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Science & Policy News
September 2006
New York Times, September 28th, 2006 Organizers of the group, Scientists and Engineers for America, said it would be nonpartisan, but in interviews several said Bush administration science policies had led them to act. The issues they cited included the administration’s position on climate change, its restrictions on stem cell research and delays in authorizing the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception.
New York Times, September 28th, 2006 At Sylvia’s restaurant, a temple of Southern cooking in Harlem, the fried chicken tastes the same. At the Carnegie Delicatessen and Restaurant in Midtown, which beckons to tourists and New Yorkers alike, nobody has complained about the potato pancakes. At Junior’s, an institution in Brooklyn with two Manhattan branches, the cheesecake is still as popular as ever.
Christian Science Monitor, September 28th, 2006 Toyota, which leads the pack in gas-electric hybrid technology, said in July it would develop new technology to enable consumers to plug in their hybrid cars - potentially doubling the mileage of its already efficient hybrids.
New York Times, September 25th, 2006 Sullivan lived as a boy for 18 months, until doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan performed exploratory surgery, found a uterus and ovotestes (gonads containing both ovarian and testicular tissue) and told the Sullivans they’d made a mistake.
New York Times, September 25th, 2006 The chain saws started in February, when the federal Fish and Wildlife Service put Boiling Spring Lakes on notice that rapid development threatened to squeeze out the woodpecker.
CNN.com, September 25th, 2006 With televisions now on buses, elevators and in airport lobbies, that development may have as much to do with TV's ubiquity as an appliance as it does conspicuous consumption. The popularity of flat-screen TVs now make it easy to put sets where they haven't been before.
Christian Science Monitor, September 21st, 2006 Nova was among the first to preview PlayWorks, a new wing for the 4-and-under set at the Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). Opening to the public today, it highlights how learning happens naturally as children create, explore, and role-play.
New York Times, September 21st, 2006 After years of neglect by most physicists, superstring theory (string theory for short) emerged in 1984 as a leading candidate to solve the especially acute problem of reconciling general relativity.
Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 20th, 2006 The study is the latest since Harvard University's president ignited controversy last year by suggesting that innate gender differences may partly explain why fewer women than men reach top university science jobs. The comment eventually cost him his job.
Cornell University Press Office, September 18th, 2006 Detecting bacteria, viruses and other dangerous substances in hospitals, airplanes and other commonly contaminated places could soon be as easy as wiping a napkin or paper towel across a surface, says a researcher from Cornell University.
Asia News, September 14th, 2006 The pope did not make direct reference to the age-old controversy between evolution and creation but noted that “we end up with two alternatives. What came first? Creative Reason, the Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, yet somehow brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos?
The Washington Post, September 14th, 2006 Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person -- and first woman -- to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone. The device, designed by physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her now-missing limb.
San Diego Union Tribune, September 12th, 2006 Methane - a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide - is being released from the permafrost at a rate five times faster than thought, according to a study being published Thursday in the journal Nature. The findings are based on new, more accurate measuring techniques.
The Los Angele Times, September 8th, 2006 Remember, for instance, in 2004, when anthropologists announced the discovery of fossil remains of members of the genus Homo on the island of Flores in Indonesia? Named Homo floresiensis and standing barely 3 feet tall, these miniature creatures were said to have been a separate species of human beings, living as recently as 13,000 years ago, hunting pygmy elephants and overlapping Homo sapiens in both time and place.
The Washington Post, September 8th, 2006 The fish, smallmouth and largemouth bass, are naturally males but for some reason are developing immature eggs inside their sex organs. Their discovery at such widely spread sites, including one just upstream from the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, seems to show that the Potomac's problem with "intersex" fish extends far beyond the West Virginia stream where they were first found in 2003.
The Chronicle Of Higher Education, September 8th, 2006 The defendant is a temperature chart, an estimate of how the climate has changed across the Northern Hemisphere in the past millennium. It's known as the "hockey stick" because the line representing temperature remains relatively straight through nine centuries and then arcs sharply up in the past 100 years, like the blade of a hockey stick.
New York Times, September 6th, 2006 On a blinding, 104-degree day at Arizona State University, the heat outside was fairly matched inside the classroom by a fervid debate over the past, in a new course on the convergence of entertainment and technology.
National Science Foundation, September 5th 2006 Developed by IntelliOne of Atlanta, Ga., the TrafficAid system could not only help guide drivers around tie-ups, but also tell emergency responders where accidents are or how effectively an evacuation is unfolding by pinpointing clusters of cell phones.
Comedy Central, September 1st, 2006 "Will Robots make us more perfect? More specifically, will we be able to blow stuff up with our eyes?" The Daily Show's Samantha Bee asks the important questions about the future of nanotechnology. Read More - Scroll down to Future Shock parts 1 and 2
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