Science Education & Policy
- Blind Readers Get A Braille Version Of NASA Images
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In a ceremony at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind. The book will be available to the public through a wide variety of sources, includi ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2008 - 12:01pm
- OPEC's Total Crude Oil Output Rose To 32 Million Barrels Per Day In December, A Platts Survey Shows
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LONDON, January 15 /PRNewswire/-- The members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) produced an average 32.03 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in December, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials Jan ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 15 2008 - 2:30pm
- National Science Board Releases Science And Engineering Indicators 2008
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Members of the National Science Board today delivered to the President and the Congress Science and Engineering Indicators 2008 (SEI'08), the Board's biennial report on the state of science and engineering research and education in the United Sta ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2008 - 5:05pm
- Universiteit Maastricht Business School Partners With Leading Anti-Money Laundering Group To Offer Masterclass
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MAASTRICHT, Netherlands, January 15 /PRNewswire/--- Program aims to create awareness, cultivate expertise in growing AML field. In response to an urgent need for anti-money laundering training in Europe, accelerated by the recent implementation of the 3rd ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 15 2008 - 3:31pm
- Boost For Malaria Vaccine Development By Combining Strengths Of Dutch And American Researchers
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Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 16 2008 - 8:30am
- Test Drive: Hybrid School Buses Get A First Look
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The Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, has been using one of the country's first hybrid school buses since Jan. 3. And they're pretty excited about it. Dan Taghon, director of transportation and driver, said the V-8 diesel eng ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2008 - 5:25pm
- BT Joins Liberty Alliance Management Board
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LONDON, January 17 /PRNewswire/--- Global Communications Provider Takes Leadership Role in Driving Open, Secure and Privacy Respecting Digital Identity Management Solutions Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted i ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 17 2008 - 4:30am
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center And Microsoft Create Joint Research Centre In Barcelona For Parallel Computing
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BARCELONA, Spain, January 18 /PRNewswire/--- Centre seeks solutions to challenges and opportunities coming with multi-core processors. ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 18 2008 - 6:30am
- Joint Genome Institute Releases Preliminary Soybean Genome Assembly
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A preliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, has been made available by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research. The announcement was made ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2008 - 10:30am
- INCITE Program Doles Out Supercomputer Time
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Scientific studies on climate change, energy and alternative fuels are among the 30 projects awarded more than 145 million processing hours on supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Comp ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2008 - 2:57pm