AScribe Science News Service articles from July 2007

AScribe Science News Service archives from July 2007

GECCO Scientists to Explore Use of Evolution to Solve Computational Problems: Keynote Event Features Panel of Best-Selling Authors Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones, Lewis Wolpert on Latest Ideas in Evolution.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery LONDON, July 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007) will explore some of the latest ideas on the use of artificial evolution in computers to...

Berkeley Lab Wins Three Prestigious 2007 R&D 100 Awards for Technology Advances.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., July 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards for 2007, which recognize the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year,...

Kingsley Wightman (1916-2007): Chabot Space & Science Center Educator and Director.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kingsley Wightman, the charismatic teacher who entertained, inspired and educated generations of Chabot Science Center visitors and led an impassioned...

High-Performance Computing: Not Just for Physical Scientists Any More.
July 9, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scholars taking an avid interest in computational resources on the University of Chicago campus 10 years ago tended to be doing data-intensive simulations of exploding...

Homestake Strikes Gold Again: National Science Foundation Selects Former South Dakota Gold Mine as Deep Underground Science Site.
July 10, 2007... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen Homestake, a former gold mine in the Black Hills, near Lead, South Dakota, as the site for a...

Gruber Cosmology Prize Awarded to Discoverers of Dark Energy.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded jointly to Saul Perlmutter of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...

StopWaste.Org Awards $50,000 Grant to Chabot Space & Science Center to Showcase Space Waste Conservation.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- StopWaste.Org has awarded a $50,000 grant to Chabot Space & Science Center for an exhibit revealing how astronauts manage waste in outer space. "The...

Department of Energy Advances NSLS-II Project Facility Sited at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Department of Energy (DOE) has granted "Critical Decision 1" (CD-1) status to the National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II). This decision, which...

New Research Seeks to Enhance Alternative Fuel Integration in Public Vehicle Fleets; Partnership Will Evaluate Effectiveness of E85 in Flex Fuel Vehicles.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rochester Institute of Technology and the County of Monroe, N.Y., have created a research partnership to assess the performance of the County's fleet...

Johns Hopkins Researcher to Get Technology Medal at White House; James E. West Co-Invented Widely-Used Microphone While at Bell Labs.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- James E. West, a Johns Hopkins engineering faculty member who co-invented the microphone used in most telephones and many other electronic devices worldwide, has been...

Dark Energy Discovery Leader to Share Gruber Prize; Johns Hopkins University's Adam Riess a Leader on Team Recognized for Key Discovery in Cosmology.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Adam Riess, who led the first study revealing the existence of a mysterious "dark energy" permeating the universe, will share...

Eroding High-Energy Dark Matter Particles in Galaxy Clusters May Explain the Universe's Acceleration.
July 19, 2007... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize were awarded for the amazing discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe,...

Renowned Chemist Roy Periana Appointed Professor at Scripps Florida.
July 19, 2007... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, Fla., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Scripps Research Institute announced today the appointment of internationally recognized chemist Roy A. Periana, Ph.D., as professor of chemistry at the...

NASA Mars Rovers Braving Severe Dust Storms.
July 20, 2007... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Having explored Mars for 3 1/2 years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest...

Carnegie Mellon's David O'Hallaron Named New Director of Intel Research Pittsburgh.
July 24, 2007... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, July 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- David O'Hallaron, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is the new director of Intel...

Association for Computing Machinery's Turing Award Prize Raised to $250,000; Google Joins Intel to Provide Increased Funding for Most Significant Award in Computing.
July 26, 2007... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is today announcing that Google Inc. will join Intel Corporation to increase the funding for the ACM A.M....

Fear of Wolves Allows First Aspen Recovery in Yellowstone in More Than 50 Years.
July 26, 2007... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The wolves are back, and for the first time in more than 50 years, young aspen trees are growing again in the northern range of Yellowstone National Park. ...