Health of world's sea lions the focus of Wakefield Symposium
...he 21st Century, is the theme of the international science conference, coordinated by the Alaska Sea Grant College Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a host of Alaska state and federal agencies. Researchers from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New...DuPont introduces in-home personal protection from dangers of hurricanes
...TON, Del., Sept. 20, 2004 By integrating advanced science with 200-plus years of safety knowledge, DuPont is... StormRoom TM with Kevlar uses the same molecular science and high-performance material found in the bullet-resistant vests that help protect military personn...Green, leafy spinach may soon power cellphones and laptops
...t professor of electronic engineering and computer science at MIT. Baldo and other researchers from MIT, the University of Tennessee and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, including electrical and biomedical engineers, nanotechnology experts and biologists, collaborated on the world's first solid-state ph...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...ted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's science publication. Delmau, a researcher in ORNL's Chemi... the physical properties of ligands and separation science with an emphasis on thermodynamics, radiochemistry and physical chemistry. "Laetitia's selection by...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...ournal Science, published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society. "We're seeing evolution in action, but what's evolving here isn't an organism. It's a language system," Senghas said. "Languages essentially 'reproduce' when they are passed from one mind to the next -- that is, when they are learned by a ne...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...ing some of the brightest, most promising minds in science to a mainstream audience," said Mark Jannot, Editor in Chief of Popular Science. "This is a group of ten people largely unfamiliar to most, but their work will change our lives." The Third Annual Popular Science "Brilliant 10," in alphabetical order...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...eveloped by ChengXiang Zhai, professor of computer science and an expert on processing natural language for information retrieval. Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, professor of animal sciences and expert on designing microarray experiments, will pursue technologies to analyze the gene expressions. The experimental use...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...y, linking the disciplines of systems and computer science bioinformatics -- with genetics and molecular bio...ich keeps K-12 teachers and students up to date in science and engineering trends. Undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral researchers will get hands-on exp...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
...sense of it all? Probing today's most cutting-edge science and its far-reaching implications, WELCOME TO THE ...vering an important area too often overshadowed by science and technology. If the genome really is the book of life, then we have only just opened to the fi...Former US Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to speak at science symposium
...l research conducted in the areas of environmental science and subsurface science as they relate to energy, nuclear, and national security technology. Other speakers will include U...Research on carbohydrate metabolism receives historical recognition
...jor research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio ...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...vances in cell and molecular biology, biomaterials science and engineering and bioreactor design and function. Tissue engineering also fosters basic research, by providing physiologically relevant models of cells and tissues. "We've created this Center to meet the demand caused by the widening gap betwee...APS Foundation names student travel award recipients
...orldwide members advances the understanding of the science of plant pathology and its application to plant health....DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...mpanies in the world with recognized excellence in science and technology and in-depth knowledge of key markets....White House to honor UNC School of Medicine scientist for 'early career' achievement
...heir independent research careers in the fields of science and technology." The Presidential Awards are inten...foster innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, recognize the scientific m...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...rent aspects of optics, electronics, and materials science to bring the technology to the state of commercialization." Six oil-field sensor technologies are now licensed to Tubel Technologies of The Woodlands, Texas ( www.tubeltechnologies.com )....NJIT professor receives Presidential Award for breakthrough research with adult stem cells
...remony was presided over by John H. Marburger III, science advisor to the president and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Presidential Award, established in 1996, is the highest national honor for young scientists and engineers. Eight federal departments and agencies ...Snakehead in your inbox? Welcome to the nonindigenous Aquatic Species Alert System
...lton of Johnson Controls. "For the first time, the science community and nature hobbyists have a forum to exchange information and document the appearance of species in new locations."Nonindigenous aquatic species are members of a species that enter a body of water outside of their historic native range. An...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
...s research and education across all disciplines of science and engineering--to re-examine historical schemes for classifying Earth's living creatures, a process that was once based on easily observable traits. Microbes, plants or animals were said to be related if they shared certain, mostly physical, chara...