Berkeley to Host Tribute to Missing Renowned Scientist Jim Gray
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Berkeley will host a tribute for Jim Gray, the renowned former Microsoft engineer who went missing at sea in January 2007.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The Coast Guard searched the waters off Northern California on Wednesday for an award-winning computer scientist missing since a weekend sailing trip to scatter his mother's ashes at sea.
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By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 18--As hundreds of scientists gathered in San Francisco last week to contemplate humanity's return to the moon, one of just 12 men to walk the surface there voiced an urgent plea:   Fix the darn gloves.
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InfoWorld - An Eclipse IDE plug-in that would provide search capabilities specifically for developers is being readied by a University of California, Berkeley computer science professor.
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The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.
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Astronomer Fred L. Whipple, 97, who died of an undisclosed ailment Aug. 30 at a hospital near Boston, was a leading sky watcher of the last century.
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William Siri, a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped lead the first American expedition to reach Mount Everest's summit, has died at age 85.
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No doubt many researchers have gotten gray hair trying to find ways to defeat cancer. Now a team of scientists says gray hair itself might yield clues to fighting that deadly disease.
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BOSTON -- Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston were looking for a better understanding of melanoma. What they have come up with so far is a new explanation of why hair goes gray.
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By Mary Anne Ostrom/  The search for Jim Gray, the missing Microsoft engineer, was extended to Mexico on Wednesday, said Mike Olson, an Oracle vice president and a spokesman for the private search effort. Olson said U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican officials have been notified.
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A Hampton University professor is shedding new light on night-shining clouds that might be affected by climate change. Jim Russell is the lead scientist for the NASA-funded AIM satellite, the first to study the wispy "noctilucent" clouds, which only appear above Earth's poles.
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By Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 5--HAMPTON -- NASA Langley and Hampton University scientists are marking the one-year anniversary of the flight of the CALIPSO satellite today.
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--The U.S. Coast Guard today reported a second possible sighting of Jim Gray's sailboat late Tuesday.
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Fred L. Whipple, a pioneer in astronomy who proposed the "dirty snowball" theory for the substance of comets, has died. He was 97.
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John Major, Richard Gere and Desert Orchid may beg to differ, but most people despair at the onset of grey hair. Whether it&#39;s taken as a sign of premature decrepitude, great wisdom, or extreme stress, scientists
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UC Davis/- The recent crash of NASA's Genesis space probe may have looked like bad news for scientists, but its cargo of particles captured from the sun should still yield useful information, according to Qing-Zhu Yin, a planetary scientist at UC Davis.     Yin, who is not directly affiliated with the Genesis mission, studies the composition of meteorites to learn about the formation of the solar system...
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Nearly 100 friends and family members of Christopher Reeve remembered the actor who became an activist for spinal cord injury research in a small gathering at his home this week.