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Creative Thinking Nets Stanford Researchers Two NIH Pioneer Awards, Three New Innovator Awards: STANFORD, Calif. -- Two scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine who've sussed out ways to see what's usually hidden are winners of this year's NIH Director's Pioneer Awards--the National Institutes of Health's most prestigious award for creative thinkers. Secrets held within a living being's brain and a...; Tags: cell, neuron, patient, professor, scientist, Stanford, Stanford University, stem-cell; Research articles 2008-09-22
Quarks in the Hood: Particle physics rap is a Youtube hit: PARIS AFP — Particle physicists fall into the stereotype of geek scientists -- serious, distracted and prone to wearing ties that look like socks -- but a rap hit on the video website Youtube has shed unexpected light on their fun side. "Large Hadron Rap" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM) has notched up...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, MARKETING, particle, scientist, YouTube Inc.; Research articles 2008-09-03
Determined to end its troubled anthrax investigation, the Justice Department held a press conference to identify Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the Army's infectious-diseases laboratory in Maryland, as the lone culprit: Determined to end its troubled anthrax investigation, the Justice Department held a press conference to identify Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the Army's infectious-diseases laboratory in Maryland, as the lone culprit. Investigators showed, for example, that Ivins withheld from them a flask whose samples matched the genetic fingerprint of the...; Tags: E-mail, FINANCE, Government, Litigation, scientist, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Justice; Research articles 2008-09-01
Cracking enzyme code opens way to new cancer drugs: PARIS AFP — Researchers have broken the code of an enzyme that plays a key role in the growth of most cancers, opening a path that potentially leads to a new class of anti-cancer drugs, according to a study released Sunday. Other scientists who reviewed the study hailed it...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, cell, chromosome, scientist; Research articles 2008-08-31
High-tech tools discern fakes: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces have inspired both young artists and prospective forgers seeking to re- create his vivid landscapes and portraits. Those forgeries are inspirations, too. But in an ironic twist, scientists are turning to modern technology to give art experts better tools to...; Tags: computer, Johnson, museum, Netherlands, Penn State, PRODUCTIVITY, professor, researcher, scientist, tool; Research articles 2008-08-31

Splitters and Lumpers: why planet Earth needs taxonomists: PARIS AFP — Among biological scientists, they are the true nomenklatura, a small and far-flung tribe dedicated to the coherent naming of all living things, past and present. Gathered in Paris last week, the world's leading taxonomists feted the brilliant and vainglorious Swedish naturalist who, 250 years ago, single-handedly...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Earth, Paris, scientist, species; Research articles 2008-08-30
Early Trigger for Type-1 Diabetes Found in Mice, Stanford Scientists Report: STANFORD, Calif. -- Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine are shedding light on how type-1 diabetes begins. Doctors have known the disease is caused by an autoimmune attack on the pancreas, but the exact trigger of the attack has been unclear. Now, a new study in mice...; Tags: HARDWARE, Mice, mouse, scientist, Stanford, Stanford University; Research articles 2008-08-26
Holy cow! Cattle possess magnetic compass: study: WASHINGTON AFP — European scientists who studied satellite images of cows and deer around the world have discovered that these animals tend to align themselves with Earth's north-south magnetic fields while they graze or rest. While birds, turtles and salmon are known to use magnetic guidance to migrate, cattle...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, scientist; Research articles 2008-08-26
New space telescope begins to comb the cosmos: WASHINGTON AFP — A new space telescope revealed the glowing gas of the Milky Way, pulsating stars and a flaring faraway galaxy as it began its mission to unveil the mysteries of cosmic gamma rays, NASA said. The US space agency released Tuesday the first all-sky map created by...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, NASA, scientist; Research articles 2008-08-26
New Zealand's colossal squid defies legends: scientists: WELLINGTON AFP — New Zealand's mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests. The 495 kilogramme (1,090-pound) female, accidently hauled in by a fishing boat in the Antarctic last year,...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, museum, scientist, species, squid; Research articles 2008-08-21
Mammals can sniff out danger: scientists: GENEVA AFP — Scientists at the University of Lausanne said Thursday that mammals can communicate danger to each other through smell. The scientists found that when placed in an environment where there is a beaker of water containing warning pheromones emitted by other mice, the animals are able to...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, HARDWARE, Mice, mouse, researcher, scientist; Research articles 2008-08-21
Ivins tried to mislead FBI on anthrax: WASHINGTON -- The FBI said Monday that Bruce Ivins, the bioscientist who they say launched the 2001 anthrax attacks, helped them figure out how to collect the anthrax samples needed for the investigation. On Feb. 27, 2002, Ivins submitted a sample that didn't meet those standards....; Tags: attack, FBI, Government, scientist; Research articles 2008-08-19
FBI tossed anthrax type used in attacks: WASHINGTON -- Months after the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, FBI scientists had -- but destroyed -- the unique strain of the bacteria used in the attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, now the government's top suspect. FBI officials admitted Monday that destroying the...; Tags: attack, FBI, Government, scientist, strain; Research articles 2008-08-19
Saturn's geyser-spewing moon stumps science: Frozen iceball or hidden ocean? NASA's Cassini spacecraft has renewed debate among planetary scientists over Saturn's geyser-spewing mystery moon, Enceladus. Cassini mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have begun unveiling images of a 40,000-mph pass over Enceladus last week. The flyby, which...; Tags: FINANCE, image, NASA, Saturn, scientist, SOFTWARE, spacecraft; Research articles 2008-08-18
America's biodefense system has run amok: "Whatever you can say about the Soviet bioweapons scientists," a Bush administration official once told me, "they never killed anyone." We can't say the same about U.S. bioweapons scientists. Someone, most likely Bruce Ivins at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md.,...; Tags: attack, FBI, Government, scientist, SECURITY, U.S.; Research articles 2008-08-17
In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S: On July 21, at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, members of the European astronomy community participated in a discussion about why their space program has failed to engage public interest in a manner comparable to programs in the United States. Organized by Dirk Lorenzen, a physicist turned journalist...; Tags: CAREER, Europe, European Space Agency, journalist, MARKETING, media, NASA, scientist; Research articles 2008-08-16
U.S. says Ivins was anthrax killer: WASHINGTON -- The murder weapon was a flask. Army scientist Bruce Ivins was the anthrax killer whose mailings took five lives and rattled the nation in 2001, prosecutors asserted Wednesday, alleging he had in his lab a container of the lethal, highly purified spores involved and access to...; Tags: affidavit, attack, FBI, Government, scientist, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2008-08-07
Violent animal rights activists target UC scientists: Razor blades in the mail. Leafleting at children's soccer games. Broadcasting researchers' home addresses. And in Santa Cruz last week, firebombing scientists' home and cars. Borrowing strategies used by anti-abortion extremists, some radical animal rights activists are increasingly taking their rage to scientists' doorsteps. That has forced universities...; Tags: activist, attack, FBI, Government, researcher, scientist, SECURITY; Research articles 2008-08-07
US 'confident' dead scientist behind anthrax attacks: WASHINGTON AFP — US authorities are "confident" that a government scientist who killed himself last month was the only person responsible for deadly anthrax attacks in the United States in 2001, officials said Wednesday. "Painstaking investigation led us to the conclusion that Dr. Bruce E. Ivins was responsible for...; Tags: attack, FBI, Government, scientist, SECURITY; Research articles 2008-08-06
Records key to anthrax mystery: One of the nation's biggest unsolved mysteries could be resolved soon when the Justice Department discloses details of its investigation of a government scientist who committed suicide last week before he could be charged in the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001. The case against Bruce Ivins,...; Tags: attack, attorney, Biotechnology, Government, Maryland, scientist, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Justice; Research articles 2008-08-04