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Bye-Bye, American Pi The Gift Of Life Wanted: Ideas For Advanced Technology Integrity In Research New On The Job Who Says Science Can't Be Fun? It was supposed to be a joke, but some scientists aren't laughing. On July 1, the New York Times published a letter from UC-Berkeley mathematics professor Paul Chernoff that called for his colleagues to ask the government for big bucks to keep the U.S. No. 1 in determining "the entire decimal expansion of pi." The letter was meant to spoof the current t

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LifeCell Corp. of The Woodlands, Texas, has received $529,000 from the Defense Department to continue its development of a method to preserve and store human blood at room temperature for extended periods. The U.S. Navy, which made the award, hopes to use the technology in situations in which storing blood is a problem, such as ships at sea, as well as to avoid periodic blood shortages. The project is funded by Phase II of the department's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, a government-wide effort to nurture small companies with innovative ideas. LifeCell was founded in 1986 as a privately held spinoff from the University of Texas Health Science Center.

The Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program has invited U.S. private industry to submit proposals for individual or cooperative research projects. The $10 million program represents the administration's commitment to what President Bush likes to call "pre-competitive, generic technology" that permits ...

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