AScribe Science News Service articles from November 2005

AScribe Science News Service archives from November 2005

UC Santa Cruz, Los Alamos National Laboratory to Form Partnership for Scientific Data Management.
November 1, 2005... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Santa Cruz, and Los Alamos National Laboratory have agreed to establish a new collaborative institute for research...

Williams College Math Professor Still Waiting for Answer to $1,000 Puzzle.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Williams College WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Has Williams College mathematician Frank Morgan devised the greatest riddle since that of the Sphinx? Five years after he put it to the test in "The Math Chat...

Rocks 4.1 Released; Cluster Software Incorporates Peer-to-Peer Mechanisms in Avalanche Installer.
November 2, 2005... Byline: San Diego Supercomputer Center SAN DIEGO, Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and their collaborators have released version 4.1, code-named "Fuji", of the Rocks Clustering...

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology to Build, Operate New Observatory in Australia.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A $141,634 grant from the Oakley Foundation of Terre Haute will allow Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students to utilize the Internet to...

Novel Center for the Study of the Mind Established at UC Santa Barbara by Sage Publications to Commemorate its 40th Anniversary; Leading Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga to Head Pioneering Effort.
November 3, 2005... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California, Santa Barbara, has received a $3.5-million contribution from SAGE Publications to launch a dynamic new...

Director of Royal Botanic Gardens To Rejoin University of Chicago Faculty.
November 4, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sir Peter Crane, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England, has announced that he will resign his position there to accept a faculty appointment in the...

Duke Engineers Developing Ultrasound Devices Combining 3-D Imaging With Therapeutic Heating.
November 4, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University engineers are developing technology that may enable physicians to someday use high frequency ultrasound waves both to visualize the heart's interior in...

Farming That Improves the Environment.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- All those dried up stalks, husks and cobs left in corn fields after every fall's harvest could be a key to enhancing the environment, say Iowa State University...

Tornado Experts Available.
November 8, 2005... Byline: Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, Texas, Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Texas Tech University's Wind Science and Engineering Research Center, one of the nation's foremost centers for the study of wind damage and mitigation, has a slate...

University of Maryland-Led Deep Impact Mission Wins Space Exploration Award.
November 8, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Deep Impact, the University of Maryland-led NASA mission that made history and worldwide headlines when it smashed into a comet this past July 4th,...

Berkeley Lab's John Bell Receives 2005 Sidney Fernbach Award for Outstanding Contributions to High Performance Computing.
November 9, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- John Bell, a senior staff mathematician at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named recipient of the...

Philanthropist Fred Kavli Honored by Scientific American Magazine.
November 9, 2005... Byline: The Kavli Foundation SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Philanthropist Fred Kavli, who has fulfilled a long-term dream by establishing The Kavli Foundation to support basic research, has been selected by the board...

Image Advisory: Young Stars Sculpt Gas With Powerful Outflows.
November 10, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The European Space Agency--Hubble today released the following image advisory. The following image is available at:...

Scientists to Convene at World's Largest Cosmic-Ray Observatory Nov. 10 and 11.
November 10, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Collaborating scientists from 16 countries will rendezvous in Malargue, Argentina, Nov. 10 and 11 for a celebration at the Pierre Auger Observatory, the largest...

Purdue Bible Scholar: Discovery Offers Support for Goliath Story.
November 11, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Purdue University Libraries professor who invented a system to determine whether ancient inscriptions apply to people in the Bible says the pottery shard...

Mount Holyoke Professor Wins American Association for the Advancement of Science Lifetime Mentor Award; Sheila Browne to Be Honored for Increasing Number of Women With Ph.D.s in Chemistry.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Mount Holyoke College SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sheila Browne, Bertha Phillips Rodger Professor of Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College, was chosen as the recipient of this year's Lifetime Mentor Award by the...

Purdue Offers Open-Source Software for Virtual Reality Collaborations.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing have created open-source software that makes it easier to collaborate in virtual reality...

100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference in San Francisco, April 17-21: Media Registration/Credentials Available.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Seismological Society of America SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- April 18, 2006 will mark the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake and fire. Top earthquake professionals from around the world will meet in...

University of Chicago Cosmochemist Robert Clayton to Receive National Medal of Science.
November 15, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- President Bush named the University of Chicago's Robert Clayton among the 2004 recipients of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, the...

West Coast Premiere of 'Molecularium: Riding Snowflakes' Opens at Chabot Space & Science Center Nov. 25; Animated Planetarium Show Teaches Kids What 'Matters'.
November 16, 2005... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Designed to spark children's interest in learning about the atomic and molecular world, the full-dome digital planetarium show "Molecularium: Riding...

Iowa State Takes Steps to Preserve World's Oldest Chicken Lines.
November 16, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tornadoes touched down twice in Ames in 2005. Although no serious damage was done to research facilities at Iowa State University, there is always the possibility the...

Bush, the Flu and Evolution -- by Steven Salzberg, Ph.D.
November 17, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is an op-ed from University of Maryland professor Steven Salzberg, in which he argues that the flu is a perfect example of why evolution...

Fragments From Beethoven's Skull Discovered in California Now on Loan at San Jose State University.
November 17, 2005... Byline: San Jose State University SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University today announced that two fragments of Beethoven's skull, which were kept back...

Digital Libraries to Aid Teachers Affected by Hurricane Katrina.
November 17, 2005... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two of the nation's leading digital science libraries will offer free online workshops on Dec. 6 and 8 to teachers in areas affected by Hurricane...

Expert Alert: Climate Change and Energy Needs.
November 18, 2005... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The conference will be historic. The first meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol is expected to be the largest intergovernmental climate conference since the Kyoto...

Mars-Bound NASA Craft Tweaks Course, Passes Halfway Point.
November 18, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully fired six engines for about 20 seconds today to adjust its flight path in advance of its March 10, 2006,...

Three U.S.-U.K. Projects Link TeraGrid Sites With U.K. for Interactive Simulations in Real Time; Transatlantic Federated Grid Collaborative Demonstrates Benefit of 'Intergrid' Computing, Gains Experience With Co-Scheduling at Multiple Sites.
November 21, 2005... Byline: National Science Foundation SEATTLE, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three research groups, with joint support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, linked the U.S....

'Realizing Einstein's Dream - Exploring Our Mysterious Universe:' Public Lecture Will Mark End of Year-Long Celebration of Einstein and Importance of Physics in 21st Century.
November 25, 2005... Byline: University of Puget Sound TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- This year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "miraculous year" in which he published three important papers describing ideas that have since...

NASA Awards Contract for New Millennium Mission.
November 25, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The next satellite in NASA's New Millennium Program will be designed, developed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va., under a $27 million...

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to Observe 60th Anniversary With Doomsday Forum Dec. 3.
November 29, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will honor its 60th anniversary on Saturday, Dec. 3, with a public forum on doomsday and a screening of Stanley Kubrick's 1964...

American Chemical Society Directory of Graduate Research Offered Free Online.(Directory)
November 30, 2005... Byline: American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Chemical Society's 2005 Directory of Graduate Research (DGR), the most comprehensive source of information on chemical research and researchers at...