AScribe Science News Service articles from August 2006

AScribe Science News Service archives from August 2006

Purdue Engineers Lay Groundwork for 'Vertically Oriented Nanoelectronics'.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue University have developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer, a step toward making advanced...

New Science and Technology Center at University of Hawaii at Manoa Will Explore the Fantastic World of Marine Microbes; Center Established With Five-Year, $19 Million Award From National Science Foundation.
August 1, 2006... Byline: University of Hawaii HONOLULU, Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Hawaii at Manoa is about to embark on a decade-long mission that will focus attention on the microbial inhabitants of the sea. The School of Ocean and...

University of Maryland and NASA Researchers Use Laser Sensor to Map Possible Habitat for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
August 3, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center are mapping out areas of habitat suitable for the...

Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Cell Imaging; Facility to Hold Open House This Friday, Aug. 11.
August 9, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Big changes -- and improvements -- to the Integrated Imaging Center at Johns Hopkins University's mean enhanced opportunities for researchers everywhere needing a...

Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract With National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center; System at Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab Will Be One of World's Fastest.
August 10, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cray Inc. (NASDAQ GM: CRAY) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced today that Cray has won the contract to install a...

U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy Fund Genomics Projects for Bioenergy Fuels Research.
August 11, 2006... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns have announced that the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy (DOE) have...

Noble Foundation Receives Federal Awards for Bioenergy Fuels Research .
August 14, 2006... Byline: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation ARDMORE, Okla., Aug. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Noble Foundation announced today that it has received two federal awards, totaling $700,000, in support of its research to develop advanced...

More Than 'One of the Guys' West Virginia University Forensic Science Program Draws Women, Raises Bar in Sleuthing Standards.
August 14, 2006... Byline: West Virginia University MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Aug. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- In years past, West Virginia University graduate April Shea would have been a definite exception to the rule: a woman working in forensic science. Today,...

Cosmic Background Explorer Team Wins Gruber Prize.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- John Mather, Project Scientist of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite mission, and eighteen members of COBE's Science Working...

Step Into a Spider's World at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles; Arachnids Crawl Into the Spider Pavilion Sept. 24 through Nov. 5.
August 16, 2006... Byline: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Visitors to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will have a rare opportunity to observe nearly 100 spiders in their natural habitat...

Is Pluto a Planet? Astronomers Vote, Johns Hopkins University Takes Straw Poll.
August 18, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Generations of schoolchildren have memorized "My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" (or a variation thereof) in order to remember the order of the...

Sam Aronson Named Director of Brookhaven National Lab.
August 18, 2006... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Board of Directors of Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) announced today that Interim Laboratory Director Dr. Samuel Aronson has been named as the new...

Terence Tao, 'Mozart of Math,' Is UCLA's First Mathematician Awarded the Fields Medal, Often Called the 'Nobel Prize in Mathematics'.
August 22, 2006... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Terence Tao became the first mathematics professor in UCLA history to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, often described as the "Nobel Prize in mathematics," during the opening...

Dark Matter Was Identified in 2003, Scientifically Confirmed in 2006 in Jerome Drexler's Published Books.
August 23, 2006... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recent news from NASA confirming the existence of dark matter was more than welcome to Jerome Drexler. He has spent seven years researching the...

NASA Galaxy Hunter: Huge Black Holes Stifle Star Formation.
August 23, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Supermassive black holes in some giant galaxies create such a hostile environment, they shut down the formation of new stars, according to NASA Galaxy...

Vanderbilt University Expert Available to Discuss Pluto.
August 24, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn. Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- David Weintraub, professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the upcoming book "Is Pluto a Planet?", to be released in the fall by Princeton...

Johns Hopkins Astronomers React To Pluto's Planetary 'Demotion'.
August 24, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Several Johns Hopkins University astronomers described a decision Thursday to strip Pluto of its planetary status as a "muddled" ruling that is unlikely to...

Report: U.S. Population Reaches 300 Million - Major Environmental Impacts Show Vanishing Species, Land and Water, Climate Changes.
August 30, 2006... Byline: Tides NEW CANAAN, Conn., Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- This fall when the U.S. population reaches 300 million people, there will be another U.S. population "first"--its biggest ever per-capita environmental impact, says a...

Esnet and Internet2 Partner to Deploy Next Generation Network for Scientific Research and Discovery.
August 31, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 - two of the nation's leading networking organizations dedicated to...