AScribe Science News Service articles from February 2008

AScribe Science News Service archives from February 2008

Confronting the Reasons for African Poverty: Withheld Technology Is To Blame, Says Wellesley Political Scientist.
February 1, 2008... Byline: Wellesley College WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa" (Harvard University Press, March 2008), by Wellesley College professor of political science...

Chabot Space & Science Center Executive Director/CEO Alexander Zwissler Selected As Noyce Leadership Fellow.
February 4, 2008... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center Executive Director/CEO Alexander Zwissler is one of 18 chief executives selected as inaugural Fellows of the Noyce Leadership...

Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineer Jeremy M. Michalek Wins National Science Foundation Early Career Award.
February 5, 2008... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Jeremy J. Michalek has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious honor for new faculty members, the Faculty Early...

Researchers Give New Hybrid Vehicle Its First Test-Drive in the Ocean; Profiling Glider Collects Propulsion Energy From the Heat Differences in the Ocean.
February 7, 2008... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation...

Determining Ancestral Histories in Admixed Populations.
February 7, 2008... Byline: International Computer Science Institute BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by Dr. Eran Halperin of ICSI and colleagues provides a means of pinpointing the ancestry of each position on an individual's genome....

China's Climate Change Challenge Is Also the World's.
February 8, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- China is reaching a developmental crossroads, and the direction it takes from here will shape the future size and impacts of climate change, both...

Dr. Ray Baughman Elected to National Academy of Engineering; UT Dallas Professor Hits the Big Time With Small Science.
February 8, 2008... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Ray Baughman, one of the most talented and pioneering nanotechnologists of his time, has been recognized by his peers through election to the National...

Resources for Journalists: U.S. Space Policy and China and Russia's Joint Proposal to Ban Weapons in Space.
February 8, 2008... Byline: American Academy of Arts & Sciences CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- China and Russia are expected on February 12 to submit to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament a joint proposal for an international treaty banning the...

Chabot Space & Science Center Becomes Solar Academy and Solar Generator With Grant From PG&E's Solar Schools Program.
February 12, 2008... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center today announced the opening of a new solar panel and solar exhibit funded by Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Solar...

Engineering Students: Airbrush Not Just for Artists.
February 14, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The airbrush, that tool behind tattoos and T-shirts, may have an unexpected future... in technology. A group of engineering students at the University of...

Mars Rovers Sharpen Questions About Livable Conditions.
February 15, 2008... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory BOSTON, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA's Opportunity rover may...

Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky Planets.
February 18, 2008... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers have discovered that terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy. These new results...

Cassini Finds Mingling Moons May Share a Dark Past.
February 19, 2008... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite the incredible diversity of Saturn's icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction. Some of them are pock-marked, some seemingly dirty, others pristine,...

University of Minnesota Civil Engineering Student Builds Former I-35W Bridge Model for National Transportation Safety Board; Video on Construction of Bridge Model Available.
February 19, 2008... Byline: University of Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Minnesota civil engineering junior Rachel Gaulke has built a 1/200th-scale model of the former I-35W bridge for the National Transportation Safety...

Off the Hook: Stronger Soft-Plastic Fishing Lure Reels in Raves.
February 21, 2008... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Working with University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and business school faculty and students, a Wisconsin entrepreneur has perfected a...

Environment News Tips From UC Davis: Manure Tech for Cleaner Air, Disappearing Glaciers, San Juan Islands Invader, Environmental Events.
February 22, 2008... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are environment tips from University of California, Davis. - - - - MANURE TECH REVIEWS AIM FOR CLEANER CALIF. AIR, WATER [Editor's...

Swarthmore College Statistician Uses Data to Analyze Major League Baseball Managers; Uses Stats to Describe Managers as They Do Players.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Swarthmore College SWARTHMORE, Pa., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Baseball players have long been judged by their stats. Just in time for opening day, a statistician at Swarthmore College has devised a new way to put managers under...

University of Maryland Researchers Develop Social Network System Software for Terrorism Analysis and Forecasting.
February 25, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal...

Middlebury to Host Faculty Research Symposium on Climate Change March 10; Series of Talks to Focus on the Consequences and Solutions Around Global Climate Change.
February 25, 2008... Byline: Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Monday, March 10, at 4:30 p.m., the "Middlebury College Faculty Research Symposium on Climate Change" will take place in Room 216 of McCardell Bicentennial Hall,...

Vanderbilt Engineers Part of $2.8 Million Grant to Link War Fighters to Global Information Grid.
February 28, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A computer freeze-up in the office is a hassle. In a fighter jet peppered with enemy fire, it's a crisis. Getting the increasingly large and complex systems...