Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Angela Belcher , a materials engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, didn't plan on joining the war on cancer. That is, until she was drafted to work alongside the school's biologists.

vermillion - The University of South Dakota will mark President's Research Day today with a program and panel discussion. The program starts at 1:45 p.m. with a welcome, followed by a 2 p.m. presentation from W. Brent Seales, director of the University o

Engineers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA device--a sort of eminently customizable biological computer--that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one biological or environ

Professor Richard M. Karp, Head of the Algorithms Group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, has received the 2008 Kyoto Prize in the Advanced Technology Category, Information Sciences Field.

CHIEF Minister Lim Guan Eng’s prediction of a water crisis in Penang in 2012 may come true if the Federal Government does not provide funding for the RM1.2bil Mengkuang Dam expansion project, said Wawasan Open University School of Science and Technology