AScribe Science News Service articles from May 2006

AScribe Science News Service archives from May 2006

University of Maryland Scientist Leads Creation of Virtual Science Library for Iraq.
May 1, 2006

Boise State Math Professor Wins $25,000 First Prize in International Competition in Vienna.
May 2, 2006

Dr. Claire Max to Receive Chabot Science Award; to Be Presented at Annual Chabot Science Awards Gala May 20.
May 3, 2006... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., May 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center is pleased to announce Dr. Claire Max, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and...

Carnegie Mellon Reappoints Richard McCullough Dean of Mellon College of Science.
May 5, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Richard D. McCullough has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of Carnegie Mellon Universitys Mellon College of Science (MCS). McCullough, a professor...

Chabot Space & Science Center Receives Koret Grant for Galaxy Explorer Program.
May 5, 2006... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center has received a $75,000 grant from the Koret Foundation Funds that will support the Center's Galaxy Explorer program, a youth...

The Most Realistic Virtual Reality Room in the World.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, May 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University's six-sided virtual reality room. That's twice the number of pixels...

Experts Can Speak About Ethanol, Other Biofuels; As Gas Prices Climb, University Researchers Boost Efficiency of Alternative Fuels.
May 11, 2006... Byline: Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, Texas, May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Oil and gas prices continue to skyrocket, making biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel more cost-effective and attractive. Texas Tech scientists are collaborating...

California Agriculture Magazine: Yellow Starthistle Marches Across 14 Million Acres of California.
May 11, 2006... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Yellow starthistle has invaded more than 14.3 million of California's 101 million acres, making it by far the fastest-spreading and...

California Agriculture Magazine: Lake Tahoe Air Pollution Not Linked to Out-of-Basin Sources; Scientists Explore Causes, Solutions for Lake Clarity Decline.
May 11, 2006... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although scientists know that Bay Area and Sacramento emissions contribute to Central Valley smog, the same plumes of pollution rarely...

Factor Isolated That Regenerates Nerve Fibers; Previously Unknown Molecule Spurs Regeneration in Optic Nerve.
May 14, 2006... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered a naturally occurring growth factor that stimulates regeneration of injured nerve fibers (axons) in the...

Norman Cohen Elected President of American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science.
May 15, 2006... Byline: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science NEW YORK, May 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Norman D. Cohen has been elected President of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. The election was held during...

Buckyballs Make Room for Gilded Cages; Carbon Fullerenes Now Have Metallic Cousins, 'Hollow Golden Cages'.
May 16, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes...

A Biosensor Layered Like Lasagna: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Team Enlists Static Electricity to Layer Proteins on Carbs -- Carbon Nanotubes, That Is.
May 16, 2006... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., May 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a mixing of pasta metaphors, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have used electrostatic attraction to layer reactive biological...

Frans Lanting Announces 'Launch of Life: a Journey Through Time'; Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music to Present Multimedia Orchestral Production With Music by Philip Glass; Book, Exhibition, Website Planned.
May 17, 2006... Byline: Blue Earth Alliance SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Frans Lanting, acclaimed as one of the great nature photographers of our time, announced today the launch of "Life: A Journey Through Time," an epic multi-year...

Chabot Astronomer Photos on Display in Smithsonian Exhibition; 'Explore the Universe' Exhibition Features Astronomy Photos by Conrad Jung.
May 17, 2006... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, May 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Normally shy and unassuming, Conrad Jung, astronomer at Chabot Space & Science Center, has been guiding people through the night skies since 1975. Jung is also a...

Rose-Hulman Students Create a More Efficient SUV for General Motors' Engineering Challenge.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Creating a more efficient sport utility vehicle has been the goal of 59 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students competing in the Challenge X:...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Launches On-Line Image Library; New Visual Database Accessible to the Public.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" is increasingly true in today's world as images are used throughout society to entertain, inform...

International Symposium to Assess Present and Future Promise of World's Most Powerful Particle Colliders.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- With an air of excitement already building, an international group of researchers will meet May 22-26 at Duke University for this year's Hadron Collider Physics Symposium....

Test for Dioxin Sensitivity in Wildlife Could Result From New Study.
May 18, 2006... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Why are chickens so sensitive to dioxins, but terns seem much more resistant, despite their exposure through eating dioxin-tainted fish? The...

Rochester Institute of Technology Students Design Deep-Sea Explorer to Search for Lake Ontario Shipwrecks; RIT Graduate Leads Engineering Team in Design of Underwater Remote-Operated Vehicle.
May 19, 2006... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's designed to explore the depths of large bodies of water -- and one recent weekend, that's exactly where it was found: searching the depths of the...

$1 Million Grant Goes to San Jose State University's Nanotechnology Research Program.
May 19, 2006... Byline: San Jose State University SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a second major grant to enhance San Jose State University's Materials Characterization and Metrology Center, which...

TeraGrid Software Project Wins CLADE 2006 Best Paper.
May 23, 2006... Byline: National Science Foundation CHICAGO, May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A paper that describes a system for aggregating processors on demand from across the distributed resources of the National Science Foundation TeraGrid has won the...

Nobel Laureate Christiane Nusslein-Volhard to Discuss Mysteries of Genetics: How Genes Determine Our Appearance and Traits, at New York Academy of Sciences Reading; Readers & Writers, Women Investigators Network Event Set for June 8.
May 26, 2006... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Why do children look like their parents? How does an embryonic cell know how to become an eye rather than an eyelash? How do simple egg cells develop into so many...

American Chemical Society News Service Weekly Press Package: May 29.
May 29, 2006... Byline: American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Welcome to the ACS News Service Weekly Press Package. There is no embargo on any of the items, which can be used immediately, although you will notice that some have...

Discovery May Speed Tree Breeding, Biotechnology.
May 30, 2006... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., May 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered the genetic controls which cause trees to stop growing and go dormant in the fall, as well as the mechanism that causes them to begin...

Damaged Iraq Marshes Show Renewed Signs of Life.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The marshes of southern Iraq, devastated in recent decades by Saddam Hussein's regime, are showing a "remarkable" recovery, according to an ecological survey team led by...

Harbor Branch Team to Conduct First Comprehensive Monitoring Survey of Deepwater Reefs.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution FORT PIERCE, Fla., May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Several spectacular deepwater reefs have been discovered off Florida in recent years, and all indicators suggest these submerged wonderlands are...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $86.4 Million for Undergraduate Science Education, Helping Research Universities Compete in New World of Science.
May 31, 2006... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biology is evolving rapidly, with more and more discoveries arising from interaction with other disciplines such as chemistry, mathematics, and computer...