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- Tackling Greenhouse Gases as a Pollutant, by Kate Howard Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 3/10/2010 The U.S. EPA's planned regulations would impact suppliers of fossil fuels and car manufacturers most directly. Texas emits the most greenhouse gases in the nation More »
- Program Piques Young Women’s Interest in Science Careers, by Allison Stevens Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 3/10/2010 The two-month program has two parts, one for juniors and one for seniors. During their junior year, students learn about basic science related to oncofertility. During their senior year, students focus on clinical applications of what they learned the year before. More »
- MIT Researchers Discover New Way of Producing Electricity, by David Chandler Comments (0) Physorg.com 3/8/2010 More »
- Parkinson’s Impairs Emotional Communication and One Treatment May Make That Worse, by Elizabeth Brandon and Daniel Peake Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 3/8/2010 The debilitating movement disorder starts with tiny tremors and gradually seizes an individual’s ability to control movement, including speech. But it also often contributes to dementia, personality changes and other mental deficits, as countless doctors, researchers and families dealing with the disorder have documented. More »
- Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits, by John M. Broder Comments (0) The New York Times (Science) 3/6/2010 Limits for large coal-burning power plants and industrial facilities would be phased in beginning in 2011, with no restrictions on smaller sources until 2016. More »
- Research a Priority in Tight Presidential Budget, by Research!America Comments (0) Research!America 3/6/2010 More »
- MSU Dairy Facility Garners Silver LEED Certification, by Tom Oswald Comments (0) Michigan State University News 3/4/2010 The U.S. Green Building Certification, which administers the LEED program, requires any LEED-certified newly constructed facility to be at least 15 percent more energy efficient than current building codes dictate. The KBS dairy facility is 38 percent more energy efficient. More »
- Stem Cells: One Year Later, A Long Way to Go, by Tina Amirkiai Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 3/4/2010 The National Institutes of Health has approved 43 stem cell lines up so far, with more lines pending. The agency recently proposed expanding the definition of the human embryonic stem cells eligible for federal funding to include research on stem cell lines from blastomeres – cells developed after a fertilized egg has divided several times. More »
- Stuck on Mussel Research to Develop Medical Adhesives, by Rebecca Dolan Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 3/2/2010 More »
- New Technique Allows Study of Protein Folding, Dynamics in Living Cells, by Phil Ciciora Comments (0) UIUC News Bureau 3/1/2010 “With this new technique, we now have the capability of looking at how fast biological processes occur as a function of time, including potentially interesting disease processes, especially with neurological disorders and diseases that cause dementia such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease...” More »
- FDA and NIH Announce Collaboration Comments (0) U. S. FDA 2/25/2010 The research supported through this initiative should add to the scientific knowledge base by providing new methods, models or technologies that will inform the scientific and regulatory community about better approaches to evaluating safety and efficacy in medical product development. More »
- Deluge of Scientific Data Needs to be Curated for Long-Term Use, by Phil Ciciora Comments (0) UIUC News Bureau 2/25/2010 “Google is great for the front-end, for getting a thread into something,” Palmer said. “But it doesn’t offer you the context that’s important for aggregating and presenting data for research purposes." More »
- Neuroeconomist Mixes Money and Mind to Make Sense, by Daniel Peake Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 2/23/2010 These are very complex behaviors that we observe, and the traditional models that people have used in economics to understand behavior can’t really account for what we observe. So now we need to make these models a little more complicated, a little more realistic. To do that, we have a lot to learn from neuroscience and psychology and sociology. So this is why the field was born. More »
- Research!America Chooses C2ST as its February “Member Taking Action” Comments (0) Research!America 2/23/2010 "Our rich agenda includes basic and applied science and technology from areas spanning bioscience and engineering, More »
- Think Twice Before Cutting K-12 Music, by Wendy Leopold Comments (0) Northwestern University News Center 2/23/2010 “People’s hearing systems are fine-tuned by the experiences they’ve had with sound throughout their lives,” says Kraus. “Music training is not only beneficial for processing music stimuli. We’ve found that years of music training may also improve how sounds are processed for language and emotion.” More »
- MSU Prof Calls for Better Ways of Measuring Energy Savings, by Tom Oswald Comments (0) MSU News 2/22/2010 "One important and useful method of measurement is “energy return on energy invested," More »
- Parents Still Major Influence on Child’s Decision to Pursue Science Careers, by Tom Oswald Comments (0) MSU News 2/21/2010 “Failure to build and maintain a competitive scientific work force in the decades ahead,” Miller said, “will inevitably lead to a decline in the American standard of living.” More »
- Elusive Carp Hunt Continues With New Threats to the Economy, by Leslie Streicherand Julia Edwards Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 2/21/2010 A live fish has not been found anywhere beyond the electric barriers near the Lockport Lock and Dam. But that hasn’t lulled the fears that the voracious fish will invade Lake Michigan and calls to close the locks continue as more economic threats surface. More »
- Registry brings awareness to women’s health research, by Tina Amirkiai Comments (0) Medill Reports Chicago 2/21/2010 The registry is a database of self-reported health information provided by women who complete the survey, either online or on a paper copy. Their answers go into a secure server, and when a new study or clinical trial is looking for participants, the women are linked up with the appropriate research study and have the choice to participat More »
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