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UTEP team's project wins venture titles
El Paso Times, TexasThree University of Texas at El Paso students hope to turn a Nobel Prize-winning material into a multimillion-dollar business tied to a low-cost, environmentally friendly technology for recycling water. They are off to a flying start with two wins and a...Tags: Transportation, Science and Technology, Travel, Invention and Innovation, Awards and Prizes
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Burke education board OKs budget
The News Herald, Morganton, N.C.The Burke County Board of Education approved on Monday night its local operating budget for the 2013-14 school year. The Burke County Public Schools will ask for $13.6 million from Burke County commissioners for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Science and Technology, Apple iPad, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Technology may find ovarian cancer cells at an earlier stage
New technology for identifying early stage ovarian cancer in uterine and cervical cells could have the potential to one day stem this often deadly disease, according to a recent study in the International Journal of Cancer. Using equipment that can...
Tags: Science and Technology, Mayo Clinic, Ovarian Cancer, Obstetrics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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UPDATE 1-Space trio lands in Kazakhstan after five months in orbit
Reuters* "The crew are feeling well," Mission Control says * Returning crew includes station's first Canadian commander * Replacement astronauts due to launch on May 28 By Dmitry Solovyov and Irene Klotz ALMATY/CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 14 (Reuters) - The...Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Space Programs, Kazakhstan, Medical Procedures and Tests
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U.S. House panel questions resignation of top FDA official
ReutersBy Toni Clarke May 13 (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel is investigating the circumstances surrounding the resignation from the Food and Drug Administration of its acting deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco. In a...Tags: Johnson & Johnson Inc., Science and Technology, Drugs and Medicines, Food and Drug Administration, Medical Research
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Baltimore's investments in job creation
A strong and sustainable 21st century economy can only be built from the bottom up. And today, as President Barack Obama visits Baltimore, it is this fact that will drive us to join with him to renew a call for Congress to focus on common-sense...
Tags: Baltimore City Community College, U.S. Congress, Science and Technology, Employment, Career and Workplace
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Married couple among Western University's first dental graduates
Inland Valley Daily BulletinIn close to nine years of marriage, Luisa and Nathan Snyder have done many things together. They have worked together, gone to college together and Wednesday they will graduate together, among the first graduates of Western University of Health...Tags: Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Graduation, Drugs and Medicines, Osteopathic Medicine
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Defense, Bioterrorism, Science and Technology, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Critic questions AQMD board member's doctorates
A critic of the region's air-quality agency is questioning the academic credentials of a board member empowered to vote on the fate of the fire rings in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach. Clark E. Parker, who sits on the South Coast Air Quality...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
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Harlequin ladybird can be a pest in disguise
The harlequin ladybird was once a stalwart ally of greenhouse growers around the world. Native to Japan, Korea and other parts of eastern Asia, the bright red ladybugs were prized for their aphid-eating abilities — until they caused serious declines...Tags: Germany, Science and Technology, Ecosystems, Tuberculosis, Conservation
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Do humans need mystery 'junk' DNA? This carnivorous plant doesn't
How’s this for spring cleaning? Scientists have discovered that a carnivorous plant deletes so much of its own junk DNA that it has hardly any left. The finding, published online in Nature, hints that such noncoding DNA may not be as important as...
Tags: Science and Technology, Chemical Industry, Plant Openings, Biotechnology Industry, Biology
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Judge orders JPL to drop discipline over scientists' email
A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to rescind disciplinary actions against five scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision on background security checks for JPL employees....Tags: Justice System, Science and Technology, September 11, 2001 Attacks, George W. Bush, Judges
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