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August 24th, 2010ASME Response to the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
August 16th, 2010ASME joins the engineering and technology community in expressing its deep concern for the situation in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the explosion that occurred on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig on April 20, 2010. Our sincere sympathies go out to the families and colleagues of the workers that lost their lives and more that were injured in this tragedy and to the communities being impacted.
As ASME continues to monitor news on the efforts to contain the oil flow from the damaged undersea well, the Society will make every effort to support the dissemination and discussion of the facts and available technical information related to this incident.
ICE urges Government to reconsider UK aviation development plans in new report
August 11th, 2010Engineering experts have urged the Government to rethink its plans for UK aviation and airport infrastructure development, including its decision to ban new runways at the country’s busiest airports.
In a new report published today, Rethinking Aviation, ICE warns that a ‘better not bigger’ approach to airport runway capacity could seriously undermine the UK’s global connectivity and competitiveness, and see us lagging behind North European rivals that have been boosting their hub runway capacity at a considerable rate.
MIT’s OpenCourseWare, Viewed by Millions Worldwide, Wins Science SPORE Prize
August 2nd, 2010When MIT made a formal decision in the year 2000 to publish their course materials on the Internet, MIT alumni could have been miffed. Here was the institution’s renowned curriculum—previously accessible to students who paid for it with their tuition and hard-won academic achievement—being offered to anyone with a computer.
The executive director of the MIT OpenCourseWare program that manages publication of the curriculum, who herself is an alumna of MIT and the daughter of two more MIT graduates, says she and her former classmates were thrilled.
Longest living amphibians, salamanders, may hold secrets to elixir of life
July 27th, 2010Washington, DC: A small cave salamander, dubbed “the human fish” because of its human-like skin tone, has broken the world’s record for longest-lived amphibian—a discovery, according to researchers, could unravel secrets of elixir of life.
Also called olm and Proteus, the salamander, which can live to over 100, is endangered, but reaches such advanced ages in zoos and protected environments.
Future studies on this amphibian might shed light on what promotes longevity in the animal kingdom.
Nature’s Recourse
July 21st, 2010Nature has a shifty side. Bees cheat flowers. Flowers cheat bees. Fish cheat other fish, and so on. The more biologists look, the more skulduggery turns up.
In this sense, cheating means pretty much what it does among people, says evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers of VU University Amsterdam: One party exploits another, taking more than its fair share or happily reaping benefits without paying the costs. “There is always that one person that orders the most expensive meal on the menu and then insists on splitting the bill evenly,” Kiers says.
How are sadness and happiness like diseases? They’re infectious, study finds
July 14th, 2010Is sadness a sickness? It appears to spread like one, a new study has found.
Researchers at Harvard University and MIT wanted to see if a mathematical model developed to track and predict the spread of infectious diseases such as SARS and foot-and-mouth disease could also apply to the spread of happiness — and found that it worked.
They used data collected from 1,880 subjects in the Framingham Heart Study, a long-term research effort that has followed subjects since 1948 (and added some new ones along the way), giving them physical and emotional exams every two years. At each visit, subjects were classified as content, discontent or neutral. The researchers monitored how these emotional states changed over time and how these changes depended on the emotions of the people with whom the participants came into contact.
Graduate students win prizes for scholarly paper submissions
June 17th, 2010In order to recognize and encourage excellence in applied mathematics and computational science, SIAM awards at its annual meeting up to three prizes for submissions to the SIAM Student Paper Competition. Papers considered for the award must have been submitted for publication prior to the contest by students in pursuit of PhD degrees.
Selection is based on caliber and content of each student’s contribution to the paper. This year’s selection committee, comprising Kelly Black, John Geddes, and Reza Malek-Madani, was chaired by SIAM Vice President for Education Peter Turner.
Thieme’s Atlas of Anatomy Sample Content Now Available for iPad
June 7th, 2010New York/Stuttgart – Thieme Publishers announced today that a free sampling of anatomy illustrations and clinical content from the bestselling Atlas of Anatomy is now available for use on iPad, via the newly released modalityBODY App. This sampler highlights the exquisite illustrations and unique features of the Atlas, including schematics, multiple image views, muscle facts, and radiographs. More of Thieme’s award-winning anatomy content will be available for In-App purchase within modalityBODY in the coming weeks.
“Thieme’s Atlas of Anatomy and related products have received rave reviews from students and teachers alike,” says Anne Vinnicombe, Thieme vice-president and director of educational publishing. “We are excited to see them become available for iPad users.”
New American Chemical Society video podcast examines making plastics without oil
June 4th, 2010WASHINGTON, May 25, 2010 –— With the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and growing concern about the global oil supply, the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) latest ChemMatters video podcast couldn’t have a timelier topic: Using food crops instead of petroleum to make plastics.
The high-definition video podcast, entitled “Plastics Go Green,” is based on an article about bioplastics featured in ChemMatters, the ACS’ award-winning high school chemistry magazine. It is available at www.bytesizescience.com and on the Bytesize Science podcast on iTunes.
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