Iowa State University researchers used U.S. government data (1950-2008) in a climate change study that estimates an annual average temperature increase of 8°F will increase the yearly murder and assault rate by 34 per 100,000 people.
Charles H. Greene, Cornell professor of Earth and atmospheric science, and colleagues have published in the peer-reviewed journal Oceanography (March 2010). The scientists conclude that the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 4th assessment report underestimates the potential dangerous impacts that man-made climate change will have on society.
South Dakota State University research is exploring a native perennial called cup plant as a potential new biomass crop that could also store carbon in its extensive root system and add biodiversity to biomass plantings.
South Dakota entomologists have discovered a way to preserve & grow rare, captive lady beetles that could help farmers fight invasive aphids harmful to their crops. It's all a matter of paying attention to diet & enlisting help from citizen scientists.
Ryerson University experts can offer insight on environment topics from sustainable housing to renewable energy and plugging electricity "leaks" in your home.
Interest in ‘green’ innovation means not just thinking big but also very, very, very small. At least that’s the way Omowunmi Sadik, director of Binghamton University’s Center for Advanced Sensors and Environmental Systems, sees it. She’s working to develop sensors that would detect and identify engineered nanoparticles. Her research will advance our understanding of the risks associated with the environmental release and transformation of these particles.
Clostridium difficile infection nears zero
A series of major earthquakes have struck countries in the Caribbean, South America and Asia, causing catastrophic damage. Large-scale relief efforts are in place in the hardest-hit nations, including Haiti and Chile. Northeastern earth and environmental sciences professor Jennifer Cole discusses what causes earthquakes and how one natural disaster can lead to another.
Three college seniors are helping a local 24-hour Marathon gas station make some changes that not only help the environment but also save the station owners money. The students were charged with generating ideas that were cost effective and could be implemented without interrupting daily operations.
Last summer, minutes before leaving port on a voyage to the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, Chief Scientist Miriam Goldstein was frank about what might and might not be encountered during the expedition to a place that has become known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Goldstein made it clear to fellow scientists, cruise volunteers, and a few members of the news media that SEAPLEX would be an exploratory voyage.
“If the House passes the latest version of legislation this weekend and sends it to the Senate, that will be the key legislative event in the long health care debate, because both chambers have already passed the legislation,” says Timothy McBride, Ph.D., health economist and associate dean of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “I believe the House will pass the legislation, but the vote will be very close, probably within one vote or two. The House probably has not had a vote this close since the vote on Medicare prescription drugs.”
The USDA and NSF International will be hosting a 2010 Food Safety Education Conference, "“Advancements in Food Safety Education: Trends, Tools and Technologies" on March 23-26, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. More information is available at www.fsis.usda.gov/Atlanta2010.
High school seniors, take note: A wise person once said, “It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at the gutter and hit it.”
Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University senior lecturer at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on the pending National Mediation Board rule change that could reduce the threshold for creating unions in the airline industry -- from a majority of all workers in any class to a majority of all votes cast in the union election.
The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Now a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists indicates that plant species diversity and composition are key factors in potential energy yield per acre from biomass harvested from CRP land.
A new analysis of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed on December 24, 2009 by the United States Senate, was released today by The GW School of Public Health and Health Services, Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program. This new analysis focuses on key legal changes in the Senate-passed legislation and highlights relevant provisions addressed in the President’s health reform proposal (released by the White House on February 22, 2010).
The college acceptance letters have arrived. Now comes the hard part: Which school should you choose? Tom Weede, vice president of enrollment management at Butler University, said it’s difficult for many students to make an objective choice. He offers tips to help students make the smartest decision.
Science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore, Md. transformed Hubble Space Telescope 2-D images into 3-D environments to create several groundbreaking astronomy visualizations for the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today in 40 select Imax theaters worldwide.
Secure World Foundation and Space Policy journal have announced the Maxim Tarasenko/Secure World Foundation Prize – a 2010 student essay competition.
Well-preserved, nearly complete skeleton is a relative of the Velociraptor; will help scientists further describe the physical appearance of other closely-related dinosaurs within the Dromaeosauridae family. Research led by Dr. Xu Xing.
Patients who suffer from plaque-related narrowing of a carotid artery but are not good candidates for open surgery may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of a minimally invasive procedure designed to open carotid arteries the way angioplasty and stenting clear arteries of the heart.
Individuals between 30 and 80 years of age, who have had a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or non-severe stroke within the past 30 days, and who cannot be treated surgically, may be eligible to participate in a Phase III clinical trial of a minimally invasive stenting procedure at the Cedars-Sinai Neurovascular Center.
Tobacco use and related cancers have decreased the mortality gap between African-Americans and non-Hispanic Caucasians but not significantly, says Edward Partridge, M.D., president-elect of the American Cancer Society National Board of Directors. “The first step is to engage the community,” he and his UAB co-authors write in a JAMA commentary.
Press registration is open for the Experimental Biology 2010 meeting. The six sponsoring societies for the April meeting are the American Association of Anatomists (AAA), The American Physiological Society (APS), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP), American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).
‘Metabolic taxation’ accounts for part of difference between fast and slow growth of animals, according to a new theory. USC marine biologists say that a study of oyster genes associated with growth suggests that fast-growing animals have better tuned ribosomal factories for making proteins.
The University of Virginia and Azure Worldwide, an organization co-founded by Philippe Cousteau, are partnering to showcase a new concept in environmental engagement and action: The Bay Game, an interactive game that simulates the conditions of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with players taking the roles of people who live in the watershed and make their livelihoods from the resources of the bay.
Most kidney donors and recipients are in favor of exchanging personal health information that may influence success before scheduling a living organ donor transplant, while healthcare professionals are more reluctant, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that clinicians should consider supporting and facilitating more information sharing before transplantation.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Shu-Hong Zhu, PhD, professor of family and preventative medicine, examined more than 15 years of data from the California Smokers’ Helpline and compared the use of Asian-language services by Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese callers to the use of English-language services by Caucasian callers. Their findings will appear in the March 18 online issue of The American Journal of Public Health.
The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that supports and coordinates laboratory and clinical efforts to harness the disease-fighting power of the immune system to treat, control, and prevent cancer, announced today that its program, the Cancer Vaccine Consortium—a leading global initiative on cancer vaccine research and development comprising industry, academia, and government institutions—has changed its name to the Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC).
Cyber-criminals are using fake e-mails to target Facebook users and deliver computer viruses that were being detected only by one-third of the 42 most common anti-virus products as of noon Thursday, March 18, says a leading cyber-crime researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
A better understanding of the pea aphid genome could help control agricultural pests.
(1) Discrimination, Language Barriers Linked to Adverse Health among Asian Americans in California (2) U.S.-Born Asians Show Higher Breast Cancer Survival Rates than Foreign-Born Asians (3) Life Expectancy Gains in South Korea Attributed to Declines in Infant Mortality and Cardiovascular Diseases
The following press conferences will take place during the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), to be held March 15-19, 2010 in the Portland Convention Center.
Keely Stauter-Halsted, an expert in the history of modern Eastern Europe, Poland, Jewish history, gender history, and the Holocaust, has been named the inaugural Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland by the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
At the University of New Hampshire, where hockey dominates the athletic scene, the sport is not just a game or a Friday night spectator tradition. It’s the subject of academic inquiry for 20 students each semester who take “The Coolest Game? Hockey and History,” a research and writing-intensive course taught by hockey historian Stephen Hardy.
The Babson Investment Management Association (BIMA) and the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance at Babson will host a spring conference, What's Next: Opportunities in a Time of Unprecedented Global Stimulus, on Friday, March 26.
Paper on Invincible Defense Technology published in peer-reviewed Pakistani journal.
A young Hawaiian monk seal is providing researchers at UC Santa Cruz a rare opportunity to study the physiology of this critically endangered species.
The Regenerative Medicine Foundation is pleased to announce a special “Young Minds” graduate student registration rate for its annual Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum, set for April 6-8 in Winston-Salem.
A study questions the effectiveness of routine aspirin therapy in preventing heart disease, while another suggests that LVADs may aid in weight loss for obese patients awaiting a heart transplant.
There's not likely to be any MTV footage of Cody Wollitz's spring break, but he and 49 other University of Oregon students are still expecting it to be one to remember. The students, divided into four groups, will leave Saturday for separate community-based, service-learning experiences in rural southeastern Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
After the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti left thousands of victims in its wake, nearly 20 members of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) put their lives on hold to travel to Haiti to help its youngest victims. With an estimated 40% of the population of Haiti being under the age of 18, many of the injured were children in need of specialized surgical care.
Nurses participating in shift work, especially those working rotating shifts, face a significantly increased risk of developing Irritable Bowel Syndrome and abdominal pain compared to those working a standard day-time schedule, according to research published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Biologists have known since Galileo’s time that bird bones are hollow, but many people are surprised to learn that bird skeletons do not weigh less than those of similar-sized mammals. New work now explains how bird skeletons can be both delicate and heavy.
A team of geophysicists led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Steven Roecker is in Chile to study the scope and strength of aftershocks that continue to rattle the area following the massive Feb. 27 8.8-magnitude earthquake. The 10-member team, which was assembled quickly from universities around the United States, will be putting in place more than 50 broadband seismometers throughout the impacted area in Chile.
Research led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators identifies potential new targets for treatment of colitis and other inflammatory bowel diseases.
Kristen Kilpatrick, a college sophomore, nearly lost her arm in a boating accident. Orthopaedic trauma surgeon Dr. Joseph Borrelli was able to re-attach it.
The Wistar Institute recently welcomed Gail Walker Hearn and Milton S. Schneider to its board of trustees.
The Monell Center and the Springside School have been awarded a grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to train high school teachers about the latest developments in taste science and chemistry.
Representatives of the media are invited to attend the 51st Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Washington, DC, April 7-11, 2010, sponsored by the Genetics Society of America. More than 1600 basic research scientists who study genetic models in Drosophila (fruit flies) are expected to attend.
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