AScribe Science News Service articles from July 2006

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Kansas State's Smart Laboratory Nation's Largest University-Based Radiation Detector Program.
July 5, 2006... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., July 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kansas State University has a SMART solution to protecting our nation's security. SMART is the short name for the Semiconductor Materials And Radiological...

New Instrument Probes Nanostructure Growth for Industry and Research.
July 5, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University are using a rare type of electron microscope to see how structures like carbon nanotubes form at the atomic level, information...

Cell Survival Depends on Chromosome Integrity.
July 6, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of a large National Institutes of Health-funded Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways project, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered...

Carnegie Mellon Computer Poker Program Sets Its Own Texas Hold'Em Strategy; Program Relies on Game Theory, Not Human Expertise, to Analyze Rules of Poker.
July 6, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist has demonstrated that you don't necessarily need to know much about poker to create a computer program that can...

Art Exhibition Offers Retrospective Look at New York Academy of Sciences' Historic Manhattan Homes Before Move to 7 World Trade Center; Final Academy Exhibit Features Newly Released Photos of Silverstein's 7 WTC Building.
July 6, 2006... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The New York Academy of Sciences' various residences over the past 200 years - as well as its new home at 7 World Trade Center - will be featured in the final...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Wins Prestigious R&D 100 Awards for Five Technologies.
July 6, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with five 2006 R&D 100 awards. PNNL received the awards...

Brookhaven Lab and WARD'S Natural Science Develop Science Education Kits.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and WARD'S Natural Science of...

Woods Hole Engineering Team From Titanic Discovery to Be Honored.
July 11, 2006... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., July 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The underwater research vehicle Jason Jr., which gained international attention for its exploration inside the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic in July...

Students From Newfoundland, Canada and New Jersey Receive Top Honors at 5th Annual MATE International ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Competition.
July 13, 2006... Byline: Marine Advanced Technology Education Center MONTEREY, Calif., July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Students dove deep with their underwater robots, but they reached for the stars at the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's...

NASA Marks 30th Anniversary of Mars Viking Mission.
July 14, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thirty years after the first successful landing on Mars by NASA's Viking spacecraft, the ambitious mission continues to evoke pride and enthusiasm for future...

UC Santa Barbara Announces Winners of $10,000 Competition for New Plays About Science and Technology.
July 17, 2006... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Distinguished playwright Jamie Pachino has been awarded first prize in an international competition for plays about science and technology...

Fifteen Colorado Men Will Head to Bed to Advance CU-Boulder Space Research.
July 17, 2006... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder will send a group of volunteers to bed for 10 days in the name of science in an effort to understand and treat...

Danforth Center Spearheads Effort to Sequence Cassava at National Research Center; U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to Initiate Genome Sequencing That Will Influence Development of Breeding, Biotech Tools.
July 18, 2006... Byline: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) recently announced that it selected a proposal organized by the Donald Danforth Plant...

Tiny Airborne Particles Are a Major Cause of Climate Change; Local Effect of Atmospheric Aerosols Can Be Greater Than Greenhouse Effect.
July 18, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science REHOVOT, Israel, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his colleagues caused a storm in the atmospheric community when they...

Statement From Johns Hopkins University on Stem Cell Vote.
July 18, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following statement on today's Senate passage of H.R. 810 may be attributed to C. Michael Armstrong, chairman of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine;...

University of Illinois Physicist Dr. Myron Salamon to Become Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas; Highly Regarded Scientist, Administrator to Assume Post on Oct. 15.
July 19, 2006... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Myron B. Salamon, professor of physics and associate dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will...

Santa Monica College Astronomy Professor to Work on Antarctic Art Installation.
July 19, 2006... Byline: Santa Monica College SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Santa Monica College astronomy professor Dr. Simon Balm will be the scientific advisor on the creation of a large-scale art installation on the Antarctic Ice...

Cassini Reveals Titan's Xanadu Region to Be an Earth-Like Land.
July 19, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon...

Donating to 100 U.S. Professors: Dark Matter Cosmology Book, 'Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos'.
July 25, 2006... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., July 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- To increase the probability that Dark Matter Cosmology will be taught at U.S. universities in the new academic year, Jerome Drexler has agreed to donate...

Feltrinelli International Prize Awarded to Berkeley Lab's Saul Perlmutter.
July 26, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Saul Perlmutter is the winner of the 2006 International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, awarded once every...

Chabot Observatories: 'A View to the Stars' Opens at Chabot Space & Science Center Aug. 12; New Permanent Exhibition Celebrates 123-Year History.
July 27, 2006... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., July 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center's new permanent exhibition, "A View to the Stars," opens to the public on Saturday, Aug. 12, and allows visitors to share a...

Danforth Center Scientist Dr. Joe Jez Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; Award Provides $340,000 Over Five Years to Further Research Initiatives.
July 28, 2006... Byline: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, July 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- During a Washington, D.C. ceremony at the White House, John H. Marburger III, Science Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of...

Radioactive Crystals Help Identify, Date Ore Deposits.
July 31, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Reddish-brown crystals of a radioactive mineral called monazite can act as microscopic clocks that allow geologists to date rock formations that have been...