Dan Nemcek '08, who graduated from St. Olaf College in May, died from serious head injuries sustained in a mountain bike accident near Bozeman, Mont. Nemcek played lacrosse at St. Olaf and "loved life and savored every moment of it,"
Ted Peters, a renowned author and scholar whose work focuses on the dialogue between theology and science, has been named the Martin E. Marty Professor of Religion and the Academy at St. Olaf.
They lived in frozen wastelands with sparse food supplies, but Woolly mammoths had a dirty habit that may have helped them delay their eventual extinction - they ate their own dung.
Roger Highfield: Cuts of up to 40 per cent in grants to scientists have been announced, triggering a warning they could undermine the nation's ability to build and decommission nuclear power plants.
When you get people like Pickens supporting clean energy other people listen. I joined up with the Piskens Plan on their website to see what develops... He supports natural gas fueled vehicles as well. I think that technologies like that
A research team led by Brown University planetary geologist James Head has determined that volcanism played a central role in forming Mercury's surface. The evidence of volcanic activity lends important insights into Mercury's geologic history and appears in a special
The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances, they say. Read MoreKeywords:Biotechnology&Biochemistry, DNA, Artificial partsArticle via Science Daily
The mind appears to have has a consistent way of organizing an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago."Not surprisingly, speakers of different languages
Kevin C. Chen, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering, is using high-powered computers to determine how substances known as recombinant immunotoxins can best be modified in order to
Scientists at CNRS-affiliated laboratories in Bordeaux, Lyon and Paris have provided the first proof that amorphous materials, also known as soft glasses, deform and flow through a collective movement of their particles. These materials (which include chocolate mousse, shaving cream,
The city of Ottawa has backed the creating of a plasma gasification facility designed to convert 400 tons of municipal waste a day into electricity. This will be the first large commercial scale example of this type of generating plant
An unexpected form of atomic movement has been observed during experiments run by a coalition of universities. An accelerated hydrogen atom impacts with a deuterium-deuterium molecule, and instead of a backwards bounce or "scatter" as they call it, the atom
Prehistoric Rock - art in Cumbria Venue: Yew Tree Hall High Lorton (near Cockermouth) Date: 10th July 2008 Time: 7.30pm How to book: Not required Price: Visitors £2 Tel: Ted Gilbertson 01900 85482 Lecturer: Dr. Stan Beckensall Event Type: Local
The promised excavations are finally underway. The head is in favour of a Viking chief's settlement, the traditional view is an early Viking monastery, but they don't rule out something previous (for today). Myself I would like to know about
Astrophysical jets are associated with the formation of young stars of all masses, stellar and massive black holes, and perhaps even with the formation of massive planets.
Evidence that some of England's green and pleasant land will stay that way has been found in one of the longest running climate change experiments on the planet, writesRoger Highfield
