New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...ential for the success of subsequent cruises. The ambitious research goals include high-resolution mapping, sampling of deep-sea volcanism, photography of the ocean floor, ananlysis of water chemistry analysis, and up-close-and-personal observations of the microbes making a living in such a bizarre environmen...Ottawa's leadership in biomedical and health research has paid off
...earch, the federal government needs to develop new ambitious strategies to take full advantage of Canada's expe...ew government has an opportunity to put forward an ambitious vision of the future that will benefit all Canadians....EC boosts European electron microscopy research
...raphy will combine their expertise to reach a very ambitious goal: the three-dimensional (3D) imaging of macromolecules and molecular machines at atomic resolution, with the prospect of a 3D imaging of cell organelles and whole cells. The determination of the 3D structure of macromolecules (as e.g. proteins),...Digital evolution reveals the many ways to get to diversity
...ne of the paper's authors, gives the example of an ambitious organism that eats glucose, a type of sugar. That organism is a glucose-eating machine, and the more it eats, the more it reproduces and dominates. But eventually, there are so many hungry organisms, and glucose starts to run out, so the population's...Design competition for new Antarctic Research Station
...or of BAS, Professor Chris Rapley says,'This is an ambitious project. Our new station will not only have to cope with Antarctica's extreme environment, but must also be functionally efficient and an aesthetically stimulating place to live and work. Both BAS and RIBA share a common mission to pursue excellenc...Innovative efforts target epigenetics, molecular imaging
...00 over the next 10 years. "In order to reach that ambitious goal, we will need to develop a completely integrated system that requires very small volumes and utilizes very inexpensive instruments. Ideally, the system would cost no more than a good desktop computer," said Dr. Church. The ability to cost effec...Hopkins to found first center for comprehensive study of epigenetics
...NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. The ambitious Hopkins center is the ninth grant funded through the NHGRI's and NIMH's Center for Excellence in Genome Science program, and the first to focus on epigenetics. "This center reflects a trend at Hopkins to shift toward interdisciplinary research, real...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
... of biology," said Dr. Austin. To help achieve its ambitious goals, the NIH Chemical Genomics Center has selected a suite of ultra-high throughput target and pathway screening technologies from Kalypsys, Inc. of San Diego. The Kalypsys agreement, valued at up to $30 million over the course of a four-year contr...Archaeologists announce discoveries at the ancient Maya site of Waka' in northern Guatemala
...s abandonment in the 9th century. "One of our most ambitious projects has been the stabilization of an 18-meter temple pyramid that was structurally undermined by looting," Freidel says. Under the consecutive direction of Guatemalan archaeologists Juan Carlos Prez (2003) and Horacio Martnez (2004), a team of m...Harvard Stem Cell Institute hosts inaugural symposia
...earchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to explore the promising area of stem cell research. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute holds its inaugural symposia today comprised of a day-long series of presentations for the Harvard community that will explore to...'Crystal engineering' helps scientists solve 3-D protein structures
...from NIGMS' Protein Structure Initiative (PSI)--an ambitious 10-year project, launched in 2000, aimed at dramatically reducing the time and cost of solving protein structures. PSI researchers around the world are now working to determine the structures of thousands of proteins experimentally, using highly auto...Scientists crack genome sequence of a major parasitic pathogen
...msen. The sequencing project represents part of an ambitious University of Minnesota "microbial pathogenomics" research program to sequence the genomes of a wide range of human and animal pathogens. This information then can be used to understand the mechanisms by which these pathogens cause disease....There be dragons: New deep-sea predator species discovered
...e known," says Sutton, who is also a leader in the ambitious international effort to identify all ocean animal and plant species known as the Census of Marine Life. Sutton plucked the new dragonfish from a net being used to sample the study area's marine life. While identifying the catch on board, he realized ...New Seascape initiative stretches from Costa Rica to Ecuador and protects key marine habitats
...Jose, Costa Rica Feb 23, 2003 In one of the most ambitious marine conservation initiatives in the western hemisphere, four Latin American nations, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the United Nations Foundation (UN Foundation), Conservation International (CI) and others are consolidating a marine protected a...ESA prepares mission to search for life on Mars
...ome. A major step towards the realisation of this ambitious robotic programme was completed this week with the selection of two industrial teams to carry out the detailed design of the ExoMars rover and its Pasteur payload of scientific instruments. The parallel Phase A studies for ExoMars, the first Flagshi...Intelligent design: The new 'big tent' for evolution's critics
...cally oriented creationist movements, has the same ambitious agenda: to influence how science is taught in the nation's schools. In particular, they seek to weaken or eliminate the teaching of evolution - the dominant, unifying theory of modern biology - in public schools. Despite friction between the two camp...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...only a dream. Now it's been done, and an even more ambitious goal of following thousands of open-ocean predator... researchers Beginning in late 1999, an even more ambitious program, called Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (TOPP), was undertaken by Block and colleagues Dan Costa...Scientists await first call from Beagle
...ding 9 kg of science instruments. This is the most ambitious experiment package ever flown in space....First-ever UN University diploma offered to grads of online water-management course
...r of UNU-INWEH. "It is clear that to meet such an ambitious goal the world needs to train an enormous number of water managers, scientists, engineers and technologists. This initiative exploits the unprecedented opportunities available through modern technologies to greatly expand global educational opportun...$51 million research facility, classroom complex breaks ground at UH
...C) at the University of Houston is one of the most ambitious academic facilities in the Southwest. On hand to celebrate its groundbreaking Friday, Dec. 5, will be world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, the visionary behind the project. The synergy expected in this building will be powerful, as multiple disci...