Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
...earchers also will enhance imaging technologies so intelligence and national and homeland security agencies can better identify and describe potential terrorism targets. Additionally,they will develop and improve ocean transport computer models that can analyze where a signature came from and predict where it's g...Carnegie Mellon researchers to demonstrate autonomous robotthat will seek life in Atacama Desert
...h time our robot is better able to use sensing and intelligence to find land forms or environmental conditions that could harbor life." "Ultimately, we want to create an astrobiologist without a space suit," said Nathalie Cabrol, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames and the SETI Institute, who will lead the sc...Study shows that genes can protect kids against poverty
...vercome these odds and, in fact, perform better on intelligence or behavioral tests than would be expected, given ...m a similar background, generally scored higher on intelligence tests. Kim-Cohen explains, "The warmth, mental stimulation and interest that parents pay toward the...Nerac to expand patent collection with 17 more resources
...years, Nerac's Information Specialists bring human intelligence to the search process and work one-on-one with clients to retrieve information from international engineering, scientific, patent and business resources. Based in Tolland, Connecticut, Nerac provides information services globally via the web at http...UF researcher: Animals think in their own way, but unlike humans
...cal, iconoclastic and witty look at the claims for intelligence and language in other species, often made by sincere-if-fluffy and sometimes just self-promoting scientists," said Jonathan Marks, a molecular anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of the book "What it Means to...'Springer' - A solution to water pollution?
...iplinary team including engineering and artificial intelligence experts. A wide range of industrial and public sector partners are also involved. Pollutants that affect inland and coastal waters include organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, which reduce water quality and disturb the natural balance of organism...Bioprocesses upstage traditional chemical processes
...ncies includes custom strategic consulting, market intelligence and management training. Our mission is to forge partnerships with our clients' management teams to deliver market insights and to create value and drive growth through innovative approaches. Frost & Sullivan's network of consultants, industry exper...World's first 'robot scientist' proves a major success in the lab
...s use to understand the world. Although artificial intelligence has made a number of significant contributions to scientific discovery over the past 30 years, its general impact on experimental science has been limited, but this may be about to change with the increased use of automation in scientific research. T...Quark Biotech generates a cholesterol-free mouse
... this cholesterol-free model will bring additional intelligence on how the body behaves, providing us with novel treatment endpoints suitable for novel strategies of drug discovery, for instance, for metabolic diseases." The resulting mild effects of the disruption of desmosterol reductase in this model contrast...Baboons identify each other by status and family
...ced the development of human social relationships, intelligence and language. During the 12 years, the researchers have become familiar with the social organization of the baboon troop and documented the existence of stable, long-term familial hierarchies within the troop. Baboon groups contain a number of adu...Whalley picked for keynote address at The Gerontological Society of America's 2003 Annual Meeting
..." and the head of a 65-year study linking youthful intelligence with a longer lifespan. He currently holds the position of professor of mental health at Aberdeen University's medical school. Whalley's 2001 book "The Aging Brain" displays an encouraging future for the human brain as it ages. His research demonstra...New therapies under development promise improved relief for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer patients
...encies include custom strategic consulting, market intelligence and management training. Our mission is to forge partnerships with our clients' management teams to deliver market insights and to create value and drive growth through innovative approaches. Frost & Sullivan's network of consultants, industry exper...Improving the body's 'homeland security' against TB
...on-dividing bacteria may be the best new source of intelligence in the fight against the disease....Nerac.com and Infinata partner to offer BioPharm Insight(TM) Resource
...nata. "The information we gather provides critical intelligence for business development groups at biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies looking to keep a keen eye on competitors, new licensing opportunities and the projected fate of their own products."...Three Pacific Northwest National Laboratory inventions win R&D 100 Awards
...d. Starlight was originally developed for the U.S. intelligence community to identify terrorist threats. That same...ips in a diverse array of arenas, from competitive intelligence and fraud detection to epidemiology and bioinformatics. In one application, a Global 100 company is...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
...stems to produce a machine capable of matching the intelligence of even the simplest organism. "We're attempting to create an entity that over time will evolve, learn, and express itself through art," said Potter, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emor......al targets. Dolphins, on the other hand, have the intelligence to differentiate between natural and man made objects, so they are our best tool for reacquisition tasks," notes Christopher von Alt, leader of the WHOI engineering team that developed REMUS for the Navy. "When these two are combined with diver supp...Hebrew University researcher wins prize for work leading to new anti-cancer drugs
...4 and married, was born in Haifa and served in the intelligence corps of the Israel Defense Forces before commencing his studies in chemistry and biochemistry in the Amirim honors program at the Hebrew University. He subsequently earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry at the university and is now plan...No detectable risk from mercury in seafood, study shows
...mercury levels did better on some neurological and intelligence tests than their counterparts. That may be because those children's mothers with the higher mercury ate more fish. This study, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is being done with colleagues at the University of Ulste...'Work stinks': It's more than just a slogan among ants, researchers find
...elecommunications, computer networking, artificial intelligence and robotics. In fact, earlier studies on ant interactions by Gordon and other scientists have inspired engineers to design robots capable of interacting and performing tasks in unpredictable situations. Research on ant colonies is even being used to...