The Hastings Center has received a $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a two-year project to examine the ethical questions surrounding synthetic biology.
Several innovative steps designed to maximize the efficiency of Argonne's new Blue Gene/P high-performance computer have saved many taxpayer dollars while reducing the laboratory's environmental footprint.
The U.S. EPAs Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center located in Ada, Oklahoma will officially open and dedicate a new East Wing addition Tuesday.
The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) has presented their 2008 Outstanding Research Park award to Sandia Science and Tech Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Despite a slow economy and tight overall federal funds for research, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has reported a one-year, 10 percent increase in outside research funding.
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed software that improves the accuracy of the tracking devices in its immersive, or virtual, research environment by at least 700 percent.
With help from newly developed equipment designed and built at Michigan State University, MSU researchers have been able to make first-of-its-kind measurements of several rare nuclei, one of which has been termed a holy grail of experimental nuclear physics.
The delay of the launch, according to NASA, is due to a number of "testing and hardware challenges that must (still) be addressed to ensure mission success."
On December 2, Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Congressman Jerry McNerney, along with representatives from the offices of Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, officially dedicated the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI).