AScribe Science News Service articles from December 2007

AScribe Science News Service archives from December 2007

Chabot Space & Science Center Offers Discount to Help Feed Alameda County.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center is partnering with the Alameda County Community Food Bank to help feed needy families this holiday season. Visitors to Chabot...

Buckyball Bowling With BigBen and Wiimo in Reno: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Scientists Adapt the Wii Remote Controller to Steer Molecular Dynamics.
December 4, 2007... Byline: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- At Supercomputing '07 in Reno, Nevada, Nov. 10-16, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) attracted attention at its booth with an innovative hybrid of...

Postmodern Cosmology, Born via 2003 Book 'How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun,' Challenges Mainstream Cosmology.
December 5, 2007... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dec. 15, 2007, will mark the fourth anniversary of the publishing of a postmodern Big Bang cosmology theory in a book entitled "How Dark Matter Created...

Yucca Mountain: Putting a Limit on Risk.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Looking ahead 100 million years, new research puts a maximum limit of 3.6 meters per second on potential ground movement caused by earthquakes at...

NASA Mega-Telescope Gears up to Study Cosmos.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA has selected three teams of scientists to begin studying disks of dust around nearby stars starting in February 2008, using the Keck Interferometer in...

Antarctica Bound! University of Texas at El Paso Takes Students, Teachers to the End of the Earth.
December 5, 2007... Byline: University of Texas at El Paso EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Glaciers, snowy mountain peaks, penguin colonies and 24 hours of daylight await an intrepid group of students and teachers that will soon embark on a...

Purdue's Weldon School Partners With University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez.
December 6, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez have formed a partnership agreement designed to facilitate...

Nobel Laureates' Queries Point Toward Drexler's Dark Matter Theory and Postmodern Big Bang Cosmology.
December 11, 2007... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Dec. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- "How inflation happened a split second after the Big Bang." "Identify the exact sources of these cosmic rays and how they accelerate particles." These...

Idaho National Laboratory Opens High-Speed Computing Center; New, Modern INL High-Performance Computing Center and Supercomputer Significantly Enhance Nuclear Energy Research.
December 11, 2007... Byline: Idaho National Laboratory BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory is opening its High-Performance Computing Center, taking a major step in achieving the laboratory's...

Biology Students to Take Part in Genome Project.
December 12, 2007... Byline: Bowling Green State University BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, Dec. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bowling Green State University biology undergraduates will soon be contributing to the body of knowledge in genomics while they learn. The University...

Deep Impact Extended Mission Heads for Comet Hartley 2.
December 14, 2007... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA has given a University of Maryland-led team of scientists the green light to fly the Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet Hartley 2 on a two-part...

Innovative Simulation Technique on World's Fastest Supercomputer Wins ACM 2007 Gordon Bell Prize; Team From Livermore National Laboratory and IBM Opens Potential for New Paradigm in Supercomputer Design.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) presented the 2007 ACM Gordon Bell Prize to a team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and...

ACM Group Honors Computer Security Experts for Innovation and Service; Abadi and Jajodia Cited for Contributions to Authentication Research, Information Security Community.
December 14, 2007... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM's Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) has awarded its top honors to Dr. Martin Abadi of the University of California, Santa...

University of Florida Engineers: Wireless Charger Provides Efficient Cord-Free Charging.
December 15, 2007... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Dec. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Good news about that annoying jumble of electronic device charger power cords -- it may soon be history. University of Florida engineering researchers have...

Managing Nuclear Wastes for the Millennia.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- U.S. Courts have decreed that the federal government must come up with a system for managing nuclear wastes that will ensure the safety of the public and...

New Smart Tire Senses Damage, Increases Safety.
December 17, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new type of "smart" tire developed by a Purdue University professor is able to sense damage when a tire goes flat or loses treads, making it safer for road...

University of California, Davis Environment News Tips: Expert on New Federal CAFE Standards, EPA Waiver Denial, Climate Change Teach-In, Mouse Homes.
December 20, 2007... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Dec. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are environmental news tips from the University of California, Davis. - - - - EXPERT WEIGHS IN ON NEW FEDERAL CAFE STANDARDS, EPA WAIVER...