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Economic Cost of Weather May Total $485 Billion in U.S.

By Guest PostJune 25, 2011Environmenteconomic impact, weather events, weather impacts, weather variations, wind driven wildfires

Routine weather events can add up to huge annual economic impact

Everything has its price, even the weather. (more…)

Strongest Evidence yet indicates Icy Saturn Moon hiding Saltwater Ocean

By Guest PostJune 24, 2011Science12 science instruments, cassini spacecraft, cassini-huygens mission to saturn, collaboration of nasa, enceladus, european space agency, frank postberg, icy spray shooting, mission spacecraft, ocean-like, plumes shooting water vapor, salt-rich, saturn system, saturn's moon enceladus, squeezed out, subterranean saltwater ocean, surface of saturn's largest moon, the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, tiger stripe, tiny grains of ice, university of colorado boulder, university of germany, university of heidelberg, university of potsdam, vapor clouds

Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the University of Colorado Boulder.

The new discovery was made during the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, a collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Launched in 1997, the mission spacecraft arrived at the Saturn system in 2004 and has been touring the giant ringed planet and its vast moon system ever since. (more…)

Stiff Sediments Made 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Deadliest in History

By Guest PostJune 24, 2011Environmentsubduction earthquakes, subduction zone, sumatra earthquake, undersea earthquake

AUSTIN, Texas — An international team of geoscientists has discovered an unusual geological formation that helps explain how an undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in December 2004 spawned the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. (more…)

Breaking the Chain: ‘Molecular cap’ Blocks Processes that Lead to Alzheimer’s, HIV

By Guest PostJune 24, 2011Health, Sciencealzheimer disease, amino acids, amyloid diseases, amyloid fibers, biochemists, brain cells, california nanosystems institute, david baker, david eisenberg, disease, enzymes, fatal diseases, Germany, hiv infection, jan münch, jie liu, jorge barrio, lin jiang, lou gehrig, mad cow disease, meytal landau, microcrystallography, molecular inhibitors, onofrio zirafi, orange g, parkinson disease, proteins, semen derived enhancer of viral infection, sevi, sexual transmission of hiv, steric zippers, stuart sievers, synthetic amino acids, tau protein, treatments, united states, university of ulm, vqivyk

A new advance by UCLA biochemists has brought scientists one step closer to developing treatments that could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and prevent the sexual transmission of HIV.

The researchers report that they have designed molecular inhibitors that target specific proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease and HIV to prevent them from forming amyloid fibers, the elongated chains of interlocking proteins that play a key role in more than two dozen degenerative and often fatal diseases. (more…)

Prejudice Linked to Women’s Menstrual Cycle

By Guest PostJune 24, 2011Healthcarlos david navarrete, carlos navarrete, evolutionary psychologist, fertile, human history, male invaders, male strangers, mcdonald and navarrete, melissa mcdonald, menstrual cycle, michigan state university, psychological system, racial and social groups, reproductive choice, risk of sexual coercion, suggesting prejudice, women

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Women’s bias against male strangers increases when women are fertile, suggesting prejudice may be partly fueled by genetics, according to a study by Michigan State University psychology researchers.

The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, appears online in Psychological Science, a major research journal.

“Our findings suggest that women’s prejudice, at least in part, may be a byproduct of their biology,” said Melissa McDonald, a doctoral student and lead author on the paper. (more…)

Aspiring Journalist Also Sets Her Sights on Winning A National Pageant

By Guest PostJune 24, 2011Cultureaspiring journalist, beauty pageant, miss black america, miss congeniality, miss gold

In the spring of last year, Yale junior Liane Membis acted on a whim and found it opened up opportunities she never before considered. (more…)

Microsoft Helps Imagine Cup Competitors Turn Golden Ideas into Golden Opportunities

By Guest PostJune 23, 2011Technologyasthma, azmo the dragon, bizspark, boon sheng ooi, chase sandmann, cy khormaee, digital spirometer, dream spark, gps technology, hotel palomar, imagine cup, imagine cup 2011 worldwide finals, malaria, malaysia, measure lung capacity, Microsoft, new york city, noela evans, one beep, radha basu, rice university students, san francisco, santa clara university, silicon valley, smart phone game, team dragon, team lifelens, team spirit, Technology, university of auckland, vinny lohan, windows phone, xilnex

*Some of the brightest young technologists in the nation visited San Francisco on Wednesday to share their ideas with venture capitalists, academics and media.*

SAN FRANCISCO – June 23, 2011 – A collection of students who want to change the world with technology pitched their ideas to Silicon Valley industry experts, academics, and media on Wednesday.

Several teams of students who will participate in the July Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals in New York City got to first showcase their projects to people who could help them refine their concepts, find markets for their ideas, and eventually find investors to provide the money they will need to turn their ideas turn into viable businesses. (more…)

‘America’s Deadliest War Also is Most Memorialized’

By Guest PostJune 23, 2011Culture, Politics150th anniversary, america, battlefields, boulder county courthouse, civil war, civil war sites, fort sumter, gettysburg, kenneth foote, ku klux klan, nathan bedford forrest, north and south, northern forces, pearl street, salem, slavery, south carolina militiamen, united states, university of colorado boulder, vicksburg

As the nation recognizes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s start, public interest has been rekindled in the war and the numerous memorials and monuments marking historic figures, sites and battlegrounds in states around the country.

South Carolina militiamen fired the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and over the next four years more than 10,000 military engagements between the North and South took place. In the end more than 600,000 soldiers died. (more…)

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