Innovative Distraction Dodger game battles leading cause of vehicle crashes - MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/01/2012) —Being in a life-threatening vehicle crash due to distracted driving teaches a painful lesson, but makers of the new video game Distraction Dodger hope there is a much safer way to teach the same lesson.

Improving fire-fighting techniques in space and getting a better understanding of fuel combustion here on Earth are the focus of a series of experiments on the International Space Station, led by a professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

by Morgan Kelly - Contrary to the ideal of a completely engaged electorate, individuals who have the least interest in a specific outcome can actually be vital to achieving a democratic consensus.

It's something of an ecological murder mystery — countless numbers of bats are turning up dead near wind farms.

Wind energy consortium is one of only three in the nation - Media Note: A special media tour of the wind turbine is available upon request from 11 a.m. to noon Monday, Oct.

Oceans and clouds, even the atmosphere itself, are in constant motion and can undergo dramatic fluctuations, like hurricanes, that lead to severe consequences.

Who : Sen. Al Franken, Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman and University of Minnesota Professor Fotis Sotiropoulos - What : Tour of University of Minnesota wind energy research station and press availability - When : 11 am., Friday, Jan.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Eight University of Illinois faculty members have been elected fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Fouad Abd-El-Khalick , Rashid Bashir , Debasish Dutta , K. Jimmy Hsia , Keith W. Kelley , Wilfred van der Donk , M. Christina White and James Whitfield.

- A state ballot initiative that would privatize liquor sales leads by a significant margin in the new statewide Washington Poll, but an initiative on project-specific road tolls is too close to call.

› Browse version of image - __JPL_CAPTION_2 - › Browse version of image - __JPL_CAPTION_3 - › Browse version of image - - Seventy-five years ago this Halloween, at 9 a.m., a truck from the California Institute of Technology turned on to a road owned by the Pasadena Water Department and after heading down a small hill came to a stop.