Transfer ...
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Ag School Seniors: Uncle Sam Sends a Booby Prize for Graduation
PR Newswire (press release)
In that ruling the tax breaks for big business and the foreign employees related to a group of occupations in the so-called STEM fields, of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The portion of the F-1 student visa program used in this ...
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Community News
Emporia Gazette
Madison: Jamie Bernice Raaf, Bachleor of Science in Agriculture. Allen: Kiley Dayl Stinson, Bachleor of Science in Agriculture. Emporia: Anna Christine Binder, Bachleor of Science in Dietetics; Kelsi Marie Coble, Bachleor of Science in Family Studies ...
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ORNL energy harvesters transform waste into electricity
EurekAlert (press release)
Other developers of this technology, which is funded by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, are Nickolay Lavrik, Thirumalesh Bannuru, Salwa Mostafa, Slo Rajic and Panos Datskos. UT-Battelle manages ORNL for DOE's Office of Science ...
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Heads or tails?
EurekAlert (press release)
The study is published in the May 13 issue of the journal Science. Petersen, a former postdoctoral fellow in Reddien's lab, is the first author. Reddien, associate professor of biology at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, ...
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Radiofrequency Ablation of Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
Archives of Otolaryngology
FULL TEXT | WEB OF SCIENCE | PUBMED 12. Therasse P, Arbuck SG, Eisenhauer EA; et al. New guidelines to evaluate the response to treatment in solid tumors: European Organization forResearch and Treatment of Cancer, National Cancer Institute of the ...
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Sporadic mutations identified in children with autism spectrum disorders
EurekAlert (press release)
O'Roak's fellowship at the UW, as well as part of the research itself, was supported by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding from the US government. O'Roak said, "I came to the UW with the specific plan to use the latest genomic technology to ...
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Cardium Presents First Quarter 2011 Financial Results and Reports on Near-Term ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Research and development costs for the three months ended March 31, 2011 totaled $492000 and general and administrative expenses were $1.3 million, compared to $520000 and $961000, respectively, for the same period last year. ...
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UW-Waukesha Seeking Approval for New Bachelor's Degree Program
Patch.com
It also offers a bachelors of science in information in science and technology. The classes are taught completely at UW-Waukesha. A bachelor of liberal studies is also offered through a collaborative program with UW-Oshkosh. ...
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NJ, Boston firms seek insulin-injection options
Boston Globe
MoMelan, of Cambridge, added KLP Enterprises and Life Science Angels to its list of investors, which includes LaunchCapital and Mass Medical Angels. The company will use the Series A money to further develop its device and conduct clinical studies, ...
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Hispanic Business Council Scholarship Foundation of NJ, Inc. Announces ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
$4000. A senior at High-Tech High School in North Bergen, Ms. Santos will attend Seton Hall University. She plans to pursue studies in political science and a pre-law track in the fall of 2011. Paola Severino, Union City. $4000. ...
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How can a colorblind animal change its colors to blend into the background?
EurekAlert (press release)
Our work presented in this paper takes the field a step closer to quantifying camouflage effectiveness," says J. Kenneth Wickiser, Asst. Prof. in the Department of Chemistry and LifeScience at the US Military Academy in West Point. ...
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School Board posts job openings, reconfigures department heads
Seacoastonline.com
Under the new model, the high school and middle school will separate and the areas of math, socialstudies, English and science at each of the buildings and a K-12 technology department head would be created. Only the international languages department ...
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UCSD offers roadmap for coping with climate change
San Diego Union Tribune
Technology policy has become a poor cousin of serious efforts to slow global warming. Nearly everyone agrees that massive innovation is needed. Oddly, very few studies actually examine the question that matters most for policy; how to design a big push ...
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Breaking science news and updates from around the world. ... SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- U.S.researchers say studies into the safety of Taser stun gun devices ...
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