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UCSB receives collection of aerial photography valued at $14.3 million
7 Aug 2008
World Trade Center, 2001 Click here for more information. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – More than 500,000 aerial images – a pictorial odyssey spanning 65 major metropolitan areas in the United States at the...
7 Aug 2008
World Trade Center, 2001 Click here for more information. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – More than 500,000 aerial images – a pictorial odyssey spanning 65 major metropolitan areas in the United States at the...
ESA to feature wide range of UW-Madison presentations
5 Aug 2008
The Ecological Society of America will hold its 93rd annual meeting on Aug. 3-8, 2008, in Milwaukee, Wis. The society was founded in 1915 to promote the practice and awareness of ecological science. This year's meeting will highlight the...
5 Aug 2008
The Ecological Society of America will hold its 93rd annual meeting on Aug. 3-8, 2008, in Milwaukee, Wis. The society was founded in 1915 to promote the practice and awareness of ecological science. This year's meeting will highlight the...
American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 30, 2008
4 Aug 2008
Researchers are reporting a new imaging technique that has uncovered a Van Gogh beneath another Van Gogh. Click here for more information. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New imaging technique reveals hidden...
4 Aug 2008
Researchers are reporting a new imaging technique that has uncovered a Van Gogh beneath another Van Gogh. Click here for more information. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New imaging technique reveals hidden...
Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds
8 Aug 2008
A brown tree snake on Guam. Click here for more information. In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where...
8 Aug 2008
A brown tree snake on Guam. Click here for more information. In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where...
Chemical Society Presidential Symposia in Philadelphia focus on energy crisis, health, education
4 Aug 2008
An in-depth look at the deepening worldwide energy crisis, chemistry's role in better health and the need for stronger science education are all issues highlighted in special Presidential Symposia scheduled for the American Chemical Society's...
4 Aug 2008
An in-depth look at the deepening worldwide energy crisis, chemistry's role in better health and the need for stronger science education are all issues highlighted in special Presidential Symposia scheduled for the American Chemical Society's...
Geisinger piloting innovative laboratory specimen processing instrument
8 Aug 2008
Instrument improves efficiency, easing pressure on busy staff DANVILLE, PA. – Geisinger Medical Center's microbiology lab is the first in the U.S. to use a new automatic instrument that improves the quality and efficiency of specimen...
8 Aug 2008
Instrument improves efficiency, easing pressure on busy staff DANVILLE, PA. – Geisinger Medical Center's microbiology lab is the first in the U.S. to use a new automatic instrument that improves the quality and efficiency of specimen...
Memory, depression, insomnia -- and worms?
4 Aug 2008
Researchers have spent decades probing the causes of depression, schizophrenia and insomnia in humans. But a new study in this week's PLoS Biology may have uncovered key insights into the origins of these and other conditions by examining a...
4 Aug 2008
Researchers have spent decades probing the causes of depression, schizophrenia and insomnia in humans. But a new study in this week's PLoS Biology may have uncovered key insights into the origins of these and other conditions by examining a...
Estrogen relieves psychotic symptoms in women with schizophrenia
4 Aug 2008
When combined with antipsychotic medications, the estrogen estradiol appears to be a useful treatment in women with schizophrenia, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives...
4 Aug 2008
When combined with antipsychotic medications, the estrogen estradiol appears to be a useful treatment in women with schizophrenia, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives...
Black girls who use marijuana engage in riskier sex, have higher STD rate
5 Aug 2008
Black girls who use marijuana are more likely to engage in risky sexual acts and contract a sexually transmitted disease, a new study finds. The study, by Emory University public health researchers, is being presented at the International...
5 Aug 2008
Black girls who use marijuana are more likely to engage in risky sexual acts and contract a sexually transmitted disease, a new study finds. The study, by Emory University public health researchers, is being presented at the International...
Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent
5 Aug 2008
Insects, ferns flourished, then flickered out millions of years ago as the tundra retreated Examples of fossils found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Click here for more information. National Science Foundation-funded...
5 Aug 2008
Insects, ferns flourished, then flickered out millions of years ago as the tundra retreated Examples of fossils found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Click here for more information. National Science Foundation-funded...
Mathew L. Thakur receives 2008 Benedict Cassen Prize for research in nuclear medicine
7 Aug 2008
Thomas Jefferson University educator receives biennial honor for major advance in basic or clinical nuclear medicine science Reston, Va.—Mathew L. Thakur, a molecular imaging pioneer who has helped change the shape of modern medicine, was...
7 Aug 2008
Thomas Jefferson University educator receives biennial honor for major advance in basic or clinical nuclear medicine science Reston, Va.—Mathew L. Thakur, a molecular imaging pioneer who has helped change the shape of modern medicine, was...
1st World Congress On Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes
4 Aug 2008
Diabetes surgery and new interventional treatments offer new hope to patients with type 2 diabetes NEW YORK (August 4, 2008) -- The 1st World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes will bring together leading experts in...
4 Aug 2008
Diabetes surgery and new interventional treatments offer new hope to patients with type 2 diabetes NEW YORK (August 4, 2008) -- The 1st World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes will bring together leading experts in...
'Edible optics' could make food safer
7 Aug 2008
Tufts researchers design bio-friendly optical platform for sensing applications in medicine, health, environment, communications MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Imagine an edible optical sensor that could be placed in produce bags to detect...
7 Aug 2008
Tufts researchers design bio-friendly optical platform for sensing applications in medicine, health, environment, communications MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Imagine an edible optical sensor that could be placed in produce bags to detect...
Life Sciences Discovery Fund awards health research project grants
5 Aug 2008
Seattle – (August 5, 2008) – Six Washington State-based life sciences organizations and their partners will receive health research project grants totaling $5 million, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund announced today. The...
5 Aug 2008
Seattle – (August 5, 2008) – Six Washington State-based life sciences organizations and their partners will receive health research project grants totaling $5 million, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund announced today. The...
Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics recover from dependence, small study suggests
4 Aug 2008
Further studies of nonaddictive drug gabapentin for insomnia during alcohol recovery are warranted, researchers say ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It's a Catch-22 of the highest order. People with alcohol problems often use alcohol to get to sleep --...
4 Aug 2008
Further studies of nonaddictive drug gabapentin for insomnia during alcohol recovery are warranted, researchers say ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It's a Catch-22 of the highest order. People with alcohol problems often use alcohol to get to sleep --...
Addressing 'Global Challenges' at ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia
4 Aug 2008
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions -- a series of podcasts from the American Chemical Society. Click here for more information. PHILADELPHIA -- The American Chemical Society (ACS) is committed to enlisting the...
4 Aug 2008
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions -- a series of podcasts from the American Chemical Society. Click here for more information. PHILADELPHIA -- The American Chemical Society (ACS) is committed to enlisting the...
Iowa Corn Promotion Board, NJIT to license breakthrough, safe bio-plastic alternative
6 Aug 2008
The Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB), NJIT and University of Sao Paulo today announced a joint agreement for licensing four pending patents on a safe, building block chemical derived from corn known as isosorbide to chemists. The agreement...
6 Aug 2008
The Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB), NJIT and University of Sao Paulo today announced a joint agreement for licensing four pending patents on a safe, building block chemical derived from corn known as isosorbide to chemists. The agreement...
Exploring paths to confronting the 21st century's energy challenges
6 Aug 2008
ASU gathering future power engineering innovators to spark collaborative research TEMPE, Ariz. – Ideas for facing the critical challenges of producing and delivering energy to a growing world will be given a spotlight at Arizona State...
6 Aug 2008
ASU gathering future power engineering innovators to spark collaborative research TEMPE, Ariz. – Ideas for facing the critical challenges of producing and delivering energy to a growing world will be given a spotlight at Arizona State...
Midge-hunting scientists tackle spread of devastating bluetongue virus
7 Aug 2008
Scientists at the BBSRC-funded Institute for Animal Health (IAH) are stepping up the battle against the devastating and economically damaging bluetongue virus. By combining ingenious ways to trap and monitor midges with cutting edge computer...
7 Aug 2008
Scientists at the BBSRC-funded Institute for Animal Health (IAH) are stepping up the battle against the devastating and economically damaging bluetongue virus. By combining ingenious ways to trap and monitor midges with cutting edge computer...
UCSB oceanographer awarded prestigious naval oceanographic sciences chair
6 Aug 2008
Tommy Dickey Click here for more information. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – UC Santa Barbara oceanographer Tommy Dickey is one of two leading scientists nationwide to be awarded a prestigious Secretary of the Navy...
6 Aug 2008
Tommy Dickey Click here for more information. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – UC Santa Barbara oceanographer Tommy Dickey is one of two leading scientists nationwide to be awarded a prestigious Secretary of the Navy...
Study shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the Milky Way
6 Aug 2008
Findings suggest GLAST mission could detect evidence of dark matter particles SANTA CRUZ, CA--Using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense...
6 Aug 2008
Findings suggest GLAST mission could detect evidence of dark matter particles SANTA CRUZ, CA--Using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense...
A first in integrated nanowire sensor circuitry
4 Aug 2008
Artist's impression of an integrated light sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays (Javey Group). Click here for more information. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
4 Aug 2008
Artist's impression of an integrated light sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays (Javey Group). Click here for more information. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
Complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequenced from 38,000-year-old bone
7 Aug 2008
A study reported in the August 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals the complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neandertal. The findings open a window into the Neandertals' past and helps answer lingering...
7 Aug 2008
A study reported in the August 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals the complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neandertal. The findings open a window into the Neandertals' past and helps answer lingering...
Stevens assists enXco with construction of solar photovoltaic system
5 Aug 2008
Stevens signs power purchase agreement for project in Hoboken HOBOKEN, N.J. — On July 29, 2008, enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles company, announced that a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) was made with Stevens Institute of Technology to...
5 Aug 2008
Stevens signs power purchase agreement for project in Hoboken HOBOKEN, N.J. — On July 29, 2008, enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles company, announced that a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) was made with Stevens Institute of Technology to...
UTSA Minority Basic Research Support Rise program awarded $519,000
7 Aug 2008
Funding will assist underrepresented minorities to pursue degrees in science Margarita Hernandez, a biology major in the University of Texas at San Antonio Minority Basic Research Support Research Initiative for Scientific...
7 Aug 2008
Funding will assist underrepresented minorities to pursue degrees in science Margarita Hernandez, a biology major in the University of Texas at San Antonio Minority Basic Research Support Research Initiative for Scientific...
LSUHSC's Lazartigues awarded $1.2 million grant
6 Aug 2008
New Orleans, LA – Dr. Eric Lazartigues, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has been awarded a $1.2 million Research Project (RO1) grant by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...
6 Aug 2008
New Orleans, LA – Dr. Eric Lazartigues, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has been awarded a $1.2 million Research Project (RO1) grant by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...
Forward step in forecasting global warming
7 Aug 2008
Science magazine article details improvements needed for climate-change prediction TEMPE, Ariz. – Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban...
7 Aug 2008
Science magazine article details improvements needed for climate-change prediction TEMPE, Ariz. – Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban...
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy
10 Aug 2008
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department...
10 Aug 2008
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department...
Computation Institute to bulk up data analysis capability with $1.5 million grant
5 Aug 2008
ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 5, 2008) — The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a grant for a computer system that will enable...
5 Aug 2008
ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 5, 2008) — The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a grant for a computer system that will enable...
Students with food allergies often not prepared
6 Aug 2008
Those with food allergies 'are taking unnecessary risks,' U-M researchers say Niko Michos, 3, doesn't miss out on tasty food because of his food allergies. Here, he makes quick work of a dish of chocolate soy pudding. Click...
6 Aug 2008
Those with food allergies 'are taking unnecessary risks,' U-M researchers say Niko Michos, 3, doesn't miss out on tasty food because of his food allergies. Here, he makes quick work of a dish of chocolate soy pudding. Click...
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