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ASA International Stroke Conference 2008
20 Feb 2008
Advance media registration You are invited to cover the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2008 to be held Feb. 20-22, 2008 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La. This is the largest...
20 Feb 2008
Advance media registration You are invited to cover the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2008 to be held Feb. 20-22, 2008 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La. This is the largest...
In the race to the top, zigzagging is more efficient than a straight line
20 Feb 2008
Trails used by humans exhibit zigzags, or switchbacks, when they traverse steep hillsides, such as this on in Mallorca, Spain. Click here for more information. A straight line may be the shortest distance between...
20 Feb 2008
Trails used by humans exhibit zigzags, or switchbacks, when they traverse steep hillsides, such as this on in Mallorca, Spain. Click here for more information. A straight line may be the shortest distance between...
Haagen-Dazs gift to support Penn State honeybee research
20 Feb 2008
As the pollination season approaches in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, scientists at Penn State and elsewhere continue to seek answers to the decline of the nation's honeybees and other pollinators, which are critical to the production of $15...
20 Feb 2008
As the pollination season approaches in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, scientists at Penn State and elsewhere continue to seek answers to the decline of the nation's honeybees and other pollinators, which are critical to the production of $15...
Creating 'global virtual supercomputer' topic of lecture at UH
20 Feb 2008
CERN's Bob Jones to discuss positive impact of 'grid computing' on science HOUSTON, Feb. 20, 2008 – Researchers in both academia and business have a growing need for very large computing power to solve problems that range from minimizing...
20 Feb 2008
CERN's Bob Jones to discuss positive impact of 'grid computing' on science HOUSTON, Feb. 20, 2008 – Researchers in both academia and business have a growing need for very large computing power to solve problems that range from minimizing...
Grant to study if early BPA exposure leads to late prostate cancer
20 Feb 2008
Does exposure of baby boys -- in utero or in infancy -- to bisphenol A, a man-made chemical which mimics natural estrogens, predispose them to prostate cancer later in life? A five-year, $2.6 million grant to a University of Illinois at...
20 Feb 2008
Does exposure of baby boys -- in utero or in infancy -- to bisphenol A, a man-made chemical which mimics natural estrogens, predispose them to prostate cancer later in life? A five-year, $2.6 million grant to a University of Illinois at...
'Brains R Us': Neuroscience and education town hall
20 Feb 2008
Public event will be webcast live and also later archived online On any given weekday, about a quarter of the U.S. population is occupied with the critical business of education – including 50 million students in K-12 public schools, six...
20 Feb 2008
Public event will be webcast live and also later archived online On any given weekday, about a quarter of the U.S. population is occupied with the critical business of education – including 50 million students in K-12 public schools, six...
Boston College chemist Torsten Fiebig honored by Sloan Foundation
20 Feb 2008
Boston College chemist Torsten Fiebig. Click here for more information. CHESTNUT HILL, MA (February 20, 2008) -- Boston College Chemist Torsten Fiebig has been awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
20 Feb 2008
Boston College chemist Torsten Fiebig. Click here for more information. CHESTNUT HILL, MA (February 20, 2008) -- Boston College Chemist Torsten Fiebig has been awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
NOVA documentary about Percy Julian wins AAAS Science Journalism Award
20 Feb 2008
African-American chemist was one of the 20th century's most influential scientists The young Percy Julian in a laboratory. Click here for more information. "Forgotten Genius," a two-hour documentary about the life of...
20 Feb 2008
African-American chemist was one of the 20th century's most influential scientists The young Percy Julian in a laboratory. Click here for more information. "Forgotten Genius," a two-hour documentary about the life of...
Greenland's rising air temperatures drive ice loss at surface and beyond
20 Feb 2008
A new NASA study confirms that the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air temperatures, and fueling loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout the mass beneath. Greenland's...
20 Feb 2008
A new NASA study confirms that the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air temperatures, and fueling loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout the mass beneath. Greenland's...
Scientists make first map of emerging-disease hotpsots
20 Feb 2008
Growing threat seen in human-wildlife conflict, drug resistance Zoonotic pathogens passed from wildlife to people, from lowest occurrence (green) to highest (red). Click here for more information. An international...
20 Feb 2008
Growing threat seen in human-wildlife conflict, drug resistance Zoonotic pathogens passed from wildlife to people, from lowest occurrence (green) to highest (red). Click here for more information. An international...
US cancer deaths down but far too few Americans screened for colon cancer
20 Feb 2008
Screening rates worst among racial minorities, the uninsured and medicare patients BETHESDA, MD, February 20, 2008— New data revealing decreasing trends in cancer deaths in the United States overall, and in colorectal cancer deaths in...
20 Feb 2008
Screening rates worst among racial minorities, the uninsured and medicare patients BETHESDA, MD, February 20, 2008— New data revealing decreasing trends in cancer deaths in the United States overall, and in colorectal cancer deaths in...
The downside of a good idea
20 Feb 2008
Robert Goldstone directs the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University and also the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory. Click here for more information. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Good ideas can have drawbacks. When...
20 Feb 2008
Robert Goldstone directs the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University and also the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory. Click here for more information. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Good ideas can have drawbacks. When...
Report says half a million cancer deaths have been averted since death rate drop
20 Feb 2008
ATLANTA – Feb. 20, 2008 – The American Cancer Society’s annual cancer statistics report finds that death rates from cancer in the United States have decreased by 18.4 percent among men and by 10.5 percent among women since...
20 Feb 2008
ATLANTA – Feb. 20, 2008 – The American Cancer Society’s annual cancer statistics report finds that death rates from cancer in the United States have decreased by 18.4 percent among men and by 10.5 percent among women since...
Scientists make first map of emerging-disease hotspots
20 Feb 2008
Growing threat seen in human-wildlife conflict, drug resistance Zoonotic pathogens passed from wildlife to people, from lowest occurrence (green) to highest (red). Click here for more information. An international...
20 Feb 2008
Growing threat seen in human-wildlife conflict, drug resistance Zoonotic pathogens passed from wildlife to people, from lowest occurrence (green) to highest (red). Click here for more information. An international...
Doctors should watch for depression in arthritis patients
20 Feb 2008
CHAPEL HILL — Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are twice as likely to experience depression but are unlikely to talk to a doctor about it, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rheumatoid...
20 Feb 2008
CHAPEL HILL — Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are twice as likely to experience depression but are unlikely to talk to a doctor about it, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rheumatoid...
Study shows effects of vitamin D and skin's physiology
20 Feb 2008
Effects of vitamin D and skin's physiology Boston, MA— Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that previtamin D3 production varies depending on several factors including skin type and weather conditions....
20 Feb 2008
Effects of vitamin D and skin's physiology Boston, MA— Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that previtamin D3 production varies depending on several factors including skin type and weather conditions....
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