Applied Sciences
Seventy six American Nobel Laureates in science have endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.
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According to their "About the Project" page, www.sciencemoms.wordpress.com began as a single post to a list serve with an excerpt and link to a New York Times article about the . It quickly became a forum for discussion of the difficulties (and joys)
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The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $20 million to the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to improving and developing materials for uses ranging from alternative energy production to quantum computing.
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I recently came across a web site in which McCain and Obama answer the top 14 science questions facing America – sharing their views on issues of environment, health and medicine, and science and technology policy. It's worth checking out. http://
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Researchers at Wake Forest University are using nanotechnology to search for new cancer-fighting drugs through a process that could be up to 10,000 times faster than current methods. The Lab-on-Bead process will screen millions of chemicals simultaneously using tiny plastic beads so small that 1,000 of them would fit across a human hair.
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Having studied the physiology of algae for more than 30 years, University of Washington's Rose Ann Cattolico is convinced the plant life found in oceans and ponds can be a major source of environmentally friendly fuels for everything from cars and lawn mowers to jet airplanes.
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Using DNA barcoding technology, University of Guelph researchers have found that 25 per cent of fish are mislabelled and in a majority of the cases, the fillets are sold as species of higher values.
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An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed a new method that estimates the amount of greenhouse gas emissions across all tiers of the entire supply chain for all industries.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tenn. has signed an $89 million energy savings performance contract with Johnson Controls, Inc. to apply advanced energy conservation solutions, including a biomass gasification system, to the campus.
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PerkinElmer Inc. has announced that its analytical solutions are being used by the Beijing Municipal Center for Food Safety Monitoring (BFSM) in a mobile laboratory supporting the Beijing Games. The companys instrumentation, software and expertise are supporting testing for volatile organic compounds in beverages and pesticides in food products.
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Enormous amounts of data are being generated in health care, computational biology, homeland security and other areas, but analyzing these massive and unstructured data sets has proven cumbersome and difficult. An emerging research field known as data and visual analytics is helping sift through such mountains of information to find and put together individual pieces of a picture.
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