AScribe Science News Service articles from January 2009

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Restoring Soil Fertility: Nutrition Security Institute Releases White Paper on Breakthrough in Sustainable Agriculture; Biotic Fertilizers Offer Hope to a Hungry World.
January 8, 2009... Byline: Nutrition Security Institute BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Nutrition Security Institute today released a white paper detailing significant advances in restoring soil fertility through the use of biotic...

RIT and Lockheed Martin Enhance Sustainable Mobility and Economic Growth; Partnership Provides Essential Technology to U.S. Military and Leads to Spin-Off Company.
January 8, 2009... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- America's military fleet is on the road to improving performance and environmental quality due to new technology implemented through a partnership...

University of Colorado at Boulder Selected for Two Lunar Research Grants Totaling $11 Million.
January 9, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder was awarded two grants totaling $11 million today from NASA's Lunar Science Institute to probe the cosmos from...

NASA Selects University of Colorado at Boulder to Build $6 Million Lunar Dust Detector to Orbit Moon in 2012.
January 9, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit...

Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineering Researchers Develop New Software To Improve Design Tools.
January 13, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Carnegie Mellon University engineers led by Levent Burak Kara and Kenji Shimada have developed software that will let engineers design new products by...

Chabot Space & Science Center Hosts the Universe's First eXo Party.
January 20, 2009... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Honoring exoplanet research, extra-terrestrial search, the International Year of Astronomy and all things extra-worldly, Chabot Space & Science Center is...

Evolution and Epilepsy: Improvement in Brain Electrical Signaling is Critical Both for Vertebrate Evolution and for Preventing Epileptic Seizures.
January 21, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on brain electrical signaling offer a fresh perspective on vertebrate evolution,...

Chabot Space & Science Center Conducts Study of Endangered Pallid Manzanita Plants on Center's Property.
January 27, 2009... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center is working with Friends of Sausal Creek, East Bay Regional Park District, East Bay Municipal Utilities District, Oakland's...

Marine Advanced Technology Education Center's 2009 International ROV Competition to Focus on Submarine Rescue Systems; Competition Will Be Held at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
January 29, 2009... Byline: Marine Advanced Technology Education Center MONTEREY, Calif., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Marine Advanced Technology Education Center's (MATE) 2009 International Student ROV Competition will challenge students to design and...

Darwin's 200th Birthday: Evolutionary Biology Experts Available.
January 29, 2009... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- With Charles Darwin's 200th birthday coming up in February, several University of Wisconsin-Madison experts are available to talk about the evolutionary...

Carnegie Corporation Awards Grant to Hampshire College for Conference on Darwin and Evolution in the Muslim World.(Conference news)
January 29, 2009... Byline: Hampshire College AMHERST, Mass., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hampshire College has been awarded $50,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making foundation, to plan and host a conference on Darwin and evolution in...

Evolution in Action: Darwin Across the Disciplines at Hampshire College.
January 29, 2009... Byline: Hampshire College AMHERST, Mass., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hampshire College itself will be evolving when students participate in a campus-wide experiment this spring as part of a yearlong celebration of the ideas of Charles...

Teams to Vie for Brightest Idea at Regional Rube Goldberg Contest.
January 30, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Changing a light bulb is a simple task, but how about completing that duty in 20 steps or more, or even designing a new kind of light source altogether? ...