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Princeton - Princeton James Gunn, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, has been chosen to receive a National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, for his sweeping contributions to modern stargazing, from theory to observation to gadget-building.

Princeton - Princeton Princeton senior Jessica Lanney, who is majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and pursuing a certificate in urban studies , is one of 35 American college students awarded 2010 Marshall Scholarships.

Princeton - Princeton First finding as part of new research collaboration An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun.

The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) reactor is housed inside a 16-foot-diameter steel structure in a building on the MIT campus that also houses MIT’s other fusion reactor, a tokamak called Alcator C-mod.

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

MIT - MIT New insights about a tiny snail that lives on the ocean floor could help scientists design better armor for soldiers and vehicles, according to MIT researchers.

MIT - MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, an advance that potentially provides an alternative to drug-releasing stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease.

MIT - MIT The fifth annual MIT Energy Conference, March 5-6, 2010, will bring together leaders in the fields of technology, policy, industry and finance to find opportunities, pathways and solutions to solving the world’s biggest energy problems.

San Francisco - Berkeley With seed money from the National Science Foundation (NSF), bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are ramping up efforts to charac

We have a lot for which to thank Charles Townes, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of physics and 1964 Nobel Laureate in physics.

Zurich - University of Zurich Die Universität Zürich geht in der Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der Nanotechnologie neue Wege.

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.

A Finnish-Swiss team cracks the atomic structure of a major cancer drug target Researchers at Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland, and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland, have determined the crystal structure of the ligand-binding domain of a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor in complex with one of its ligands (VEGF-C).

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of Huygens? Titan touchdown 14 January 2010 Five years ago today, ESA's Huygens probe descended to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Today planetary scientists from around the world have gathered in Barcelona to discuss the legacy of Huygens and to consider future Titan exploration missions.

Television presenter and naturalist Nick Baker will be opening a series of lectures at the University of Plymouth which will explore the relationship between science, art and the media.

MediSens Wireless, a startup company in UCLA's on-campus technology incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute, has obtained approval under federal Food and Drug Administration guidelines to b

New Year?s Honours for Imperial staff Three leading figures recognised for contributions to science %0A " Monday 11 January 2010 By Abigail Smith The contributions to science and science communication of three leading figures at Imperial have been recognised in the 2010 New Year's Honours.

Cambridge, Mass. January 10, 2010 - In an important first for a promising new technology, scientists have used a quantum computer to calculate the precise energy of molecular hydrogen.

Top 10 Laboratory science stories of 2009 based on global viewership of online media content and major programmatic milestones. Los Alamos achievements from supercomputing to biofuels Los Alamos, New Mexico, January 8, 2010—Los Alamos National Laboratory has identified the Top 10 Laboratory science stories of 2009 based on global viewership of online media content and major programmatic milestones.

Aneeve Nanotechnologies LLC has been selected to work in the UCLA on-campus Technology Incubator Program at the California NanoSystems Institute.

Boston - Harvard Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on Sun-like stars.

Boston - Harvard Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on Sun-like stars.

Spectacular Mars images reveal evidence of ancient lakes Images reveal that Mars had lakes approvimately 3 billion years ago, which was a time previously thought too cold to sustain them %0A " Imperi

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.

A star is born ? Europe's Herschel space observatory captures the birth of stars First science results released from the Herschel Space Observatory %0A " Adapted from a press release issued by the Sc

A network of ground-based cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the aurora borealis, commonly known as the Northern Lights.

"CNSI is committed to strong and productive collaborations with industry," said Paul S. Weiss, CNSI director and UCLA's Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences.

Boston - Harvard Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth.

Boston - Harvard Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth.

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

In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative.

Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.

Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study Scientists rule out the possibility that methane is delivered by meteorites into the Martian atmosphere %0A " For Immediate Release: Tuesday 8 Decembe

From the solar system to the cell membrane: Royal Society funds new research fellowships at Imperial Imperial early researchers receive a career boost, thanks to Royal Society Research Fellowships

An unmanned NASA satellite will soon survey the entire sky to discover millions of uncharted stars and galaxies, asteroids, and planetary "construction zones," providing valuable new information on our solar system, the Milky Way and the universe.

Imperial's Shaw Prize winner talks about life as a mathematics researcher An interview with Imperial's Professor Simon Donaldson %0A " By Danielle Reeves Tuesday 1 December 2009 Simon Donaldson , Pro

Academy program for teachers is demonstrating improvements in math proficiency scores among students Los Alamos, New Mexico, November 30, 2009—Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently acc

?Galileo, Galileo? is a UCL project that has given three artists the opportunity to produce astronomy-inspired work.

Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with ?living? materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.