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(AP) -- A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and creating the world's first cloned dog was convicted Monday on criminal charges related to faked research, but avoided jail. http://www.physorg.com/news175747010.html Biology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:57:02 EST news175747010 Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of the Universe and our place in it. http://www.physorg.com/news175502359.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:40:59 EST news175502359 Distinguished Professor on the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law Susan Haack has recently published a research paper entitled, "Irreconcilable Differences? The Troubled Marriage of Science and Law." http://www.physorg.com/news175348219.html Other Sciences Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:10:01 EST news175348219 Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific explanation for one of the most widely known rules of thumb for pairing wine with food: "Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish." The scientists are reporting that the unpleasant, fishy aftertaste noticeable when consuming red wine with fish results from naturally occurring iron in red wine. The study is in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news175348379.html Chemistry Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:53:47 EST news175348379 As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the half-shells of the Rockot fairing. http://www.physorg.com/news175338859.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:15:27 EST news175338859 (PhysOrg.com) -- While not the smallest lettering ever created, the tiny initials "LCLS" have been written with what may be the world's most potent pen. Etched into boron carbide, a super-hard substance used in accelerator shielding and body armor, the lettering has helped researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory explore the capabilities of the world's first hard X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source. http://www.physorg.com/news175283137.html Physics Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:10:03 EST news175283137 The National Institute for Computational Sciences' (NICS's) Cray XT5 supercomputer -Kraken -has been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one petaflop, a landmark achievement that will greatly accelerate science and place Kraken among the top five computers in the world. http://www.physorg.com/news174245124.html Electronics Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:00:01 EST news174245124 University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images. http://www.physorg.com/news174196463.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:55:27 EST news174196463 (PhysOrg.com) -- Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific discovery and innovation by enabling rapid and easy collaboration between scientists, educators, students, policy makers, and even "citizen scientists" around the world via the Web. http://www.physorg.com/news173630296.html Technology Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:40:07 EST news173630296 For Sophie Warny, LSU assistant professor of geology and geophysics and curator at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, years of patience in analyzing Antarctic samples with low fossil recovery finally led to a scientific breakthrough. She and colleagues from around the world now have proof of a sudden, remarkably warm period in Antarctica that occurred about 15.7 million years ago and lasted for a few thousand years. http://www.physorg.com/news173593413.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:40:02 EST news173593413 Nanotechnology and synthetic biology continue to develop as two of the most exciting areas of scientific discovery, but research has shown that the public is almost completely unaware of the science and its applications. A groundbreaking poll of 1,001 American adults conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) found that 90 percent of Americans think the public should be better informed about the development of cutting-edge technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news173445237.html Nanotechnology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:30:01 EST news173445237 One of the best known episodes in the 8000-year history of grapevine cultivation led to biological changes that have not been well understood - until now. Through biomolecular detective work, German researchers have uncovered new details about the heredity of Vitis varieties in cultivation today. In the process, they have opened the way to more meaningful classification, accelerated breeding, and more accurate evaluation of the results, potentially breaking a bottleneck in the progress of the wine industry. http://www.physorg.com/news172991956.html Chemistry Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:30:01 EST news172991956 (PhysOrg.com) -- It takes a lot of energy to strip all ten electrons from an atom of neon. Doing it from the inside out, knocking away the most-closely-held, innermost electrons first, is an even rarer feat. But the brilliant X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source have done just that, in the successful first test of the unprecedented X-ray laser with its first scientific instrument. The result demonstrates the machine's unique capabilities -with the world's brightest and shortest X-ray laser pulses -and marks the first of two milestones in readiness for the launch of LCLS scientific user experiments this October. http://www.physorg.com/news172503425.html Physics Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:00:04 EST news172503425 (PhysOrg.com) -- In the week that the University of Leicester celebrates the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting (Thursday September 10) new findings from the world-renowned University of Leicester Department of Genetics reveal for the first time that the male and female do truly communicate -- at least at the fundamental genetic level. http://www.physorg.com/news171707200.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:00:01 EST news171707200 Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advance of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering following the completion of the genome projects this is becoming harder to facilitate and more difficult to monitor, as reported in Nature today. http://www.physorg.com/news171722207.html Biology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:39:19 EST news171722207 The prevailing wisdom among many scientists and scientific organizations is that, as a rule, scientists are press shy, and those who aren't are mavericks. http://www.physorg.com/news171720619.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:10:39 EST news171720619 Society needs science, and scientists need an informed, thoughtful, and open-minded citizenry. Thus, the obvious dependence of American society on science is strikingly inconsistent with the low level of scientific literacy among U. S. citizens. By establishing 2009 as the "Year of Science," professional scientific organizations and grassroots, citizens-for-science groups hope to bring a renewed and invigorated focus on the importance of science now and in the future. As knowledge experts and educators,practicing scientists are key players in advancing the scientific literacy agenda. http://www.physorg.com/news171201753.html Other Sciences Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:03:01 EST news171201753 (AP) -- The government should speed availability of at least a little swine flu vaccine next month instead of in October, the president's scientific advisers recommended Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news170349981.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:31:57 EST news170349981 The revolution in scientific publishing that has been promised since the 1980s is finally about to take place, according to two University of Illinois experts in information science. http://www.physorg.com/news169837684.html Other Sciences Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:10:02 EST news169837684 Surround 3-D TV is poised to take over your living room. For the first time, a team of researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego, have designed a 9-panel, 3-D visualization display from HDTV LCD flat-screens developed by JVC. http://www.physorg.com/news169833282.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:55:22 EST news169833282 (PhysOrg.com) -- Normally, virtual worlds are the setting of many online games and entertainment applications, but now they`re becoming a place for scientific collaboration and outreach, as well. A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Drexel University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed the first professional scientific organization based entirely in virtual worlds. Called the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA), the organization conducts professional seminars and popular lectures, among other events, for its growing membership. http://www.physorg.com/news168608901.html Technology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:49:02 EST news168608901 (PhysOrg.com) -- A crew of six today completed their simulated Mars mission after leaving a special isolation facility in Moscow, Russia, for the first time in 105 days. Their mission is part of the Mars500 programme that will help us to understand the psychological and medical aspects of long spaceflights. http://www.physorg.com/news166797151.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:36:24 EST news166797151 Interactive Web-based science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific concepts, and research shows the interactive tutorials are just as effective online as they are in face-to-face settings, says a University of Illinois expert in science education. http://www.physorg.com/news164555089.html Other Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:00:07 EST news164555089 It's a long-standing and crucial question that, as yet, remains unanswered: just how common is scientific misconduct? In the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh reports the first meta-analysis of surveys questioning scientists about their misbehaviours. The results suggest that altering or making up data is more frequent than previously estimated and might be particularly high in medical research. http://www.physorg.com/news162795064.html Other Sciences Fri, 29 May 2009 05:52:29 EST news162795064 A Belgian, a Canadian and a Russian blast off for the International Space Station on Wednesday as Russia steps up its rocket launches to support a doubling of the station's crew. http://www.physorg.com/news162540712.html Space & Earth Tue, 26 May 2009 07:12:21 EST news162540712 With the current outbreak of swine flu, and in the absence of a vaccine or treatment at present, the only way to contain the virus is to get people around the world to take precautionary measures. http://www.physorg.com/news161950376.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 11:18:31 EST news161950376 (AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts tenderly dropped the Hubble Space Telescope overboard Tuesday, sending the restored observatory off on a new voyage of discovery and bidding it farewell on behalf of the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news161937231.html Space & Earth Tue, 19 May 2009 09:52:22 EST news161937231 (AP) -- Astronauts are getting ready for what could be the most complex spacewalking of their mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.physorg.com/news161676348.html Space & Earth Sat, 16 May 2009 07:06:01 EST news161676348 (AP) -- Nations need common rules for responding to flu outbreaks to prevent discrimination and unfair trade restrictions, Mexico's U.N. envoy said Friday, complaining that Mexican citizens and exports were being unfairly singled out. http://www.physorg.com/news161028327.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 May 2009 19:05:57 EST news161028327 (AP) -- The Hubble Space Telescope is about to get one last house call. And never before have the risks been higher. http://www.physorg.com/news160926151.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 May 2009 14:43:45 EST news160926151