AScribe Science News Service articles from August 2007

AScribe Science News Service archives from August 2007

University of California Experts Detail New Standard for Cleaner Transportation Fuels.
August 2, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California experts today released their much-anticipated blueprint for fighting global warming by reducing the amount of carbon emitted when...

ACM SIGGRAPH Honors Computer Animator for Visualization Advances; Nelson Max to Receive Highest Honor in Computer Graphics.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery SAN DIEGO, Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM SIGGRAPH will award its 2007 Steven A. Coons Award to Nelson Max for his pioneering scientific visualization films that profoundly influenced a...

Lighting Design Innovator Tapped for ACM SIGGRAPH Award; Greg Ward Developed Radiance Programs That Use Computer Graphics Rendering Tools.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery SAN DIEGO, Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM SIGGRAPH will award its 2007 Computer Graphics Achievement Award to Greg Ward for his innovative contributions to image synthesis algorithms, and for...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Four galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed. The clashing galaxies,...

Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter Boosted Over Cold Dark Matter in 2007 via Three Scientific Papers and a Dark Energy Article.
August 8, 2007... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The scientific paper, "Seeing Through Dark Matter ", in the August 3 issue of Science Magazine ends with the sentence, "The universe may not be as cold...

Carnegie Mellon Team Named Semifinalist in DARPA Urban Challenge; Tartan Racing Among 36 Teams Invited to National Qualification Event in October.
August 9, 2007... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing team is one of 36 contenders that advanced today toward a spot in the DARPA Urban Challenge, a $2 million robotic...

Innovative Tagging Technique May Help Researchers Better Protect Fish Stocks: Packard Foundation Grant Allows Researchers to Assess Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas.
August 10, 2007... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are often hailed as a way to halt serious declines in the abundance of marine species that have been over-fished....

Clare Boothe Luce Program Grant to Support Women Graduate Students in Physical Sciences.
August 14, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $230,400 grant to the University of Chicago to support four one-year Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowships for women entering...

UC Davis Issues New Tahoe Status Report; Shows Warming Trend; Includes 2006 Clarity Results.(Report)
August 15, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California, Davis today released the first in a new series of annual reports designed to give the non-scientific community an unprecedented...

Rose-Hulman No. 1 for Ninth Consecutive Year in U.S. News & World Report Rankings of Undergraduate Engineering Programs.
August 16, 2007... Byline: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has retained its ranking for the ninth consecutive year as America's best college or university that offers...

Chabot Space & Science Center Hosts Red Eclipse Aug. 27-28.
August 22, 2007... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The longest total lunar eclipse of the decade unfolds in dramatic fashion in the early-morning hours of August 28, when filtered light from Earth's...

Arsenic Imports for Lumber Plunge; University of Florida Center Sets Sights on Disposal.
August 22, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's a success story so far - but the end has yet to be written. Research supported by the University of Florida helped prompt the treated wood industry to...

Nanoscience Expert and Experienced Academic to Head Rensselaer Biology Department.
August 22, 2007... Byline: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y., Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Susan P. Gilbert, a renowned expert in cell biology, biophysics, and nanoscience, will join Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the head of the Biology...

Explaining NASA Dark Matter Enigma: Abell 520 versus the Bullet Cluster via 'Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos'.
August 23, 2007... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA issued a news release on August 16, 2007 entitled, "Dark Matter Mystery Deepens in Cosmic Train Wreck." It describes the unusual features of the...

Colloquy to Explore Future of Computationally Enabled Discovery and Innovation; Rensselaer Presidential Event to Feature Five National Leaders in Science and Technology.
August 23, 2007... Byline: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- To celebrate the grand opening of the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host a...

Hubble Camera Snags Rare View of Uranus Rings.
August 23, 2007... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A rare image of the ring system of the planet Uranus has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, using the onboard JPL-built and designed Wide Field...

University of California, Boulder Signs $92 Million Contract With NOAA, NASA for Space Weather Instrument Package.
August 23, 2007... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder signed a contract today worth an estimated $92 million with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and...

Six Years After 9/11: University of Idaho Experts Look at Life and Learning in a World of Heightened Security.
August 24, 2007... Byline: University of Idaho MOSCOW, Idaho, Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Life changed after 9/11. Six years after terrorist attacks struck the U.S., academic research areas can be seen through a new lens. The following academic researchers...

Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' on Young Star System.
August 29, 2007... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system....

National Space Foundation Awards Record $2.6 Million Grant to Fund Chabot Space & Science Center's Maya Skies Project.
August 29, 2007... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Space Foundation has awarded a $2.6 million grant to Chabot Space & Science Center for its Maya Skies full-dome digital planetarium project....