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ASA, CSSA, SSSA to present awards in Pittsburgh
7 Oct 2009
Agronomy, crop scienc, and soil science societies will recognize individuals for their contributions to education, national and international service, and research MADISON, WI, October 1, 2009 – The American Society of Agronomy (ASA),...
7 Oct 2009
Agronomy, crop scienc, and soil science societies will recognize individuals for their contributions to education, national and international service, and research MADISON, WI, October 1, 2009 – The American Society of Agronomy (ASA),...
UT's Eric Boerwinkle gets $26 million federal stimulus grant for biomedical research
9 Oct 2009
Project seeks to identify genetic factors influencing common diseases IMAGE: Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., leads Human Genetics Centers at both the University of Texas School of Public Health and the Brown Foundation...
9 Oct 2009
Project seeks to identify genetic factors influencing common diseases IMAGE: Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., leads Human Genetics Centers at both the University of Texas School of Public Health and the Brown Foundation...
ASA, CSSA and SSSA to present fellows in Pittsburgh
7 Oct 2009
A time honored tradition continues for the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America MADISON, WI, October 1, 2009 –The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of...
7 Oct 2009
A time honored tradition continues for the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America MADISON, WI, October 1, 2009 –The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of...
Medical center researchers honored for excellence
9 Oct 2009
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest University School of Medicine honored eight of its researchers with awards for excellence at the 13th Annual Research Awards Day Oct. 1. The School of Medicine established the Basic and Clinical...
9 Oct 2009
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest University School of Medicine honored eight of its researchers with awards for excellence at the 13th Annual Research Awards Day Oct. 1. The School of Medicine established the Basic and Clinical...
The science of pregnant singers, video game panic attacks, and homeland security in the Hudson River
7 Oct 2009
Highlights from upcoming 158th meeting of Acoustical Society of America in San Antonio, Texas October 7, 2009 -- How does a woman's voice differ from a man's? Can being a good listener help a whale survive? Do babies who briefly hear a foreign...
7 Oct 2009
Highlights from upcoming 158th meeting of Acoustical Society of America in San Antonio, Texas October 7, 2009 -- How does a woman's voice differ from a man's? Can being a good listener help a whale survive? Do babies who briefly hear a foreign...
Radio waves 'see' through walls
11 Oct 2009
Method could help police, firefighters, elderly, retailers IMAGE: On the left, a person walks around inside a square of 28 radio transceivers (mounted on plastic pipes) in the Warnock Engineering Building's...
11 Oct 2009
Method could help police, firefighters, elderly, retailers IMAGE: On the left, a person walks around inside a square of 28 radio transceivers (mounted on plastic pipes) in the Warnock Engineering Building's...
California Academy of Sciences welcomes new fellows, bestows annual awards
8 Oct 2009
Award ceremony to take place Oct. 13, 2009 The California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that 12 new members have joined the ranks of the Academy Fellows, a governing group of over 300 distinguished scientists who have made notable...
8 Oct 2009
Award ceremony to take place Oct. 13, 2009 The California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that 12 new members have joined the ranks of the Academy Fellows, a governing group of over 300 distinguished scientists who have made notable...
The GalileoMobile starts its South American voyage
5 Oct 2009
Astronomy education goes on tour through the Andes Mountains IMAGE: The GalileoMobile journey starts Oct. 5, 2009, in Antofagasta, Chile. From Antofagasta the GalileoMobile heads north through La Paz in Bolivia...
5 Oct 2009
Astronomy education goes on tour through the Andes Mountains IMAGE: The GalileoMobile journey starts Oct. 5, 2009, in Antofagasta, Chile. From Antofagasta the GalileoMobile heads north through La Paz in Bolivia...
Agronomy, crop and soil science societies to present scholarships in Pittsburgh
7 Oct 2009
Outstanding students recognized for their accomplishments in agronomy, soil science and crop science MADISON, WI, October 1, 2009 – The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society...
7 Oct 2009
Outstanding students recognized for their accomplishments in agronomy, soil science and crop science MADISON, WI, October 1, 2009 – The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society...
USGS Science Picks
5 Oct 2009
Hot News About Cool Science If you would like to receive Science Picks via e-mail, would like to change the recipient or no longer want to receive it, please e-mail kcapelli@usgs.gov. October Highlights: Responding to the Samoa and Sumatra...
5 Oct 2009
Hot News About Cool Science If you would like to receive Science Picks via e-mail, would like to change the recipient or no longer want to receive it, please e-mail kcapelli@usgs.gov. October Highlights: Responding to the Samoa and Sumatra...
Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences
8 Oct 2009
AUDIO: This audio file shares an interview with DOE JGI's Patrick Chain regarding his Oct. 9 paper in Science. Click here for more information. In 1996, researchers from major...
8 Oct 2009
AUDIO: This audio file shares an interview with DOE JGI's Patrick Chain regarding his Oct. 9 paper in Science. Click here for more information. In 1996, researchers from major...
NIH Women's Health Public Forum and Scientific Workshop in Chicago
9 Oct 2009
Maggie Daley to speak at Northwestern event CHICAGO – The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital will host a public forum and scientific workshop Oct. 14 to 16 to discuss emerging issues of...
9 Oct 2009
Maggie Daley to speak at Northwestern event CHICAGO – The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital will host a public forum and scientific workshop Oct. 14 to 16 to discuss emerging issues of...
New aluminum-water rocket propellant promising for future space missions
7 Oct 2009
IMAGE: Purdue is working with NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Pennsylvania State University to develop a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of... Click here for more...
7 Oct 2009
IMAGE: Purdue is working with NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Pennsylvania State University to develop a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of... Click here for more...
Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone
9 Oct 2009
IODP Expedition 322 of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment Stage 2 complete IMAGE: Scientists document and sample cores. Click here for more information. October 9, 2009...
9 Oct 2009
IODP Expedition 322 of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment Stage 2 complete IMAGE: Scientists document and sample cores. Click here for more information. October 9, 2009...
A woman in space
6 Oct 2009
2 men of the 1950s showed that women have 'The Right Stuff' to be astronauts IMAGE: This is female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb. Click here for more information. BETHESDA, Md....
6 Oct 2009
2 men of the 1950s showed that women have 'The Right Stuff' to be astronauts IMAGE: This is female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb. Click here for more information. BETHESDA, Md....
Early hominid first walked on 2 legs in the woods
8 Oct 2009
IMAGE: Carbon isotope analyses conducted by University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose indicated that Ardipithecus ramidus was a woodland creature whose diet resembled those of modern baboons...
8 Oct 2009
IMAGE: Carbon isotope analyses conducted by University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose indicated that Ardipithecus ramidus was a woodland creature whose diet resembled those of modern baboons...
UA scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
7 Oct 2009
IMAGE: Professor Poul Jessen of the UA College of Optical Sciences runs an experiment that provides long-sought evidence that two very different worlds of quantum mechanics and classical chaos are...
7 Oct 2009
IMAGE: Professor Poul Jessen of the UA College of Optical Sciences runs an experiment that provides long-sought evidence that two very different worlds of quantum mechanics and classical chaos are...
Triple therapy halves exacerbations in moderate-to-severe COPD
8 Oct 2009
AUDIO: ATS past president John E. Heffner, M.D., discusses the finding that triple therapy improves symptoms, functional capacity and reduces rsik of exacerbations in severe COPD. Click here for more...
8 Oct 2009
AUDIO: ATS past president John E. Heffner, M.D., discusses the finding that triple therapy improves symptoms, functional capacity and reduces rsik of exacerbations in severe COPD. Click here for more...
How will future sea-level rise linked to climate change affect coastal areas?
5 Oct 2009
$1.03 million grant from US Department of Defense program to fund Florida State University study IMAGE: Performing field work at Morris Lake, one of the smaller of the roughly two dozen coastal lakes in...
5 Oct 2009
$1.03 million grant from US Department of Defense program to fund Florida State University study IMAGE: Performing field work at Morris Lake, one of the smaller of the roughly two dozen coastal lakes in...
New drug aims to 'seek and destroy' many types of cancer
5 Oct 2009
EP-100 tested by TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare IMAGE: Community oncologists and cancer researchers collaborate in Phase I clinical trials in the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at...
5 Oct 2009
EP-100 tested by TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare IMAGE: Community oncologists and cancer researchers collaborate in Phase I clinical trials in the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at...
NIDCR launches the FaceBase Consortium
6 Oct 2009
Although about half of all birth defects involve the face and skull, scientists remain unclear about why most occur. To help families at risk for these conditions, what's needed is a comprehensive and systematic understanding of how the faces...
6 Oct 2009
Although about half of all birth defects involve the face and skull, scientists remain unclear about why most occur. To help families at risk for these conditions, what's needed is a comprehensive and systematic understanding of how the faces...
Alfalfa sprouts key to discovering how meandering rivers form and maintain
5 Oct 2009
Researchers create first self-sustaining meander, proving role of bank strength, fine sediment IMAGE: Christian Braudrick, William Dietrich and colleagues at UC Berkeley are the first to build a scaled down...
5 Oct 2009
Researchers create first self-sustaining meander, proving role of bank strength, fine sediment IMAGE: Christian Braudrick, William Dietrich and colleagues at UC Berkeley are the first to build a scaled down...
$2M in grants for bullet, duct tape forensic science
7 Oct 2009
Putting forensic science on a sound statistical footing Putting forensic science on a sound statistical footing is the aim behind three grants totaling over $2.2 million awarded to the UC Davis program in forensic science by the U.S. Department...
7 Oct 2009
Putting forensic science on a sound statistical footing Putting forensic science on a sound statistical footing is the aim behind three grants totaling over $2.2 million awarded to the UC Davis program in forensic science by the U.S. Department...
New aging studies improving vaccine efficacy for the elderly
5 Oct 2009
A new study from the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake IMAGE: Making breakthrough discoveries that lead to improved human health, the Trudeau Institute. Click here for more...
5 Oct 2009
A new study from the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake IMAGE: Making breakthrough discoveries that lead to improved human health, the Trudeau Institute. Click here for more...
Study of first high-resolution images of Pallas confirms asteroid is actually a protoplanet
9 Oct 2009
Britney E. Schmidt, a UCLA doctoral student in the department of Earth and space sciences, wasn't sure what she'd glean from images of the asteroid Pallas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. But she hoped to settle at least one burning...
9 Oct 2009
Britney E. Schmidt, a UCLA doctoral student in the department of Earth and space sciences, wasn't sure what she'd glean from images of the asteroid Pallas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. But she hoped to settle at least one burning...
Award targets brain tumor research
9 Oct 2009
$691,930 awarded for in silico center of excellence PHOENIX, Ariz. – Oct. 9, 2009 – SAIC-Frederick Inc., under its prime contract with the National Cancer Institute, has named the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) as...
9 Oct 2009
$691,930 awarded for in silico center of excellence PHOENIX, Ariz. – Oct. 9, 2009 – SAIC-Frederick Inc., under its prime contract with the National Cancer Institute, has named the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) as...
2 NASA satellites capture monster Super Typhoon Melor
5 Oct 2009
IMAGE: The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Super Typhoon Melor in the Western Pacific Ocean during the early morning hours of Oct....
5 Oct 2009
IMAGE: The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Super Typhoon Melor in the Western Pacific Ocean during the early morning hours of Oct....
Gulf of Maine Symposium in Saint Andrews-by-the-Sea, Plenary Sessions held Oct. 6-9, 2009
5 Oct 2009
Census of Marine Life -- Gulf of Maine as co-sponsor Monday, October 5, 2009 (St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada): Two hundred leading marine scientists, managers and policy makers from the US and Canada have come together in Saint...
5 Oct 2009
Census of Marine Life -- Gulf of Maine as co-sponsor Monday, October 5, 2009 (St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada): Two hundred leading marine scientists, managers and policy makers from the US and Canada have come together in Saint...
Do dust particles curb climate change?
6 Oct 2009
This release is available in German. IMAGE: Every cloud is different from the next. It is therefore important to study the types of cloud systems in which aerosols have the greatest influence. Click here for...
6 Oct 2009
This release is available in German. IMAGE: Every cloud is different from the next. It is therefore important to study the types of cloud systems in which aerosols have the greatest influence. Click here for...
Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding along the south coast of England
9 Oct 2009
IMAGE: This image shows flooding at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, UK. Click here for more information. A new study by researchers at the University of Southampton has found that...
9 Oct 2009
IMAGE: This image shows flooding at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, UK. Click here for more information. A new study by researchers at the University of Southampton has found that...
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