http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/scientist/ en-us Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:04:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092228/posts PITTSBURGH - A federal judge does not have the jurisdiction to second-guess security clearance decisions and should throw out a lawsuit by a Muslim scientist who claims he wrongly lost his clearance — and his job — at a nuclear warship plant, U.S. Justice Department attorneys said in court documents. Lawyers for the Department of Energy contend the lawsuit filed by Egyptian-born scientist Abdel Moniem Ali El-Ganayni is an effort to publicize the security review process, which could pose a threat to the U.S. The American Civil Liberties Union helped El-Ganayni sue this year, saying he was wrongly fired for... AP via MSNBC.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092228/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:04:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/589294/posts 2 teenage boys and a girl, all friends of the 19 year old daughter of the scientist, have been arrested in connection with the stabbing death. While the police have not said anything officially, a reporter for one station said the death was possibly related to "cult-like activity" and the reporter for a different station said the three suspects were involved in some sort of Goth group with the victim's daughter. Multiple Washington DC TV stations http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/589294/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:07:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003140/posts I'll grow marigolds on the moon, says scientistBy Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 4:01pm BST 17/04/2008 Marigolds could be growing on the moon by around 2015, if an ambitious effort by scientists pays off. In what marks an important step towards helping lunar colonists grow their own food, a Ukrainian team, working with the European Space Agency, ESA, has shown that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very like the lunar surface, with no need for plant food. Marigolds were shown to survive in crushed rock The research was presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, by... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003140/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:56:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994702/posts Terror threat sparks scientist check By Richard Alleyne Last Updated: 2:03am BST 31/03/2008 Police and secret service officers are carrying out background checks on thousands of scientists without their knowledge, amid fears terrorists are targeting British laboratories to obtain deadly viruses. The vetting, which includes checks on family backgrounds, political views and associates, is part of a review of some 800 laboratories in hospitals, universities and private firms where staff have access to incurable viruses such as ebola. Whitehall sources confirmed the operation by MI5 and the National Counter Terrorism Security Office. A series of spot checks and detailed inspections... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994702/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:18:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994679/posts Chief scientist revolts over biofuel legislation 29 March 2008 From New Scientist Print Edition. Could biofuels do more damage to the climate than the fossil fuels they replace? That's the fear casting doubt on the wisdom of a law that from next month will require a certain proportion of vehicle fuel to come from biological sources. On Monday, Bob Watson, chief scientist at the UK's Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs, called into question the idea of switching to biofuels. This follows the publication of studies showing that more carbon is emitted in producing some biofuels than is saved... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994679/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:29:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991320/posts A mysterious bomb-making experiment that ended with the accidental death of a government scientist has remained an official secret for more than five years, leaving his family in the dark about what went wrong. Terry Jupp, a scientist with the Ministry of Defence, was engulfed in flames during a joint Anglo-American counter-terrorism project intended to discover more about al-Qaida's bomb-making capacities. There has been no inquest into his death, as the coroner has been waiting for the MoD to disclose information about the incident. An attempt to prosecute the scientist's manager for manslaughter ended when prosecutors said they were withdrawing... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991320/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:10:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991077/posts D.C. Fire Hazmat Teams responded to an apparent suicide in the District after fire officials said the man may have killed himself using cyanide. Police got a call around 4:30 p.m. on Monday for an unconscious male at a house in the 4300 block of 36th Street. Two officers responded and found a man laying next to a small vile of cyanide. Immediately, fire officials said police left the home and called in the hazmat crew, which is standard procedure. -snip- wjla http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991077/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981127/posts Mumnesia is a medical fact, say scientists By Ben Farmer Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 06/03/2008 Forgetful new mothers can blame their loss of memory on the arrival of their children, according to scientists. For generations, many new mothers have noticed small lapses of memory such as struggling with names, misplacing things or forgetting what they are looking for. Now neuroscientists and psychiatrists have reported that rather than being merely an old wives' tale, the phenomenon of "mumnesia" is based on medical fact. A combination of fatigue, hormonal changes and stress can all contribute to a loss of memory. Louann Brizendine,... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981127/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 03:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980588/posts The Pakistani scientist disgraced for selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya has been hospitalized after complaining of weakness, the military said Wednesday. Medics who checked on Abdul Qadeer Khan at his home Tuesday found that he was suffering from low blood pressure and fever, probably due to an infection, a military statement said. He was subsequently admitted to a hospital for a detailed examination, it said. Doctors are hopeful that Khan will make a full recovery and return home in a couple of days. AP via Newsday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980588/posts#comment Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:29:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973498/posts Deep in the basement of a dusty old library in Edinburgh lies a small black box that churns out random numbers. At first glance the box looks profoundly dull, but it is, in fact, the ‘eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future. The machine apparently sensed the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened, and appeared to forewarn of the Asian Tsunami. "It's Earth shattering stuff," says Dr Roger Nelson, Emeritus researcher at Princeton University in the USA. "But unfortunately we don't have a box for predicting the future... NewsMonster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973498/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:12:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954995/posts PHOENIX —Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then, she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night. "I use night-vision goggles, and you could see them very clearly" — caravans of men with guns and huge backpacks full of drugs, trudging through the desert, Krebbs said. After her 10th or 11th time hiding in bushes and behind rocks, she abandoned her research. "I'm just not willing to risk my neck anymore," she said. Across the southwestern U.S. border and in northern Mexico, scientists such as Krebbs say their work... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954995/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:19:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953673/posts Scientist Chases Fast-Melting Tropical Glaciers Charles J. Hanley in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Associated PressJanuary 14, 2008 For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over some of the tallest slopes of tropical New Guinea—the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must reach them before they're gone. To the American glaciologist, the ancient ice is a vanishing "archive" of the story of El Niño, the equatorial phenomenon driving much of the world's climate. More than that, the little-explored glaciers are a last unknown for a mountaineering scientist who for... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953673/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:42:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947292/posts STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Bert Bolin, a pioneering Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the U.N.'s Nobel award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died, his colleague Henning Rodhe said Wednesday. He was 82. As early as the 1950s, Bolin produced research about the circulation of carbon in nature that remains relevant to the continuing debate on climate change. Most importantly, he played a key role in communicating the dangers of climate change to decision-makers and served as the first chairman of the IPCC from 1988 to 1998. He died in a Stockholm hospital from stomach cancer, but was active until... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947292/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:55:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943081/posts Scientist claims men are funnier than women By Nick Britten Last Updated: 1:40am GMT 22/12/2007 Men are more naturally funny than women, according to a male scientist who says men make more jokes and the gags tend to be more aggressive. As part of his research Professor Sam Shuster, of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, rode a unicycle around Newcastle upon Tyne and judged the reaction of 400 onlookers. Comedians Victoria Wood and Peter Kay He said 75 per cent of male respondents made snide comments such as "Lost your wheel?" and jeered, while few women made cutting remarks and... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943081/posts#comment Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:25:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936835/posts "The battle between science and creationism has reached the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where a former researcher is claiming he was fired because he doesn't believe in evolution. Nathaniel Abraham filed a lawsuit earlier this week in US District Court in Boston saying that the Cape Cod research center dismissed him in 2004 because of his Christian belief that the Bible presents a true account of human creation. Abraham, who is seeking $500,000 in compensation for a violation of his civil rights, says in the suit that he lost his job as a postdoctoral researcher in a biology lab... Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936835/posts#comment Sun, 9 Dec 2007 04:24:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918282/posts Hillary backed lab of donorBy Jim McElhatton October 30, 2007 Lawmakers, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, have taken thousands in campaign cash from an embattled Nobel-prize winning scientist while earmarking federal money for his New York lab. Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, also a New York Democrat, requested a $900,000 earmark in June for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where James D. Watson served as chancellor before resigning last week after apologizing for comments that suggested that people descending from Africa aren't as intelligent as those from Europe. Federal campaign filings show that Mr. Watson has donated more... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918282/posts#comment Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:24:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912541/posts Nobel scientist condemned for 'racist' claims By Stephen Adams Last Updated: 2:48pm BST 17/10/2007 Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr James Watson has been heavily criticised for making “racist” comments after he said Africans were not as intelligent as Europeans. Dr Watson is no stranger to controversy Dr Watson, who helped unravel the structure of DNA with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, was roundly condemned for saying he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912541/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:20:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883677/posts ... Last week, Hansen, NASA's lead scientist on global warming, penned a rather strange ad hominem attack against critics that questioned the validity of his work in the wake of corrections prompted by Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit http://www.climateaudit.org/ Under most circumstances, it is inappropriate for a Federal Agency Administrator to pen such a highly policitical polemic, although Hansen has a long history of doing just that. Rather than respond with a proper full acknowledgement of his error and a promise to uncover other potential flaws which may be lurking in his data and analyis, his technical explanation is interspersed... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883677/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:22:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873892/posts Scientist doubts efforts to detect avian flu in U.S. By Kevin Miller Monday, July 30, 2007 - Bangor Daily News ORONO, Maine - A potential avian flu pandemic may have slipped from the headlines, but the threat is still very real. And one leading expert worries that U.S. efforts to detect the deadly avian flu strain may be subpar. Peter Marra, a research scientist with the Smithsonian Institution and the National Zoo in Washington, told fellow ornithologists gathered at the University of Maine on Saturday that health and wildlife officials may be focusing too heavily on migratory birds when looking... Bangor Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873892/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:57:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860543/posts Scientist Tests Husband's DNA, Fidelity Wednesday July 4, 2007 1:46 AM By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN Associated Press Writer LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A state forensics scientist who said she tested DNA in her husband's underwear to find out whether he was cheating could be disciplined if investigators determine she violated the use of state equipment. Ann Chamberlain-Gordon of Okemos testified in a March 7 divorce hearing that she ran the test in September on the underwear of Charles Gordon Jr. Asked by his attorney what she found, she answered: ``Another female. It wasn't me.'' She also said during a May... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860543/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2007 01:25:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852128/posts Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey. Madison.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852128/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851893/posts JERUSALEM: Renowned British scientist Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and astronomy, predicted the world would end in 2060. He made the prediction in a 1704 letter that went on show in Jerusalem on Sunday. A famed rationalist, who secured a royal exemption from the ordination in the Church of England that was normally expected of academics of his day so he would not have to follow its teachings, Newton nonetheless based his prediction on a Biblical text. Working from verses in the Book of Daniel, the elaborator of the classical laws of gravity, motion and optics argued... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851893/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:26:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1824520/posts An Italian researcher is working on a project that could lead to the development of a real-life 'spider-man' suit. Nicola Pugno, a 35-year-old researcher at the Polytechnic University of Turin, says he has spent the past 10 years working on a form of adhesion based on the feet of gecko lizards. "It's a field that can have very interesting applications in science, like in space, for example," Mr Pugno said. "An astronaut could use a suit with a suction-cup adhesion system." He estimates the suit could be constructed in another 10 years. abc.net.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1824520/posts#comment Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:13:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816533/posts Scientists find fatness gene By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 2:15am BST 13/04/2007 More than half of the population carries a gene that makes people more likely to pile on the pounds, scientists announce today. Half of English men and a third of women are classified as overweight They hope the discovery could eventually lead to treatments to help people lose excess weight they carry simply because of their genetic make-up. Obesity is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other medical problems and is rising in prevalence in most western countries, where at... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816533/posts#comment Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:34:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791506/posts WASHINGTON – One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture and bury greenhouse gases. But 159 coal-fired power plants are scheduled to be built in the next decade or so, generating enough power for about 96 million homes, according to a study last month by the U.S. Department of Energy. Burning coal is one of the major sources of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas causing global warming. In prepared remarks to be delivered at the National Press Club Monday... ap on San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791506/posts#comment Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:37:32 GMT