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Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

... Ariz. The International Institute for Species exploration at Arizona State University and an international ... taxonomists scientists responsible for species exploration and classification today announce the top 10 new ... by ASU's International Institute for Species exploration in partnership with the International Commission ...

Scientists announce top 10 new species; issue SOS

... Ariz. The International Institute for Species exploration at Arizona State University and an international ... taxonomists scientists responsible for species exploration and classification today announce the top 10 new ... by ASU's International Institute for Species exploration in partnership with the International Commission ...

NOAA awards $22.5 million to Harbor Branch/FAU and UNCW for new cooperative institute

... development of advanced underwater technologies, exploration and research of frontier regions of the eastern ... shallow coral ecosystems. NOAA's Office of Ocean exploration and Research will be the institute's primary NOAA ... our partners, will be in the forefront of ocean exploration and helping to advance products and tools that ...

Final frontier: Mission to explore buried ancient Antarctic lake given green light

... contain unique forms of life. The team hopes the exploration will yield vital clues about life on Earth, ... Edinburgh said: "This is a benchmark in polar exploration our team will be the first to explore this ... the frontiers of scientific exploration." The exploration of subglacial lakes is part of an international ...

Deep biosphere research points to new methods for recovering petroleum

... a professor in ASU's School of Earth and Space exploration and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ... professor in the School of Earth and Space exploration and ASU's Department of Chemistry and ... emeritus faculty in the School of Earth and Space exploration and ASU's Department of Chemistry and ...

NASA picks ASU research team to guide study of search for life

... researchers intend to boost extraterrestrial exploration to the next stage by refining the criteria that ... Oct. 2 that ASU's School of Earth and Space exploration is one of 10 research teams from across the ... a professor in the School of Earth and Space exploration and the department of chemistry and biochemistry, ...

Bringing Martian samples to Earth -- preparations outlined in journal Astrobiology

... 13, 2008 A critical component of NASA's Mars exploration program involves bringing planetary samples back ... ) the Mars exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) describes 11 ... of papers that describe "Instruments for In Situ exploration of Planets," compiled by Guest Editors Max ...

Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

... Ariz. The International Institute for Species exploration at Arizona State University and an international ... taxonomists scientists responsible for species exploration and classification today announce the top 10 new ... by ASUs International Institute for Species exploration in partnership with the International Commission ...

Species explorers ask: What's on Your planet?

... Taxonomy, the science responsible for species exploration and classification, has been largely ignored in ... that a new International Institute for Species exploration at Arizona State University is out to change. ... The symposium Whats on Your Planet? Species exploration and Charting Biodiversity will be held from 1 to ...

Joint statement by German science organizations on green genetic engineering

... in the future. The German Science Organisations fully support an exploration of the opportunities and possible uses of green genetic engineering in Germany. Such exploration includes the impartial investigation of safety issues and potential risks. ...

Great Lake's sinkholes host exotic ecosystems

... by the National Science Foundation and NOAA's Office of Ocean exploration and Researchmay shed light on how similar microbial communities can arise ... organisms and previously unknown biochemical processes, furthering our exploration of life on Earth." ...

Unusual use of toys in infancy a clue to later autism

... have found that infants later diagnosed with autism exhibited unusual exploration of objects long before being diagnosed. Studying a group of children at ... displayed significantly more spinning, rotating and unusual visual exploration of objects than typically developing children. "We found that these ...

Similarities in imaging the human body, Earth's crust focus of conference at UH

... The UH Imaging Symposium will be sponsored by Apache Corp., an oil and gas exploration company. It will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6 at UH in ... from UH and MDACC, as well as industry leaders in the areas of oil and gas exploration and geophysics. This event will provide a platform for representatives ...

Cold water corals conference to be held in Woods Hole

... at risk due to human activities such as deep-sea fish trawling, energy exploration and production. Once lost, recovery of these ecosystems can take decades ... ROVs outfitted with new sensor technologies will be instrumental in the exploration and research planned by TRACES. The international group meeting at Woods ...

Unique study shows oil, gas seismic work not affecting Gulf sperm whales

... especially noise generated by seismic airguns during geophysical exploration for oil and gas seems to have minimal effect on endangered sperm whales ... But the study found no unusual effects of controlled exposure to seismic exploration on the swimming and diving behavior by sperm whales in the Gulf, and also ...

Exploration of lake hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet begins

... is a deep-water body and confirms the lake as an ideal site for future exploration missions to detect microbial life and recover climate records. If the ... the lake water. The UK could do this as soon as 2012/13. This ambitious exploration of subglacial Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica, involves scientists from 14 ...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... behavior of As and Cu in hydrothermal systems Artur P. Deditius et al., Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), exploration and Mining, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Perth, WA 6151, Australia. Pages 707-710. Deditius et al. describe alternating zones of copper- and arsenic-rich ...

Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth

... A research program aimed at using platinum as an exploration guide for nickel has for the first time been able to put a time scale on the planet's large-scale convection processes. The research is reported in ...

U of M study identifies risk factors of disordered eating in overweight youth

... patterns of behaviors and different potential motivators for overweight male and female adolescents to developing eating disorders. "Further exploration of these gender differences may be important in understanding who is at highest risk for developing disordered eating behaviors and whether different ...

'Shifting Sands' highlights past, present and future of Maryland coastal bays ecosystem

... Dennison from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. "Through their unique approach of weaving together the region's scientific exploration and history, the authors tell give a holistic view of the Coastal Bays." The 396-page book is divided into 15 chapters detailing introductions to ...

Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old

... in the world, was not known. Until recently the Amazon Fan, a submarine sediment column around 10km thick, had proven difficult to penetrate. New exploration efforts by Petrobas, however, have lea to two new boreholes being drilled near the mouth of the Amazon - one 2.5miles (4.5km) below sea level - which ...

Nottinghamshire Police First Law Enforcement Agency to Deploy ForensicSoft in United Kingdom

... Block technology to block all disks at the physical level, SAFE is the only Windows-based boot environment to ensure a forensically sound preview, exploration and capture of the digital evidence. SAFE employs Microsoft Windows PE (a fully licensed copy is included) and is capable of running your favorite ...

AAAS Pacific division scientific conference to meet in San Francisco Aug. 14 - 19

... of Sciences WHEN: Aug. 14 19, 2009 PROGRAM OVERVIEW: Darwin and the Galapagos Symposium: a two-day forum focusing on Darwin's exploration of the Galapagos Archipelago. Aug. 14-15, California Academy of Sciences Scientific symposia. Aug. 17-19, San Francisco State University ...

'Science Under Siege'

... Inquirerscientists and scholars in all fields, educators and teachers, students and inquirers at all levels. The selected essays provide a timely new exploration of important public issues within science and along it borders, and are a must for everyone concerned about scientific literacy. Kendrick Frazier ...

Exploring standards to advance microbial genomics

... of stars in the universe⎯urgently calls for a transition from random, anecdotal, and small scale surveys towards a systematic and comprehensive exploration of our planet." With new tools in hand and international initiatives for increased collaboration underway, the field of microbial genomics is poised ...

NYU Langone Medical Center awarded NIH grants totaling $1,560,000

... Microbiome Project (HMP) taking place at institutions across the country. Since 2007, the HMP has awarded more than $70 million to expand its exploration of how the trillions of microscopic organisms that live in and on our bodies affect our health. The human microbiome is all the microorganisms that ...

NIH expands Human Microbiome Project; funds sequencing centers and disease projects

... The Human Microbiome Project has awarded more than $42 million to expand its exploration of how the trillions of microscopic organisms that live in or on our bodies affect our health, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced ...

Humans related to orangutans, not chimps, says new Pitt, Buffalo Museum of Science study

... criticize molecular data where criticism is due," said Malte Ebach, a researcher at Arizona State University's International Institute for Species exploration who also was not involved in the project but is familiar with it. "Palaeoanthropology is based solely on morphology, and there is no scientific ...

Researchers describe 'implausible' chemistry that produces herbicidal compound

... contain the resistance gene are able to withstand PT-based herbicides that kill the weeds around them. The new findings are part of an ongoing exploration at Illinois of naturally produced molecules that contain carbon-phosphorus (C-P) bonds. Although little understood, these phosphonates (which contain ...

American Society for Microbiology honors Richard W. Castenholz

... supporters notes, "Dick Castenholz is the world expert in the field of cyanobacterial ecology and systematics." His research has led to global exploration of these organisms in marine, alkaline, geothermal, acidic, endolithic, cold, hypersaline, and oligotrophic habitats. He merged his extensive ...

Scientists find formula to uncover our planet's past and help predict its future

... could include, not only climate change and ecology, but also contexts such as populations at risk from epidemics and rocket motors for new space crew exploration vehicles. ...

UT nanomedicine project to be tested in space

... body, and to bring to the clinic the vision of personalized medicine." The competition was sponsored by The Heinlein Prize Trust, SpaceX (Space exploration Technologies) and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. The trust is named after the late science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. ...

Crop models help increase yield per unit of water used

... under well-watered conditions, but tended to overestimate or underestimate WUE under conditions of water stress. This limits their usefulness for exploration of deficit irrigation scenarios or rain-fed or dryland situations with less than adequate water. According to symposium organizer Steve Evett, ...

Unlikely life thriving at Antarctica's Blood Falls

... are shifted in a way that is consistent with this microbial process," said Anbar, who holds joint appointments in the School of Earth and Space exploration and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Even the earliest explorers noted the massive red ...

2009 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award announcement

... and was able to find some extremely interesting results. Thanks to the ASPB-SURF, this summer, I will be able to continue this fascinating exploration into the inner workings of the Arabidopsis genome and its response to aneuploid-induced stress. I am also excited to meet all of the other ...

Plant gene mapping may lead to better biofuel production

... issue of Plant Molecular Biology , also lays a foundation for understanding these genes' evolutionary and structural properties and for a broader exploration of their roles in plant life. "We are studying a very large family of genes that instruct cells to make a variety of enzymes important in a wide ...

Genes from tiny marine algae suggest unsuspected avenues for new research

... with other microbes and suites of genes with land plants, the possibilities are virtually endless. Worden and her team are looking forward to further exploration of the "toolbox" of genes used by the multitude of organisms that keep our planet green. ...

Biomedical researchers invited to design experiments for the International Space Station

... in 2005. The NIH solicitation is the next step in a new partnership to apply the National Laboratory to research that complements NASA's space exploration efforts. "As the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research, the NIH looks forward to facilitating access to our nation's ...

Imperial College London and NTU collaborate to offer joint Ph.D. programs in engineering and science

... of Imperial Sir Roy Anderson said: "Imperial College London and Singapore make very good partners because we share an enthusiasm for scientific exploration and innovation. This new joint PhD programme is an exciting collaboration and we look forward to seeing our students benefit from the diversity of ...

UC Davis bench-to-bedside research: Promising treatment in clinical trials

... Randall Whitcomb: "The Phase IIa trial will further validate the role of s-EH in the pathophysiology of disease and lay the groundwork for further exploration of s-EH inhibition in treating a broad range of serious diseases including type 2 diabetes, hypertension and inflammatory disorders." Hammock ...
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