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It may be turning 18 this year, but organizers said Chefs’ Market will be a whole new event.

When the weekly downtown market opens this Thursday evening, attendees may be surprised to be greeted by security officers holding them to rules that will be more strictly enforced than in years past — including no dogs allowed — or to find vendors grouped for the first time by service type and offering, but organizers promise it’s all for the better.

Chefs’ Market organizer Julie Morales, of the Napa Downtown Association, said after a decade and a half, it was time to sit down with owners of the businesses along the market’s route and make sure the event...

Researchers at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) have demonstrated for the first time that gamma rays, a highly energetic form of light produced by radioactive decay of atomic nuclei and amongst other used to kill cancer cells can be bent. In a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, the team used a version of the common classroom experiment with glass prisms, similar to the one employed by Newton in 1665, to find bending or ‘refraction’ at the highest energies ever recorded.

Their discovery overturns decades of theoretical predictions and opens the door to a new field of science called nuclear photonics. By bending and focusing the rays into concentrated beams,...

In a stunning repudiation of the popular perception that he is merely a former Test cricketer turned utterly superficial and platitudinous commentator, Ravi Shastri has been nominated for this years Nobel Prize, for his yeoman service to science by profoundly influencing rarefied and esoteric disciplines such as linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer programming, philosophy, robotics (and many more that havent even been named yet), through his expositions on the gentlemans game in his capacity as a professional commentator.

We just had to give this dude a Nobel. I know, strictly speaking, hedoesntqualify for the Nobel Peace prize, but then what do you do if the guy is a polymath...

The USGCRP released its long overdue new strategic plan without fanfare on April 27.  Most notably, the new strategy aims to enhance the federal research program’s science-for-society component by informing decision-makers with good scientific communication.

You can read the National Global Change Research Plan 2012-2021 here.

The last fully-developed USGCRP Strategic Plan was released in July 2003.  CSW published multiple posts and public comments on a review draft of the new Strategic Plan, which can be seen here, here, and here.  This post, which summarizes the main elements of the plan, is the first of a new CSW series on the past, present, and future of the USGCRP.

First,...

Most science history buffs are familiar with William Herschel, the famed astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus in the 18th century. His son, John, is less well known, perhaps because his scientific interests ranged more broadly than his fathers. He loved the stars, its true, but he also found wonder much closer to home.

Evidence of that can be found in a January 12, 1833, letter printed in Philosophical Magazine, in which John Herschel describes going for an early morning walk several winters before and noticing a remarkable deposition of ice around the decaying stems of vegetables. A few days later, he found a similar strange ice formation, this one seeming to emanate in a kind...

Thai students to present five unique science projects at global event

Nine Thai students have been selected to represent their country at this years Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA from May 13-18.

The annual Intel ISEF provides an opportunity for over 1,500 students from around the globe to share ideas, showcase cutting-edge science projects, and compete for international recognition and over US$4 million in awards and scholarships.

The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is a great platform for Thai students to showcase their talents in innovation with their peers and compete with other students...

Find out how to predict the market with uncanny accuracy using Absolute Wealths Riding the Ripple Effect Special Report.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 05, 2012

Todays AbsoluteWealth.com article said that discovering how to predict the market would mean investments would always win. If people could see the effects taking place days, weeks, or even months ahead of time, they could catch on to the big moves before they happen. Its the ideal way of spotting trends and actions prior to their major jumps, allowing some serious profits to be made, said the article.

Investors are in luck, because Absolute Wealths subscription program, the Independent Wealth Alliance, has recently published...

Yellowstones East Entrance Opens Friday

The East Entrance to Yellowstone National Park opens to automobile travel for the season at 8:00 am on Friday, May 4.

With repairs completed on a section of road temporarily closed south of Canyon Junction, this allows all park visitors early spring access between the East Entrance, Fishing Bridge, and Canyon.

The road from the parks North and West Entrances to Madison, Canyon and Old Faithful opened as scheduled on April 20.

Roads from the Lake area and from Old Faithful south to West Thumb/Grant Village and the parks South Entrance are scheduled to open May 11.

The road from Gardiner, Montana, through the parks...

WASHINGTON — After the Secret Service scandal erupted nearly two weeks ago, the accusations of egregious behavior by the men entrusted with protecting President Obama seemed clear-cut. Members of Congress and tabloids depicted a dozen agency employees meeting prostitutes in their hotel rooms and drunken revels at brothels or strip clubs involving up to 20 women.

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The Nissan NV200 “Taxi for Tomorrow” is under attack again, according to the Transportation Nation, as John Liu, Comptroller for New York City, says the van violates the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Liu claims that because the fleet wont be 100-percent wheelchair accessible, he won’t approve the contract between the city and Nissan.

Kate O’Brien from the City Law Department says that nothing in the contract, including ADA compliance, is justification for not approving the contract, the report says. And Allan Fromberg from the Taxi and Limousine Commission says the city will create 2000 more wheelchair accessible medallion licenses and start using a new wheelchair...