University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are a step closer to solving a climatological riddle of the early Stone Age when, in what is now North African desert, hippos and crocodiles abounded, Neolithic fishermen thrived on the shores of numerous shallow lakes, and grasslands stretched to the horizon.
Researchers at Cornell University will share in a $10 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Buffalo's National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER), to engineeri structures to better resist earthquakes.
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Electronic Packaging Program at Cornell University will support the design andconstruction of a PICT (precision interconnect cluster tool) capable of attaching integrated circuits with at least 10 times more connections than today's most powerful chips.
Highlights of New Scientist for Oct 16, 1997.
Madagascar's largest remaining rainforest contanining animals found nowhere else on earth will be preserved, thanks to an historic compromise that blends the two competing pressures faced by poor countries worldwide: conserving natural resources versus human development.
Scientists Solve Active Site of Structure of Enzyme that Produces Nitric Oxide; Discovery Suggests Possible New Ways to Design Novel Drugs for Several Human Diseases
Five thousand of the worldÃs premier pharmaceutical researchers are gathering in Boston, Nov. 2-6, to discuss the latest scientific research and medical advances of 1997. A small sampling of the breakthroughs, presented for the first time at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting, are listed below.
Five thousand researchers gathering in Boston, Massachusetts for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), Nov. 2-6, 1997 will present contributed papers responding to societies most chronic medical issues. From cancer to diabetes to asthma, the following top-lines the presented research. Complete abstracts are available by calling Lisa Mozloom or Nicolle Ugarriza at 305-672-4422.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1997--Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons scientists have discovered a molecule, called ERAB, that provides an important clue to how early neuron damage may occur in Alzheimer's disease. The findings, published in the Oct. 16, issue of Nature, may lead to a intracellular target for the eventual treatment of the disease.
From scalding hot places that rival Dante's Inferno to frigid locations colder than the dark side of the moon, scientists taking part in a $6 million National Science Foundation (NSF) research initiative are searching for life forms on Earth that may provide insight about possible life on other planets. The first NSF awards in this initiative -- which is titled Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn) -- involve more than 20 research projects and some 40 scientists who will look at life in Earth's most extreme habitats.
Atmospheric scientists participating in a workshop funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will debate the effects of so-called "space weather" on earth's navigation and communication signals -- two of the major systems affected by an upcoming "solar max." The workshop will take place in Bethesda, Maryland, at COMSAT Corporation, from October 22-24, 1997.
It looks like El NiÃ’o, it feels like El NiÃ’o, and if you are watching fish stocks or reservoir levels you would say it is El NiÃ’o. But it isn't. Researchers at the University of Washington are describing a decades-long climate shift, called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, that seems to explain many of the changing environmental patterns seen across North America since the late 1970s, from disappearing salmon along the West Coast to wetter than average winters in the South.
1) In several science and engineering (S&E) fields, recent Ph.D. recipients have faced unemployment rates unusually high among these highly skilled groups, according to a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Issue Brief. 2) A team of scientists funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun to deploy instruments in a five-year study of a massive plume of muddy water, some 12 miles wide and 200 miles long. 3) "Here lies the true horror of the Himalayas," wrote John Keay in The Gilgit Game. Keay was referring to Nanga Parbat, Urdu for Naked Mountain, a 26,000-foot-high peak on the northernmost edge of the western Himalayas.
A potentially fatal bacterial disease that damages the liver and kidneys of dogs, humans and other animals -- leptospirosis -- is appearing in new forms in the United States. Citing an alarming increase in leptospirosis cases, bacteriologists in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's Diagnostic Laboratory are urging dog owners to watch for symptoms of the disease until improved vaccines are available.
If workers aren't prepared for the workplace responses to climate change, there's stormy economic weather ahead, a report from the Cornell University Work and Environment Initiative predicts.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Should you move to Cambridge and earn an MBA from Harvard? Or will a master's in business administration from State U. serve you just as well? What about Grandma's china? Do you pay to store it for the next two years or sell it at a yard sale? And what about the kids, your spouse, your aging parents? For women considering graduate school, these questions -- and many more -- can weigh heavily on their decisions, according to the author of "A Woman's Guide to Surviving Graduate School," published by Sage Press and now available at Borders bookstores.
The world can now hear history in the making during one of the most important events of the cold war -- the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis -- on the World Wide Web.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and The Lucent Technologies Foundation have awarded 18 grants to researchers across the nation to advance the emerging field of industrial ecology and to encourage businesses to integrate pollution prevention practices into their day-to-day operations.
Press release of issue dated October 11 for New Scientist, the international science and technology weekly news magazine.
A remarkable quartet of trained marine mammals is helping scientists at UC Santa Cruz push the frontiers of animal psychobiology by demonstrating, in unprecedented detail, how they see, hear, and think about the world around them.
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists led the development of two scientific sensors that will provide key measurements of the space environment around Saturn when the Cassini spacecraft reaches the ringed planet in 2004.
Tyrannosaurus rex may have had a sedentary cousin that might better have been called Ty-sit-osaurus. That's the finding of Purdue University researcher Richard Hengst, who studies the anatomy of dinosaurs to determine the efficiency of their breathing systems.
Researchers at Yale University have succeeded for the first time in measuring an electric current flowing through a single organic molecule sandwiched between metal electrodes. The feat could pave the way for a radically new generation of transistors so small that a beaker full would contain more transistors than exist in the world today.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named three centers to conduct and coordinate earthquake engineering research for the nation. They will be located at the Universities of Illinois and California and the State University of New York in Buffalo.
University of Washington researchers will play a leading role in a $20 million effort to identify and mitigate potential earthquake hazards in urban areas along the Pacific coast. The UW joins eight California universities in the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center announced today by the National Science Foundation.
Yale Science News Tips: 1. Discovery Could Restore Full Usefulness of Front-line Antibiotics, 2. Sonar Robot that Mimics Bats and Dolphins Rivals Camera Vision, 3. One-Meter Telescope High in the Andes Gets New Lease on Life, 4. Peabody Museum Brings Science to Life in New Haven Public Schools, 5. U.S.-Japan Study Advocates Global Environmental Trade Group, 6. Six Yale Professional Schools Join in Center for AIDS Research, 7. Yale Predicts How High-speed Network Will Boost Science Research
A robot inspired by the ability of bats and dolphins to use echoes for locating prey is causing robotics experts to reevaluate the relative merits of sound waves versus camera vision for exploring new environments. The sonar device, which was designed and created by Yale University electrical engineering professor Roman Kuc, is so sensitive that it can tell whether a tossed coin has come up heads or tails.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have incorporated virtual reality technology into a manufacturing design tool that allows the user to visualize and plan a factory while it is still in the design phase. The tool, a computer simulation, is proving its usefulness at Searle, a pharmaceutical company based in Skokie, Ill.
To help parents make sensible and trustworthy choices in the potentially overwhelming world of child care options, Cornell University Professor Moncrieff Cochran and wife, Eva Cochran have co-authored a new handbook that gives parents the tools to collect and assess information on child care.
The University of New Hampshire will host a satellite downlink telecast of the White House Conference on Climate Change: The Challenge of Global Warming.
Scientists from UC Santa Cruz have tracked, for the first time, a juvenile bald eagle's remarkable first migration northward from its nest in search of salmon. A lightweight satellite tag has tracked the eagle on its rapid flight nearly 1,000 miles north into British Columbia.
He's a smooth operator, the type of guy who knows his way around. He's cool -- a little cocky even -- but kind and quick with his praise. Some new Hollywood hero? No, he's Cosmo the Internet Adviser, the wormlike, wise-cracking animated star of a new interactive software program being developed at North Carolina State University to teach teens and preteens about the inner workings of the Internet.
The Supreme Court will soon be in session, and thanks to another new Internet project by a Northwestern University political scientist, you can take a tour of the Court without ever leaving home.
A news photo published around the world shows a Muslim man being shot down on the street of a small village in the former Yugoslavia. He's trying to escape from a group of detainees. He and other Muslims were killed and buried in mass graves throughout the countryside.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a series of 28 new grants worth over $22.5 million for research in Learning and Intelligent Systems (LIS) -- a broad range of studies that could lead to rapid and radical advances in how humans learn and create.
College graduates with a gift for numbers and a degree in mathematics are finding employment in some very high-profile fields, according to a Purdue University adviser who works with junior and senior math students at Purdue University.
New research by scientists, including one at the University of Georgia, shows that self-sufficiency in foraging among capuchins arrives long after they have sufficient manual skills to achieve it.
A new study by a psychologist at the University of Georgia shows that banks may be losing the elderly as ATM customers and that education and machine redesign could be the best hope from bringing them back.
When female wasps return to the colony after foraging, some females initiate aggressive encounters with males and stuff them head first into empty nest cells. Cornell University researchers who observed the behavior call it "male-stuffing," and believe it contributes to the colony's fitness by making more food available to larvae.
How leaves turn from green into colorful, autumnal splendor is known, but scientists have plenty of room to discuss how weather contributes to the leaves' autumnal vibrancy, says Peter J. Davies, Cornell University plant physiologist.
Press release of issue dated October 2 for New Scientist, the international science and technology weekly newss magazine.
Good posture is important to somebody besides mothers - namely auto makers. Engineers at Michigan State University are working to give them the tools to make sitting up straight in the car easy.The solution to car seat slouch lies in the mannequins used to represent people in the seats automakers design. MSU engineers are working to design mannequins that sit like real people.
Boston University joins research partners across the nation in an alliance to build the infrastructure that will link many of the world's most advanced computers into a network that will allow researchers to solve complex problems in fields such as cosmology, molecular biology, nanomaterials and environmental hydrology. In anticipation of this effort Boston University has added 128 processors to its Silicon Graphics (SGI) Origin2000TM system, giving it a total of 192 processors, and making it one of the most powerful systems available on any US university campus.
Nine months ago, New York City and the upstate New York towns in the New York City watershed formally settled their differences over environmental restrictions in the watershed region, but close to a third of the upstate residents don't know about the agreement, according to Cornell University rural sociologists.
Rensselaer researcher Michael Savic has developed an electronic device that acts as an early warning system for leaks and explosions in pipelines and storage tanks. Savic's patented system extends his earlier work to detect problems in underground pipelines.
Technology developed in Minnesota will radically change water quality testing and monitoring across the world. RUSS, a Remote Underwater Sampling Station, can remotely gather, measure, analyze, chart, store and report water quality data. RUSS does the work of several scientists within a matter of minutes and has the capability to operate continuously from a remote location.
A new book from Cornell University Press, "Rethinking Home Economics," reviews the history and evolution of the home economics professions.
A very thin coating developed at Sandia National Laboratories improves sensor sensitivity 500 times in detecting the lethal gas Sarin,improves more usual environmental monitoring, helps separate molecules in oil refining and drug manufacturing -- and barely increases the size of the sensor.
A Purdue University animal scientist has figured out why livestock have trouble gaining weight on a diet of tannin-rich sorghum. His work eventually may help livestock, and people, get more nutrition out of lower-cost, tannin-rich grains.
Neurosurgical specialists, reporting at the 47th annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) next week, will describe how the Digital Holographyô System from VoxelÆ (NASDAQ:VOXL) is helping them plan and perform complex neurosurgical procedures.
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