American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...s media registration is now open for the 234th ACS national meeting, which will be held in Boston, Mass., on A...ill be devoted to breaking news from the ACS 234th national meeting in Boston. New ACS Annual ReportThe 2006 ACS annual report, A New Vision at Work, can be ...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
...sts, are undertaken in the Canadian Rocky Mountain national parks but are rare outside of them, Roland said. Roland has completed earlier studies that showed expanding forests are restricting Parnassius's movements in parts of the Rocky Mountains. He feels his latest study is a natural extension of his prev...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...ence and Technology Symposium is a great forum for national laboratories and academia to collaborate with the Air Force command designated to conduct Cyberspace operations, General Elder said. The initial two-day meeting introduced each organization in attendance, focusing on their capabilities and current ...UK scientists working to help cut ID theft
...g rhythm. Currently they are predominantly used in national government systems for border control or criminal justice. They could equally be used in a domestic context to reduce identity theft by helping to secure bank accounts or corporate IT systems. For example the use of fingerprint readers when paying by...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...identify agendas for improving science policies on national and European levels, commented Dr. Christoph Ettl,...s for improved science policies for such fields at national and European levels. A Forward Look requires up to three years until its final report is publishe...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
... depends. National statistics show that visits to national and state parks have fallen off by as much as 25 percent in the last decade. Across the pond, a recent survey of British school children found that more children knew the characters of the electronic game Pokemon than could recognize an oak tree or ......dies. StudiesMany African countries have adopted national plans for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management, but often lack basic information on the rates and extent of environmental change. According to Nadine Laporte (Woods Hole Research Center), space-based earth monitoring technologies can p...Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
...t the effects of global warming, scientists told a national meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). These results from the decade-long Free Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) experiment in a Duke University forest suggest that proposals to bank extra CO2 from human activities in such trees may depend ...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...logy developments to enhance Americas economic and national security, said U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bod...nsing capabilities will allow watchdog agencies or national security organizations to covertly or overtly monitor the signatures of chemicals emitted from suspe...American Chemical Society meets Aug. 19-23 in Boston
...nd theater. The American Chemical Societys 234th national meeting will feature more than 9,500 scientific presentations on health, medicine, environment, energy, nutrition, nanotechnology and other topics. More than 15,000 scientists and others are expected to gather for the event, held in the Boston Conven...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...s media registration is now open for the 234th ACS national meeting, which will be held in Boston, Mass., on A...ill be devoted to breaking news from the ACS 234th national meeting in Boston. General Chemistry Glossary http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/glossa...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
...ntists are among several groups collaborating with national and global anti-doping organizations to develop a ... the National Institutes of Health, and the French national blood bank, Etablissement Francais du Sang Pays de Loire. The agreement allows Snyder and Moullier t...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...gs in remote lakes in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks and the John Muir Wilderness. The sites were areas where previous frog populations had been wiped out by chytridiomycosis. Out of 10 reintroduction attempts over the past four years, seven have failed, the authors said. "Within two years, t...Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...heir migration route safe through a combination of national marine parks, marine protected areas and ocean zoning," Boersma said. During the week of Aug. 20, the scientists will select six adult male penguins from rehabilitation centers at San Clemente del Tuyu and Mar del Plata, coastal towns m...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
... Health and Human Services (DHHS) established as a national goal reducing lead blood levels to no greater than 25 micrograms per deciliter (the equivalent of 250 parts per billion) by 2000 and no greater than 10 micrograms per deciliter (100 parts per billion) for 2010. The departments Centers for Disease Con...National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
...asive species impact ecology. NEON will serve as a national laboratory to gather long-term data on ecological responses of the biosphere to changes in land use and climate, and on feedbacks with the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. NEON is the first initiative in the biological sciences to be support...ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
...h the 2007 ASAE Communication Gold Circle Award, a national awards competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives & The Center for Association Leadership in Washington, D.C. Both MicrobeWorld Radio and Small Things Considered have received very positive feedback from students, profe...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...re selected by a two-stage process, firstly at the national level by the relevant Participating Organisation and secondly at the international level by high-level scientific panels managed by the ESF. ESF's role in the coordination and selection processes of EURYI is supported by funds from the European Commi...New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
...ase lets researchers tap into information from two national studies of BD families collected over 20 years through patient surveys and interviews. The studies included patients with well-documented bipolar disorder who had first-degree relatives with a major mood illness. Described this month in The Amer...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...s media registration is now open for the 234th ACS national meeting, which will be held in Boston, Mass., on August 19-23, 2007, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and more than a dozen hotels across the city. More than 15,000 scientists and others are expected to attend this scientific extravagan...