AScribe Science News Service back issues from August 2009:
ET! What and Where Are You? Or Are We Alone?
Aug 03, 2009 ... Byline: Cosmology.com SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Do ETs (extra-terrestrials) exist? If not, then why not? If so, what forms might ET take: Microbes? Intelligent plants? Insects that ask: "Are we alone?" What might be the nature of life on ...
'Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works': Exhibition Examines Evolution of Astronomy.
Aug 03, 2009 ... Byline: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, will present the exhibition "Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical ...
Drexler's Dark Matter May Have Enabled First-Generation Stars to Ignite Hydrogen Fusion Without Molecular Hydrogen or Dust.
Aug 05, 2009 ... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- On July 14, Innovations-report issued a news release entitled, "Research sheds light on early star formation." The first-generation stars are referred to as primordial or Population III stars, ...
Carnegie Mellon's Jeanne M. VanBriesen Leads Research Team on the Monongahela River.
Aug 06, 2009 ... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Jeanne M. VanBriesen and Kelvin Gregory will use a $100,000 grant from the Pittsburgh-based Colcom Foundation to study water quality in the Monongahela River. The ...
Carnegie Mellon's Eric Blood Spends Summer at NASA Working on Innovative Flight Research Systems.
Aug 10, 2009 ... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Eric Blood spent the summer building a database of maneuvers for Boeing's novel X-48B unmanned aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif. ...
Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water.
Aug 12, 2009 ... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using NASA satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as 33 centimeters (1 foot) per year over the past decade. Researchers ...
Drexler's Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter, Not Dark Energy, Led Post-Big Bang Rapid Inflationary Epoch; BigBOSS to Test.
Aug 13, 2009 ... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- On August 6, 2009 an article was published in the ScienceDaily entitled, "Dark Energy From The Ground Up: Make Way For BigBOSS." The article describes a planned ground-based $71 million ...
Carnegie Mellon's Cliff Davidson to Discuss Importance of Designing Sustainable Products at Workshop in India.
Aug 14, 2009 ... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Cliff Davidson has been invited to speak about the importance of engineering and sustainability Aug. 18-20 at the Indo-U.S. Workshop, "Designing Sustainable Products, ...
Saint Joseph's University Launches John P. McNulty Scholars Program for Excellence in Science and Math; Alumnus Memorialized Through Unique Merit-Based Full-Tuition Scholarships for Women.
Aug 17, 2009 ... Byline: Saint Joseph's University PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Saint Joseph's University and Anne Welsh McNulty have joined to create an innovative program to inspire young women to strive for leadership roles in science and math. The John P. McNulty Scholars ...
Gifted Teens 'Geek Out' Online; Cogito.org: A Thinking Student's Online Lair.
Aug 19, 2009 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kids these days: they spend a lot of time texting, twittering and instant-messaging. All that hanging out online can't possibly be good for them. But what if kids aren't just hanging out, ...
New Degrees Prepare Students for High Demand Energy Jobs.
Aug 20, 2009 ... Byline: Idaho National Laboratory POCATELLO, Idaho, Aug. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University have teamed to develop two new energy degree programs that specifically train students in mechanical engineering technology and wind power ...
Idaho National Laboratory Receives National Recognition for Small Business Program.
Aug 25, 2009 ... Byline: Idaho National Laboratory IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy recognized Dana Storms as the 2008 Small Business Program Manager of the Year for her commitment to partnering small businesses with Idaho National Laboratory. ...
American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges and Monterey Institute for Technology and Education Team Up to Tackle Remedial Math.
Aug 25, 2009 ... Byline: Monterey Institute for Technology and Education MONTEREY, Calif., Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Demand for post-secondary education in the modern job market is increasing. But as enrollment in post-secondary institutions grows to meet this demand, many students entering ...
LEGOs Help Researchers Learn What Happens Inside Lab-on-a-Chip Devices.
Aug 25, 2009 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to help them visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are ...
CACM Reports: Mining the Wisdom of Online Crowds to Identify What's Hot on Music Charts; September Issue Also Surveys Status of Solving P vs. NP, a Fundamental Computational Problem.
Aug 27, 2009 ... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an age when the all-important teen market has altered its new-music consumption through online content and digital downloads, the September Communications of the ACM (CACM; ...
Chabot Space & Science Center Hosts Next Generation of Presidential Candidates.
Aug 28, 2009 ... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center will host a unique gathering of young women essayists who contributed to the book "She's Out There: Essays by 35 Young Women Who Aspire to Lead the Nation." The ...