AScribe Science News Service articles from February 2006

AScribe Science News Service archives from February 2006

University of Colorado's Solar House Represents Solar Technology White House Will Promote With Its 'Solar America Initiative'.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Lipman Hearne, Inc. BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- It is bright and warm inside the University of Colorado's (CU) International Solar Decathlon champion energy-saving house, despite freezing temperatures and snow in...

Deep-Sea Robot Photographs Ancient Greek Shipwreck.
February 2, 2006... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sometime in the fourth century B.C., a Greek merchant ship sank off Chios and the Oinoussai islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. The wooden vessel may have succumbed to a storm or a...

Researchers Can Speak About Changes to Fujita Scale.
February 2, 2006... Byline: Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, Texas, Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two Texas Tech University researchers who created a new rating scale measuring tornado intensity for the National Weather Service are available for interviews. ...

Scientists Surf the Seas of Space to Catch an Atmospheric Wave.
February 2, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study by NASA and university scientists is shedding new light on a mysterious, cyclical wave in Earth's atmosphere that at times profoundly affects our...

Researchers of Waorani, Subject of 'End of the Spear' Movie, Offer Insights on Movie, Violent and Peaceful Societies.
February 3, 2006... Byline: Wichita State University WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- As two of the few outsiders to live among the Waorani tribe of Ecuador, a pair of Wichita State University anthropologists are quite familiar with the material...

Roland Menzel, Inventor of Laser Fingerprint Technology and Texas Tech University Horn Professor, Dies at 62.(Obituary)
February 3, 2006... Byline: Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, Texas, Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. E. Roland Menzel, inventor of laser fingerprint technology and Horn professor of physics at Texas Tech University, passed away Friday due to an illness. He...

Pomona College Workshop Provides High School Physics Teachers With Experiments for Their Classrooms.
February 3, 2006... Byline: Pomona College CLAREMONT, Calif., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- As concern continues to mount about U.S. competitiveness in math and science, Pomona College will host its Fourth Annual Physics Teachers Workshop providing Southern...

Synchronized Flights by U.S and International Research Aircraft Reveal Intriguing Information About Ice Particles in Clouds.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the clouds above Darwin, Australia, pilots guided by a team of international climate scientists are now one week into a series of carefully...

Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles: Women Have a Special Aptitude for Math and Science.
February 6, 2006... Byline: Mount St. Mary's College LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, believes that women have a special aptitude for math and science and make up an important talent pool as the U.S. competes...

Scholarship Deadline for Minority Students Studying Chemistry Is March 1.
February 7, 2006... Byline: American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is accepting applications for its Scholars Program, a financial support effort for...

Constructal Theory Predicts Global Climate Patterns in Simple Way.
February 8, 2006... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A unifying physics principle that describes design in nature predicts, in surprisingly straightforward fashion, the basic features of global circulation and climate,...

How Many Ways Can You Shake Like a Bowl Full of Jelly? San Diego Supercomputer Center Provides Ingredients for Visualization Experts to 'See What's Shaking' at IEEE 2006 Visualization Design Contest.
February 9, 2006... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) TeraShake 2 earthquake dataset, which was converted into a visualization to help the Southern California Earthquake...

University of Iowa Virtual Soldier Program Receives $1.6 Million to Help Army Design New Armor.
February 10, 2006... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The body armor worn by future U.S. soldiers likely will have a University of Iowa connection, thanks to a $1.6 million, three-year contract the army has signed with...

First RAVE Data Release Offers Clues to Milky Way Evolution.
February 10, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of astronomers released to the public the first data collected as part of the Radial Velocity Experiment, an ambitious spectroscopic survey...

Creativity Takes Center Stage at Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
February 13, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University students will put their creativity to the test for an annual competition that rewards complexity, ingenuity and originality. The 23rd...

Anthropology Blog Bridges Worlds of Academia and Public Interest.
February 15, 2006... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- John Hawks has a cardinal rule with his graduate students: "If you want to retain it, write it down." The University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Seismological Society of America Centennial and 2006 Annual Meeting, 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco, April 17-21: Meeting and Registration Information.
February 16, 2006... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Seismological Society of America, the world's premier earthquake-research organization, will hold its Centennial and 2006 Annual Meeting as part...

Legendary Mathematician Joins National Laboratory; at 81, Benoit Mandelbrot Takes on New Challenges in Advanced Mathematics for Computational Science.
February 16, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the world's most influential mathematicians, Benoit Mandelbrot, has joined the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National...

Greenland Ice Loss Doubles in Past Decade, Raising Sea Level Faster.
February 16, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The loss of ice from Greenland doubled between 1996 and 2005, as its glaciers flowed faster into the ocean in response to a generally warmer climate,...

Grand Challenges, National Lab-Style: Multi-Institutional Efforts to Understand Microbial Biology and Biogeochemistry Converge at DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
February 17, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ST. LOUIS, Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a Department of Energy-sponsored national scientific user facility, is seeing early...

NASA Announces Mars Mission Briefing.
February 17, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA will brief news media about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time) Friday, Feb. 24. The briefing will...

Besides Food, Farming Can Provide Wildlife Habitat, Reduce Global Warming.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Michigan State University ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- When people hear the word "agriculture," most think of food. But the benefits of agriculture are much more than farm fresh corn or dairy products. Now scientists...

Climate Change, Terrorism Two Big Risks of 21st Century.
February 20, 2006... Byline: Michigan State University ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- What sounds like the opening line of a joke - "what does a melting polar cap and a suicide bomber have in common?" - is actually at the center of how society...

Comet Dust From NASA Mission Under Analysis at University of Chicago Laboratory.
February 20, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Chicago are among the first ever to analyze cometary dust delivered to Earth via spacecraft. Scientists routinely examine...

Ohio State University to Close Its Primate Center, Retire Its Chimpanzees.
February 21, 2006... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ohio State University officials have decided to close its long-standing chimpanzee research center and retire those primates to an animal refuge in Texas. The...

NASA's Next Leap in Mars Exploration Nears Arrival.
February 24, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- As it nears Mars on March 10, a NASA spacecraft designed to examine the red planet in unprecedented detail from low orbit will point its main thrusters...

Bioinformatics Pioneer David Haussler to Receive Carnegie Mellon University's Prestigious Dickson Prize in Science.
February 27, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University will present its prestigious Dickson Prize in Science to David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of...

Photo Release: Largest Ever Galaxy Portrait -- Stunning HD Image of Pinwheel Galaxy.
February 28, 2006... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Feb. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Hubble image reveals the gigantic Pinwheel galaxy, one of the best known examples of "grand design spirals", and its supergiant star-forming...