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To be or not to be a scientist

08-03-2007 · EurekAlert!

CHORI's Summer Student Research Program wraps up 9 weeks of experiments and unveils its findings at a symposium on Friday, August 10th. The summer internship program celebrates a total of 17 years of collaboration and research.

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Scientist's Persistence Sheds Light On Marine Science Riddle
09-29-2006 · ScienceDaily
When he started compiling an online database of seashells 15 years ago, Dr. Gary Rosenberg did not envision that his meticulous record-keeping would eventually shed light on a 40-year-old evolutionary debate. The debate involves the mechanism underlying the island rule: that small animals isolated on islands evolve to be larger than their mainland relatives, and large animals evolve to be smaller.
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Nanotech safety needs specific government risk research strategy and funding
01-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
"Prioritizing nanotechnology risk research isn't rocket science," said Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies chief scientist Andrew Maynard. Dr. Maynard's remark is in his testimony today before the federal government's first public meeting focused exclusively on research needs and priorities for the environmental, health and safety risks of engineered nanoscale materials.
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02-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it.That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system are doing now. They're taking the fork.William B. McKinnon, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, says the community suffers from an embarrassment of riches
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Nevada scientist authors influential AIDS/HIV paper
03-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
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You don't have to be smart to be rich, study finds
04-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
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Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing
06-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new finding by an undergraduate scientist and a senior bee researcher gives new insight on the organization of honeybee colonies, which exhibit behavior rivaling human cultures in social complexity. The study reveals that major colony management activities are directed anonymously by hive workers using a nonspecific signal that modulates worker and queen behavior, and may have implications important for understanding other complex phenomena, from brain activity to terrorist networks.
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07-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Exposing a developing female sheep fetus to low doses of chemicals commonly present in the environment can disturb the development of the ovary, a scientist told the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday, July 4). Dr. Paul Fowler, of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, said that this research would help to establish the importance of the effect of environmental chemicals for fertility.
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Skin-care industry skipping out on science?
08-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
The multibillion dollar global cosmetics and skin-care product industry sometimes is beset by a me-too mindset in which research and development focuses on matching the competition rather than applying sound science to improve products, a scientist who studies cosmetic ingredients said. As a result, it could be missing a golden opportunity to provide consumers with more effective products, he said. The study will be presented in August at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Boston.
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Smithsonian identifies invasive crab species in Panama Canal expansion area
09-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
A Smithsonian scientist and colleague report that a potentially harmful, invasive crab species that has spread to several countries is now established and reproducing in Panama. The researchers report that Harris mud crabs are reproducing in the small, man-made lake designated to become the third set of locks in Panama's new $5 billion canal expansion project.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
11-01-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kyle Cranmer, a former Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow and a current guest scientist at Brookhaven Lab was among 58 researchers honored in Washington, DC, today as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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