Ancient gardens are the stuff of legend, from the Garden of Eden to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Heidelberg University in Germany, have uncovered an ancient royal garden at the s…
Those looking for the latest product standards-related news, regulatory developments, events and workshops around the world now can turn to the new Global Standards Information (GSI) Web site (http://gsi.nist.gov). Launched on Sept. 1, 2010, the new…
Each year in August, the aptly named town of Twinsburg, Ohio, is the site of the largest official gathering of twins in the world. Open to all multiples — identical and fraternal twins, triplets and quads from newborns to octogenarians — the …
The Web site of a Portland State University graduate student has been targeted in a wave of Internet hackings supporting al-Qaida, attracting federal authorities and terrorism experts who worry the break-in may be more than a prank.
A more interactive Web site for a political candidate can influence a person’s impression of the candidate and increase a person’s level of agreement with the candidate’s views, according to Penn State researchers. More interactive Web sites enhance a person’s opinion of a political candidate and the candidate’s positions, say the researchers. At the same time, interactivity is a “double-edged sword” because the most highly interactive sites used in the research drove users’ views of the political candidate back down, showing that greater navigational demands of a Web site might induce tedium.
A new Web site has been developed by the government’s Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR) to gather comments and recommendations on research needs for Americans with disabilities, the U.S. Department of Education announced today. The committee, chaired by Steven James Tingus, director of the Education Department’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), produced the site to help ensure that federal research efforts meet the needs of the disability community. The site can be found at http://www.icdr.us/.
He was a high school drop-out, a maverick who jumped disciplinary fences, and an activist who was attacked for his political beliefs. Yet he won two Nobel prizes and published more than 500 papers and 11 books. His name was Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994) and he is probably one of the few scientists to be a household name. Linus Pauling is the eighth scientist to be added to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Profiles in Science Web site (http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/). He remains the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. “Linus Pauling revolutionized the study of chemistry, and made crucial contributions to medical research,” said Dr. Alexa McCray, who heads up the Profiles project.