AScribe Science News Service articles from September 2006

AScribe Science News Service archives from September 2006

Large-Scale Farming Now Causes Substantial Forest Loss in Amazon.
September 6, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Maryland-led study of Amazon deforestation in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso shows that direct conversion of forest to...

Cronin Fest Activities to Honor Physics Nobel Laureate Sept. 8-9 on His 75th Birthday.
September 6, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly 300 colleagues and admirers from around the world will convene at the University of Chicago to celebrate the 75th birthday of James Cronin, who shared the 1980...

Researchers Tackle Problem of Data Storage For Next-Generation Supercomputers; Carnegie Mellon Will Lead DOE-Sponsored Petascale Data Storage Institute.
September 7, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a five-year, $11 million grant to researchers at three universities and five national laboratories to find new ways...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to Lead Five Projects, Partner in Eight Others Under DOE's Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing Program.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Under the second round of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program announced today by the U.S. Department of Energy,...

Parkfield Research Challenges Traditional Thinking About Earthquakes.
September 12, 2006... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- When a magnitude 6.0 earthquake rumbled through Parkfield, Calif., two years ago on Sept. 28, earth scientists had their seismographs, global...

NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reaches Planned Flight Path.
September 12, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has completed the challenging half-year task of shaping its orbit to the nearly circular, low-altitude pattern from which...

Structure Determined for Key Molecular Complex Involved in Long-Term Gene Storage; Genome-Management System Seen as a Natural Protection Against Cancer.
September 17, 2006... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Around the home, regularly used tools are generally kept close at hand: a can opener in a kitchen drawer, a broom in the hall closet. Less frequently used tools are...

Dark Matter Exists! It Solves 25 Cosmic Mysteries.
September 19, 2006... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Sept. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jerome Drexler's research in 2005 eventually utilized 25 cosmic mysteries as criteria to uncover the nature and identity of the dark matter of the...

Imaging Technology Restores 700-Year-Old Sacred Hindu Text; Rochester Institute of Technology Scientists Travel Twice to India to Work on Damaged Manuscript.
September 19, 2006... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript...

Chevron to Fund Major Biofuel Research Projects at UC Davis.
September 19, 2006... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chevron Corp. will fund up to $25 million in research at University of California, Davis in the next five years to develop affordable, renewable...

Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett Wins 2006 Harvey Prize.
September 20, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Sept. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the 2006 Harvey Prize, given annually by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for...

Short-Term Ocean Cooling Suggests Global Warming 'Speed Bump'.
September 21, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The average temperature of the water near the top of Earth's oceans has significantly cooled since 2003. New research suggests global warming trends are not...

National Science Board to Meet Sept. 27-28.
September 25, 2006... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Board (NSB) will hold its 394th meeting Sept. 27-28, 2006, at the National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters, 4201 Wilson Blvd.,...

Two to Receive Honorary Degrees for Contributions to Conservation, Sustainable Forest Management in Latin America and the Caribbean.
September 25, 2006... Byline: The Tropics Foundation WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) will award honorary doctorates to two distinguished professionals for their outstanding...

'The Scientist, the Holy Plants and the Cure for Cancer' Illustrates Current Flawed Approach to Finding a Cancer Cure: NewsTarget.
September 26, 2006... Byline: Truth Publishing / NewsTarget.com TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to finding the cure for cancer, researchers who operate in a Western science point of view believe they're doing important work when they...

Ecology Center Awarded $21-Million by National Science Foundation.
September 28, 2006... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed and increased funding for The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis...