Topic: Texas
Energy Department hands out $21.3M to 15 facilities in 12 states to develop storage technologyU.S. Department of Energy officials on Wednesday announced $21.3 million in funding for facilities to create safe and economical technologies nationwide for storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations. ...
Deep sea oil plumes, chemical dispersants pose risks for the Gulf's coral reefs, food chainScientists say the massive oil spill has already spewed plumes over ecologically sensitive reefs that are part of a stalled marine sanctuary proposal that would restrict oil drilling ...
Hawking visits Texas A&M, attends auditorium dedication ceremony, gives lecture on black holesA new auditorium in Texas A&M's two new physics buildings has been named for renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking attended a Monday dedication ceremony at the school about 100 ...
Vital newborn testing faces challenges in using leftover blood spots for researchA critical safety net for babies — that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn in the U.S. — is facing an ethics attack. After those tiny blood spots are tested ...
A critical safety net for babies — that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack. After those tiny blood spots are tested for a list of devastating diseases, some states are storing them for years. Scientists ...
They are almost too small to see, but parasitic wasps possess a powerful poison and unusual genetic makeup that could give them outsized scientific importance, according to US researchers. A group of scientists who sequenced the genomes of three parasitic wasp species ...
Scientists unravel bovine genome in effort to improve meat and milk, battle cattle illsThe cow is of the bovine ilk, one end is moo, the other, milk. Now science knows why which is which, they've read the genome, without a hitch. While ...
Correction: Falling Debris storyIn a Feb. 19 story about meteor pieces found in Texas, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the director of the planetarium and astronomy lab program at the University of North Texas. He is Ron DiIulio, not ...
2 Texas astronomers say they found 2 samples of fallen meteor in WestTwo University of North Texas astronomers think they've found two pieces of a meteor that alarmed numerous residents when it streaked across the Texas sky on Sunday. "It's black like ...
Medical research projects by a student from Texas and a team from North Carolina won $100,000 prizes Monday in a prestigious high school science competition. Prizes of $10,000 to $50,000 were presented to five other high school students and five teams of ...
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