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Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic
23 Sep 2009
The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of thorny medical ethics issues best considered well in advance, according to the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, which today released...
23 Sep 2009
The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of thorny medical ethics issues best considered well in advance, according to the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, which today released...
UNC scientists garner new NIH awards for high risk, transformative research
24 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., from University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Click here for more information. Three scientists from the University of North...
24 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., from University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Click here for more information. Three scientists from the University of North...
NSF funds state's first imaging system for UAB microscale research lab
25 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Andrei Stanishevsky is a co-director of UAB's new imaging facility. Click here for more information. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The National Science Foundation has awarded...
25 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Andrei Stanishevsky is a co-director of UAB's new imaging facility. Click here for more information. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The National Science Foundation has awarded...
Global warming may dent El Niño's protective shield from Atlantic hurricanes, increase droughts
23 Sep 2009
IMAGE: El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific...
23 Sep 2009
IMAGE: El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific...
The beauty of the universe, from above and below
24 Sep 2009
The annual Lennart Nilsson Award is presented in honour of the legendary Swedish photographer, who has been working with imagery at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm for decades. Like Lennart Nilsson, this year's recipients, Carolyn Porco and...
24 Sep 2009
The annual Lennart Nilsson Award is presented in honour of the legendary Swedish photographer, who has been working with imagery at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm for decades. Like Lennart Nilsson, this year's recipients, Carolyn Porco and...
New species discovered on whale skeletons
21 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is a whale skeleton. Click here for more information. When a whale dies, it sinks to the seafloor and becomes food for an entire ecosystem. Researchers at the...
21 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is a whale skeleton. Click here for more information. When a whale dies, it sinks to the seafloor and becomes food for an entire ecosystem. Researchers at the...
University lab demonstrates 3-D printing in glass
24 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is an object printed from powdered glass, using the Solheim Lab's new Vitraglyphic process. Click here for more information. A team of engineers and artists working...
24 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is an object printed from powdered glass, using the Solheim Lab's new Vitraglyphic process. Click here for more information. A team of engineers and artists working...
New findings could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool
22 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Researchers have determined precisely how fluid boils in tiny "microchannels, " creating formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid...
22 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Researchers have determined precisely how fluid boils in tiny "microchannels, " creating formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid...
UA develops network to improve weather forecasting with $5.45 million from NSF
22 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Flooding after a summer thunderstorm stops cars at the intersection of Drachman Street and Park Avenue in Tucson, Ariz., in July of 2007. Click here for more...
22 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Flooding after a summer thunderstorm stops cars at the intersection of Drachman Street and Park Avenue in Tucson, Ariz., in July of 2007. Click here for more...
4,000 numbers crunchers count on San Diego
25 Sep 2009
INFORMS Annual Meeting examines problem with CA hospitals, Nobel economics, a never-ending game of Monopoly When 4,000 experts in everything from problems with California's hospitals to a perpetual game of Monopoly come to San Diego on October...
25 Sep 2009
INFORMS Annual Meeting examines problem with CA hospitals, Nobel economics, a never-ending game of Monopoly When 4,000 experts in everything from problems with California's hospitals to a perpetual game of Monopoly come to San Diego on October...
Catalytic Catamarans: Common industrial catalyst sports rafts made of platinum
24 Sep 2009
Best view yet of catalyst used for energy and environment applications suggests tricks to improve performance IMAGE: Rafts of catalytic platinum oxide float above a sea of aluminum oxide, anchored by bonds...
24 Sep 2009
Best view yet of catalyst used for energy and environment applications suggests tricks to improve performance IMAGE: Rafts of catalytic platinum oxide float above a sea of aluminum oxide, anchored by bonds...
OU student receives $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
25 Sep 2009
NORMAN, Okla. – For the fifth consecutive year, a University of Oklahoma student has been selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. This year, 17 students were selected nationally based on...
25 Sep 2009
NORMAN, Okla. – For the fifth consecutive year, a University of Oklahoma student has been selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. This year, 17 students were selected nationally based on...
A trillion triangles
22 Sep 2009
New computer methods reveal secrets of ancient math problem September 22, 2009 – Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The...
22 Sep 2009
New computer methods reveal secrets of ancient math problem September 22, 2009 – Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The...
MSU licenses plant oil enhancement technology to BASF Plant Science
25 Sep 2009
Transcription factor could boost seed oil IMAGE: This is Michigan State University researcher Christoph Benning. Click here for more information. EAST LANSING, Mich. —...
25 Sep 2009
Transcription factor could boost seed oil IMAGE: This is Michigan State University researcher Christoph Benning. Click here for more information. EAST LANSING, Mich. —...
World's largest marine protected areas sign partnership agreement
23 Sep 2009
NEW YORK – Today two of the world's largest marine protected areas announced a historic alliance to enhance the management and protection of almost 300,000 square miles of marine habitat in the Pacific Ocean. President Anote Tong of the...
23 Sep 2009
NEW YORK – Today two of the world's largest marine protected areas announced a historic alliance to enhance the management and protection of almost 300,000 square miles of marine habitat in the Pacific Ocean. President Anote Tong of the...
University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy director awarded Schwarzschild Prize
23 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Dr. Ralph-Juergen Dettmar, president of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, presented the Karl-Schwarzschild-Medal to Dr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki. Click here for more...
23 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Dr. Ralph-Juergen Dettmar, president of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, presented the Karl-Schwarzschild-Medal to Dr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki. Click here for more...
Improving financial and food security for farmers in northern Ethiopia
25 Sep 2009
Swiss Re, Oxfam America, Rockefeller Foundation and Columbia's IRI expand joint risk initiative in Tigray, Ethiopia New York, 25 September 2009 – Swiss Re, Oxfam America, The Rockefeller Foundation and The International Research Institute...
25 Sep 2009
Swiss Re, Oxfam America, Rockefeller Foundation and Columbia's IRI expand joint risk initiative in Tigray, Ethiopia New York, 25 September 2009 – Swiss Re, Oxfam America, The Rockefeller Foundation and The International Research Institute...
First global scientific conference supporting UN efforts to curb desertification opens in Argentina
23 Sep 2009
Scientists gather in Buenos Aires to find a way forward for agriculture in vast dry areas, where the poor are most vulnerable to land degradation and climate change BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (23 September 2009)—As climate change negotiators...
23 Sep 2009
Scientists gather in Buenos Aires to find a way forward for agriculture in vast dry areas, where the poor are most vulnerable to land degradation and climate change BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (23 September 2009)—As climate change negotiators...
Building energy efficiency programs in Europe and Australia
21 Sep 2009
Offer important lessons for the United States, study finds The United States can become more energy efficient and create more "green" jobs by adopting some of the strategies used by the European Union and Australia to rate and disclose the...
21 Sep 2009
Offer important lessons for the United States, study finds The United States can become more energy efficient and create more "green" jobs by adopting some of the strategies used by the European Union and Australia to rate and disclose the...
New INL project will improve nuclear reactor simulations
24 Sep 2009
IDAHO FALLS — A new project at Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will improve the way scientists model the inner workings of nuclear reactors. Researchers from the Idaho and New York labs, led by INL's...
24 Sep 2009
IDAHO FALLS — A new project at Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will improve the way scientists model the inner workings of nuclear reactors. Researchers from the Idaho and New York labs, led by INL's...
NIH fellowship recipient to study disease ecology
25 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Camille Harris of Ridgeland, Mississippi, a wildlife veterinarian, is pursuing her doctoral degree in biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Graduate...
25 Sep 2009
IMAGE: Camille Harris of Ridgeland, Mississippi, a wildlife veterinarian, is pursuing her doctoral degree in biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Graduate...
PNNL chemist earns NIH New Innovator Award
24 Sep 2009
Wei-Jun Qian awarded $1.5 million to develop dramatically improved biomarker research and clinical diagnostic tools IMAGE: The National Institutes of Health recognized PNNL's Wei-Jun Liu for innovative and...
24 Sep 2009
Wei-Jun Qian awarded $1.5 million to develop dramatically improved biomarker research and clinical diagnostic tools IMAGE: The National Institutes of Health recognized PNNL's Wei-Jun Liu for innovative and...
Yale aging expert and evolutionary biologist receive 'genius' grants
23 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is Mary Tinetti, M.D., of Yale University. Click here for more information. Two Yale faculty members have been named MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2009, the John...
23 Sep 2009
IMAGE: This is Mary Tinetti, M.D., of Yale University. Click here for more information. Two Yale faculty members have been named MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2009, the John...
Fish fend off invading germs with an initial response similar to the one found in people
24 Sep 2009
New similarities identified between the zebrafish and human response to viruses and bacteria suggest that this small fish could help us understand how humans battle infectious disease Since the human response to infection is highly complex,...
24 Sep 2009
New similarities identified between the zebrafish and human response to viruses and bacteria suggest that this small fish could help us understand how humans battle infectious disease Since the human response to infection is highly complex,...
Utah ethicist heads stem cell panel
22 Sep 2009
Jeffrey Botkin chairs NIH review of embryonic cells SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 22, 2009 – University of Utah medical ethics expert Jeffrey R. Botkin will chair a federal panel that will review scientists' requests to conduct government-funded...
22 Sep 2009
Jeffrey Botkin chairs NIH review of embryonic cells SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 22, 2009 – University of Utah medical ethics expert Jeffrey R. Botkin will chair a federal panel that will review scientists' requests to conduct government-funded...
Brookhaven Lab's Joanna Fowler to be awarded National Medal of Science
24 Sep 2009
UPTON, NY — Joanna Fowler, a senior chemist and Director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be awarded the National Medal...
24 Sep 2009
UPTON, NY — Joanna Fowler, a senior chemist and Director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be awarded the National Medal...
Genetic discovery could break wine industry bottleneck, accelerate grapevine breeding
24 Sep 2009
Could point the way toward production of European-tasting wines from American vines One of the best known episodes in the 8000-year history of grapevine cultivation led to biological changes that have not been well understood – until now....
24 Sep 2009
Could point the way toward production of European-tasting wines from American vines One of the best known episodes in the 8000-year history of grapevine cultivation led to biological changes that have not been well understood – until now....
Release of the Stem Cell Charter
22 Sep 2009
Sign the charter -- renew the world Baltimore, MD – September 22, 2009 – The Canadian Stem Cell Foundation is proud to announce the release of the Stem Cell Charter and the world premiere of "Rock Star Scientists." The work being...
22 Sep 2009
Sign the charter -- renew the world Baltimore, MD – September 22, 2009 – The Canadian Stem Cell Foundation is proud to announce the release of the Stem Cell Charter and the world premiere of "Rock Star Scientists." The work being...
Prestigious $4.9 million NIH grant awarded to Case Western Reserve for colon cancer research
24 Sep 2009
Team examines the paradigm of metastatic spread in the second leading cause of cancer deaths A prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Transformative R01 Program grant for $4.9 million has been awarded to Case Western Reserve University...
24 Sep 2009
Team examines the paradigm of metastatic spread in the second leading cause of cancer deaths A prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Transformative R01 Program grant for $4.9 million has been awarded to Case Western Reserve University...
Groundbreaking model of heart disease rewarded with NIH Pioneer Award
24 Sep 2009
Cardiologist Ivor J. Benjamin, M.D., receives $2.5 million grant SALT LAKE CITY—A pioneering model that a University of Utah cardiologist proposes as a cause of heart disease is the kind of creative thinking the National Institutes of...
24 Sep 2009
Cardiologist Ivor J. Benjamin, M.D., receives $2.5 million grant SALT LAKE CITY—A pioneering model that a University of Utah cardiologist proposes as a cause of heart disease is the kind of creative thinking the National Institutes of...
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