Two groups of Cornell University researchers have been awarded U.S. defense agency contracts to develop molecular switches and explore the spin properties of electrons, aiming at a new generation of miniaturized electronic devices.
In the past firefighters wished for rain or perhaps a cool breeze. Now there's a different kind of aid from the heavens -- rapid-response fire maps.
The Los Angeles-based W.M. Keck Foundation recently awarded Boston University's astronomy department a $500,000 grant to develop Mimir, a powerful, state-of-the-art, wide-field imaging spectrometer and polarimeter.
Fueled by a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working to develop a cheaper and more efficient fuel cell -- a technology that holds promise as a clean, alternative energy source.
Massive computing power and biology are coming together in a big way through a cooperative research and development agreement announced today by IBM and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Researchers have sequenced the genome of Agrobacterium and made it freely available on the Internet. Agrobacterium has the unique property of inserting small pieces of genetic material into a plant, animal or fungal cell, and is a basic tool for genetic engineering.
Iowa State University's Seed Science Center will administer a new system that should make it easier for American seed companies to export more than a billion dollars worth of products. The National Seed Health System will standardize seed health testing and field inspections nationwide and expand testing responsibilities to commercial labs.
A Penn State expert on probabilistic simulation thinks that the large number of shark attacks that recently took place in Florida might be explained through probability theory.
For years, farmers and agribusinesses have talked about being on the "pesticide treadmill": A few years after a pesticide is introduced, insects develop resistance to it. But Barry Pittendrigh, assistant professor of entomology at Purdue University, says it's possible to stop the treadmill, or at least slow it to a crawl.
Land-grant universities must join forces with the federal government and private industry to more actively battle eco-terrorism attacks against university researchers, according to Bob Hoover, president of the University of Idaho and a member of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Board of Directors.
Silicon microteeth that open and close like jaws have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The microjaws fit in a microchannel about one-third the width of a human hair (about 20 microns wide). When the jaws close, they trap a red blood cell -- one of many being pumped through the microchannel like tomatoes spilled from a basket.
After spending the past six years probing the physics of how a football travels during flight, a University at Buffalo researcher hopes this week to put into place the final piece of the puzzle for a never-before-quantified phenomenon in football: why a forward pass curves slightly to the left or right, based on the handedness of the passer.
Palomar Observatory receives high-speed network connectivity via HPWREN: near-earth asteroid and supernova researchers reap benefits.
University of Illinois at Chicago chemists use fluorous chemistry to modify Swern reaction for odorless conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones.
The Center for Wireless Communications at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded $1.5 million in matching funds from the State of California.
A textile scientist at North Carolina State University is developing a more efficient method of dyeing cotton that is not only less harmful to the environment, but also uses significantly smaller amounts of energy, water and salt in the dyeing process.
An amusing accident in the Mojave desert has inspired a new kind of Mars rover -- a two-story high beach ball that can descend to the Martian surface, land safely, and explore vast expanses of the Red Planet.
While most people are trying to avoid the perils of this year's hurricanes, scientists will soon be flying right into them.
The advanced space ships of tomorrow will be crafted from far-out materials with extraordinary resistance to the harsh environment of space. An experiment strapped to the outside of the ISS aims to put such materials through their paces.
Research conducted at NC State University has found that fire ant workers and queens have arrived at a kind of negotiated middle ground in a conflict over the proportion of new male and female ants raised in their colonies.
A new anthropological study finds that cannibalism was not always aggressive and barbaric, but, in at least one case, was done with the best of motives.
How hot was it? Throughout the Northeast last week, 38 new high temperature records were set and 15 old records were tied, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
A team of astronomers has found a Jupiter-size planet in a circular orbit around a faint nearby star, raising intriguing prospects of finding a solar system with characteristics similar to our own.
While the debate rages over the future of the nation's energy resources, including the potential increase in the number of coal-burning power plants, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have linked coal plant emissions to toxic levels of mercury.
University of Arkansas researchers Jack De Vore of vocational and Jim Snow don't worry about energy crises. They demonstrated that energy is neither scarce nor expensive by developing a solar kiln that dries wood faster than current methods and retains 100 percent of the wood product.
Halloween carving knives may be the least of threats to pumpkins this autumn, as a disease called bacterial wilt -- being spread by way of striped or spotted cucumber beetles -- has been found in the upper Midwest and the Northeast, says a Cornell University plant pathologist.
New research based upon NASA satellite data and a multi-national field experiment shows that black carbon aerosol pollution produced by humans can impact global climate as well as seasonal cycles of rainfall.
Genes thought to allow plants to accumulate large amounts of metal in their tissues have been identified and cloned by a Purdue University scientist. The finding is expected to lead to new crop plants that can clean up industrial contamination, new foods that fight disease and reduced work for some farmers.
Despite its tropical origin, the upper two-thirds of a typical hurricane is largely ice. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research are bringing unique cloud-profiling instruments into this mysterious realm in a NASA-sponsored project to help improve hurricane forecasting and modeling.
Although stem-cell research will proceed following President Bush's recent policy statement, a Swarthmore College developmental biology expert cautions that if the research is not publically funded, it will likely be driven by market considerations rather than ethical ones.
When it comes to bugs, most people swat them, a few collect them and a dedicated handful of Mississippi State University researchers grow them.
Following the devastation of one of the worst wildfire seasons in 2000, many are wondering what's in store for the western United States in 2001. This is a guide to wildfire topics and expert sources from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Like bugs streaking down the side window of a moving car, long and colorful Perseid Earthgrazers could put on a remarkable show before midnight on August 11th.
Cloning, stem cell research, genetic engineering -- all three have received extensive media coverage in recent weeks, especially following this week's National Academy of Sciences conference on human cloning.
Like a field of sunflowers nodding toward the sun, photoreceptors - the light-sensitive cells in the retina of the eye - can apparently swiftly reorient themselves towards the brightest points of light after cataract surgery.
Research engineers have shown that electricity costs for office buildings can be reduced by up to 40 percent by running air conditioning overnight.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $53M to four U.S. research institutions, NCSA, SDSC, Argonne, and Caltech, to build and deploy a distributed terascale facility.
The world's first multi-site supercomputing system -- Distributed Terascale Facility -- will be built and operated with $53M from the National Science Foundation.
Inbred plants have been shown to use nitrogen less efficiently. Thus, when the fragmentation of landscapes leads to plant inbreeding, it alters not only the genetic makeup of plant communities, but their interactions with their environment.
Reporters on deadline may obtain updated information and comment from the University of Wisconsin-Madison related to President Bush's expected stem cell decision Aug. 9.
Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation are sailing on the maiden scientific voyage of the U.S. Coast Guard's newest icebreaker to study one of the world's slowest growing oceanic ridges, with an eye to understanding how the Earth's crust forms.
Sequencing and mapping the human genome was the first essential step for scientists to study where genes for diseases like cancer are located. But in studies to identify the complex factors that make those genes active or inactive, molecular genetic researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered a new area outside the DNA itself that may show existence of another type of genetic code.
Genetic traits passed from crops to their weedy relatives can persist for at least six generations, and probably much longer, according to a new study conducted with radishes.
Wetlands lost to agricultural development can be reflooded with relative ease, but they won't regain their former flora and fauna without a huge effort.
Using a combination of field samples from the Norwegian Sea and a new method for analyzing sea life populations, researchers have shown that tiny marine crustaceans called copepods use cannibalism as a mechanism to limit their population.
A National Science Foundation-funded research team has discovered a previously unknown type of photosynthetic bacteria that fixes nitrogen.
Imagine waking up, startled by the bright flash of a cosmic ray inside your eyes. Groggy from sleep, you wonder ... which way is up?
This year is expected to bring another season of at - or above - average Atlantic hurricane activity, following the busiest six years on record. Here is a list of hurricane experts from the National Center from Atmospheric Research and elsewhere, hurricane-related Web sites, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what one Cornell University agricultural scientist calls a fundamental input-yield problem: It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol produces.
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