1- Our solar system is moving through a cloud of gas and dust; 2- STARDUST probe celebrated its first year; 3- Brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way seem about to erupt.
The impact of John Bruer's new book "The Myth of the First Three Years" on child development and public policy issues is the topic of a symposium on March 13, featuring Bruer and a panel of national experts at Temple University.
An international group of cancer specialists has developed a new classification for cancers of the blood that in some cases will change when treatment will begin and what treatment will be received (Journal of Clinical Oncology and Annals of Oncology).
The nerve cell of the Woods Hole squid is used by scientists to learn more about a molecular machine in the cell, the sodium/potassium pump, which maintains crucial chemical gradients in cells and is essential to the health of all animals, including humans (Nature).
The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward has a full-scale national internship program worked out to provide an ongoing perceptorship, or intern program, for students of veterinary schools.
A study of two large virus structures shows that nature may use an "assembly-line" approach to build grand structures on a tiny scale (Nature Structural Biology, 2-00).
Twenty National Science Foundation program directors and staff members will be on hand when Louisiana State University hosts a regional NSF grant-development conference March 20-22 in Baton Rouge.
Ohio State University engineers have found a way to use methane to remove toxic nitric oxide emissions from the stack gases of coal-burning power plants (Catalysis Today).
Myogen and UT Southwestern Medical Center have announced a new patent and technology-licensing agreement and the establishment of collaborative research programs targeted at developing drugs to treat heart failure.
Secondary forests may provide second-rate habitat for primates, even decades after the forests have been allowed to regenerate, according to a study by a Purdue University doctoral student of monkeys living in African forests (Conservation Biology).
Top university researchers and engineers from major corporations will meet March 9 at Purdue University to discuss efforts to increase the performance of portable devices like cell phones, laptop computers and hearing aids.
It's going to take scientists more than a dozen years to find out if man-made wetlands really are as good as the real thing, according to an Ohio State University researcher.
A new technique that promises to significantly improve the accuracy of genetic testing for cancer and many other diseases has been developed by Ohio State researchers (Nature).
Johns Hopkins University has conveyed to the government of the Republic of Turkey the university's portion of the Gold Koran, a rare manuscript of Islamic scripture written in gold.
An innovative e-business initiative, the Michael Bronner e-Business Center and Hatchery, was announced today at Boston University School of Management.
Ohio State University geophysicists have found a new application for ground penetrating radar: detecting subsurface liquid hazardous waste (Geophysical Research Letters).
Brigham Young University and Stanford researchers wanted to investigate whether men really are from Mars and women really are from Venus, and they found, at least among depressed individuals, that both genders are from earth (Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy).
Purdue University offers experts in several categories recently listed among the top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th century.
A new, painless cervical cancer detection method that uses a small fiber optic probe instead of a surgical knife will be made available to 1,800 women through a new grant to The University of Texas at Austin and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
A bacterial strain called T1 metabolizes toluene, but how the tiny microbes do their work remains a mystery that an Ohio University microbiologist is trying to unravel (Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 3-00).
Many Iowa obstetricians and family physicians are hesitant to allow patients to videotape obstetric procedures, such as childbirth, because of legal concerns, according to University of Iowa researchers (Archives of Family Medicine, 1-00).
Patients with diagnosed peripheral artery disease who ate two HeartBars a day for two weeks increased the distances they could walk without pain by 66%, according to a study in the Feb. 2000 Vascular Medicine.
Bioengineering, which contributed to the development of the artificial heart and several diagnostic aids, has been recognized as one of the greatest mechanical engineering achievements of the 20th century by ASME International.
The increasing availability of the Internet is helping to fuel a rapid growth in self-help groups, especially for people with diseases and problems viewed as very embarrassing (American Psychologist, 2-00).
The calls of animals separated from their group were assumed to be call-backs from the group to reassure the lost member, but research suggests the call-backs were more call outs from other lost members of the group (Journal of Comparative Psychology, 3-00).
NASA's NEAR spacecraft has begun a gradual descent into a tighter orbit around the asteroid Eros.
A new X-ray imaging method that produces significantly better pictures of breast tissue than conventional X-rays and could make mammography more effective in revealing tumors has been developed by a research team led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University scientists (Radiology, 3-00).
WOW.UAB.EDU is a new, interactive, regularly updated Web site that shares the adventure of discovery with University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and students.
1- Sportsmanship classes for parents; 2- What's available to former welfare recepients beyond first job; 3- Importance of the first three years in development.
An innovative method of physical therapy in use at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is helping some disabled individuals trade in their wheelchairs for walkers.
The source of the potato late blight pathogen that caused the great Irish potato famine of the 1840s may soon be found by a North Carolina State University scientist and the tiny fragments of DNA she's extracting from dried potato leaves.
The American Association of Engineering Societies encouraged the four major presidential candidates to become more supportive of the engineering issues facing the nation in the next administration.
With all the ulterior motives for the changes that have been made in the calendar over the years, the Gregorian calendar turns out to be an incredibly accurate way of tracking time, says a Temple University math professor.
A genetically engineered, gene-bearing herpes virus that significantly increases the survival time of mice with brain tumors has been created by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science).
A University of Missouri-Columbia researcher and the GED Testing Service are working to make high school diplomas accessible to thousands of adults with learning disabilities.
Rensselaer's March Tipsheet is dedicated to women's research and education, as the nation celebrates Women's History Month.
IMAGE, slated for launch on March 15, 2000, will revolutionize our understanding of earth's magnetosphere and improve space weather forecasting.
Observers in Alaska, Canada, and the northern tier of U.S. states should be on the lookout for active aurora tonight.
Building New Societies: Women in Asia and Latin America is the subject of a major international conference and three keynote presentations, March 8-11, at the University of California, San Diego.
This year, eight new business leaders will be welcomed as laureates into the Junior Achievement National Business Hall of Fame in an induction ceremony to be held April 18 at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
A new website that measures candidate preferences shows a lack of association between people's conscious and unconscious preference for presidential candidates.
During the 1984 presidential campaign, correspondent Lesley Stahl produced a 5-min. story for CBS News criticizing Reagan for deceptive image-making, but Stahl's analysis of Reagan was congruent with the positive images that illustrated the segment, says a Dickinson College political scientist.
The Drury University Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team, consisting of 40 undergraduate students, will conduct senior citizen fraud seminars nationwide Feb.26-March 4, 2000.
Politics as theater was a topic of discussion among political pundits, even before Ronald Reagan made his first run; now, an Agnes Scott College professor is taking a close look at campaigning as theater.
Seventy percent of socially phobic children who engage in a new behavioral treatment program improve to the extent that they are similar to children who have never had the disorder, shows a University of Maryland study.
The world's first fully digital highway data system, which records highway surfaces digitally and stores the information directly on computer drives for easy access, has been created by a University of Arkansas researcher.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln veterinary science research is helping reveal how herpes viruses cause disease and perpetuate themselves in humans and is offering hope for new herpes vaccines and treatments (Science, 2-25-00).
Double-contrast barium enema is a safe, accurate, cost-effective test that is used to detect colorectal cancer in both average and high-risk patients, according to the American College of Radiology.
A University of Arkansas professor examines the death penalty's form and function and finds it grounded in the ritual of "terror management" instead of rationality (University of California-Davis Law Review).
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is hosting a town meeting (3-15-00 in Boston) on complementary and alternative medicine.
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