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WASHINGTON — Energy Department officials said late last week they are scrambling to assemble a team that will work out details for creating an agile new research agency that will focus on energy technology R&D.
signed into law last week includes $400 million to fund the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), which is modeled after the Pentagon research agency, Darpa. ARPA-E was created last year as part of sweeping U.S. competitiveness Read the rest of this entry »

Going's success is also a victory for a constellation of people, groups and institutions that have fought the erosion of the nation's edge in science and math by making sure students get plenty of exposure to the possibilities. At every juncture in his education, beginning with that Science Stars program, there was someone, or something, that offered him a chance to push another step higher.
The Gates scholarships are awarded "on the basis of a Read the rest of this entry »

Wichita Falls, TX, February 23, 2009 --(
)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Dimensions:: A Time Traveler's Chronicles by B. B. VonGee, which is the author's most recent book to date. The 6.14 x 9.21 hardback w/ jacket in the Fiction/ Science Fiction category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $33.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/Dimensions was launched Read the rest of this entry »

Tosh the red-tailed hawk is missing.
About 9:30 p.m. Friday, intruders broke into the Youth Science Institute at San Jose's Alum Rock Park and released — or kidnapped — Tosh, a rescued 20-year-old red-tailed hawk.
"We're devastated," said Susanne Mulcahy, the institute's executive director. "Our first and foremost concern is for Tosh's safety." Tosh had lived at the institute since she was discovered as a juvenile bird with an injured Read the rest of this entry »

altimore prosecutors often complain that city jurors are unduly influenced by TV crime dramas. They call it the "
Effect," a reference to the popular television show where fingerprints, bullet fragments, gunshot residue, bite marks and other forensic evidence almost always match a suspect to a crime. That's not the way it is in real life, though plenty of criminal cases have been decided on just that kind of evidence.
Now, prosecutors in Maryland Read the rest of this entry »

WEST LAFAYETTE -- Pope John Paul II Middle School students placed fifth in Saturday's Purdue University Regional Science Olympiad competition and several students took home individual prizes.
The school, competing for the first time in this event, was lead by Pope John Paul II Middle School parent Indira Komanapalli, who was team coach. Kirsten Brewer is in her first year as a science teacher.
Disease detectives: Eighth-graders Shannon Koelsch Read the rest of this entry »

You have to know about a lot more than fish to be the Salmon Bowl champion: Try some advanced oceanography, geology and biology.
High school students tested their knowledge of all aspects of marine sciences Saturday at the 12th annual event, held at Oregon State University.
Sixteen teams from Oregon and one from Washington vied for the chance to represent the region at the National Ocean Sciences Bowl in Washington, D.C.
Crescent Valley High Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK, NY -
Revenue Science today announces the renaming
of the company to AudienceScience, effective immediately. Over the years,
Revenue Science has continuously evolved to drive the market for targeted
online advertising. At the IAB Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, on
Monday, AudienceScience president and CEO Jeff Hirsch will formally
announce the new name for the company. AudienceScience will build upon its
leadership position in the Read the rest of this entry »

INDIANAPOLIS -- Applications for the 2009 Hoosier High School Math and Science Awards are being accepted. Gov. Mitch Daniels created the award in 2008 to recognize the state's top high school students in math and science.
All Indiana high school students are eligible to receive the award and can apply online. Nominations from teachers, principals and other school staff members also will be accepted. Application criteria will include such information Read the rest of this entry »

Doctors testing a new medicine are -- appropriately -- not told which patients receive placebos and which get the test medication, because that knowledge might unconsciously bias their behavior and observations. But forensic scientists are frequently exposed to information that can potentially foster bias. Crime laboratories have failed to create adequate procedures for making testing "blind."
Most of the forensic disciplines lack good information Read the rest of this entry »