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University has grand designs to build a house of straw

Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That's what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding panels on campus. And people around the world will be able to watch its progress o...

Straw bale house survives violent shaking at earthquake lab

RENO, Nev. It huffed and puffed, but the 82-ton-force, earthquake-simulation shake table could not knock down the straw house designed and built by University of Nevada, Reno alumna and civil engineer Darcey Donovan. The full-scale, 14-by-14-foot straw house, complete with gravel foundation a...

Could Dr. House be replaced by a computer?

Scientists know that different normal and diseased tissues behave differently. But a method that tells them just how they do so may one day give medical science a new way to fight obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other dangerous disorders of the metabolism. Until now, scientists had to rely ...

White House announces 2007 National Medal of Science laureates

President George W. Bush has named the recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for science and engineering. Honorees will receive the medals at a White House ceremony on Sept. 29, 2008. "The 2007 National Medal of Science laureates have contributed to Americ...

White House science office needs upgrade

WASHINGTONThe science and technology policymaking capacity of the White House must be enhanced so that the next president can better address key issues facing the nationfrom energy and the environment, to national security, and the ability of the United States to compete and collaborate internatio...

SHRM CEO Testifies Before House Subcommittee on Social Security

HR Professionals Spearhead Effort in Support of "New Employee Verification Act" ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The world's largest association devoted to human resource management today led a coalition of business leaders and HR professionals to endorse the "New Employee...

ESA honored at White House ceremony

President Bush announced on November 16 that the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is one of the recipients of the 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). ESA is the only organization to receive the 2006 PAESMEM award; the other awarde...

Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will open its gates to the community on Saturday, August 29, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a day of discovery and fun for the whole family. The event is free and open to the public. "The open house will be great fun for everyon...

Mount Sinai's Dr. Benjamin tenOever to be honored by White House

Benjamin tenOever, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been selected by the United States government for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The White House announced the 100 honorees on July 9 an...

Tufts students host Earth Day with groundbreaking ceremony for solar house

BOSTON and MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- A collaborative team of student designers, engineers and planners from the Boston Architectural College and Tufts University will use Earth Day as an occasion to unveil their vision of innovative sustainable living, a house that will be solar powered, attra...

8 National Medals of Science awardees to be honored at gala, then the White House

View a video clip of Leonard Kleinrock showing his contributions to the development of the Internet and cybercommunication. President George W. Bush will award the National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology, honoring the nation's leading researchers, inventors and innovators, ...

Bumblebee house warming -- it takes a village

All bumblebees always aren't as busy as, well, a bee. It all depends on what their job is. Researchers have known that a key to the insects' success in adapting to cooler climates is their ability to maintain fairly stable body temperatures when flying to flowers. Whether and how they maintaine...

E-Noses: Testing their mettle against fly noses

...or comparing their performance against the much-superior nose of the common house fly. "Although e-noses already have many uses such as detecting spoilage... then compared it with the performance of odorant receptors from the common house fly, Drosophila. "We already know that fly receptors, unlike most other b...

Cancer's distinctive pattern of gene expression could aid early screening and prevention

... of the three-year-old Cancer Research Center building, which is being finished with the help of $3.5 million from the Georgia Research Alliance, will house the Georgia Genomics/Epigenomics Center. In early 2008, the National Institutes of Health established an epigenomics program to coordinate such effort...

Noise pollution negatively affects woodland bird communities, says CU-Boulder study

... black-chinned hummingbird nests and 94 percent of house finch nests in the two study areas were found at s...on the quiet sites, said Francis. Francis said house finches and black-chinned hummingbirds produce voc...t there, he said. Common in congested urban areas, house finches also are known to sing at higher frequenci...

Music is the engine of new U-M lab-on-a-chip device

...res only one "off-chip" connection. "This system is a lot like fiberoptics, or cable television. Nobody's dragging 200 separate wires all over your house to power all those channels," Burns said. "There's one cable signal that gets decoded." The system developed by Burns, chemical engineering doctor...

University of Miami receives stimulus funds for study of hurricane impacts on structures, ecosystems

...environment are affected during tropical cyclones (hurricanes). The project will be part of an integrated seawater laboratory building that will also house a state-of-the-art Marine Life Science Center. Target for completion of the building is Summer 2012. "We are thrilled with the prospect of this ne...

Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3?

... substantially improve their welfare and reduce costs due to injury, with the bonus that the eggs produced are also better for us." The study will house sixteen flocks of 1,500 hens each in identical dedicated free-range systems provided by Noble Foods. In the first year the researchers will compar...

SF State professor honored by President Obama for science mentoring

...ial Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. Bayliss will officially receive the award during a reception at the White house this fall. Bayliss had already been teaching biology at SF State for nearly two decades when he noticed a shortage of students -- particularly und...

Coralline algae in the Mediterranean lost their tropical element between 5 and 7 million years ago

... Mediterranean Sea. "In subsequent, more recent eras, this sea has not had the right oceanographic conditions (above all a high enough temperature) to house coral reefs," Braga added. When Tropical Coral Reefs Became Atlantic During the period studied by the scientists through the coralline algae fos...

Reading the brain without poking it

...ded the system to record brain waves. house and Greger conducted the research with Spencer Kel...ain tissue rather than sitting atop it, Greger and house say. Nonpenetrating electrodes may allow a longer ...has proven that this technology will last longer," house says. "But we are very optimistic that by being le...

Taxpayer Alliance applauds bill to broaden access to federal research results

...hs after publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The bill gives individual agencies flexibility in choosing the location of the digital repository to house this content, as long as the repositories meet conditions for interoperability and public accessibility, and have provisions for long-term archiving. ...

Targeting children effective use of limited supplies of flu vaccine and could help control flu spread

...of the new vaccine will be sufficient to vaccinate entire populations. In research published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection , Dr Thomas house and Professor Matt Keeling from the University of Warwick's Department of Biological Sciences have used computer modelling to predict the spread of pa...

CU-Boulder study shows Maya intensively cultivated manioc 1,400 years ago

...earby river, showing the importance and reverence the Maya had for water," he said. The volcano at Ceren shrouded adobe structures, thatched roofs, house beams, woven baskets, sleeping mats, garden tools and grain caches. The height of the corn stalks and other evidence indicate the eruption occurred ea...

University of Houston Site of Regional Center of Excellence

...lege of Technology , announce today their agreement for the Center to house the SCC's first permanent Regional Center of Excellence for the U.S. Gulf Region. This Center will house all of the Certification training for the SCOR(R) Reference (Supply Chain O...

'Father of green chemistry' Paul Anastas to head EPA research

... director of the U.S. Green Chemistry Program at the EPA, where he coined the term "green chemistry" in 1991. From 1999 to 2004 he served in the White house Office of Science and Technology Policy, most recently as assistant director for the environment. He then served as director of the Green Chemistry In...

Obama Budget Level Funds Career Technical Education

... Increase needed to train workforce, stimulate economy ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the White house unveiled its Fiscal Year 2010 budget request, proposing level funding for the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act (Perkins Act) at $1.3...

Skip this cocktail party

... to WHOI and performed the analyses in Reddy's laboratory. Reddy describes the methods as extremely unforgiving and explains, "This is not making Toll house cookies. The fact that Eric pulled it off so seamlessly is amazing considering that he did this by himself far away from Ottawa." Montie analyzed b...

New tool isolates RNA within specific cells

...ng each cell, without perturbing the cell, Doe said. "It is much like eavesdropping on a phone conversation, rather than pulling the person out of the house for questioning. The cell has no idea that its RNAs are being 'tagged' for isolation and study. That's good, because we get a more accurate idea of wh...

Study finds link between individual stress and adolescent obesity

... "In our past research, we did not find this association for older youth (ages 11-17), we only found it for young children (ages 3-10) who were in a house that had enough food or were food-secure," Lohman said. "But it may be that the adolescents are more cognitively aware of what's going on in the house...

Interventional radiology: From sidelines to mainstream for patients

...s are formalizing their clinical role with offices, doing rounds and providing formalized consultation," added Stainken. "As members of the medical house of radiology, interventional radiologists differ greatly from diagnostic radiologists. Interventional radiologists are hands-on clinicianswho are know...

New study: Home energy savings are made in the shade

... Trees positioned to shade the west and south sides of a house may decrease summertime electric bills by 5 percent on average, according t...s findings included: Planting trees on the west and south sides of a house decreased summertime electricity use, but planting them on the north actual...

Camphor-containing products may cause seizures in children

...ird case, a three-year-old Hispanic girl had been heavily exposed to numerous camphor-containing products, including crushed tablets spread around the house to control roaches and an ointment that her mother had rubbed on her skin hourly for 10 hours before her seizures began. (Interestingly, this girl and...

Vanderbilt engineers play key role in new DOE energy frontier research center

...ancing the corrosion resistance of materials. That is the focus of a new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Center announced by the White house on April 27. The Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center is one of two such centers that the Department of Energy is establ...

DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at Arizona State

... TEMPE Ariz. -- Arizona State University will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) announced by the White house in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama. The ASU center, one of 46 new EFRCs, will pursue advanced scientific research on...

DOE to establish Energy Frontier Research Center at PNNL

...hwest National Laboratory will be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers announced earlier this week by the White house in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. The EFRCs, which will ...

Mites on hissing coackroach may benefit humans with allergies

...ywhere else but on the surface of the Madagascar hissing cockroach. Chemical cues from growing nymphs offer signals that a new host is large enough to house a colony of mites. When a host cockroach dies, the mites wander aimlessly on the carcass until they die, too. Whether the mites offer any benefits ...

DOE makes largest Danforth Campus research award in history

...ar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced April 27 by the White house in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the ann...ed on the principles of light harvesting and energy funneling. Plans are to house the center at the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall, scheduled to open ...

Findings uncover new details about mysterious virus

...hod enables researchers to produce three-dimensional structures by combining two-dimensional pictures, much like a complete architectural drawing of a house can be assembled with two-dimensional drawings of the sides, the roof and other elements. Using five-fold symmetry revealed that one side of the vi...

Representative Hinchey receives award for support of science

...ough the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program. "As a member of the both the house Agriculture and Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittees, Representative Hinchey both understands the importance of and has been a long-t...