http://phys.org/science-news/sci-other/ en-us PhysOrg Team Phys.Org provides the latest news on chemistry, math, archaeology, biology, chemistry, mathematics and science technologies. (AP) — A Stanford University professor has won a $500,000 award from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology program in recognition of his inventions. http://phys.org/news258055130.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-06-04T18:58:58-07:00 (AP) — Seven scientists won prizes Thursday for discoveries that involve the furthest reaches of the solar system, vanishingly tiny materials and the complexities of the brain. One finding helped end Pluto's status as a planet. http://phys.org/news257680931.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-31T11:02:40-07:00 Shaahin Amini was ready to quit. The Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering had spent three hours looking into a microscope scanning a maze of black-and-white crosshatched lines, tubes and beads made of nickel, aluminum and carbon magnified 3,800 times. http://phys.org/news257589023.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-30T09:30:36-07:00 (Phys.org) -- The term ‘Tudor’ was hardly used in the 16th Century and its obsessive  modern use by historians and writers generally gives us a misleading  impression of the period, an Oxford historian has found. http://phys.org/news257497298.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-29T09:00:02-07:00 One of the greatest cliches uttered about her majesty Queen Elizabeth II is that in 60 years of reigning over us, "she has never put a foot wrong". This may well be true, but how do we know? What do we really know about how the Queen fulfils her constitutional functions? Does she intervene in the political affairs of the countries over which she reigns? Does she exercise substantial political power? Or is she just a rubber stamp - a form of eccentric British formality that has charm but no substance? http://phys.org/news257153047.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-25T08:24:29-07:00 When Tara Crawford saw a fishing net wrapped around a young California sea lion’s neck, cutting into its flesh and causing an infection, it reinforced her motivation to help these animals through her research. http://phys.org/news256894091.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-22T08:28:25-07:00 Shipping food to foreign countries may not always be the best response to food crises; sometimes sending cash or procuring goods locally is cheaper, faster and more effective. http://phys.org/news256795892.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-21T05:11:48-07:00 More than 5,000 people die each year in vehicle crashes caused by distracted driving, many who were texting and talking on cellphones behind the wheel, according to the May 4 issue of CQ Researcher (published by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE). Teen drivers appear to be especially susceptible to distraction. http://phys.org/news256563187.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-18T12:33:18-07:00 Brazilian authorities have admitted that the Amazon's Awa, "Earth's most threatened tribe," are outnumbered 10 to one in just one of their reserves, Survival International said Thursday. http://phys.org/news256489973.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-17T16:13:14-07:00 Ancient maritime inscriptions dating back to the early 1600s have been found on the coast of Madagascar by Flinders University researchers. http://phys.org/news256462955.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-17T08:42:52-07:00 The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’. http://phys.org/news256453896.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-17T06:11:43-07:00 Somalia's war-ravaged capital Mogadishu will host Thursday its first ever TED talks as part of efforts to showcase improvements in development, business and security, organisers said. http://phys.org/news256450114.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-17T05:30:01-07:00 (Phys.org) -- Chicago's network of police cameras is more effective at reducing crime in high-crime areas than in low-crime areas, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news256282773.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-15T07:00:01-07:00 Spanish tenor Placido Domingo and British conductor Sir Simon Rattle on Sunday were among the winners of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize for artists and scientists. http://phys.org/news256150202.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-13T17:50:11-07:00 This year’s Cambridge series at the Hay Festival will include a debate about how we make “good tragedy” today. http://phys.org/news255946694.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-11T09:18:19-07:00 A DNA match led to the arrest of a man accused of murdering a teenaged New York girl 14 years ago in what had been an unsolved case, city prosecutors said Thursday. http://phys.org/news255885195.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-10T16:13:21-07:00 Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey. http://phys.org/news255851794.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-10T06:56:43-07:00 (AP) -- Members of the Vatican's bioethics advisory panel have called for its board to resign after scientists who don't support core church teaching on issues like birth control and infertility were featured at its annual conference. http://phys.org/news255805095.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-09T17:58:23-07:00 Although scientists face a number of significant barriers to public outreach, some still engage in these activities, especially women and those with children, according to work published May 9 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://phys.org/news255783871.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-09T17:00:06-07:00 Musicians execute their performances better when the non-verbal sensorimotor communication between conductor and musician is maximized, according to research published May 9 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://phys.org/news255783774.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-09T17:00:02-07:00 Arzu Aysin Tekindor has never seen "Antiques Roadshow," the PBS television program that routinely subjects artworks and other collectibles to the burning question: What is it worth? http://phys.org/news255345258.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-04T10:30:07-07:00 While fair trade coffee results in more money in the pockets of coffee growers in developing countries, it can also bring better returns for cafés here in New Zealand. http://phys.org/news255343105.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-04T09:38:39-07:00 A secret analysis of Adolf Hitler’s mental state which was drawn up by British Intelligence in April 1942 has been uncovered by a researcher, having apparently lain unread since the war. http://phys.org/news255320546.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-04T03:22:41-07:00 More than 60 percent of young adults between the ages of 19 and 22 received some financial help from mom and dad, according to a new University of Michigan study. The average amount they received – including help with college tuition, rent, and transportation – was roughly $7,500 a year. http://phys.org/news255272003.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-03T13:53:34-07:00 The use of stun guns by police significantly increases the chances of citizen injury, yet also protects the officers more than other restraint methods, according to the most comprehensive research to date into the safety of stun guns in a law enforcement setting. http://phys.org/news255086001.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-01T10:30:06-07:00 As the U.S. presidential election approaches, political analysts are paying a lot of attention to the undecided. New research by a team of psychologists from Canada, Italy and Switzerland shows that undecideds are not impartial, but instead reveal a preference for information that confirms their gut reactions. http://phys.org/news255067972.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-05-01T05:13:15-07:00 More than three out of 10 Indians are "suffering", an increase from 24 percent last year, a survey from global polling group Gallup showed Monday. http://phys.org/news254996776.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-04-30T09:26:27-07:00 An airplane carrying 96 passengers, including President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, the First Lady, nine top NATO generals and dozens of Polish dignitaries crashed near Smolensk, Russia, April 10, 2010, killing all aboard. The Russian government says the crash was an accident, but University of Akron professor Wieslaw Binienda, chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, disagrees. Binienda has spent the past two years combing details of the final report from the Russian investigation into the Smolensk crash, uncovering contradictions and discrepancies in the report and backing his findings with scientific evidence. http://phys.org/news254978771.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-04-30T04:40:01-07:00 Karl Booksh points to data collected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) showing that Americans with disabilities make up some 10-15 percent of the population but account for less than 1 percent of those earning doctoral degrees in the sciences. Now, the UD professor of chemistry and biochemistry is exploring ways to change that. http://phys.org/news254738659.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-04-27T09:44:26-07:00 Science magazine has awarded a Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI) to Rice University's hands-on engineering education program Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) as a model for other schools. In the program's first six years, more than 10 percent of Rice undergraduates have participated in BTB and produced 58 low-cost health technologies, including two that have already been broadly distributed at a national level. http://phys.org/news254677918.html Other Sciences - Other 2012-04-26T16:52:25-07:00