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Thursday, September 30, 2010

“Associate Director of Communication Science Dan Rutz of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - PR Inside” plus 8 more

“Associate Director of Communication Science Dan Rutz of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - PR Inside” plus 8 more


Associate Director of Communication Science Dan Rutz of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - PR Inside

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:48 AM PDT

Organization (WHO). Hoping to establish an international standard for optimal communications around actual and potential public health emergencies, these principles are being applied through several other U.S. international relationships, including the ...

Blinded with 'science' - WND.com

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:56 PM PDT

God didn't create the universe, Stephen Hawking says in his latest book, "A Grand Design." Rather, the renowned physicist writes, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." Everything – created from ...

Marrone Bio Innovations Receives Grant Awards from the National Science Foundation - Forbes

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 07:38 AM PDT

DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI) a $500,000 Phase IIb Small Business Technology Commercialization Grant for the project entitled "Commercialization of an ...

Texas Digest: Innocence group fights 'junk science'; Bush Institute launches program for principals - Austin American-Statesman

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 09:07 PM PDT

A woman convicted of killing her uncle by dousing him with gasoline and setting him alight has asked the Texas Forensic Science Commission whether a crime lab committed professional misconduct. Attorneys for 63-year-old Sonia Cacy filed the complaint ...

Want more science? Watch 'NewsHour' - News-Democrat

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 12:57 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- Former CNN reporter Miles O'Brien is joining PBS' "NewsHour" to lead a new science unit as part of a continuing revamp of the nightly newscast. O'Brien had left CNN in 2008 when the news network disbanded its science and technology unit. He'll ...

Political Science Professor explores reasons behind President Obama's Wisconsin visit - Janesville Gazette

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:22 PM PDT

President Obama's visit to Wisconsin Tuesday may be about more than this November's elections. Even though Barack Obama was campaigning for Wisconsin Democrats like Gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett and U.S. Senate incumbent Russ Feingold, the president ...

Wisconsin Native to be Honored with Soil Science Award - Wisconsin Ag Connection

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:11 PM PDT

The American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America will recognize a Wisconsin graduate at the 2010 Awards Ceremony in November during the scientific society's Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California. The annual awards are presented ...

Flipping Ain't Rocket Science in Cambridge, Mass. - curbed

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:08 AM PDT

The Skinny In Cambridge, of all places, "He's no rocket scientist!" is a rarely heard derogation. That might be because the city is home to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or because at least one neighbor actually is a ...

USA Science & Engineering Festival: Students and Nobel Laureates Across the Nation Begin ... - Earthtimes

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON - (Business Wire) Starting today, about 6,000 middle and high school students from across the United States will share brown bag lunches with over 20 Nobel Laureates. This special highlight of the USA Science & Engineering Festival kicks off ...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

“CPSC guidance on children's product definition could doom science kits for youngest children - Los Angeles Times” plus 6 more

“CPSC guidance on children's product definition could doom science kits for youngest children - Los Angeles Times” plus 6 more


CPSC guidance on children's product definition could doom science kits for youngest children - Los Angeles Times

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:23 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the tools that teachers use to get kids jazzed about science — hands-on science kits — could face an uncertain future amid a debate on safety. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been mired for weeks in deliberation as ...

ISU to host USA Science Festival - Idaho State Journal

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:16 AM PDT

POCATELLO – Idaho State University's Pocatello campus is hosting the 2010 Idaho Science and Engineering Festival on Oct 23 and is looking for additional groups to host scientific demonstration booths. The deadline for booth applications is Oct. 1. The ...

WVU grant to attract women to math, science - Charleston Gazette

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:24 PM PDT

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University is getting $3.2 million to help women choose and stick with careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The National Science Foundation grant also aims to encourage scientists with advanced degrees to ...

Sprucing up for science: ETSU receives grant to renovate Brown Hall - Johnson City Press

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 07:22 PM PDT

The first major construction/renovation project in 42 years for East Tennessee State University's science building should increase research at the school, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences said Monday. ETSU was awarded a $2 million National ...

NSF awards $12M to school science partnership - San Jose Business Journal

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 06:13 AM PDT

California State University, East Bay received a five-year, $11.96 million grant from the Math and Science Partnership Program at the National Science Foundation to fund the San Francisco Bay–Integrated Middle School Science Project. The project serves ...

UN plan for 'alien ambassador' a case of science fiction? - Eureka! Science News

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:10 AM PDT

Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman denies Sunday Times report that she is to become Earth's first contact for ETsIf a Martian, proverbial or otherwise, had landed on earth in the last 24-hours the media had some practical advice. Or so it seemed ...

Texas Forensic Science Commission refuses to end inquiry into Willingham arson case - Dallas Morning News

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 07:01 AM PDT

The Texas Forensic Science Commission rebelled Friday against its head commissioner, refusing to accept his draft report clearing arson investigators of misconduct or negligence in a 1991 fatal fire where flawed science was used to determine the blaze was ...

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

“USF names volcano researcher to head marine science - msnbc.com” plus 4 more

“USF names volcano researcher to head marine science - msnbc.com” plus 4 more


USF names volcano researcher to head marine science - msnbc.com

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 03:41 PM PDT

TAMPA — The new marine science dean at the University of South Florida is a specialist in underwater volcanoes who's travelled from Hawaii to Iceland to understand the forces at the core of the Earth's movements. But Jacqueline Eaby Dixon has a new ...

AP Scholar Awards for Magnolia Science Academy-Reseda - Earthtimes

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 06:42 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES , Sept. 22 -- Four students at the Magnolia Science Academy in Reseda have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievements on AP Exams. The College Board's Advanced Placement Program (AP) provides willing and ...

Nestlé Health Science S.A. and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences established to target new ... - WebWire

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:22 AM PDT

Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé today announced the creation of Nestlé Health Science S.A. and the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences to pioneer a new industry between food and pharma. These two separate organisations will allow Nestlé to develop the ...

Gulf governors to direct BP science fund - AZCentral.com

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:37 PM PDT

WASHINGTON - With its runaway well finally shut down, BP is close to agreement on funneling a promised $500 million in research funds through an organization overseen by Gulf Coast governors, not the nation's scientific community. The injection of a ...

New Book on Mastering Supply Chain Volatility Available Today "X-SCM: The New Science of X ... - PR Inside

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 07:26 AM PDT

The book, "X-SCM: The New Science of X-treme Supply Chain Management ," is available for purchase beginning today. It includes contributions from world experts in supply chain volatility management and unveils a new science for managing supply chain risk ...

Monday, September 27, 2010

“Purdue alum to demonstrate devices that help blind learn science, math at White House - Chicago Tribune” plus 4 more

“Purdue alum to demonstrate devices that help blind learn science, math at White House - Chicago Tribune” plus 4 more


Purdue alum to demonstrate devices that help blind learn science, math at White House - Chicago Tribune

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:55 PM PDT

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — The founder of an Indiana company that makes devices to help blind and low-vision students learn science and math is heading to the White House to show off some of those products. Purdue University graduate Cary Supalo (suh ...

$5.4M Awarded to Marshall University Forensic Science Center - WSAZ

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 07:02 AM PDT

Thursday it was announced funding secured by Senator Byrd totaling $5,430,000, and an additional competitive grant award of $540,752, have been awarded to the Marshall University Forensic Science Center for advanced academic research in criminal forensics ...

U.K. Research Leaders Makes Final Stand Against Science Cuts - Science Now

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:04 AM PDT

Top officials from six U.K. universities joined Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society, in London today in a last-ditch attempt to avert the government's expected cuts in science funding, which will be detailed in its forthcoming comprehensive ...

Fairmont, Shepherd get W.Va. science funds - Charleston Daily Mail

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:42 AM PDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Fairmont State and Shepherd universities each will receive about $100,000 to launch science-related programs. Gov. Joe Manchin's office said Thursday that $100,000 of interest earned by the "Bucks for Brains'' Research Trust Fund will ...

American Science and Engineering, Inc. Receives $10 Million Service and Maintenance Order from U.S ... - PR Inside

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 09:01 PM PDT

American Science and Engineering, Inc : . (AS&E) (NASDAQ: ASEI), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of a $10 million order from the U.S. government for the service and maintenance of ZBV ...

Sunday, September 26, 2010

“Texas Forensic Science Commission refuses to end inquiry into Willingham arson case - Dallas Morning News” plus 1 more

“Texas Forensic Science Commission refuses to end inquiry into Willingham arson case - Dallas Morning News” plus 1 more


Texas Forensic Science Commission refuses to end inquiry into Willingham arson case - Dallas Morning News

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 07:01 AM PDT

The Texas Forensic Science Commission rebelled Friday against its head commissioner, refusing to accept his draft report clearing arson investigators of misconduct or negligence in a 1991 fatal fire where flawed science was used to determine the blaze was ...

Science, religion and Cecil B. DeMille - Science Friday

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 06:26 AM PDT

... Moses really lead the Israelites to safety walking across a parted Red Sea? You got the Charleton Heston image right? A scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Carl Drews , thinks he knows ...

Saturday, September 25, 2010

“National Science Board hears education impact of DUSEL - Rapid City Journal” plus 5 more

“National Science Board hears education impact of DUSEL - Rapid City Journal” plus 5 more


National Science Board hears education impact of DUSEL - Rapid City Journal

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:23 PM PDT

SPEARFISH --More money and more people will help South Dakota rise to meet the demands of a national science laboratory, according to professors and administrators at the state's publicly-funded universities. Friday morning at Black Hills State University ...

UW secures $4.5 million science grant - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:48 AM PDT

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $4.5 million federal research and development grant to develop an electron gun. The electron gun project involves fabrication and testing of an electron gun for a free electron laser. The instrument is a ...

Maine science teacher seeking home for surplus exotic animals from Smithsonian's collection - FOX News

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:04 AM PDT

BANGOR, Maine – A Maine teacher who received a bunch of exotic stuffed animals from the Smithsonian Institution is looking for a permanent home for the creatures. The collection, including a pair of lions and two dozen other creatures, was donated to ...

Associate Director of Communication Science Dan Rutz of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ... - PR Inside

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:48 AM PDT

Organization (WHO). Hoping to establish an international standard for optimal communications around actual and potential public health emergencies, these principles are being applied through several other U.S. international relationships, including the ...

Reporter's log: Science festival - BBC

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 06:05 AM PDT

The 2010 British Science Association Festival is underway in Birmingham and our "Gossip Girl" Sue Nelson will be sending us the latest scientific titbits in her daily reporter's log. You can also catch Sue each evening at the festival's X-Change event. It ...

College of Nanoscale Science to be honored - Albany Times Union (blog)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:02 PM PDT

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Northeastern NY will honor the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany at its 65 Roses Gala Celebration, which marks the accomplishments toward the foundation's efforts to find a cure ...

Friday, September 24, 2010

“Where is food science heading? - Herald Tribune” plus 8 more

“Where is food science heading? - Herald Tribune” plus 8 more


Where is food science heading? - Herald Tribune

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 11:17 PM PDT

For thousands of years, humans have practiced selective breeding -- pairing the beefiest bull with the healthiest heifers to start a new herd. That concept was refined to develop plant hybridization and ...

USF names volcano researcher to head marine science - msnbc.com

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 11:16 AM PDT

TAMPA — A University of Miami geochemist will take over as dean of the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science. Jacqueline Eaby Dixon, acting dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Miami, is internationally ...

Obama: CEOs joining to push math, science education - The Christian Science Monitor

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 11:35 AM PDT

The CEOs of more than 100 companies are launching a new nonprofit initiative, Change the Equation, to turn today's diverse generation of students into tomorrow's scientists, engineers, and math ...

National Science Board to meet Friday in Spearfish - Rapid City Journal

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 08:21 AM PDT

... National Science Board is scheduled to meet in Spearfish on Friday for presentations on South ... South Dakota already has started the Sanford Laboratory 4,850 feet underground. The state hopes the National ...

Science, religion and Cecil B. DeMille - Science Friday

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 06:26 AM PDT

... Moses really lead the Israelites to safety walking across a parted Red Sea? You got the Charleton Heston image right? A scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Carl Drews , thinks he knows ...

Updates for Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX), Caliper Life (Nasdaq:CALP), Cannabis Science (OTC:CBIS) - American Chronicle

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:27 PM PDT

Updates for Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX), Caliper Life (Nasdaq:CALP), Cannabis Science (OTC:CBIS) ... company developing pharmaceutical cannabis products, is pleased to announce its Board of Directors ...

Five Top U.S. Female Scientists Earn Prestigious L'Oreal USA For Women in Science ... - Centre Daily

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:11 AM PDT

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 — /PRNewswire/ -- Frederic Roze ... to address critical global challenges related to life-threatening diseases such as Alzheimer's and HIV, neurological disorders like autism and epilepsy,

Parting the Waters: Computer Modeling Applies Physics to Red Sea Escape Route - US News and World Report

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 08:07 AM PDT

BOULDER—The biblical account of the parting of the Red Sea has inspired and mystified ... simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus," says Carl Drews of NCAR, the lead author. "The parting of ...

Did Moses really part the Red Sea? - The Week Magazine

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 08:29 AM PDT

The video: While the Book of Exodus maintains that Moses parted the Red Sea to lead Israelites to safety (drowning their pursuers, the Egyptian army, when the waters receded), scientists have developed a ...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

“King Tut exhibit coming to Science Museum of Minnesota - Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal” plus 3 more

“King Tut exhibit coming to Science Museum of Minnesota - Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal” plus 3 more


King Tut exhibit coming to Science Museum of Minnesota - Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 10:02 AM PDT

The exhibit "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" is coming to the Science Museum of Minnesota next year, the museum announced Wednesday. The exhibit will run from Feb. 18 to Sept. 5 ...

SW Science Exhibit Coming To Louisiana - TheForce.net

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 08:38 AM PDT

... Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is just around the corner. The Lafayett Science Museum in Louisiana will house the ... The Lafayette Concert Band will be performing at UL's Angelle Hall October 16 - The ...

BioMed to acquire two adjacent life science campuses in South San Francisco - News-Medical.Net

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 09:22 PM PDT

BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BMR) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two adjacent life science campuses in South San Francisco: the Science Center at Oyster Point and the ...

Researchers Locate Trio Of Lost Amphibian Species - Redorbit.com

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 07:11 AM PDT

... Wednesday press release from Conservation International ... or Chiropterotriton mosaueri, had not been seen since 1941 before being located recently in the Hidalgo Province of Mexico. The brown Mount Nimba Reed ...

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

“Alzheimer’s is topic of science lecture - Examiner” plus 8 more

“Alzheimer’s is topic of science lecture - Examiner” plus 8 more


Alzheimer’s is topic of science lecture - Examiner

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:46 PM PDT

... Alzheimer's Association ... National Institutes of Health, and during his tenure he played a key role in planning, developing and administering many national programs of research on Alzheimer's disease and ...

MRO Is Back on Track Conducting Science - Softpedia

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:41 PM PDT

... Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter forced th spacecraft to go into safe mode for the fifth time in just ... took place after MRO's computers spontaneously rebooted for unknown reasons on September 15, sending its JPL ...

FDA Says Genetically Altered Salmon Science Unsatisfactory & Possibly Allergy ... - Huffingtonpost.com

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:52 PM PDT

The Atlantic salmon, which would be raised on farms ... the chief executive of AquaBounty Technologies, the company that developed the salmon, told the FDA committee that his company's salmon, known as AquAdvantage,

Cambridge Heart, Cardiac Science launch new cardiac stress test - DOT med

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:20 PM PDT

Cambridge Heart announced the integration of its MTWA module with Cardiac Science. "The partnership with Cardiac Science...allows our technology to be marketed to a much broader number of cardiologists and internal ...

The Tech Museum Reveals Science-Technology Laureates for International Program ... - PR Inside

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:42 PM PDT

... Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, this year's James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award recipient, will be honored at The Tech Awards Gala on November 6 at the Santa Clara Convention Center ... of The Tech Museum. "

In Evolution vs Creationism, Apple sides with science - News.com.au

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 08:12 PM PDT

and the app will tell you the length of time since you and Rex last shared a common ancestor. The app works by linking to the website timetree.org , an online database of scientific studies that use "molecular clocks ...

Obama’s initiative on science diplomacy expands - PhysicsToday.org

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:03 AM PDT

... Asia and to Africa. The naming of former NSF director Rita Colwell , Lehigh University president Alice ... as well as to Tanzania and South Africa. Ejeta won the 2009 World Food Prize for his major contributions ...

Daniel M. Schumacher Named to Lead NASA Marshall Center's Science & Mission Systems Office - SpaceRef

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:20 AM PDT

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Dr. Daniel M. Schumacher has been appointed manager of the Science & Mission Systems Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Under Schumacher's leadership, the Science ...

Art vs Science a pick for Oz Award - ninemsn

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 10:47 PM PDT

... VJ Danny Clayton is picking electro pop outfit Art vs Science to take home this year's [V] Oz Artist ... after scuffle at LAX British comedian-turned-Hollywood star Russell Brand was arrested at Los Angeles ...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

“No Science, Fake Science, and the Destruction of the Nation - CNS News” plus 1 more

“No Science, Fake Science, and the Destruction of the Nation - CNS News” plus 1 more


No Science, Fake Science, and the Destruction of the Nation - CNS News

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:20 AM PDT

... of energy is a direct attack on the economic success of America and it is one that is at a dangerous peak of activity generated by the Obama administration ... September 12 edition of Bloomberg Businessweek ...

Advanced Muscle Science Recalls Arom-X and Decavol - Kansas City infoZine

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 06:05 AM PDT

... product is in violation of provisions of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. FDA has requested that Advanced Muscle Science inform consumers that adverse events associated with the use of aromatase inhibitors could ...

Monday, September 20, 2010

“(Neb.)-Hypertension Topic of Science Cafe in Scottsbluff - KCSR” plus 2 more

“(Neb.)-Hypertension Topic of Science Cafe in Scottsbluff - KCSR” plus 2 more


(Neb.)-Hypertension Topic of Science Cafe in Scottsbluff - KCSR

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT

Darwin Brown is an assistant professor in physician assistant education in the School of Allied Health Professions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The title of his Science Cafe presentation is, "

Oprah gives $1 million to Denver School of Science & Technology - Denver Post

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:58 PM PDT

Denver School of Science & Technology has received a $1 million grant from Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network to help the charter school expand. Winfrey on her show handed Bill Kurtz, chief executive officer of ...

Transgenic Food -- the Science and the Psychology - Huffingtonpost.com

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:15 PM PDT

After years of research, the FDA is holding final hearings before deciding whether to approve the first food produced by splicing the genes of one species into another, that could show up directly on your plate ...

Sunday, September 19, 2010

“Three New Science Envoys to the Muslim World - Science Now” plus 3 more

“Three New Science Envoys to the Muslim World - Science Now” plus 3 more


Three New Science Envoys to the Muslim World - Science Now

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:46 PM PDT

... to the Muslim world: former NSF director Rita Colwell, currently at University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; Gebisa Ejeta of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana;

A week without Facebook? Pa. college tries it out - Salt Lake Tribune

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 01:44 PM PDT

... the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology ... Eric Darr says the blackout that began Monday is not a punishment or an effort to ban the sites. He says it's a way to evaluate the role of social media

Modern Science Reveals Secrets of Nelson-Atkins 2,500-Year-Old Mummy - Art Daily

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:35 AM PDT

... mummy at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has been created by special agents/forensic artists from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco ... from such expertise," said Julián Zugazagoitia, Director & CEO at ...

Borders Teams with PBS KIDS to Promote Science Literacy Among Preschoolers - Earthtimes

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 11:52 AM PDT

... PBS KIDS series "The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That" with an in-store ... kids and their families can enjoy a special greeting from award-winning actor Martin Short , who voices the stories, as well as ...