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USDA proposes an office of science

The Bush administration's proposed 2007 farm bill would merge two existing U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies into a single office of science.

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1. Open Science Grid Receives $30 Million Award to Empower Scientific Collaboration and Computation
   09-25-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
   Scientists on the track to discovery got good news this month when a powerful computing tool received critical government funding. A five-year, $30 million award to the Open Science Grid Consortium, announced by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will operate and expand the Open Science Grid, a computing environment used by scientists to harness computing resources and scientific data from around the world.
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2. DOE's Office of Science Launches Website for U.S. Role at Large Hadron Collider
   09-12-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
   The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science today launched a new website to tell the story of the U.S. role in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator that will begin operating in Europe, near Geneva, Switzerland, next year. Hundreds of physicists, engineers and students from the United States are joining with colleagues from around the globe in the largest and most complex scientific experiments ever built.
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3. Lab Celebrates Opening of Center for Functional Nanomaterials
   05-21-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
   The U.S. Department of Energy's Patricia Dehmer, Associate Director of DOE's Office of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, accompanied by U.S. Congressman Timothy Bishop, led a celebration today at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory marking the official opening of the Lab's new Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
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4. Soil nutrition affects carbon sequestration in forests
   12-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
   On December 11, USDA Forest Service (FS) scientists from the FS Southern Research Station (SRS) unit in Research Triangle Park, NC, along with colleagues from Duke University, published two papers in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) that provide a more precise understanding of how forests respond to increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas driving climate change.
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5. Manure management reduces levels of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes
   11-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
   In the study, funded by USDA, Colorado State University and the National Science Foundation, researchers investigated the effects of manure management on the levels of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in manures.
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6. Carnegie Mellon neuroscientist proposes new theory of brain flexibility
   11-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Marcel Just and Stanford postdoctoral fellow Sashank Varma have put forward a new computational theory of brain function that provides answers to one of the central questions of modern science: How does the human brain organize itself to give rise to complex cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving and spatial reasoning? Just and Varma's theory, called 4CAPS, is described in the fall issue of the journal Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
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   10-17-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
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9. OHSU findings may improve how people with chronic heartburn, precancer of the esophagus are screened
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    12-14-2006 · EurekAlert!
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