The American Society for Microbiology commends President Bush's proposal for a record $2.8 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in FY 2002.
A study published by nutrition researchers from the Georgetown Center for Food and Nutrition Policy shows that added sugars are relatively unimportant when it comes to overall diet quality. (Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2-01)
An object that fell to Earth more than 136 years ago has revealed new clues about the origin of meteorites in space and new information about how life may have started on early Earth.
1) Nano-Structured Diamond Coating Will Reduce Wear In Mechanical Devices, 2) El Nino Predicted With the Help Of A Wind Trigger, 3) Silence of the Clams: Upstream Dams Imperil Downstream Clams
The orangutan - the only great ape found in Asia - may vanish from the wild within a decade, unless illegal logging of its habitat and poaching can be greatly reduced, according to research funded by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). (Oryx, 2-01)
Researchers have developed an important tool for understanding how one key molecule regulates a wide range of physiological activity in mammals. Using the natural tendency of certain proteins to glow - their fluorescence - has revealed some surprising variations in how even cells of the same type behave.
An NSF-supported researcher has published new evidence that Meteorite ALH84001, one of the meteorites retrieved from Antarctica, may contain remnants of primitive life that existed on Mars billions of years ago. NSF is making available video of a U.S. Antarctic Program official explaining how meteorite searches are conducted.
Linux is poised to storm the once-closed world of embedded applications.
Hybrid electric vehicles are not yet worth the price.
Finding out what genes do is opening a huge new market for old-line companies.
The Amiga computer is reborn! The nearly-20-year-old computing platform is getting ready to appear in a new generation of cell phones, set-top boxes, home control systems, and PCs.
Yes, there really is a Moon hoax, but the prankster isn't NASA.
They say lightning never strikes twice. Well, how about asteroids?
A research team has found a gene in yeast that is essential for yeast cells to change their shape, a property necessary for them to become infectious. Yeast causes not only nuisance infections but death in 30 percent of vulnerable patients who suffer systemic infections. (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
A joint U.S and New Zealand team has completed an environmental survey of a former Antarctic research station at Cape Hallett and has recommended steps to safeguard penguin chicks at a nearby rookery from melt pools contaminated with oil from an unknown source.
The $500 hobby-shop helicopter whirling through a basement laboratory at Johns Hopkins is not there to amuse the undergraduates. The copter is a key teaching tool in a demanding electrical engineering course aimed at preparing students for high-tech jobs in the aviation and automotive industries.
Announcement that Dr. Fran Berman will succeed Dr. Sid Karin as director of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
The Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute has elected renowned researcher Robert Gracy, PhD, of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, to its board of directors.
Measuring temperatures inside holes in the ground is an accurate way of showing that Earth's Northern Hemisphere has warmed about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the Industrial Revolution began, University of Utah scientists found.
Researchers studying ways to capture radioactive chemicals swimming in a sea of hazardous waste have created a new class of molecular cages that, like lobster traps, let certain species in while keeping others out.
A magnetic field that accelerates pellets faster than anything except a nuclear explosion has been developed experimentally at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. (Impact Engineering)
Inside Rocky Mountain caves during the coldest part of winter, hibernating black bears are providing researchers with information that eventually could help lessen the debilitating effects of muscle atrophy or help astronauts to maintain their strength during long space flights. (Nature, 2-22-01)
With some help from the massive eruption of a Philippine volcano, scientists from North Carolina State University and the National Climate Center of China believe they have solved a climate change mystery. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2-15-01)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their efforts in the commercialization of important laboratory-developed technologies.
The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, a University of California-based center funded by the State of California, announces the approval of its first proposals for the study of cannabis as a treatment for specific medical conditions.
Edward H. Burtt, Professor of Zoology at Ohio Wesleyan University, is the Tracy Aviary Distinguished Lecture Series lecturer. He will talk about "Life Among Feathers: It's a Jungle Out There." He will speak on Thursday, March 1 at the Skaggs Biology Bldg. in Utah.
Earth's most severe mass extinction -- an event 250 million years ago that wiped out 90 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates -- was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid, according to new findings by a team led by a University of Washington scientist. (Science, 2-23-01)
NASA scientists are using an experimental radar to monitor a swarm of space dust surrounding our planet -- cosmic junk that can pose an electrical hazard to satellites.
Thousands of miles from the Pacific Northwest, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory work to preserve the salmon habitat and balance power generation needs.
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a technology that could make the coming transition from current analog television to high-definition television a whole lot easier.
A team of University of Illinois researchers has demonstrated a way to "purify" and restore maximally entangled states, the bizarre quantum mechanical connection that can exist between particles. (Nature, 2-22-01)
DNA's protein-building instructions may be able to combine in an unexpected way, increasing the number of possible proteins that can be generated from a given number of genes, according to a report in this week's Nature.
Fiery Venus is a wonderful planet to look at, but you wouldn't want to live there!
Scientists studying cellular division have longed for clues to how cancer cells are able to divide so rapidly. Now, studies by Ohio University biochemists are offering several new pieces needed to solve that mystery.
While most efforts to discover new anti-cancer drugs focus on chemical compounds found in terrestrial plants, a University of Rhode Island researcher has pioneered the search for potential anti-cancer agents in the oceans.
To help keep all motorists safe, developers of telematics products must be sure to include older subjects in safety and usability evaluations of the devices.
Roger Pielke Sr. questions regional and national climate assessments. Both predict dire hikes in temperature, based on predicted release of greenhouse gases, but neither includes the effect of changes of ground cover in making those estimates.
An author's style and personality and the presence he or she brings to a best-selling science book are generally the main factors in making it a best seller, says a Cornell University professor.
AIDS researchers collaborating in cyberspace leads to fresh insights and more efficient use of resources but presents some challenges as well.
Using spectral tools for infrared and submillimeter wave observations, astronomers are looking for the building blocks of life in parts of the universe where there may be oxygen and where it is wet. Cornell professor of astronomy will host a symposium on the topic at the AAAS meeting Feb. 19.
New evidence shows that babies learning to understand language rely more heavily than previously thought on patterns in the language they hear around them. This counters a recent research trend focusing on hard-wired instructions in the brain.
Study finds that market games on the web can forecast future events, ranging from Oscar winners to the discovery of sub-atomic particles. (Science, 2-9-01)
After being knocked over by wind or hail, many plants quickly grow upward again. Scientists have discovered that oats and maize use a chemical, also present in the human brain, to "perceive" almost instantly that something is amiss -- and to bend upright.
"My contention is that as the baby boomers get older and die off, we'll come to realize that the dominant national priority---and the dominant global priority---for the 21st century will be intellectual capital," says James J. Duderstadt, president emeritus and professor of science and engineering at the University of Michigan. "Ideas are the key to the new economy, and educated people produce the ideas."
Frankenfoods or miracle crops to help feed a hungry world? Your feelings about genetically modified foods depend, in good measure, on how their benefits and potential risks are explained to you, says Dr. Steven B. Katz of NC State University.
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are watching simple knots untie themselves in order to gain a better understanding of how granular materials flow and how filamentary objects like DNA molecules tangle. (American Physical Society's Physical Review Letters, 2-21-01)
An LSU researcher is one of five scientists who will present a symposium on the origins of plant life Feb. 16 from 2:30-5:30 p.m. PST at the conference for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The researchers will discuss their recently completed Deep Green project.
Galaxies and black holes are so intimately connected that it is almost impossible to find one without the other, according to a University of Michigan astronomer.
NASA scientists who monitor the Sun say that our star's awesome magnetic field is flipping -- a sure sign that solar maximum is here.
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