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<p>°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been awarded Ireland's top science award, the RDS Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence, for her pioneering work that has transformed the field of ultrafast laser and X-ray science.</p>

<p>A surprising new °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï study shows that huge amounts of fatty acids circulating in the bloodstreams of feeding pythons promote healthy heart growth, results that may have implications for treating human heart disease.</p>

<p>Aerospace engineering students at the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï will host the annual Students for the Exploration and Development of Space conference, SpaceVision 2011, in °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Oct. 27-30.</p>

<p>The °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï today announced that it has implemented several new programs over the past three years designed to make computer science more female-friendly, with the larger goal of increasing the number of women employed in technology roles nationwide.</p>

<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï faculty will join with University of Colorado Colorado Springs faculty to teach courses in the design and implementation of electric vehicle drivetrains to new and retraining engineers.</p>

<p>Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï (CU) have developed a low-power microchip that uses a combination of microfluidics and magnetic switches to trap and transport magnetic beads. The novel transport chip may have applications in biotechnology and medical diagnostics.</p>

<p>Cindy Regal, a °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï assistant professor of physics and associate fellow of JILA, has been awarded a prestigious David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.</p>

<p>ENew assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate, says a study by the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï and the University of Arkansas.</p>

<p>John McPhee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Encounters With the Archdruid" and "Coming Into the Country," will receive the Wallace Stegner Award from the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï's Center of the American West on Oct. 27.</p>

<p>A new study of sediments laid down shortly after an asteroid plowed into the Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago, an event that is linked to widespread global extinctions including the demise of big dinosaurs, suggests that lowly worms may have been the first fauna to show themselves following the global catastrophe.</p>