AScribe Science News Service articles from September 2008

AScribe Science News Service archives from September 2008

PAMELA May Be Detecting Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter, Says Jerome Drexler.
September 3, 2008... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Sept. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- On August 13, 2008, the journal "Nature" reported that the particle-detecting PAMELA satellite (of Italy, Russia, Germany, and Sweden, launched June...

Clorox Partners With Chabot Space & Science Center; Serves as Sponsor for Chabot's 125th Anniversary.
September 4, 2008... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- On the occasion of Chabot Space & Science Center's 125th anniversary, The Clorox Company has partnered with Chabot to support initiatives that create...

Science Journalist Andrew Revkin to Lead off Arts and Lectures Series Sept. 23.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Eastern Connecticut State University WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Award-winning New York Times science reporter and author Andrew Revkin will kick off Eastern Connecticut State University's 2008-09 Arts and...

Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and Caterpillar Inc. to Automate Large Off Highway Haul Trucks.
September 9, 2008... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute are working with colleagues at Caterpillar Inc. to develop autonomous versions of large haul trucks...

Chabot Hosts 125th Gala on September 13: 'Our Earth, Our Universe, Our Future'; Dr. Geoff Marcy to Be Honored With 2008 Chabot Science Award.
September 9, 2008... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center will host its 125th Anniversary Gala fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 13 from 6pm - 11pm. "Our Earth, Our Universe, Our...

UC Santa Barbara Has Key Role in Large Hadron Collider Project.
September 10, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earlier today, some 300 feet below the Earth's surface, in a circular tunnel so extensive that it travels from Switzerland into France and...

Five U.S. Start-Ups Will Compete on University of Maryland Campus in Finals of the American Leg of $500k Global Security Challenge Sept. 15.
September 10, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Maryland today released the following advisory. WHAT: On Sept. 15, five high-tech semi-finalists - companies whose...

KOIT Radio Partners With Chabot Space & Science Center; Serves as Sponsor for Chabot's 125th Anniversary.
September 12, 2008... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- On the occasion of Chabot Space & Science Center's 125th anniversary, KOIT Radio has partnered with Chabot to support initiatives that create...

NASA Selects University of Colorado at Boulder to Lead $485 Million Mars Mission.
September 15, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the largest research contract ever awarded to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been...

$70 Million CU-Boulder Instrument Set for Insertion on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
September 17, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers will use a $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder now set for installation on the Hubble Space Telescope in...

UC Santa Barbara's LabRATS Win National Award.
September 17, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- For Allen Doyle and the rest of the LabRATS, a profile that ran in the prestigious journal Science last year was the greatest tribute of...

University of Chicago's CHAMPs Dark Matter Boosts Drexler's Dark Matter Over WIMPs.
September 18, 2008... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Sept. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Sept. 2, 2008, the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, published a scientific paper online entitled, "Reopening The...

University of Maryland Awarded $12.5 Million for Research Center at Frontier of Quantum Physics.
September 18, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Foundation has awarded the Joint Quantum Institute $12.5 million over five years to create and operate a Physics Frontier...

NASA's Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger Crater.
September 22, 2008... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years. To reach the crater the...

WiCell Research Institute Launches New Stem Cell Bank.
September 23, 2008... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The WiCell Research Institute, a private, not- for-profit supporting organization to the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is launching its own stem...

University of California, Santa Barbara Researchers Part of $24 Million Center to Study Environmental Risks of Nanoparticles.
September 23, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Santa Barbara faculty members will join colleagues from other universities within the UC system in playing key roles in a five-year,...

ConvEne Program to Help University of California, Santa Barbara Students Address Energy Challenges.
September 24, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new program funded by the National Science Foundation means UC Santa Barbara is now able to offer graduate students deep and broad...

McGill Researchers Find Oldest Rocks on Earth.
September 25, 2008... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Discovery of rocks as old as 4.28 billion years pushes back age of most ancient remnant of Earth's crust by 300 million years McGill University researchers have...

Genetic Alliance Issues Statement on the Resignation of NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D.
September 26, 2008... Byline: Genetic Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Genetic Alliance President and CEO, Sharon Terry, today issued the following remarks in response to the resignation of Elias Zerhouni, M.D., director of the National...

University of California, Davis Environment News Tips: Climate Change Alters Base of Tahoe Food Web; Wine Industry Intent on Truly Going Green; Two From UC Davis Will Serve on Coastal Science Panel; Environmental Events Calendar.
September 26, 2008... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Davis today released the following environment news tips. - - - - CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERS BASE OF TAHOE FOOD WEB ...