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Expert in Arabic Studies Honoured by British Academy

By Guest PostJuly 23, 2011Sciencefolklore history, western indian ocean, wooden seacraft, wooden vessels

Professor Dionisius A. Agius of the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. (more…)

Discovery Places Turtles Next to Lizards on Family Tree

By Guest PostJuly 22, 2011Natureevolutionary cousins, family tree, painted turtle, turtle evolution, turtles

Where do turtles belong on the evolutionary tree? For decades, the mystery has proven as tough to crack as the creatures’ shells. With their body armor and retractable heads, turtles are such unique creatures that scientists have found it difficult to classify the strange animals in terms of their origins and closest relatives. (more…)

Positive Thinking: Optimism Lowers Risk of Having Stroke

By Guest PostJuly 22, 2011Healtheffect of optimism, heart health, optimism level, optimistic attitude, positive thinking, stroke risk

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A positive outlook on life might lower the risk of having a stroke, according to a new University of Michigan study. (more…)

Farthest, Largest Water Mass in Universe Found, says Study Involving Caltech, CU-Boulder

By Guest PostJuly 22, 2011Sciencedistant quasar, mass of water, supermassive black hole, water in quasar, water mass

An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Researchers Demonstrate Breakthrough Storage Performance for Big Data Applications

By Guest PostJuly 22, 2011Technologyfile system, file system metadata, ibm file System, ibm gpfs, ibm labs, storage systems, storage technology

IBM GPFS Storage Technology Scans 10 Billion Files in 43 Minutes

SAN JOSE, Calif., – 22 Jul 2011: Researchers from IBM today demonstrated the future of large-scale storage systems by successfully scanning 10 billion files on a single system in just 43 minutes, shattering the previous record of one billion files in three hours by a factor of 37.

Growing at unprecedented scales, this advance unifies data environments on a single platform, instead of being distributed across several systems that must be separately managed. It also dramatically reduces and simplifies data management tasks, allowing more information to be stored in the same technology, rather than continuing to buy more and more storage. (more…)

UA Public Health Students Blogging From Across Globe

By Guest PostJuly 22, 2011Educationinternship experiences, students blogging, summer internships, university of arizona

Students are blogging about their internship experiences from destinations as far away as Switzerland and Africa

At the University of Arizona, summer internships matter. (more…)

Fossil Reveals Oldest Evidence of Live Birth in Reptiles

By Guest PostJuly 22, 2011Sciencehungry dinosaur, live birth, oldest evidence, pregnant lizard, squamate reptiles

A fossil from north-eastern China has revealed that terrestrial reptiles were giving birth to live young at least as early as 120 million years ago

The newly discovered fossil of a pregnant lizard proves that some squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) were giving birth to live young, rather than laying eggs, in the Early Cretaceous period – much earlier than previously thought. The fossil shows a pregnant female filled with the tiny skeletons of more than 15 baby lizards at a stage of development similar to that of late embryos of modern lizards. The mother lizard, which is 30 centimetres long (excluding her tail), probably died only a few days before giving birth. (more…)

Survey: Killing of Bin Laden Worsened Americans’ Views of U.S. Muslims

By Guest PostJuly 21, 2011Politicsal qaeda, americans, anti muslim feelings, bin laden, death of osama bin laden, erik nisbet, evangelical christians, islam, make america a more dangerous place to live, media coverage, michelle ortiz, muslim americans, muslims, political liberals, terrorism, terrorist attack, terrorist organization, united states, united states today, us military campaign, yasamin miller

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Instead of calming fears, the death of Osama bin Laden actually led more Americans to feel threatened by Muslims living in the United States, according to a new nationwide survey.

In the weeks following the U.S. military campaign that killed bin Laden, the head of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, American attitudes toward Muslim Americans took a significant negative shift, results showed. (more…)

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