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Freshwater fish at the top of the food chain evolve more slowly

Durham, NC For avid fishermen and anglers, the largemouth bass is a favorite freshwater fish with an appetite for minnows. A new study finds that once they evolved to eat other fish, largemouth bass and fellow fish-feeders have remained relatively unchanged compared with their insect- and snail-e...

Impact Factor names Cell top research journal

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., USA (June 23, 2009) For the second year in a row, Cell is ranked cell biology's top research journal, according to new data released in the 2008 Journal Citation Reports published by ThomsonReuters. In the report released June 19, Cell 's impact factor increased to 31.3 fr...

American Journal of Botany named a top 10 most influential journal of the century

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has selected the American Journal of Botany as one of the 10 most influential journals of the past 100 years in the field of biology and medicine. The SLA announced the results on June 16, 2009 at its annual business luncheon in Washington, DC. To com...

European top universities join forces in energy research

The focus on Sustainable Energy Technologies was chosen for multiple reasons: to initiate a research and innovation driven combat against climate change, to provide society with security of energy supply and to stimulate economic growth and development. For this a European graduate school is t...

Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

TEMPE, Ariz. The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists scientists responsible for species exploration and classification today announce the top 10 new species described in 2008. On the list are a pea-sized se...

Scientists announce top 10 new species; issue SOS

TEMPE, Ariz. The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists scientists responsible for species exploration and classification today announce the top 10 new species described in 2008. On the list are a pea-sized se...

UC Riverside professor receives top scientific honor

RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside's Alexander Raikhel , a professor of entomology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his excellence in original scientific research. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in th...

LSUHSC student awarded top national honor for diabetes research

New Orleans, LA Sharell Bindom, a student in the MD/PhD program at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, will be awarded the Mead Johnson Research Award in Endocrinology and Metabolism by the American Physiological Society at the 2009 Experimental Biology Meeting April 18-22 in New Orleans. Thi...

UAB's Lisa Guay-Woodford earns top international nephrology prize

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- University of Alabama at Birmingham professor Lisa Guay-Woodford, M.D., will receive a top international award in nephrology, the Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease, given by the The PKD Foundation and the I...

World's top minds to celebrate 'the birth and life of beginnings'

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- For two weeks in March, some of the greatest names in science and the humanities will come to Tallahassee to take part in public discussions on how fundamental discoveries in science, religion, philosophy, history and the arts have shaped our understanding of life and civiliza...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 13 top young investigators

New York, NY-- The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named 13 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its November 2008 Fellowship Award Committee review. The recipients of this prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in t...

Louisiana Tech physicists highlight top 10 science stories of 2008

Discover , one of the world's premier science and technology news magazines, released its list of the Top 100 Stories for 2008 and features two projects involving physicists from Louisiana Tech University in its Top 10. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, which involved over 5,000 scienti...

American Library Association names NJIT prof’s Whale Music book a top ten

Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound (Basic Books, 2008) by NJIT humanities professor, author and clarinetist David Rothenberg, has been named one of the ten best science and technology books for 2008 by Booklist on Line, a publication of the American Library Association. http:/...

PNNL researchers earn top honors at Supercomputing conference

Richland, Wash. -- DNA sequencing is easier than ever, but the amount of data to be analyzed is piling up. An award-winning computer program now shows that genome sequence analysis can be made interactive and intuitive, helping researchers find hidden relationships in massive amounts of data. ...

CIC Teams With Industry Leader iPipeline to Provide Electronic Signature Platform to the Nation's Top Insurance Carriers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., and EXTON, Pa., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry and the recognized leader in biome...

NAS announces initiative to connect entertainment industry with top experts

LOS ANGELES -- The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced today the creation of "The Science and Entertainment Exchange," an initiative designed to connect entertainment industry professionals with top scientists and engineers to help the creators of television shows, films, video games, and...

FSU Historian's Arctic research has him sitting on top of the world

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- It's one of the coldest and most remote areas on Earth, but the Arctic region has long held great strategic interest for a number of nations. Now, a Florida State University researcher is leading an international team that is working to produce one of the most comprehensive h...

Collegiate Inventors Competition recognizes top student inventors

Akron, Ohio (October 22, 2008) The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation today announced the 2008 finalists of its Collegiate Inventors Competition. This year's group of finalists includes undergraduate and graduate students from across the country whose inventions show practical applicatio...

Providing toilets, safe water is top route to reducing world poverty: UN University

Simply installing toilets where needed throughout the world and ensuring safe water supplies would do more to end crippling poverty and improve world health than any other possible measure, according to an analysis released today by the United Nations University. The analysis says better water ...

Geologist who linked cosmic strike to dinosaurs' extinction takes top prize

Walter Alvarez, the maverick geologist who convinced a skeptical world that dinosaurs and many other living things on Earth were wiped out by a huge fireball from space, has won the highly esteemed Vetlesen Prize. Considered by many the earth sciences' equivalent of a Nobel, the $250,000 awar...

UH researchers win top prize for research with humanitarian applications

HOUSTON, Aug. 19, 2008 We all understand that even the tiniest changes in the environment can create big opportunities and challenges for plants, animals and humans, but rarely do we consider what's happening on a microscopic level and what those changes could mean for the infinite varieties of l...

Food, health get top billing at national chemistry meeting

PHILADELPHIA Well beyond the advice to drink enough H2O and not eat too much NaCl, the nation's chemists will get elemental with grapefruit, onions, peppers, tomatoes, carrots and watermelons this week at the American Chemical Society meeting. The world's largest scientific society is observing...

UCSB chemistry professor receives top military award for life-saving gauze

UC Santa Barbara Chemistry Professor Galen Stucky has been honored for his role in the development of a blood-clotting gauze that is helping save soldiers who suffer severe, life-threatening injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Defense's Advanced Technology Applications for Comb...

Male fish deceive rivals about their top mate choice

When competitors are around, male Atlantic mollies try to hide their top mate choice, reveals a new study published online on July 31st in Current Biology , a Cell Press journal. They feign disinterest in females after onlookers enter the scene. What's more, after encountering a rival, the tr...

ASBMB taps 8 scientists for top awards

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has announced the recipients of its annual awards competition. Eight scientists were singled out for their outstanding achievements and contributions to science. The awards will officially be presented at the Experimental Biology ...

Impact Factor names Cell top research journal

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., USA (June 25, 2008) Cell is ranked cell biology's top research journal, according to new data released in the 2007 Journal Citation Reports published by ThomsonReuters. In the report, released this month, Cell 's impact factor increased to 29.9 from 29.2 in prior year, pla...

Springer editor honored with top environmental prize

Biologist John Smol has been named as one of the 2008 Environmental Scientists of the Year by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His half-brother, biologist Jules Blais, is the other winner of this prize, which is one of Canada's most prestigious in the environmental sciences. The prize reco...

Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

TEMPE, Ariz. The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists scientists responsible for species exploration and classification today announce the top 10 new species described in 2007. On the list are an ornate slee...

UD researchers discover novel 'gene toggles' in world's top food crop

University of Delaware researchers, in collaboration with U.S. and international colleagues, have found a new type of molecule--a kind of micro-switch--that can turn off genes in rice, which is the primary source of food for more than half the world's population. The discovery is reported in the M...

Simplifying manufacture of drugs, plastics earns UH chemist top honor

HOUSTON, March 24, 2008 Simplifying the process for forming compounds that can be used in many everyday products, such as pharmaceuticals and plastics, has earned one University of Houston chemist a prestigious honor. Olafs Daugulis, assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Natural...

The top 5 ways medical physics has changed health care

College Park, MD (February 28, 2008) -- Many of the greatest inventions in modern medicine were developed by physicists who imported technologies such as X rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasound, particle accelerators and radioisotope tagging and detection techniques into the medical domain....

Personal Safes Market to Top $308 Million by 2011

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Market for Personal Safes, a new report by market research publisher SBI, forecasts that the market for personal safes will grow by double digits in 2008 and beyond, topping $308 million by 2011. At $221 million in 2006, personal safes accounted for 36% o...

UAB microbiologist wins top Czech science honor

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Jiri Mestecky, M.D., Ph.D, a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professor of microbiology and medicine, has been awarded the 2007 Czech Mind prize. The annual award is the highest scientific honor in the Czech Republic, and recipients often include Czech nationals work...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 17 top young investigators

New York, NY-- The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named 17 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its November 2007 Scientific Advisory Committee review. The recipients of this prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research i...

Young chimps top adult humans in numerical memory

Young chimpanzees have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals that is superior to that of human adults, researchers report in the December 4th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. There are still many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superi...

UD plant biologists uncover top wetland plant's hidden weapon

Scientists at the University of Delaware have uncovered a hidden weapon that one of the most invasive wetland plants in the United States uses to silently and efficiently bump off its neighbors. The invasive strain of Phragmites australis, or common reed, believed to have originated in Eurasia,...

Amid spiralling government interest, world's top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei

About 350 DNA barcoding experts from 46 nations will converge in Taipei amid spiralling interest from health officials, government agencies and others beginning to realize potential applications in a range of areas -- from consumer protection and food safety to disease prevention and better enviro...

Amid spiralling government interest, world's top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei

About 350 DNA barcoding experts from 46 nations will converge in Taipei amid spiralling interest from health officials, government agencies and others beginning to realize potential applications in a range of areas -- from consumer protection and food safety to disease prevention and better enviro...

Rosenstiel students come out on top

VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. Four University of Miami (UM) Marine Biology and Fisheries students have received recognition from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Ross Cunning and John Parkinson were awarded fellowships for their research on coral reefs in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Baker, an assista...

Wasps queue for top job

Scientists at UCL (University College London) have discovered that even wasps are driven by their status. The study, published today in Nature, shows that lower-ranked female wasps work harder to help their queen than those higher up the chain because they have less to lose, and consequently are pr...