Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams receives EPA research grant
...egawatt hour for plants equipped with state-of-the art scrubbers. Our previous research showed that climate change will make photochemical smog pollution worse. This means we need to cut pollution emissions more than if there were no climate change. In our future research, we will see if the same is tr......y, and jazz for local birds. Demarays concept of art for the birds hatched from a conversation with co-...r of human noise. The Rutgers-Camden scholar makes art that interacts with natural surroundings imagine spotting a tree donning a sweater or finding a roc...New imaging method clarifies nutrient cycle
...Journal, at www.nature.com/ismej. A state of the art NanoSIMS instrument (short for nanometer-scale, secondary ion mass spectrometry) located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory can image and measure minute amounts of chemical elements. Douglas Capone and Kenneth Nealson, USC Wrigley Professors...New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems
...designed, just like to design an elegant watch, an art object, a music instrument, a ski, or a pair of sunglasses, we have the ultimate control to the outcome of the structure and their properties Zhang added. This study stemmed from a scientific visit by Peter Laggner to Shuguang Zhang at MIT in Cam...News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
...undifferentiated state. About the state of the art in inhibiting kinases, proteins that are crucial for myriad cell processes and that are important in many types of cancers. ...A close-up on pancreatic disease: How do we improve the odds?
... process is influenced by the current state of the art in imaging," said Philip Bao, M.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., and lead investigator of the study. "CT imaging appears to be the most valuable strategy to predict resectability of pancreatic cancer compared to EUS, ...Oregon researchers involved in new Clovis-age impact theory
...ere students and faculty members from archaeology, art history, anthropology, biology, geology, geography, political science and psychology, pelted Kennett with questions. The researchers propose that a known reversal in the world's ocean currents and associated rapid global cooling, which some scienti...Work starts for EuroScience Open Forum 2008 Barcelona
... global warming Science policy Science and art Demography in an ageing Europe Screening: burdens and benefits Proposals to present leading scientific and technology issues and dynamic public outreach activities are invited by the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) for its third prestigious...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 2, 2007
...ns, C&EN managing editor Ivan Amato captured the art [Hyperlink] hidden inside chromatography columns, glassware, and other laboratory instrumentation displayed in McCorkmick Place's exposition hall during the March ACS National Meeting in Chicago. Here is a special 3-page photo spread in which C&EN ...Academy paleontologist and Alaska artist in line for natural history awards
...bet, has written blues songs about fish and is the art director for a traveling exhibition that opens June 2 at the Academy called Amazon Voyages: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches. For more on Troll, see www.trollart.com . "These individuals have broken new ground into the history and exotica of life,"...BCM, Rice make major advance in structural biology
...the atomic level," Ma said. "Xiaorui mastered this art at a very young age while she was still in high school." Chen attacked the problem, working goggled at her screen for hours on end. Taking minimal breaks she even learned to eat meals with the goggles on she chipped away at the enormous puzzle ho...2007 Communicator Award goes to glaciologists from Bremerhaven
...sed DVDs and other new media even in the field of art with their aesthetic and high-tech video installations, which they used to spread the word. The glaciologists have been in great demand, both amongst politicians and business leaders as well as interested lay-people, for discussion and as a source of...Engineering the heart piece by piece
...is paper, were presenting the current state of the art as it exists in our lab and others, and pointing out both potential applications and hurdles that remain. The paper presents a model for collaborative research between engineers, clinicians and biologists for successful cardiovascular tissue engi...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March 21, 2007
...rgonne National Laboratory are partners in a noted art conservation science program. Reporters will get briefings from program scientists and a behind-the-scenes tour of science labs, followed by a reception honoring ACS Grady-Stack Awardee Stuart Brown in the beautiful environs of the Institute. The eve...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March. 14, 2007
...rgonne National Laboratory are partners in a noted art conservation science program. Reporters will get briefings from program scientists and a behind-the-scenes tour of science labs, followed by a reception honoring ACS Grady-Stack Awardee Stuart Brown in the beautiful environs of the Institute. The eve...NAS announces Virtual Symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience
...s on topics such as artists in the lab, imaging in art and bioscience, and the sociological implications ...exhibition devoted entirely to the intersection of art and genetics. Anker teaches art history and theory at the School of Visual Arts in New York City whe...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 21, 2007
...rgonne National Laboratory are partners in a noted art conservation science program. Reporters will get briefings from program scientists and a behind-the-scenes tour of science labs, followed by a reception honoring ACS Grady-Stack Awardee Stuart Brown in the beautiful environs of the Institute. The eve...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- February 14, 2007
...rgonne National Laboratory are partners in a noted art conservation science program. Reporters will get briefings from program scientists and a behind-the-scenes tour of science labs, followed by a reception honoring ACS Grady-Stack Awardee Stuart Brown in the beautiful environs of the Institute. The eve...The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
...ts operate like roving bandits, using state of the art technologies to plunder the depths. Deep-water trawlers or draggers account for about 80% of the bottom fishing catch from the high seas. In a few hours, the massive nets that drag the bottom and weigh up to 15 tons, can destroy deep-sea corals an......rgonne National Laboratory are partners in a noted art conservation science program. Reporters will get briefings from program scientists and a behind-the-scenes tour of science labs, followed by a reception honoring ACS Grady-Stack Awardee Stuart Brown in the beautiful environs of the Institute. The ev...