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American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 13, 2008
18 Feb 2008
Chocolate with "fat bloom " (left) sits next to normal chocolate. Researchers have found a way to prevent this powdery white coating. Click here for more information. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fighting...
18 Feb 2008
Chocolate with "fat bloom " (left) sits next to normal chocolate. Researchers have found a way to prevent this powdery white coating. Click here for more information. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fighting...
First wind turbines on Galapagos Islands will halve diesel imports, reduce risk of future oil spills
18 Feb 2008
Power utilities from US, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia team on project to help protect 'Mona Lisa' of biodiversity Galapagos Petrel Click here for more information. In January 2001, the world held its...
18 Feb 2008
Power utilities from US, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia team on project to help protect 'Mona Lisa' of biodiversity Galapagos Petrel Click here for more information. In January 2001, the world held its...
Researchers aim to prevent global prematurity and stillbirths
18 Feb 2008
Seattle Children's receives $1 million Gates Foundation grant for research and international summit SEATTLE: Feb. 18, 2008 – Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from...
18 Feb 2008
Seattle Children's receives $1 million Gates Foundation grant for research and international summit SEATTLE: Feb. 18, 2008 – Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from...
Human culture subject to natural selection, Stanford study shows
18 Feb 2008
The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists at Stanford University have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different...
18 Feb 2008
The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists at Stanford University have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different...
Credit-card-sized platform for volatile compound analysis CAREER project goal
18 Feb 2008
Masoud Agah, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an affiliate member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty at Virginia Tech, has received... Click here for...
18 Feb 2008
Masoud Agah, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an affiliate member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty at Virginia Tech, has received... Click here for...
To save or savor? It's decision time for Atlantic bluefin tuna
18 Feb 2008
Giant bluefin tuna are in trouble, primarily because the powerful muscles that propel their extensive ocean migrations come with an Achilles' heel: They're tasty. Prized by sushi lovers for their savory succulence and by fishermen for the...
18 Feb 2008
Giant bluefin tuna are in trouble, primarily because the powerful muscles that propel their extensive ocean migrations come with an Achilles' heel: They're tasty. Prized by sushi lovers for their savory succulence and by fishermen for the...
Into the abyss: Deep-sixing carbon
18 Feb 2008
This release is available in French. Imagine a gigantic, inflatable, sausage-like bag capable of storing 160 million tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of 2.2 days of current global emissions. Now try to picture that container, measuring up...
18 Feb 2008
This release is available in French. Imagine a gigantic, inflatable, sausage-like bag capable of storing 160 million tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of 2.2 days of current global emissions. Now try to picture that container, measuring up...
Unveiling the underwater ways of the white shark
18 Feb 2008
It's hard to study a creature when you only catch fleeting glimpses of it. Up until recently, that was one of the big stumbling blocks for marine biologists and ecologists, but advances in electronic tracking technology have allowed them to...
18 Feb 2008
It's hard to study a creature when you only catch fleeting glimpses of it. Up until recently, that was one of the big stumbling blocks for marine biologists and ecologists, but advances in electronic tracking technology have allowed them to...
LSU researchers challenge analyses on sustainability of Gulf fisheries
18 Feb 2008
Article demonstrates problems inherent in taking data out of context BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s coastal fisheries produce approximately 25 percent of the total catch by weight in the lower 48 states (www.americaswetland.com). With...
18 Feb 2008
Article demonstrates problems inherent in taking data out of context BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s coastal fisheries produce approximately 25 percent of the total catch by weight in the lower 48 states (www.americaswetland.com). With...
Conference to highlight latest in permafrost research
18 Feb 2008
More than 800 international researchers are expected to attend the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, scheduled for June 29-July 3, 2008 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The conference, convened by the International Permafrost...
18 Feb 2008
More than 800 international researchers are expected to attend the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, scheduled for June 29-July 3, 2008 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The conference, convened by the International Permafrost...
Study: Before a CT scan or angiogram, many people should take inexpensive drug to protect kidneys
18 Feb 2008
Iodine contrast agents that enhance the scans can harm vulnerable kidneys, but N-acetylcysteine taken beforehand can protect at-risk patients ANN ARBOR, Mich. — As more and more Americans undergo CT scans and other medical imaging scans...
18 Feb 2008
Iodine contrast agents that enhance the scans can harm vulnerable kidneys, but N-acetylcysteine taken beforehand can protect at-risk patients ANN ARBOR, Mich. — As more and more Americans undergo CT scans and other medical imaging scans...
Scientists using laser light to detect potential diseases via breath samples, says new study
18 Feb 2008
University of Colorado at Boulder physics doctoral student Michael Thorpe holds a detection chamber next to a novel laser apparatus at JILA. Thorpe and JILA's Jun Ye led a... Click here for more information. By...
18 Feb 2008
University of Colorado at Boulder physics doctoral student Michael Thorpe holds a detection chamber next to a novel laser apparatus at JILA. Thorpe and JILA's Jun Ye led a... Click here for more information. By...
Laser light may be able to detect diseases on the breath
18 Feb 2008
New technique could help doctors screen for asthma and cancer WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder,...
18 Feb 2008
New technique could help doctors screen for asthma and cancer WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder,...
New method for measuring biodiversity
18 Feb 2008
How individual species help structure the biodiversity of tropical rainforests This release is available in German. Shorea trapezifolia in bloom. S. trapezifolia is one of the most dominant canopy species preferring well drained...
18 Feb 2008
How individual species help structure the biodiversity of tropical rainforests This release is available in German. Shorea trapezifolia in bloom. S. trapezifolia is one of the most dominant canopy species preferring well drained...
Learning from cod collapse to save tuna
18 Feb 2008
Scientists advocate solutions and urgent action BOSTON, Mass. – Continued mismanagement could force some tuna populations to quickly go the way of cod, a highly threatened fishery that once helped shape economies of whole nations, leading...
18 Feb 2008
Scientists advocate solutions and urgent action BOSTON, Mass. – Continued mismanagement could force some tuna populations to quickly go the way of cod, a highly threatened fishery that once helped shape economies of whole nations, leading...
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