01/08/2009
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)
FDA adds 41 drugs to diet pills alert ... First asteroids found with Earthlike crust ... Loud noise permeates cosmos, NASA says ... Study: Spirituality adds happiness to kids ... Health/Science news from UPI.
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01/09/2009
Science Museum of Va. to cut seven employees (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
The faltering economy has claimed seven more victims. The Science Museum of Virginia is laying off seven employees out of a full-time staff of 72, effective Feb. 1.
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01/09/2009
Science lessons to stir debate (The Advocate)
New arguments have erupted on how to teach evolution in Louisiana public schools. Last year lawmakers enacted a law to overhaul the way evolution and other controversial science topics are taught in middle and high schools.
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01/09/2009
EV Group And Brewer Science Establish Ultra-Thin Wafer Bonding Lab In Taiwan (ElectronicsWeb)
EV Group (EVG) and Brewer Science, Inc., recently announced the installation of an EVG 500 series wafer-bonding system at Brewer Science's Taiwan applications lab. Located in Hsinchu Science Park, this joint effort offers customers timely localized support in the Asia-Pacific region for 3D IC and other advanced process development programs
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01/09/2009
Obama should ease security on science, panel says (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The system for keeping U.S. science secrets safe is broken and needs to be revamped -- and immigration controls need to be eased for qualified scientists from other countries, the National Research Council advised on Thursday.
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01/09/2009
Computer science experts to conference in Wellington (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
A conference of computer science leaders will be hosted by Victoria University in Wellington next week.
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01/09/2009
The OzSpot #25: Hellboy: Science of Evil and Tecmo's woes (cnet.com.au)
What a fortnight it has been for gaming! In this episode of the OzSpot, we talk about the implications of Itagaki leaving Temco, the success of Wii Fit down under, Aussie developed Hellboy: Science of Evil, and much, much more! There's also a brand new competition to win. Tune in now.
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01/09/2009
Revved up by science (Rapid City Journal)
Krystal Premo was so excited to be in the state’s Mobile Science Lab last week she was almost glowing. The sixth-grader used a syringe to drip yeast into a beaker clutched by her classmate, Morgan Kersey.
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01/09/2009
Annual Berks Science Olympiad brings out the best in students (Reading Eagle)
Click on picture to enlarge. Sara Kyle, 16, left, and Alex J. Moore, 15, sophomores at Kutztown High School, watch their electrical-vehicle challenge entry Thursday in the annual Berks County Science Olympiad at Kutztown University.
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01/08/2009
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center receives grant from the Gates Foundation to establish new program to ensure the ... (SeedQuest)
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center was recently awarded a $5.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative which seeks to identify and direct funds to the most critical scientific challenges in global health.
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