Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...nd Omkaram Nalamasu, professor of chemistry with a joint appointment in materials science and engineering. Senior research specialist Victor Pushparaj, along with postdoctoral research associates Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Ashavani Kumar, and Saravanababu Murugesan, were co-authors and lead researchers of the ......onal Park Service. The parks creation represents a joint effort by the Government of Chubut, the National Parks Service of Argentina, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Fundacin Patagonia Natural. This decision represents a significant commitment by the government to protect one of the most product...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
...ob Pohlad (Ferrum College) will be held during the joint meeting of ESA and the Society for Ecological Restoration. Richard Louv, whose 2005 book Last Child in the Woods called nation-wide attention to the nature deficit in U.S. children, is keynote speaker for the symposium. The session will feature ...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...rate at lower energy levels as the result of a new joint technology developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Swagelok Company of Solon, Ohio. ORNL researchers Vinod Sikka, Dane Wilson, Jun Qu and Peter Blau of the laboratorys Industrial Technologies Program have conducted collaborative research on th...National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
...) and the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) joint meeting in San Jose, California, August 5-10, 2007...focus of NEON complements the theme of the ESA/SER joint meeting, Ecological Restoration in a Changing World. Society depends on ecosystems in the same way i...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
...mony at the ESA-Society for Ecological Restoration joint meeting in San Jose, California on Monday, August 6, 2007. E. Lucy Braun Award Daniel Laughlin The E. Lucy Braun Award for Excellence in Ecology is given to a student for the most outstanding poster presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting. The ...New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
... disorder. The Bipolar Disorder Phenome Databasea joint project of Johns Hopkins Psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Healthis the first of its kind, offering detailed descriptions of symptoms and course of disease on more than 5,000 people with bipolar illness, a mood disorder commonly marked ...US Department of Defense awards $1.6 million for implantable biochip research
...he Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program and is a joint study with the department of molecular pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Telesensors Inc. in Knoxville, Tenn....News conference on plant diseases and issues important to California
.... PST. The news conference will be held during the joint meeting of The American Phytopathological Society (APS) and the Society of Nematologists (SON) in San Diego, California. Leading plant disease experts will provide an update on the following topics: Food Safety/Preventing Contamination of Fr...Prenatal alcohol exposure alters brain activity in the frontal-striatal areas
...ate University/University of California, San Diego joint doctoral program in Clinical Psychology. "Experts estimate that nine per 1000 births in this country show evidence of clinically significant effects of prenatal alcohol exposure." Inattention and behavioral disinhibition are considered hallmark fe...University of Leeds strengthens China links in membrane and neurobiology
...er at Leeds. Weve already held a highly successful joint symposium at Beijing University, at which a number...ral short term exchanges and a range of associated joint pilot research projects. Particular areas of research interest include ion channels, which play crit...New joint replacement material developed at MGH put to first clinical use
... performed the first total hip replacement using a joint socket lined with a novel material invented at the...s. We think this material could be used for any joint in the body and in any implant design, even those demanding higher flexion and more mobility, says O...Scientists to make news at Computational Biology Conference
...ientists from all over the world. It is the second joint gathering of two major conferences: the 15th Annua...a Center Vienna, from July 19th to 25th. The first joint conference was held in 2004 in Glasgow, with more than 2000 attendees. Vienna is on track to attract...Bull's-eye -- Programs targeting math, science teacher shortage may get boost
... Susan Williams, an associate professor holding joint appointments in UHs education and NSM colleges, is the first master teacher. She earned bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics and a doctorate in education in curriculum and instruction, with a specialization in mathematics education. After 1...Plant diseases and issues that are of importance to California's economy and agriculture
.... PST. The news conference will be held during the joint meeting of The American Phytopathological Society (APS) and the Society of Nematologists (SON) in San Diego, California. Leading plant disease experts will provide an update on the following topics: Food Safety/Preventing Contamination of Fres...Throwing motion in young baseball players may actually protect shoulder
... To evaluate the adaptive changes in the shoulder joint of overhead throwing athletes, Dr. Mair and colleagues followed 32 male baseball players between 13 and 21 years of age for six years to study changes in range of motion, strength, and X-ray images. The researchers found that the act of throwing ca...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
..., while supporting the mechanical structure of the joint during the healing process. Our ultimate goal is for the SeriACL Graft to serve the patient over his or her lifetime, Altman added. Prior to our study, no one has shown successful 12 month ACL regeneration data in a large-animal model with an off-t...Researchers witness natural selection at work in dramatic comeback of male butterflies
...r of the study and a post-doctoral researcher with joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and University College London. "This study shows that when a population experiences very intense selective pressures, such as an extremely skewed sex ratio, evolution can happen very fast." Th......aboration was Kevin Lesko, a physicist who holds a joint appointment with UC Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). This is a great event for science and engineering, said Lesko. Clearly the NSF site selection committee members did their homewo...Biodesign Institute leads innovative project to prevent cancer
...leased to see this important project launching our joint efforts in the Mayo Clinic/ASU Center for Cancer-related Convergence, Cooperation and Collaboration (MAC5). The research work will be performed at the Biodesign Institutes Center for Innovations in Medicine and Mayo Clinics new Collaborative Resear...