Researchers at the University of Michigan and the Geological Survey of Norway say they have solved a longstanding and controversial puzzle over the position of Pangea, the ancient supercontinent that began breaking up some 200 million years ago to form today's continents. (American Geophysical Union meeting)
University of Arkansas School of Architecture researchers and students, in cooperation with NASA, have developed concepts for long-term habitation of Mars in response to the Mars Reference Mission, developed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Dietary diversity distinguished the diets of our earliest human ancestors, starting a trend that eventually led to the ability of human beings to colonize different types of terrain all over the world, according to two researchers.
Stem cells in the brain were able to repair damaged areas and restore function when stimulated by a growth-inducing protein, a study by researchers at UC IrvineÃs College of Medicine has found. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 12-19-00)
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A U-M geologist describes how the use of virtual reality in the geological sciences can foster collaboration, enhance education and advance research into such complex processes as mixing behavior in Earth's mantle.
New scientific evidence reveals that primitive life in the form of bacteria could have existed on Mars. Scientists supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have reported that nanometer-sized crystals in a Martian meteorite share several characteristics with those produced by aquatic bacteria on Earth.
Data from a 1996 Colorado field experiment is illuminating a new class of lightning flashes thousands of times faster than those previously observed. A report will be presented on December 16 at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco.
Joseph L. Reid, professor emeritus of physical oceanography in the Marine Life Research Group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, is being honored with the Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his outstanding scientific contributions to ocean sciences.
A solar eclipse is coming on Christmas Day, 2000.
Samples in 1999 from fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River's Hanford Reach show that four-fifths of the females spawning there apparently began life as males. (Environmental Health Perspectives)
The first complete genome sequence of a plant appears in the current issue of Nature
A recent discovery in Namibia of early human stone tools by a Grinnell College anthropology student has a leading anthropologist suggesting that scientists might have to reevaluate what they know about "the oldest periods in human evolution" in Africa.
A Center for Mind, Brain and Learning to conduct innovative research on early brain and behavioral development has been created at the University of Washington with a $35.5M pledge.
MSU scientists - working to understand structural biology, developing medical instruments and stopping food poisoning outbreaks - are among the first to receive funding under Michigan's Life Sciences Corridor. MSU received $40.4M in tobacco settlement money.
Associate professor of medicine in the UCSD School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, is one of nine researchers worldwide to receive one of the first-ever Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation grants for the development of tuberculosis vaccines.
A system at Purdue University could help create a worldwide "computational grid" in which individual users no longer have to purchase software but are able to run programs remotely over the Internet.
Using a simple process, North Carolina State University chemical engineers have discovered a way to make flexible coating materials more durable and water-resistant, without the use of environmentally harmful solvents. (Science, 12-15-00)
Removing the masking effects of volcanic eruptions and El Nino events from the global mean temperature record reveals a more gradual and yet stronger global warming trend over the last century, according to a new analysis by a climate expert at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Two immune proteins found in the brains of mice help the brain develop and may play key roles in triggering developmental disorders like dyslexia and neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's Disease, according to a Harvard Medical School study. (Science, 12-13-00)
Chemical engineers have found a way to group molecules so tightly that they form a slick surface useful for a multitude of medical, technical and industrial applications. The research, supported by NSF, is reported in the December 15 issue of Science.
Several key sessions involving NSF - supported research highlight the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco, December 15-19, 2000.
An engine burn at 3:15 p.m. (EST) put the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in orbit just 22 miles (35 kilometers) above Eros' center of mass in preparation for low altitude operations in January and February, just prior to the mission's end.
Halford House believes wastewater is too precious to dump down the drain. So House, a NC State University water quality specialist, has created North Carolina's first and only self-contained wastewater treatment system for an office building.
Hybrid seeds of greenhouse tomatoes are expensive to produce because bees ignore parent flowers that lack nectar and pollen. As a result, pollination becomes an expensive, labor-intensive human task.
Genetics reached a major milestone as an international research team announced it has completed the first plant genome sequence. The species Arabidopsis thaliana has emerged as the plant counterpart of the laboratory mouse, offering clues to how all sorts of living organisms behave genetically. (Nature, 12-14-00)
After reaching record-breaking proportions earlier this year the ozone hole over Antarctica has made a surprisingly hasty retreat.
The National Science Foundation will webcast a press conference hosted by the journal Nature at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on December 13. The event is to announce an important milestone in plant genetics research.
Food animal well-being has become a mainstream issue with consumers and businesses as well. Researchers at Purdue University also are asking questions about farm animal well-being and supplying some of the scientific support for sound livestock handling practices.
Safe sex for scarlet-bodied wasp moths means avoiding being eaten by predators while mating. So, the male moth, in order to protect his intended during courtship, covers her with a bridal veil of poison, according to a Wake Forest University researcher. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 12-12-00)
Carnegie Mellon University and NASA have formed a High Dependability Computing Consortium whose mission is to eliminate failures in computing systems critical to the welfare of society.
A list of 15 Purdue University experts who can discuss various aspects of animal and livestock well-being, ethics and animals, livestock management and the human-animal bond.
On Christmas Day, weather permitting, people across virtually all of North America will be able to watch the Moon partially cover the Sun. The editors of SKY & TELESCOPE magazine have created a complete guide for where/when to see this solar eclipse and how to view it safely.
Iowa State's December science tips include: 1- Separating microbes in the manner of molecules; 2- Learning the detail of materials; 3- "Fast-talking" computer clusters
Purdue doctoral student has led a team developing a new type of cement that cures in below-freezing temperatures, an innovation with implications for the construction industry, which spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to heat construction sites.
Vacuuming dry pine needles off the carpet is an inevitable part of having a live Christmas tree--or is it? Washington State University Plant Pathologist Gary Chastagner and geneticist Ulrik Nielsen have been working to develop better-quality Christmas trees that wonÃt dry up and shed their needles.
A new hydrothermal vent field, which scientists have dubbed "The Lost City," was discovered December 5th on an undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dr. Justin Congdon, a senior research ecologist with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, has been awarded the 2000 Longevity Prize by the Fondation IPSEN, a French organization that supports work in the field of longevity.
A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the entire continental U.S. on Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25. It is important, though, to observe it safely.
A University of Arkansas law professor and a graduate student in biochemistry call for regulation of the use of millions of tons of antibiotics in livestock, citing their contribution to the growing problem of antibiotic resistant infections that plague humans. (Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review)
Most meteor showers are caused by comets, but the Geminid meteor shower, which peaks next Wednesday morning, seems to come from a curious near-Earth asteroid.
Ten scientists and engineers from the United States and Austria will meet in Chicago on Jan. 4 for the first scientific gathering of its kind convened to discuss research on vibration signals used by animals.
Outer space will come to earth today with the formal opening of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Center for Space and Planetary Sciences on the University of Arkansas campus with facilities that will allow scientists to simulate conditions found on other planets and in space.
Engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore's Law, a general rule that is central to the evolution and success of the computer industry. Research findings to be presented in December show how the rule might be kept in force for another 25 years or longer.
National Science Foundation grantees will contribute a wide range of insights and research findings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).
A professor has written the first book about the organisms that make up the third category of life. Archaea, now a star of modern biology, weren't even discovered until the 1970s, and Bowdoin College's John Howland is hoping to make more people aware of this group of microorganisms with amazing abilities.
The California NanoSystems Institute - a wide-ranging research enterprise poised to make a major impact in areas ranging from information technology and household lighting to medical treatment - was named as one of the three research efforts statewide to receive $100M in state support to help propel the future of the state's economy.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine announced the formation of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. Uniting eight departments, several hundred scientists and initiating a $125 million funding campaign.
Governor Gray Davis announced that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, led by UC San Diego in partnership with UC Irvine, has been selected as one of three California Institutes for Science and Innovation.
Urban sprawl will consume by the year 2025 about 5.8 million acres of coastal land that today is either agricultural land or open space according to an Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant researcher at the University of Chicago's Great Cities Institute.
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