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Lily Asquith uses Large Hadron Collider to create sound
Scientists at the LHC are converting data from both real and simulated particle collisions into sound. Hear a proton collision played on marimba. »
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Jul 26, 2010
Steven Stone: ‘Some Sub-Saharan African nations going green’
UN economist Steven Stone said some African nations are going green both despite – and because of – the nations' relative poverty. »
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Jul 26, 2010
Paula Schnurr on what scientists know about PTSD in war veterans
Post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, affects up to 30% of soldiers returning from Iraq, according to a June 2010 study by Army medical researchers. »
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Jul 26, 2010
Vernon Roan on hydrogen as fuel for future cars
Hydrogen should be a fuel for the car of the future, according to a June 2010 report by the U.S. National Research Council. »
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Jul 20, 2010
Gary Nabel on recent breakthrough in AIDS vaccine research
Researchers are closer than ever to finding a vaccine that prevents AIDS. »
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Jul 19, 2010
Kellogg Schwab on the human challenges of clean water
Schwab told EarthSky that providing clean water and sanitation in the developing world takes more than just engineering water filters or purification systems. »
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Jul 19, 2010
Tiffany Shlain’s film ‘Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence’
Shlain's film explores what it means to be connected in a global community in the twenty-first century with technology. »
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Jul 19, 2010
Sally Gold on awards for small businesses with low carbon footprints
Shell Springboard has awarded over 1.6 million British pounds to 43 small businesses across the U.K. to help them to implement ideas to lower greenhouse gas emissions. »
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Jul 19, 2010
Reid Ewing on how to create more walkable cities
People would drive less if the centers of cities were more developed, according to a 2010 analysis. »
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Jul 19, 2010
Andrew Tatem on the spread of malaria across borders
Tatem said that even though malaria is a completely curable disease, the rate of malaria is increasing, especially in places where people are crossing national borders. »
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Paula Schnurr
Paula Schnurr led the largest individual psychotherapy trial ever done on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It was also the first Veterans Affairs study to focus exclusively on female GIs and PTSD. Dr. Schnurr’s research focuses primarily on treatment and the physical health effects of exposure to trauma. She is deputy executive director of the National ... >>
Gary Nabel
Dr. Gary Nabel is director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He co-authored two studies that appeared in Science in the summer of 2010 which detailed potential breakthroughs in the discovery of a vaccine for AIDS. The lab he heads specializes in cellular and molecular regulation ... >>
Lily Asquith
Lily Asquith is one of the originators of what is called the LHCsound project. She works at Argonne National Lab as a research scholar on ATLAS – one of the Large Hadron Collider’s detectors – searching for a low mass Higgs boson. She expects (according to the Standard Model of Particle Physics) to ... >>
Steven Stone
Steven Stone is the chief of the United Nation Environment Program or UNEP’s Geneva-based Economics and Trade Branch. Dr. Stone holds a PhD in Resource Economics from Cornell University and has more than 15 years of professional experience in environmental and natural resource management. Prior to his position with UNEP, Dr. Stone worked for the ... >>
Vernon Roan
Vernon P. Roan chairs the Review of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Research and Development Program for the National Research Council. Dr. Roan is the retired director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Florida, where he has been a faculty member for more than ... >>
