A Sampling of Clips for October 2^nd, 2008

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Who Will Win the Nobel Prize? Cast Your Vote
Scientific American, Oct. 1 -- With the Nobel Prize committee scheduled to announce this year's winners beginning Oct. 6, European Web sites are already taking bets, and a leading information-service provider is out today with its annual predictions. Thomson Reuters' chemistry field includes three men, among them Roger Tsien of UCSD, who created markers — visible tags — from fluorescent green jellyfish that allow scientists to peer inside cells. More

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Early Galaxy's Magnetism Surprises Scientists
MSNBC, Oct. 1 -- The first direct measurement of an early galaxy's magnetic field has surprised astronomers by revealing a field 10 to 15 times stronger than that of our own Milky Way galaxy.  "It's enormous," said Arthur Wolfe, of San Diego's Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences and a professor of physics at UCSD. "That was a big shock." More

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Tracking Laptop Thieves Safely
ABC News, Oct. 1 -- Tadayoshi Kohno and his colleagues at the University of Washington and UCSD, have developed Adeona, a free piece of software that records location information for a laptop in such a way that only a legitimate user should ever be able to gain access to it. More

No-Scar Surgery Through the Mouth or Vagina
U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 1 -- Surgeons at a handful of medical centers are now testing an approach, which involves snaking flexible instruments through the body's natural openings and making internal incisions—through the stomach wall, say—to get to and remove diseased organs. The UCSD Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Ore., are among the centers already doing NOTES surgery; more are expected to begin trials—and start recruiting patients—by next year. More

In VP Debate, Both Sides Have Something to Prove
USA Today, Oct. 2 -- It's rare that the undercard is as eagerly awaited as the title bout. But in this election, the vice presidential debate could be such a matchup. When Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden face off tonight at Washington University in St. Louis, the 90-minute debate will be the longest — or, perhaps, only — side-by-side look at the two that voters will get before the Nov. 4 election. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Sam Popkin) More

HIV Dates Back to Around 1900, Study Shows
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 2 -- A genetic analysis of a biopsy sample recently discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has led researchers to conclude that the virus that causes AIDS has existed in human populations for more than a century, according to a study released Wednesday. (Quotes Jim Moore, an anthropologist at UCSD) More

Artists Rise to the Occasion
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 2 -- There's a good reason Margaret Noble's students think she's pretty cool. By day, this Texas-born, San Diego-raised, UCSD philosophy grad teaches film and art at High Tech High School in Point Loma. By night, Noble – who also has a master's degree in Sound Art from the prestigious Chicago Art Institute – creates cutting-edge electronic music that she makes by combining new and found sounds with acoustic instruments and state-of-the-art digital equipment. More

Talking Science and the President
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 30 -- Science is often at the mercy of governmental policies that can advance or hinder research and drug development. In this presidential election year, the scientific community has renewed the debate over the relationship between government and science, and two University of California, San Diego events set for Wednesday will focus on the issue. More

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