AScribe Science News Service articles from October 2003

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Gallery of Mars Closeups From NASA Orbiter Adds 10,232 Views.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 1 (AScribe News) -- Thousands of newly released portraits of martian landscapes from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft testify to the diversity of ways geological processes have...

Flawed Model Could Doom Some Plants and Animals.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A planning strategy widely used in wildlife management has a hidden flaw that could increase extinctions rather than reduce them, says a UC Davis expert on...

University of Southern California Awarded Multi-million Dollar Engineering Research Center by National Science Foundation; Research to Focus on Medical Microdevices.
October 1, 2003... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Southern California $17 million to fund a new center that is expected to move the Los Angeles region to the...

Rutgers' Giant-Screen Film 'Volcanoes of the Deep Sea' Begins Run in New Jersey and Science Centers Around Nation.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Oct. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- It took a decade of planning and 22 perilous dives to some of the strangest, deepest sites in the world's oceans. But now everyone can...

Nanomechanics Sensor 'Sniffs' Out TNT.
October 1, 2003... Byline: University of Nevada, Reno RENO, Nev., Oct. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A would-be bomber saunters through an airport carrying hidden explosives. Zing! Security is alerted via microsensors embedded in the airport's ventilation system....

UC Santa Cruz Launches Bold Collaboration With NASA.
October 2, 2003... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Santa Cruz, will manage a national research program valued at more than $330 million under a new agreement between...

Thorough, Searchable Database of Human Proteins Unveiled.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Like expert curators who verify and create catalogs of the world's great art collections, an international team of scientists has developed a human protein...

Saturn-Bound Spacecraft Tests Einstein's Theory.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An experiment by Italian scientists using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, currently en route to Saturn, confirms Einstein's theory of general relativity...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Announces Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2003... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The New York Academy of Sciences today released the following advisory: WHAT: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to announce the eight winners of the Annual...

Biologist Loren Rieseberg Named a 2003 MacArthur Fellow.
October 5, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Loren Rieseberg, Class of '54 Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, whose intricate studies of sunflowers have revealed clues about early Native...

Neutron-Scattering Project Receives $6.4 Million in Funding; New Facility Will Aid Development Efforts in Indiana.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two new grants from the National Science Foundation totaling $6.4 million over three years will enable the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility to construct a...

Scientists Meeting at Harbor Branch to Push Marine Fish Aquaculture Industry Forward.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution FORT PIERCE, Fla., Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- There is enormous economic potential in both Florida and around the country to farm raise such marine fish species as red drum, pompano,...

UC Irvine Study Uncovers Unexpectedly High Air Pollutant Levels in Southwest States; Elevated Levels Tied to Oil, Natural Gas Processing; Overall U.S. Greenhouse Gas Levels Likely Higher Than Previously Estimated.
October 6, 2003... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Irvine atmospheric scientists have found that greenhouse gases released from oil and natural gas exploration and processing in Oklahoma, Texas and...

Do Migratory Birds Sleep in Flight? Neuroscientists Seek Answer.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Bowling Green State University BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine driving cross-country without stopping at night for so much as a catnap. The physical and mental demands of such a trip would test even the...

New Winner of MacArthur 'Genius' Award's Artwork on Display at Oakland's Chabot Space & Science Center; Ned Kahn's Planetary Landscapes on Permanent Exhibit.
October 7, 2003... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland is pleased to feature a major permanent exhibit by renowned Bay Area sculptor Ned Kahn, who was announced this...

Prehistoric Human Footpaths in Costa Rica Indicate Intimate Ties With Villages, Cemeteries.
October 8, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- New findings by the University of Colorado at Boulder indicate tiny footpaths traveled by Costa Rican people 1,500 years ago were precursors to wide, deep...

Hopkins' Peter Agre Receives 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
October 8, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Peter Agre, M.D., 54, professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, today was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in...

Two Honored With New Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Award.
October 8, 2003... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two veteran journalists today received the first Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Science Journalism Award for their...

Major Foundation Closes Grant Program After 27 Years of Support for Young Biomedical Researchers.
October 8, 2003... Byline: The Whitaker Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Whitaker Foundation has awarded its final research grants totaling $10 million, ending 27 years of support for young investigators in biomedical engineering....

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Announces Winners of Excellence in Science and Technology Awards.
October 8, 2003... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg tonight announced the winners of the annual Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden....

Forty-Five Nobel Prize Laureates Affiliated With the University of California.
October 8, 2003... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A total of 45 faculty and researchers affiliated with the University of California have won Nobel Prizes, including 14 prizes since 1995. This is the complete...

Molecular Test Proves Effective in Measuring Extent of Remission After Cancer Treatment, Potential for Relapse; Test Already Saving Patients' Lives Who Relapse After Bone-Marrow or Stem-Cell Transplantation; Researchers Predict Approach Will Speed Delivery of Promising New Therapies to Other Patients.
October 8, 2003... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center SEATTLE, Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international consortium of researchers from Seattle, London and Australia have reported the first use of a sensitive molecular test to measure the...

The Scripps Research Institute to Open Major Science Center in Palm Beach County, Florida.
October 9, 2003... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif. Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) today announced plans to establish a major science center in Palm Beach County, Fla., focusing on biomedical...

Symposium Features Advances in Developmental Biology; Research Key to Further Understanding Tumor Formation.(Brief Article)
October 9, 2003... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) will host a scientific symposium at which scientists from MSKCC and other internationally renowned...

Organic Agriculture Yields New Weapon Against Global Warming; Groundbreaking Study Proves Organic Farming Counters Greenhouse Gases.
October 10, 2003... Byline: Straus Communications KUTZTOWN, Pa., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- After 23 years of field studies on organic farming practices, researchers at The Rodale Institute have announced exciting new findings with profound implications in...

New Gene Necessary for Plant Growth and Development Discovered Using a Promising Experimental Technique.
October 10, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- By taking a fresh approach to an old problem, University of California, San Diego biologists and colleagues at other institutions have found a new...

Thomas Jefferson University and University of Michigan Scientists Identify Gene Defect Behind Muscle-Wasting Disease in Mice; May Lead to Treatments for Comparable Diseases in Humans.
October 10, 2003... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Jefferson Medical College and the University of Michigan have uncovered a gene defect responsible for a muscle-wasting, neurodegenerative disease...

From Genome Comparisons, UC San Diego Researchers Learn Lessons About Evolution, Cancer.
October 10, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 1905, American astronomer Percival Lowell predicted the existence of a new planet he called Planet X. Lowell proved that this new planet existed...

Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities Win $2.9 Million to Study Nanotechnology.
October 10, 2003... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities professors will conduct joint research and train doctoral students from both institutions in the rapidly growing...

Monkeys Consciously Control Robot Arm Using Only Brain Signals; Appear To 'Assimilate' Arm as if it Were.
October 12, 2003... Byline: Duke University Their Own DURHAM, N.C. Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have taught rhesus monkeys to consciously control the movement of a robot arm in real time, using only signals...

Doubt Cast on Adult Stem-Cell Plasticity Studies.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a study that calls into question the plasticity of adult stem cells, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers and colleagues at the...

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research President Richard Anthes Wins China's Top Award for Foreigners.
October 13, 2003... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Chinese government has honored Richard Anthes, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), with the highest...

NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility Successfully Focused.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Space Infrared Telescope Facility, NASA's fourth and final Great Observatory, has been successfully focused. This crucial milestone - which will enable...

New NASA Facility Will Help Protect Space Crews from Radiation.
October 14, 2003... Byline: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center UPTON, N.Y., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine a human spacecraft crew voyaging through space. A satellite sends a warning; energetic particles are being accelerated from the sun's corona,...

National Center for Atmospheric Research: Weather Modification Experts Tackle a Slippery Subject.
October 14, 2003... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Weather modification is big business, both in the United States and abroad. Commercial companies are hired to enhance rainfall by "seeding"...

Cosmic Jets Whoosh Into Free Public Lectures.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cosmic jets - a common but mysterious phenomenon in the universe - will be the topic of two free lectures to be held on Thursday, Oct. 16, at NASA's Jet...

Chinese/Russian Manned Space Launch Comes As No Surprise for Astronomers at Chabot Space & Science Center; Chabot to Display Russian Spacesuit On Which China's Spacesuit Modeled.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- News yesterday of China's launch of a manned space flight, in cooperation with the Russian space program, was received with enthusiasm yesterday by...

Sandia National Laboratories Develops Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramics to Withstand 2000 Degrees Celsius.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new lightweight material to withstand ultra-high temperatures on...

Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: Benefits Dwindle As Picture Sharpens.
October 15, 2003... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research anatta@ucar.edu BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computer-based simulations of U.S. agriculture show that, by the year 2060, the benefits of climate change to American...

Sandia National Laboratories Launches Chemical/Biological Defense Program Web Site.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories LIVERMORE, Calif., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Addressing the need to provide information to the public on an important national security capability, Sandia National Laboratories has launched an...

New York Academy of Sciences Conference Examining Oral Tolerance As Treatment for Autoimmune Disease Oct. 23 to 26; Featured in Special Online 'eBriefing'.
October 17, 2003... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Oral tolerance, a long-recognized mechanism of inducing immune tolerance, has become a vital area of investigation in terms of basic research and clinical...

San Diego State University Heart Institute to Study Cardiac Stem Cells' Ability to Fight Effects of Aging, Weakening Hearts.
October 20, 2003... Byline: San Diego State University SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The San Diego State Universtiy Heart Institute has received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how stem cells can be used...

Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Professor Named Chairman of Committee on National Statistics.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- William F. Eddy, a professor of statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named the chairman of the influential Committee on National Statistics...

University of Minnesota Receives $10.8 Million from NSF to Sequence Third Plant Genome.
October 20, 2003... Byline: University of Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Minnesota has received $10.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a multi-institution initiative to sequence the genome of a...

UC Davis Open House Shows Off Futuristic SUVs, Buses, Big Rig.
October 20, 2003... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Abundant and energy-rich, hydrogen is the star of today's open house at UC Davis, where the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis) is showcasing...

Genetic Differences in Termite Castes May Lead to Better Control.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Learning the molecular processes that cause termite larvae to grow into workers, soldiers or reproductive adults may lead to new methods to decimate colonies of...

Aquaculture Project Aims to Alleviate Hunger, Promote Sustainability in Poverty-Striken Countries; Marine Biological Laboratory Expertise, Technology Key to Innovative Solution.
October 21, 2003... Byline: Marine Biological Laboratory WOODS HOLE, Mass., Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fish food being developed by scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) may ultimately help to alleviate hunger in tropical third world...

President Bush Names Eight Elite Scientists, Engineers to Receive National Medals of Science.
October 22, 2003... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- President Bush today named eight of the nation's leading scientists and engineers to receive the 2002 National Medal of Science for work that spawned many...

Klamath Basin Science Report Authors Available for Comment.(Brief Article)
October 22, 2003... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two of the 12 authors of the new scientific report on the Klamath Basin's endangered and threatened fish are UC Davis professors. They are Peter Moyle, an...

Adaptive Mutation Is Common in E. Coli, Say Indiana University Researchers.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The quickening of genetic mutation rates in bacteria may not only happen when the microorganisms find themselves in strange and stressful circumstances. A new...

Clays May Have Aided Formation of Primordial Cells.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have discovered that clays may have been the catalysts that spurred the spontaneous assembly of fatty...

Children Need to Play More, Memorize Less, Researchers Say.
October 23, 2003... Byline: University of Delaware NEWARK, Del., Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- America is facing a crisis in child rearing and education as parents succumb to pressures to provide very young children an edge on learning in a fast-paced and...

Inventor of Electronic Digital Computer Would Be 100 This Month: Modern Computer Symposium to Honor John Vincent Atanasoff.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computing experts from around the world will assemble on the Iowa State University campus for the International Symposium on Modern Computing, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, in the...

Threatened African Animals Could Benefit From Unique Ecological Research: University of San Francisco Professor Looking at 'Hotspots' of Activity in Kruger National Park.(landscape ecologist Tracy Benning)
October 23, 2003... Byline: University of San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Black rhinos, elephants and cheetahs - some of Africa's most threatened species - could benefit from unique ecological research currently underway in Kruger...

Endowments Awards $25.8 Million in Culture, Economic Opportunity, Early Learning Grants; In Troubled Financial Times, Major Support for Key Cultural Institutions, Boost for Maternal & Child Care, Government Streamlining.
October 23, 2003... Byline: The Heinz Endowments PITTSBURGH, Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A $4 million grant to help fund an ambitious expansion plan for the famed Dinosaur Hall at the Carnegie Institute's Museum of Natural History leads a slate of major...

Duke University Commits to Enhance Primate Center.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University officials have announced that the Duke University Primate Center has made sufficient progress toward improving its research and educational programs that...

NASA Scientist Dives Into Perfect Space Storm.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Newly uncovered scientific data of recorded history's most massive space storm is helping a NASA scientist investigate its intensity and the probability that...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Researchers Unveil Superconductor-Based Light Detector.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new and improved way to measure light has been unveiled by physicists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, both...

Tiny Technology, Huge Promise: University of Dayton, Air Force to Build Nanotechnology Expertise.
October 24, 2003... Byline: University of Dayton DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's a very small technology with huge promise. Economic development, education and Air Force officials are leveraging the capabilities at Wright-Patterson Air...

Declining Phytoplankton Levels Affect Native Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Species.
October 27, 2003... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Invasions of nonnative species such as the Asian clam (Portamocorbula amurensis), as well as changes in water transparency and transport, have resulted in...

Elusive Cancer Killer's Deep-Sea Hideout Discovered After Nearly 20-Year Hunt.
October 27, 2003... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution FT. PIERCE, Fla., Oct. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 1984, Harbor Branch scientists exploring deep waters off the Bahamas in one of the institution's Johnson-Sea-Link submersibles discovered a...

UC Davis Experts, Information on Wildfires.
October 27, 2003... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- These UC Davis faculty members have expertise regarding wildfire chemistry, monitoring, suppression and recovery. Also listed are University of California...

Ohio State University Rocks: Byrd Polar Center Home to National Polar Rock Repository.
October 28, 2003... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tracking down rare rocks from the coldest reaches of the planet just got a little easier for polar geologists with the opening of the U.S. Polar Rock Repository at...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scientists Receive NASA Fundamental Physics Grants.(Brief Article)
October 28, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Four scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif, along with 11 other researchers, have been awarded NASA grants totaling more than...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Releases Fall 2003 Research Highlights.
October 28, 2003... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Oct. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today released the following advisories: NERVE-GAS FINGERPRINTS ETCHED IN LIGHT In 1995 hundreds of...

UC Riverside Wildfire Experts: Faculty With Variety of Expertise Ready to Talk to the Media.
October 29, 2003... Byline: University of California, Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- As fire continues to ravage Southern California, the University of California, Riverside, offers a variety of faculty experts who can add depth and...

Purdue University, Roche Diagnostics Corp. Seek Entrants in $147,000 Life Sciences Business Plan Competition.
October 29, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A nationwide entrepreneurial competition at Purdue University will award total prizes of $147,000 for business plans that describe the path to market for...

Installation Begins on World's Largest University Solar Electric System.
October 29, 2003... Byline: Calif. State University, Hayward HAYWARD, Calif., Oct. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Installation has begun on the largest solar electric system at any university in the world -- and one of the largest solar energy systems in the nation,...

Carnegie Mellon Celebrates West Coast Campus Expansion.
October 31, 2003... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University is celebrating the expansion of its West Coast Campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour of its new headquarters in Building 23 on...

University of Florida Researcher: 'Reversible' Computers More Energy Efficient, Faster.
October 31, 2003... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the U.S. Congress continues work on a federal energy bill, a group of University of Florida researchers is to working to implement a radical idea for making...

College of the Holy Cross Professor Can Comment on California Wildfires.(Brief Article)
October 31, 2003... Byline: College of the Holy Cross WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Edward O'Donnell, associate professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., is an expert on the history of catastrophic fires. He...

Next NASA Space Science Update Features Distant Voyager Discovery.
October 31, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- New observations from Voyager 1 indicate the spacecraft is approaching a formerly unexplored region at the very edge of our solar system. These observations...

University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Wildfire Experts Available for Comment.
October 31, 2003... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources today released the following list of wildfire experts available...