Prototype space probe prepares to explore Earth's deepest sinkhole
...n Del Valle, Texas, heads the exploration project, named DEPTHX after the robot, a deep phreatic thermal explorer that NASA funded with $5 million. In addition to the geoscientists from The University of Texas at Austin, collaborators include robotics experts, engineers, geobiologists and geochemists from ...SNMTS provides $50,000 in 2007 Paul Cole, Mickey Williams Minority Student Technologist Scholarships
... MDS Nordion. Additionally, 30 individuals were named recipients of Paul Cole scholarships, each providing $1,000 to students enrolled in associate, baccalaureate or certificate programs in nuclear medicine technology. These scholarships are based on financial need, statements of goals, academic perform...New study suggests special cocoa may lead to sustained improvement in blood vessel function
... The Journal of the American College of Cardiology named another study conducted by a collaborative group of researchers in Germany, the University of California, Davis and Mars examining the effects of this specific cocoa on blood vessel function to be one of the major advancements in cardiovascular resea...Third annual Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships awarded to 10 noted journalists
...maker. The Templeton-Cambridge Journalism fellows named today are: Sandra Blakeslee, Science Reporter, New York Times Andrew Brown, Feature Writer, Guardian Richard Denton, Documentary Filmmaker Juliet Eilperin, National Environmental Reporter, Washington Post Michael Fitzgerald, ...Discovery of new cave millipedes casts light on Arizona cave ecology
...ries are likely. The new millipede genus will be named in honor of NAU ecologist, John Prather, who died last year. Wynne, also an associate curator with the Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity, is also developing methods for detecting caves using thermal remote sensing imagery. Once proc...Three young scientists at Yale honored with Sloan Foundation Fellowships
...e most compelling interest to him or her. Those named at Yale are Assistant Professor Jack Harris ( Physics and Applied Physics ), Associate Professor Brian Scassellati ( Computer Science ), Assistant Professor Susumu Tomita ( Cellular & Molecular Physiology , and the Interdepartmental Neuroscien...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...the chance of publishing (one such presentation is named "dancing with journals") and applying for and winning research funding. Experimental Biology itself has arranged a number of sessions on topics of interest, including "NIH at the Crossroads: How Diminished Funds Will Impact Biomedical Research a...Scientists will discuss creating a culture of sustainability February 19 at AAAS
...a specific focus on human behavior. "[MAHB] was named to emphasize that it is human behavior toward one another and toward the planetary systems that sustain us that requires assessment and modification," Ehrlich said. In 2006, he participated in a pilot MAHB project led by the Woods Institute that focu...Johnson & Johnson announces call for nominations
...igator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was named the inaugural recipient of the Award in September 2006 for his work in RNA interference (RNAi). Dr. Mello was later co-awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution related to the discovery of to RNAi. More information...Physicist S. James Gates, Jr. receives AAAS award
... world's largest general scientific society, today named physicist S. James Gates, Jr. of the University of...rt envisioned by Albert Einstein. When Gates was named the first Toll professor at Maryland, he became the first African American to hold an endowed chair ...NIH funds innovative alzheimer's research initiated at UCSB
...ile carbon molecule known as C60, which scientists named buckminsterfullerene after American architect R. Buckminster Fuller, who designed geodesic domes in a soccer-ball shape. Our ion mobility and mass spectrometry methods provide a new way to attack the molecular basis of neurological diseases that has ...2006 AAAS International Scientific Cooperation Award goes to Arizona State U. landscape ecologist
...he world's largest general scientific society, has named a pioneering landscape ecologist from Arizona State University to receive the 2006 International Scientific Cooperation Award. Jianguo Wu, director of the Landscape Ecology Modeling Laboratory at Arizona State, was cited for his outstanding contri......ular in tropical aquariums. The green swordtail is named after the striking sword-like growth, which males develop on their tail-fin, so they appear larger and more attractive to females. The females in the group that were shown males with long 'swords' reached sexual maturity earlier than those that we...New protein super-family discovered with critical functions for animal life
...thor of the study. The new protein superfamily is named "DANGER," an acronym for "Differentiation and Neuronal Growth Evolve Rapidly." The discovery was led by Patterson and Damian van Rossum, a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, and collaborators at Johns Hopkins Unive...Free public events at the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
... after earning his masters degree. In 2002, he was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the University of Michigans College of Engineering. Together with Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee o...Researcher to study astronaut bone loss for space biology agency
...a, San Francisco, was one of only three scientists named in January 2007 as 2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellows by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). Long's NSBRI research project will focus on the causes and possible methods of treating or preventing bone loss resulting from the prolon......ed in the sequencing effort is a Thoroughbred mare named Twilight from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Researchers obtained the DNA from a small sample of the animal's blood. To download a high-resolution photo of Twilight, go to http://www.genome.gov/pressDisplay.cfm?photoID=20008 . Twilight is stable...EO Lawrence Award goes to 8 scientists and engineers
..., DC -- Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today named eight winners of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award. The Lawrence Award honors scientists and engineers at mid-career for exceptional contributions in research and development that support the Department of Energy and its mission to advance the natio...Researchers discover master metabolism regulator with profound effect on fat metabolism
...scovered that this regulatory substance, an enzyme named GCN2 eIF2alpha kinase, has an unexpectedly profound impact on fat metabolism. "Some results of our experiments suggest interventions that might help treat obesity, prevent Type II diabetes and heart attacks, or ameliorate protein malnutrition," said......abase only exist as sequences and have nether been named or extensively studied. Those are termed SLOTUs, or species-level taxonomic units. Taxonomy and the study results To distinguish organisms from one another, biologists group and categorize them. Species or SLOTUs are small categories. There...