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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Cellular imaging offers a wealth of data about how cells respond to stimuli, but harnessing this technique to study biological systems is a daunting challenge.

3 February 2010 The Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera has imaged craters both young and old in this view of the Southern Highlands of Mars.

As we move toward integration of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, we need to pay greater attention to the cobalt supply chain and diversification of supply for cobalt sources.

Imperial welcomes appointment of Professor John Harries to top science role for the Welsh Assembly Government Imperial physicist becomes first Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales - %0A " First, direct

Liverpool, UK - 2 February 2010: The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL), based at the University of Liverpool, will form part of a new national resear

They have helped to develop the Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV), a unique web portal that aid agencies rely on to target emergency food and medical supplies, prioritise repairs to infrastructure, and plan reconstruction and recovery.

When she peered into the screen of her computer one day in January, Alicia Soderberg was supposed to see a small, dull glowing smudge in one corner, the evidence of a month-old supernova that would help her better understand the mystery of these huge exploding stars.

MIT - MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass. For decades, astronomers have analyzed the impact that asteroids could have on Earth.

Zurich - University of Zurich Das Geographische Institut der Universität Zürich stellt nach dem Erdbeben in Haiti der Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit Satellitenkarten zur Verfügung.

Montreal - McGill Story: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Guatemala's Pacific coast near the border with El Salvador, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Dr Lindsay (UCL Spanish and Latin American Studies) explains the focus of her book, which is the third to appear in the new Routledge 'Research in Travel Writing' series: ?When I say that I work on journey narratives of Latin America, many people ask whether I have travelled much to the region.

BERKELEY — Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling this scenario have found that replacing tundra with trees will melt sea ice and greatly enhance warming over the entire Arctic region.

BERKELEY — Global warming is causing climate belts to shift toward the poles and to higher elevations.

BERKELEY — The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little effort, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, seismologists.

BERKELEY — Four University of California, Berkeley, faculty members, plus an educator with the campus's Museum of Paleontology, have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.

BERKELEY — If Earth is headed for a mass extinction like the previous five, in which more than 75 percent of all species were wiped out, then North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half th

Princeton - Princeton An additional 2 degrees of global warming could commit the planet to 6 to 9 meters (20 to 30 feet) of long-term sea level rise A new analysis of the geological record of the Ear

A new report looking at the relationship between the world’s oceans and global warming is set to fire a stark warning shot across the bows ahead of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen.

November 09, 2009 — Virginia Key — With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California's San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a ma

BERKELEY — When world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to hash out a treaty limiting carbon dioxide emissions, they should begin planning a future summit to address other pollutants - from soot to ozone - that don't remain in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide, but nevertheless are major contributors to global warming.

PA 268/09 "Roll up..roll up! The University of Nottingham is proud to present.." a web-based time machine which will take you back to the world of popular entertainment in Victorian Nottingham.

Diamond-drill core samples, taken 4,850 feet underground in the former Homestake gold mine, will tell geologists and engineers where best to excavate drifts and caverns for the Sanford Underground Laboratory.

School science classes will be transformed into earth-shattering learning experiences as the University of Plymouth introduces earthquake monitoring equipment to local classrooms.

The University of Oxford has released some sample Oxford questions - direct from the tutors who conduct the's - to provoke thought and help explain the reasoning behind even the most odd-sounding questions.

October 08, 2009 — Dr. Kenny Broad has been named director of The Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami.

Princeton - Princeton Princeton University scientists have shown that, in ancient times, the Earth's magnetic field was structured like the two-pole model of today, suggesting that the methods geoscientists use to reconstruct the geography of early land masses on the globe are accurate.

Partial skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species living about 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia. This female stood about 1.2 meters high. Eleven papers from an international team of authors published in print and online in this special issue describe the anatomy of this species and its habitat and discuss the implications for understanding human evolution.

September 28, 2009 — Miami — El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by

Princeton - Princeton Daniel Sigman , a Princeton University biogeochemist who has conducted pioneering work exploring the large-scale systems that have supported life on the planet throughout the millennia, has been selected as a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.

September 22, 2009 — Coral Gables — The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) have teamed up to est

September 03, 2009 — Virginia Key — Carbon sequestration is developing into one of the nation's premiere tools in the fight against global warming.

August 25, 2009 — St. Thomas, Virgin Islands — Representatives of the University of Miami's (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the University of the Virgi

The warming of an Arctic current over the last 30 years has triggered the release of methane, broken down from methane hydrate stored in the sediment beneath the seabed. Scientists at the University of Birmingham, working in collaboration with researchers from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Royal Holloway London and IFM-Geomar in Germany have found that more than 250 plumes of bubbles of methane gas are rising from the seabed of the West Spitsbergen continental margin in the Arctic, in a depth range of 150 to 400 metres.

PA 213/09 A severe crisis in the music industry is seriously depleting the UK's recording studio sector, according to new research from The University of Nottingham.

Princeton - Princeton In University-led studies to be conducted over the next few years, faculty and students from the Princeton Environmental Institute will learn just how much energy can be conserv

August 12, 2009 — Miami — An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Miami, University of Rochester, University of Idaho-Moscow and the Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Po

Scary ancient spiders revealed in 3D models, thanks to new imaging technique Early relatives of spiders that lived around 300 million years ago are revealed in new three-dimensional models Imperial C

July 30, 2009 — Virginia Key — The role of clouds in climate change has been a major question for decades. As the earth warms under increasing greenhouse gases, it is not known whether clouds will dissipate, letting in more of the sun's heat energy and making the earth warm even faster, or whether cloud cover will increase, blocking the Sun's rays and actually slowing down global warming.