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Archive for the 'Research' Category
Washington DC - March 5 - A section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska- Fairbanks scientists.
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Washington DC - March 3 - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create new jobs.
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Washington DC - March 2 - Darkness can conceal identity and encourage moral transgressions. New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that darkness may also induce a psychological feeling of illusory anonymity.
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Washington DC - February 16 - Finding a biological mechanism much like an online social network, scientists have identified the bacterial protein VpsT as the master regulator in Vibrio, the cause of cholera and other enteric diseases.
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Washington DC - February 16 - The Obama Administration announced a multi-agency initiative to spur regional economic growth while making buildings more energy efficient. Seven federal agencies issued a combined Funding Opportunity Announcement of up to $129.7 million over five years.
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Washington DC - February 11 - U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass, shedding light on the genetics behind hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties of biofuel crops.
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Washington DC - February 8 - Scientists hope to get a glimpse of the future with a proposed experiment facility in northern Minnesota that would allow them to adjust temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide across a broad range of possibilities projected by climate models.
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Washington DC - February 8 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidance on Bayesian statistical methods in the design and analysis of medical device clinical trials that could result in less costly and more efficient patient studies.
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Washington DC - February 5 - NASA and General Motors are working together to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and related technologies for use in the automotive and aerospace industries.
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Washington DC - February 3 - USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced $24 million in grants to study animal heath, reproduction, breeding, genetics and nutrition.
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Washington DC - February 1 - Naturally occurring methane hydrate may represent an enormous source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and could ultimately augment conventional natural gas supplies, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council.
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Washington DC - January 29 - A smart electrical power grid could decrease annual electric energy use and utility sector carbon emissions at least 12 percent by 2030, according to a new report from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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Washington DC - January 29 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced the release of new satellite images depicting agricultural land cover across most of the nation for the 2009 crop year.
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Washington DC - January 29 - The first computer modeling study to simulate the impacts of white roofs on urban areas worldwide suggests there may be merit to the idea of turning roofs white.
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Washington DC - January 28 - Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used.
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