AScribe Science News Service articles from April 2006

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Purdue Defends Title in Rube Goldberg Nationals.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers defended their national title in complexity and inefficiency during Saturday's (April 1) 18th National Rube Goldberg...

Teragrid '06: Advancing Scientific Discovery; June 12-15, 2006, Indianapolis; Register Now for TeraGrid's First Annual Conference; Student Contest Submissions Due April 28.
April 4, 2006... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON,Va., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Get Ready! Get Set! Let's race over to Indy in June to explore the applications of cyberinfrastructure for advancing scientific discovery! Registration opens...

Political Science Students Survey Mexican Expatriates About Election.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three months before Mexico votes for its new president, a Purdue University political science professor and his students are learning how interested Mexican...

Biotechnology Conference: University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory Experts List, Fact Sheet for BIO 2006 Convention April 9-12.
April 5, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory are among the primary sponsors of the BIO 2006 Annual International Convention, which will bring more than...

New Cassini Saturn Image Shows 'A' Ring Contains More Debris Than Once Believed.
April 6, 2006... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Views of Saturn's stunning ring system from above by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft now orbiting the planet indicate the prominent A ring contains more...

University of Wisconsin-Madison Presence at BIO 2006 in Chicago to Highlight Stem Cell Leadership, New Bioscience Technology Transfer Advances.
April 6, 2006... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following Monday's blockbuster announcement of a $150 million public-private investment in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the University of...

NASA Joins Partners for Ocean Surface Topography Mission.
April 11, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA has signed an agreement with other U.S. and international agencies to launch the Ocean Surface Topography Mission in 2008. The satellite, named...

Cell Surface Profiling Technique Could Yield Cancer Blood Test.
April 12, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A chemical profiling technique that has potential for detecting the onset of cancer at the cellular level has been developed by scientists with...

NASA'S Mars Rovers Head for New Sites After Studying Layers of Terrain.
April 12, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit has reached a safe site for the Martian winter, while its twin, Opportunity, is making fast progress toward a destination of its...

1906 Earthquake, Seismological Society of America Celebrate 100 Years.
April 13, 2006... Byline: Seismological Society of America SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Aftershocks of the great 18 April San Francisco earthquake were still being felt on 30 August 1906, when California scientists, engineers, and government...

Preparing for Future Earthquakes With Early Warning and Alerting Systems: Discussion at Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting April 21.
April 13, 2006... Byline: Seismological Society of America SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) systems detect earthquakes in real time and may provide up to tens of seconds of warning before strong and damaging...

New Student-Designed System Tracks Firefighters, Special Forces.
April 13, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The old technique of using push pins and maps to track troop movements just got a radical new upgrade for soldiers or firefighters in rugged terrains. A...

Official Delegation Visited Danforth Center to Discuss Partnership to Create Malaysian Plant Research Facility.
April 13, 2006... Byline: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A delegation of 16 senior government officials from Malaysia visited the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to tour the facility, learn about the St....

Mars Cameras Debut as NASA Craft Adjusts Orbit.
April 13, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers today released the first Mars images from two of the three science cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Images taken by the...

NASA to Webcast Minotaur Launch of Cosmic Spacecraft.
April 13, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate, or COSMIC, is set to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 5:10 p.m....

Carnegie Mellon Dedicates Statue of Its First Ph.D. Graduate; Leading Chinese Engineer Graduated in 1919.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, April 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University will unveil and dedicate a statue of famed Chinese engineer, educator and alumnus Mao Yisheng on its campus at a 4:30 p.m. ceremony on...

Photo Release: Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky.
April 18, 2006... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hubble has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud - two sparkling sets...

Earth Day: News Tips From University of Virginia.
April 19, 2006... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- To assist in your reporting on Earth Day (Saturday, April 22) and the stewardship of our resources, the University of Virginia has experts in a number of...

Team of Franklin & Marshall Geologists Discovers New Fault Lines in San Andreas Fault System.
April 19, 2006... Byline: Franklin & Marshall College SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Franklin & Marshall geologists has discovered a new active fault in northern coastal California, it was announced today at the annual meeting of the...

Experts Available as 2006 Hurricane Season Begins; Wind Scientists Have Studied Katrina, Rita, Other Hurricanes.
April 20, 2006... Byline: Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, Texas, April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The United States is bracing for what predictions say will be another active hurricane season. Texas Tech University has a number of wind scientists with...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's eRHIC Collider Gets to the Heart of the Matter.
April 24, 2006... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory DALLAS, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- At the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists have proposed a new way of studying the structure of matter down to a level never...

Seeking Answers to the Puzzle of Proton Spin: Collider Complex Upgrades Will Enable Highest-Energy Polarized Proton Collisions to Date.
April 24, 2006... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory DALLAS, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thanks to a series of machine upgrades, researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the newest and largest particle accelerator at the U.S....

ACM Group Awards Godel Prize for Solving Ancient Math Problem; Team of Computer Scientists Devised AKS Algorithm Useful in Cryptography.
April 24, 2006... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computing Theory (SIGACT) has awarded its 2006 Godel Prize for theoretical computer science to a team of...

Illinois Grant Supports Stem Cell Research at University of Illinois at Chicago.
April 24, 2006... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have been awarded $2 million by the Illinois Regenerative Medicine Institute (IRMI) of the State of...

Painted Bunting Observer Team Seeks Help From Citizen Scientists.
April 24, 2006... Byline: University of North Carolina at Wilmington WILMINGTON, N.C., April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Painted Bunting Observer Team (PBOT) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is seeking help from volunteer citizens to support a...

National University of Singapore President Shih Choon Fong Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
April 25, 2006... Byline: National University of Singapore SINGAPORE, April 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Professor Shih Choon Fong, President of the National University of Singapore (NUS), has been elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of...

The Duke Lemur Center: New Name, New Goals.
April 25, 2006... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University's 40-year-old home for primates is getting a makeover -- and a new name to match. "Our new name, the Duke Lemur Center, reflects a refocusing of our...

Ellen and Melvin Gordon Donate $25 Million for University of Chicago's Largest-Ever Science Building.
April 26, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ellen and Melvin Gordon have made a donation of $25 million toward the University of Chicago's largest science building, constructed to exacting standards so that...

Micro-Pump Is Cool Idea for Future Computer Chips.
April 26, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue University have developed a tiny "micro-pump" cooling device small enough to fit on a computer chip that circulates coolant through channels...

ACM President David Patteson Elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Patterson Honored for Distinguished Contribution in Computer Science Research.
April 27, 2006... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- David Patterson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest...

Hubble Telescope Provides Spectacular View of Ongoing Comet Breakup.
April 27, 2006... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as it disintegrates before...

Berkeley Lab's Art Rosenfeld Wins Fermi Award.
April 27, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Arthur Rosenfeld, 79, acclaimed high-energy physicist turned energy-conservation savant, veteran researcher/educator for Lawrence Berkeley...

Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center to Unveil Futuristic Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles.
April 27, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), part of the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, will unveil...

National Science Board Announces 2006 Public Service Awards; Actor Alan Alda, Intel Chairman Craig R. Barrett and the Association Of Science-Technology Centers Named.
April 27, 2006... Byline: Pending ARLINGTON, Va., Apr. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Actor Alan Alda received the National Science Board's 2006 Public Service Award. He gave us decades of laughs as the mischievous Hawkeye Pierce on M.A.S.H., introduced political...

Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center Unveils Futuristic Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles.
April 28, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute is unveiling a unique unmanned...

UCLA Egyptologists to Launch New E-Encyclopedia; World's Top Egyptologists to Guide Project.
April 28, 2006... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Apr. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- In cooperation with an international team of scholars, UCLA is launching the world's first comprehensive online encyclopedia dedicated to all aspects of ancient Egypt and its legacy....