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Mexican Woods Offer a Look at California Forests' Past.
August 1, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A largely unmanaged forest in Mexico holds lessons for improving the health of California wildlands, according to University of...

University of Florida Author: Universities Should Transform Themselves for 21st Century.
August 1, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- American universities should reinvent themselves to better meet the demands of the 21st century, says a University of Florida researcher. "The biggest...

How the Brain Responds to Injury or Disease Described by University of Virginia Researchers.
August 1, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- When the brain is threatened - from trauma or stroke or from diseases like AIDS, multiple sclerosis or cancer - the body's protective immune...

Dialysis Treatment Choice Affects Risk of Death in Patients With End-Stage Kidney Disease; CHOICE Study Finds Risk of Death Increases with Peritoneal Dialysis Over Hemodialysis.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that in people with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD), choosing peritoneal dialysis over hemodialysis increases their...

Surgery Gives Fresh Start to Patients With Thickened Hearts.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients who have surgery for a thickened heart muscle, a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people, don't just get symptom relief; their mortality rates match...

Specialty Grain Manual Covers Business by the Book.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Farmers who grow specialty grains know that to market their product they've got to conduct business by the book. Trouble is, they've not had a book to go by -...

Cracking the Perception Code.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to...

Master Regulatory Gene Found That Guides Fate of Blood-Producing Stem Cells; Discovery May Lead to New Therapies For Leukemia, Other Blood Disorders.
August 2, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that a protein called NF-Ya activates several genes known to regulate the...

Penn Researchers Discover Key to How SARS Virus Infects Cells; Inhibitors of Cellular Enzymes Could Be Developed for SARS Treatment.
August 2, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that inhibitors of an enzyme called cathepsin L prevent the SARS...

Developing Countries, Agriculture, Aquaculture to Benefit From University of North Carolina at Wilmington Professor's Life's Work Studying Watermold.
August 3, 2005... Byline: University of North Carolina at Wilmington WILMINGTON, N.C., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Every year, several species of watermold cause major economic losses around the world, particularly in sugar beets and peas as well as...

Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths.
August 3, 2005... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals...

Computer Model Could Help Prevent Flu Pandemic.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Close disease surveillance and targeted use of anti-viral drugs could be enough to keep a small outbreak of avian flu from becoming the first influenza...

Scientists Discover Anti-Cancer Mechanism That Arrests Early Prostate Cancer.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death for men in the United States, is caused by changes in several tumor suppressor genes including...

NASA's Spitzer Finds Hidden, Hungry Black Holes.
August 3, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most of the biggest black holes in the universe have been eating cosmic meals behind closed doors - until now. With its sharp infrared eyes, NASA's...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Researchers Use Space Age Technology to Help Understand Stone Age Diets; Science Journal 'Nature' Reports Findings in Aug. 4 Issue.
August 4, 2005... Byline: Worcester Polytechnic Institute WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- What did our early ancestors eat? A Worcester Polytechnic Institute research team is helping anthropologists and paleoanthropologists better answer that...

FITS for Fun: Create Spectacular Pictures in Minutes.
August 8, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the release of version 2 of the popular ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator image processing software it is now easier and faster than ever before...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Researchers Discover Enzyme Calcineurin Contributes to Glaucoma; Use Drug to Block Retinal Ganglion Cell Death.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary BOSTON, Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Glaucoma causes blindness by killing retinal ganglion cells, the cells that make up the optic nerve. The biggest risk factor for developing glaucoma is elevated...

Forest Service Scientist Uses X-Rays to Understand Wood-Decay Mechanism.
August 8, 2005... Byline: USDA Forest Service - Forest Products Laboratory MADISON, Wis., Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The innovative use of sophisticated physics technology by a USDA Forest Service biologist has led to fundamental advances in understanding...

Study Yields Mixed Results on Potential for Pine Trees to Store Extra Carbon Dioxide.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Duke University MONTREAL, Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Southern pines appear to grow and conserve water somewhat better in the carbon-dioxide-enriched atmosphere expected by mid-century, a Duke University study has found. However,...

Freeze-Dried Mats of Microbes Awaken in Antarctic Stream Bed, University of Colorado at Boulder Study Says.
August 8, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- An experiment in a dry Antarctic stream channel has shown that a carpet of freeze-dried microbes that lay dormant for two decades sprang to life one day...

Cause of Diabetes-Related Erectile Dysfunction Is Clarified by Johns Hopkins Researchers.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study from the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins suggests an oversupply of a simple blood sugar could be a major cause of erectile...

Mayo Clinic Says Open Nephron-Sparing Surgery for Kidney Tumors Remains 'Gold Standard'.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Urologists often view less-invasive surgery techniques as more desirable for the patient, but in a study of open nephron-sparing surgeries (NSS) from 1985 to 2001 at Mayo...

Skin Cancers Growing in Young People: A Case for Prevention.
August 9, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers in young adults has increased significantly in the last three decades, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published in...

Carnegie Mellon Rover Heads to Atacama Desert in Chile for Final Mission in 3-Year Search for Life; Crew to Leave Pittsburgh on Aug. 17.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers and their colleagues from NASA's Ames Research Center and the universities of Tennessee, Arizona and Iowa, as well as...

International Team Maps Rice Genome; Genetic Sequence of World's Most Important Crop Holds Promise for Growing Human Population.
August 10, 2005... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers with the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP) have published the "finished" DNA blueprint for a crop that feeds over half of the...

High Carbon Dioxide Levels Spur Southern Pines to Grow More Needles.
August 10, 2005... Byline: Duke University MONTREAL, Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Duke University study has found that maturing stands of pines exposed to the higher levels of carbon dioxide expected by mid-century produce more needles than those...

Researchers Take 'Fantastic Voyage' Through Human Body; Rochester Institute of Technology Showcases Landmark Medical Imaging Project.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using revolutionary medical imaging technology, researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are providing a better understanding of the human body...

New Advance Could Alter Field of Mouse Genetics.
August 11, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have harnessed a mobile gene from the cabbage looper moth and modified it for routine use to determine the...

Inka Textile Devices Served as Business Ledgers; Computer Analysis Reveals Numerical, Other Patterns in Knotted Objects.
August 11, 2005... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- While most ancient cultures recorded civil matters and business transactions by inscribing characters on two-dimensional sheets, new evidence shows Peru's...

Five New Universities Asked to Submit Proposals for Curriculum Enrichment as Part of Carnegie Corporation's Initiative on Journalism.
August 12, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Corporation New York, Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today that five additional journalism schools at major research universities have been asked to...

Students Zap Their Way to Improved Education.
August 12, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University is pushing the trend of using "clickers" - handheld, remote control-like student feedback devices - to the next level by wiring computers in...

Annual Turtle Study by University of Georgia, Davidson College Researchers Shows Continued Decline.
August 12, 2005... Byline: University of Georgia AIKEN, S.C., Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists studying diamondback terrapins, a type of salt-marsh turtle found along the eastern coast of the United States, have documented a pattern of decline again...

Parents Can Help Teens Choose 'Good' Friends, Study Finds.
August 13, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- While parents often worry about the influence peers have on their adolescent children, a new study indicates that they can play a role in helping their teens choose...

Bad Preparation Puts Community College Students at Risk, Says Stanford Business School Researcher.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The United States once produced the highest percentage of bachelor's degrees in the world but now trails behind five other countries including...

Teachers Choosing to Teach Close to Home May Disadvantage Urban Schools, Says Stanford Business School.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business Researcher STANFORD, Calif, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Urban schools and those with lower-performing students tend to employ the least qualified teachers. But contrary to popular belief,...

Illegal Destruction of Coral Reefs Worsened Impact of Tsunami.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The illegal mining of corals off the southwest coast of Sri Lanka permitted far more onshore destruction from the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami than occurred in nearby...

Dual-Drug Therapy Targets One Colon Cancer Gene.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have found that interferon, used for 30 years to treat blood cancers, multiple sclerosis and hepatitis,...

New Study Links Childhood Poverty, Heart Attacks in Women.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Duke University PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Women with disadvantaged childhoods are more likely to have a heart attack in old age, but men who grow up under similar conditions are not, according to a new study by...

Galactic Survey Reveals New Look for Milky Way.
August 16, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the most comprehensive structural analysis of our galaxy and have found...

Mayo Researchers Explore Reasons for Complications with Kidney Failure Patients.
August 16, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers searching for explanations of high mortality rates among kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis are focusing their attention on the use of...

DePaul University Studies Find Community-Based Recovery Homes Result in High Success Rates For Recovering Addicts; Evaluation of Oxford Houses Reveals Low Substance Abuse After 24 Months.
August 17, 2005... Byline: DePaul University CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sometimes simple solutions work best when it comes to solving even the most critical societal problems: Two studies to be released at the annual meeting of the American...

Survey Ranks University of British Columbia a Top U.S. Patent Powerhouse.
August 17, 2005... Byline: University of British Columbia VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of British Columbia has earned a top ranking among universities in a survey of U.S. patents issued in 2004. Published in...

Research Suggests Fitness of Florida Panthers Improved by Limited Breeding With Texas Animals.
August 17, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The number of living Florida panthers has grown from a previously estimated 30 to a recently counted 87 as a result of a controversial breeding effort to improve the...

Urgent Need for Faster Improvement in Nevada Schools, Says WestEd Report; Near-Bottom National Rankings Can Be Corrected by Seven Crucial Statewide Actions.
August 18, 2005... Byline: WestEd CARSON CITY, Nev., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new WestEd report details the reasons behind the current standing of Nevada's education system and recommends seven actions to spur needed improvements on behalf of Nevada's...

Imaging Technology Shown to Detect Pancreatic Inflammation in Type 1 Diabetes.
August 18, 2005... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A key obstacle to early detection of type 1 diabetes - as well as to rapid assessment of the effectiveness of therapeutic intervention - has been the lack of direct,...

Despite Gains, Women Still Face Bias in Science Careers.
August 18, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite gains in the training of women scientists and the implementation of programs to help women overcome ingrained barriers, the career path of most...

Full Moon in August: Time for Coral to Spawn; Researchers Have Once-a-Year Chance to Observe, Study Coral Spawning.
August 18, 2005... Byline: University of North Carolina at Wilmington VIRGINIA KEY, Fla., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the Florida Keys, the August full moon represents a unique and precious event: annual coral spawning for some of the most threatened...

University of Maryland Medical Center Performs First U.S. Implant of New, Advanced Heart Pump.
August 19, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cardiac surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center are the first in the United States to implant a new, third generation heart pump as part of...

Rochester Institute of Technology Study Benchmarks Quality of Digital Archiving in American Museums; Researchers Find Wide Diversity in Quality, Use of Scientific Protocols.
August 19, 2005... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology have discovered a wide range of quality in the digital images being produced by American museums,...

More Women Receive Ph.D.'s, But Female Senior Faculty Still Rare; New Study Examines Cultural Issues That Affect Advancement.
August 19, 2005... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite gains over recent years in the number of women who receive Ph.D.'s in science and engineering fields, a relative few go on to assume high-level...

Researchers Devise New Technique for Creating Human Stem Cells.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have developed a new technique for creating human embryonic stem cells by fusing adult somatic cells...

Electronic Database Studies May Not Accurately Estimate Risk of Heart Attack Among Users of Naproxen, Ibuprofen; Epidemiological Survey Study Links Heart Protection With Non-Aspirin, Non-Steroidal Drugs.
August 22, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- It is well known that aspirin, a non-selective, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that inhibits cyclooxygenase (COX), reduces the risk...

New Research Hones Earthquake Model for Los Angeles Basin; Scientists Identify Five Southern California Faults With Underestimated Seismic Hazard.
August 23, 2005... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using computer models compiled by the Southern California Earthquake Center, a pair of University of Massachusetts researchers have made a...

Spiders Help Scientists Discover How Muscles Relax.
August 24, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using muscle tissue from tarantulas, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar and his colleagues have figured out the...

Brain Activity in Youth May Presage Alzheimer's Pathology.
August 24, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers who used five different medical imaging techniques to study the brain activity of 764 people, including...

Climate Model Links Higher Temperatures to Prehistoric Extinction.
August 24, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have created a computer simulation showing Earth's climate in unprecedented...

Cellular Power Plants Also Fend Off Viruses.
August 25, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered a surprise lurking inside mitochondria, the power plants that are present in every cell. It turns out that these powerhouses...

Decisions, Decisions: Male or Female? How Germ Cells Decide Whether to Be Sperm or Eggs.
August 26, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins biologists have determined how developing embryos tell their specialized "germ cells" whether to develop into a male's sperm or a female's eggs. ...

New Images Reveal Different Magma Pools Form Ocean's Crust.
August 26, 2005... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, scientists have produced images of the oceanic crust and found that the upper and lower layers of the crust are likely formed...

Magpie Deaths Worry West Nile Virus Researchers.
August 26, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California at Davis researchers studying the effects of West Nile virus on wild bird populations report an alarming number of deaths among...

Green Catalyst Destroys Toxic Compounds in Pesticides and Munitions, Reports Carnegie Mellon at American Chemical Society Meeting.
August 28, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A chemical catalyst developed at Carnegie Mellon University completely destroys dangerous nitrophenols in laboratory tests, according to Arani Chanda, a doctoral...

Duke University Chemists Find Possible Reason Why Redheads Have More Skin Cancer.
August 28, 2005... Byline: Duke University WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Duke University chemist has found differences in how ultraviolet light affects the photochemistry of human pigments that he says may explain why red-haired people are more...

Writing at Nanoscale; Brookhaven's 'Electro Pen' May Impact Host of Developing Nanotechnologies.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- At the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists have developed a new chemical "writing" technique that can create lines of...

Scientists Describe New Way to Peer Inside Bacteria; X-Rays Yield Pictures, Chemical Clues That May Help Trace Contaminants, Thwart Terrorists.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of the search for better ways to track and clean up soil contaminants, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory...

Theorists Devise Way to Tell One Form of Dark Energy From Another.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- What is the mysterious dark energy that's causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate? Is it some form of Einstein's famous cosmological...

U.S. Poverty Statistics 'A Lie,' Duke Professor Says.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Census Bureau poverty statistics scheduled to be released Tuesday likely will underestimate the nation's poor by more than 10 million people, largely because the...

Ozone Layer Decline Leveling Off, According to Collaborative Study.
August 29, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new global study involving long-term data from satellites and ground stations indicates Earth's ozone layer, while still severely depleted following...

Changes in Ozone Layer Offer Hope for Improvement, Says Team of Scientists.
August 30, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Analysis of several different satellite records and surface monitoring instruments indicates that the ozone layer is no longer declining, according to a study by...

Cassini Finds Enceladus Tiger Stripes Are Really Cubs.
August 30, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Cassini spacecraft has discovered the long, cracked features dubbed "tiger stripes" on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are very young -- between 10 and 1,000...

Modified Collagen Could Yield Important Medical Applications; Altered Protein Could Help Deliver Drugs, Shape Growth of Engineered Tissue.
August 30, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Collagen often pops up in beauty products and supermodel lips. But by mating collagen with a molecular hitchhiker, materials scientists at Johns Hopkins hope to...

Fuel Cells Might Get Hydrogen From Water, Organic Material.
August 31, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A novel technique for producing hydrogen from water and organic material has been found recently at Purdue University, a discovery that could help speed the...

San Diego Supercomputer Center Team Supports Tsunami Reconnaissance Data Collection; Information to Be Utilized for Research, to Rebuild, Prepare for Future Natural Disasters.
August 31, 2005... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 20 NSF-funded scientific reconnaissance teams went to work in Asia capturing data from the 2004 Tsunami - the deadliest in recorded history....

Groundbreaking Research Sheds Light on Ancient Mystery; Rochester Institute of Technology Researcher Creates New Population Model to Help Predict, Prevent Societal Collapse.
August 31, 2005... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology is unraveling a mystery surrounding Easter Island. William Basener, assistant professor of...