SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 17, 2011

'Doomsday comet' makes closest approach to Earth The Nation, Pakistan “But the truth is there are few maybes; there is a lot of accuracy with understandingspace science, more than there is an understanding of what's at the bottom of the oceans. If there was any issue of concern, NASA or any professional astronomerwould ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA fellowship named for UU astronomer uuworld.org She joined NASA in 1959, a few months after its formation, to set up a program ofastronomy from space. As part of her job she traveled around the country trying to learn what astronomers wanted from NASA. She knew they wanted spaceobservations from ... See all stories on this topic » uuworld.org

Take cover: Another satellite is plunging to Earth USA Today Bits of rocket engines, spare parts and other sizable space junk fall weekly from the sky, according to NASA space debris expert Nicholas Johnson of Johnson SpaceCenter in Houston. Satellite plunges of the size of UARS, six tons, happen about once a ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Astronomy festival offers rare glimpse at the sun at UNH Foster's Daily Democrat Throughout the event there were also talks by amateur astronomers, professional scientists and keynote speaker Lee Morin, a NASA astronaut and UNH alumnus. The idea for the event was thought up with John Gianforte and Tom Coccchiaro while attending an ... See all stories on this topic »

Dark Matter Bends Light Inside Galaxy Cluster iWeather Online By Paul Vaughan - Mon Oct 17, 3:27 am This image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (or MACS 1206 for short) is part of a broad survey with NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope. The distorted shapes in the cluster are distant galaxies from which the light is ... See all stories on this topic » iWeather Online

'Doomsday' Comet Elenin Makes Closest Approach To Earth iWeather Online Astronomer Don Yeomans of the Near-Earth Object Programme Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California said there have been incorrect speculations on the Internet that alignments of comet Elenin with other celestial bodies could ... See all stories on this topic » iWeather Online

BU Astronomers Take a Giant Step Forward BU Today Jackson says the new agreement will improve the chances that BU research projects will be funded by agencies such as NASA. It will also help draw top faculty, a concern for the department as a good number of its professors near retirement age, ... See all stories on this topic » BU Today

Von Braun Astronomical Society rededicates Monte Sano observatory founded in 1954 al.com (blog) In the early 1960s, NASA used the observatory's telescope - at the time the second-largest in the Southeast - to scout possible lunar landing sites. "Von Braun wanted to educate people" about space, Reisz said. "What we're doing is continuing his ... See all stories on this topic » al.com (blog)

Is M85 Missing a Black Hole? Universe Today Yet a recent study by astronomers from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor seems to have found an exception: The well known M85. To determine the mass of the CMBH, the team used the spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope to examine the pull ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Space News Now: A Tour of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for ... Space News Now ... I enjoyed a tour of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy(SOFOA), which was on display at Moffett Field near San ... www.spacenewsnow.com/.../tour-of-nasas-stratospheric-observ...

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Study's the name of the game Sydney Morning Herald At two middle schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn, his research team has introduced Scholar's Quest: Science City Heroes, a paper-based strategy game that encouragesscience students to collect cards, which can be used to buy virtual buildings, ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

First genome-wide association study for dengue identifies candidate ... EurekAlert (press release) The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Agency for Science, Technology, andResearch, Singapore, offers clues to how the body responds to dengue infection. Dengue is globally the most common mosquito-borne infection after malaria, ... See all stories on this topic »

New technology assures secure video distribution Daily News & Analysis By Rajesh Rao | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA A city-based professor and director of technical studiesat Amplify Mindware Academy for Development of Education & Research (AMADER), Anil Gupte has created a software platform that can be used for ... See all stories on this topic »

Academy of Sanskrit Research, Melkote India Education Diary Science and Technology in ancient India in English, Sribhashyam of Bhagavata Ramanuja in Sanskrit along with Simple Kannada editions of Upanishads, etc. The Scientific Research Division of this academy is involved in the study of Sanskrit assisted ... See all stories on this topic » India Education Diary

Georgia Institute of Technology Gets FDA Grant for Research ThirdAge Georgia Institute of Technology was joined by three other major research institutions last week, in receiving a $1.8 million grant from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the advancement of children's medical devices, News Medical reported ... See all stories on this topic » ThirdAge

The Trudeau research award winners Globe and Mail Four Canadian scholars in fields ranging from conflict resolution to women's studies will be announced as the winners of coveted Trudeau Fellowships on Monday – researchawards worth $225000 with few restrictions on how the money is spent. ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

LES-AC organizes intellectual property role in economic development seminar in ... AME Info He also announced that under the patronage of HH Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, the second annual conference, "The Licensing Opportunities Forum 2011", will be held in cooperation with the Arab Science and Technology Foundation in Sharjah ... See all stories on this topic »

Gulf Organization for R&D launches 'International Journal of Sustainable Built ... MarketWatch (press release) "In the framework of our partnership with CIBSE, a professional body that supports the science, art and practice of building services engineering, we seek to conduct joint research studies for theMiddle East, develop relevant training courses and ... See all stories on this topic »

Lifestyle varsity for Shillong Times of India SHILLONG: The Interim Campus of University of Technology and Management (UTM) established at Bijni Complex, Laitumkhrah, Shillong, will be formally inaugurated by governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary on October 18 in the presence of Ampareen Lyngdoh, ... See all stories on this topic »

'Chemistry has helped fight diseases' Times of India "The greatest advantage of this technology is that it is highly economic and eco-friendly, too," he said. Presenting his paper, Vijay A Singh of Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, said that chemistry should be taught from early school ... See all stories on this topic »

Regaining Your Faculties Campus Technology Recent research suggests that LMS adoption in higher education may not be going as smoothly or as consistently as many would hope. A study of LMS usage at Cabrini College (PA), a small residential liberal arts college, illustrates the difficulties ... See all stories on this topic »

Gab to highlight ICT for environment Visayan Daily Star Information and communication technology for the environment is the unique focus of the upcoming national workshop on scientific computing hosted by the College of Computer Studies, Silliman University, on October 20 to 22, a press release from SU in ... See all stories on this topic »

China's maligned Huawei gaining global reach The Seattle Times China's Huawei Technologies has evolved into the world's second-largest provider of telecom and Internet technology, but some critics suspect it of ties with the Chinese military and of getting behind-the-scenes assistance from the government. ... See all stories on this topic »

Suburban schools' dilemma: Mandates vs. quality Chicago Daily Herald Aurora teen Anwol Bawja “obsessively” studies medical school entrance criteria and fears reduced funding for his high school's science, technology, engineering and research program could land him and others on their dream colleges' cut lists. ... See all stories on this topic »

For knee and hip surgeries, robots show promise for a better fit Los Angeles Times The results were published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Scientificstudies on the efficacy of the hip tool are just beginning, Dorr says. While RIO is designed to assist the surgeon, the Robodoc works on its own. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

SFA opens new STEM Research and Learning Center KTRE SFA says the STEM Center's mission is to research, teach, learn, and outreach. The center's opening is a part of the nation's call for reform and needing to recruit and retain more science,technology, engineering, and mathematics majors. See all stories on this topic »

Robots built to help autistic children Los Angeles Times "Rigorous studies have to be conducted," says Zachary Warren, an assistant professor of pediatrics and director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. "That's how technology proves ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News New York Times Instead our legal immigration program should be more narrowly focused on admitting immigrants who are most likely to make contributions to solving our challenges: immigrants holding advanced degrees in science, technology and engineering, ... See all stories on this topic »

Drugs may let us live to 150 The Age And they've inferred this from studies on 'yeast, worms, fruit flies and fat mice'? Yes, unbelievable... Journalists should do proper research when regurgitating the press releases of pharmaceutical companies. It makes a good headline, I'll give you ... See all stories on this topic »

Grandma's new friend is wired Los Angeles Times "Robot companions are not companions," says MIT's Sherry Turkle, who studies the ways people interact with technology. "They are not competent to be companions." Opinions on both sides converge on one point: Rapidly advancing robot technologypresents ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Poker has become a game of the young Chicago Daily Herald By The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Eric Froehlich, the son of a chemical engineer, was smart enough to win admission to suburban Thomas Jefferson High School for Science andTechnology and then the University of Virginia. Long identified with saloons ... See all stories on this topic »

Maria Bartiromo talks health care at Cleveland Clinic USA Today If you do more studies, you make more money. The physicians are largely well-intentioned, but the incentives are driving over-utilization. You're twice as likely to get a CAT scan in the US as you are in most Western European countries. ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Turkey will provide an extensive incentive scheme for tech companies investing ... Balkans.com Business News Hurriyet - Attempting to improve its IT industry's research and development capabilities, Turkey will provide an extensive incentive scheme for tech companies investing in soon-to-be-established 'Silicon Valley'. Turkey's Minister of Industry, Science ... See all stories on this topic »

College Notes Daily Herald Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering awards first Abell Innovation Professorship -- Paul Skaggs, industrial design program chair for the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU, has received the college's first Abell Innovation ... See all stories on this topic »

World population to reach seven billion soon Globe and Mail “New research contradicts earlier studies that found an economic downturn means less money for potentially unhealthy behaviours such as excessive drinking; instead, it suggests people drown their financial sorrows in a down economy,” reports Psych ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

SOUTH AFRICA: Young scientists' academy launched University World News The South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS), with 20 founding members, was inaugurated recently by the Department of Science and Technology and the Academy of Scienceof South Africa. Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor said there ... See all stories on this topic »

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