List of winners of top science and research medals

The winners of the 2008 National Medal of Science:

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Obama awards national science, technology medals

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted defibrillators, mapped the human genetic code and made global positioning systems possible.

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WASHINGTON - A new software will allow tiger researchers to promptly identify individual animals by creating a 3-D model using photos taken by remote cameras, and speed up conservation efforts.

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BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies Tuesday said it has instituted a Rs.5-million (Rs.50 lakh) award each for five top Indian scientists in recognition of their outstanding research contributions and achievements.

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Now this is something for religious bigots, who oppose embryonic stem cell research on ethical grounds (logically unsustainable but when have bigots listened to logic?), to chew upon. Latest research on cancer indicates that the dominant mechanism of cancer cells is to behave like early embryonic stem cells.

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One of the world's most powerful supercomputers has simulated a moment in the life of a real virus. The simulation is the first to capture a whole biological organism in such intricate molecular detail.

"Computational Biology has finally reached the level of sophistication and utility of the 1970’s video game Pong.

But it sounds like we should reach beyond Space Invaders and Pac Man levels in 5 years…. Maybe we’ll actually have the bioinfo equivalent of Excel by then."
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The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria received Ig Nobel prize this year "for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq."
The scams (also known as 419 scams) are notorious for asking people to reveal their private bank information to help fictitious characters transfer large sums of money.

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Researchers from University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch.

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Symptoms in mice that mimic Parkinson’s disease are reversed by treatment with amphetamines, including Ecstasy, according to a new study by Marc Caron of Duke University, US.

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