A Connecticut College botany professor and Garden Club of America medalist has started a new environmental movement to reverse the lawn-care mania in America. He advocates smaller lawns be replaced by ecologically-sound, naturalistic landscaping that will reduce maintenance and air, noise and water pollution.
A team of scientists will be mixing up a batch of "pathogen cocktails" in the laboratory, with the goal of countering disease-causing threats to drinking water. Civil engineer Greg Harrington is leading a two-year project to determine how well water-treatment technologies remove Cryptosporidium and other microorganisms before they reach the kitchen tap.
State-of-the-art sensing instruments on towers located at 24 sites in North America will measure the amount of carbon dioxide exchanged between local ecosystems and the atmosphere. The U.S. Department of Energy project will help scientists predict what's going to happen as people pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Sandia has requested permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, expected to produce sufficient heat, energy and power to implode fusion capsules of deuterium and tritum to achieve high-yield fusion.
A team of U.S. astronomers, led by Cornell University astrophysicist Martin Harwit, has discovered a massive concentration of water vapor within a cloud of insterstellar gas close to the Orion nebula. The amount of water measured is so high -- enough to fill the Earth's oceans 60 times a day -- that the researchers believe it provides an important clue to the origin of water in the solar system.
1) Ph.D. Jobless Rates in S&E Are Hard to Predict, Says Report, 2) Six States Account for Half the Nation's R&D, 3) New Book Examines Engineering and the National Science Foundation
A device expected to be less expensive and more effective than any on the market in helping cool silicon wafers during the chip manufacturing process has been patented in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.
A super-hard, protective diamond coating applied as thickly as desired-- something never before achieved -- and at room temperatures has been created by researchers at Sandia National Labs. The advance means improved protection and longer lifetimes for metal and plastic parts.
Cockroach racing will get a run for its money from the latest popular insect activity ã cricket spitting ã at Purdue University's annual Bug Bowl April 18-19.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 4-08-98
Happy to have water in her basement, a Northwestern University environmental engineer has constructed an artificial stream to study how toxic pollutants like PCBs enter the food web from riverbeds.
Early on the morning of April 16, 1998, dozens of snails and fish will go where only a few men and women have gone before: into outer space. The snails and fish will travel aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, as part of a research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the development of gravity sensors in space by animals in the early stages of life.
Science and engineering tips from Iowa State University include: 1.) Superpave could cut costs of repaving roads; 2.) Metal-metal composites readied for commerical use; and 3.) ABC replica will be displayed at Veishea spring celebration.
Sea Grant Story IDea Tip Sheet for April 8, 1998 1) Study Finds Humpback Whales at Risk in Hawaii 2) New Biodegradable Treatment May Reduce Great Lakes Exotic Specie Threat 3) Linking Town Halls To Technology - Project NEMO Educates Decision Makers
Cornell University researchers have merged the fields of nanofabrication and biology to produce a simple but effective means to detect harmful bacteria. The new biosensor on a silicon chip can detect minute quantities of bacteria, and could be incorporated into a simple handheld device that report results instantly
Without spinning parts, motor or control system, a two-legged robot toy, developed at Cornell University is stable in motion, but can't stand in any position, providing mechanical engineers with new insights into human walking. Made of Tinkertoy parts, the walker uses only gravity and intertia, says Michael J. Coleman and Andy Ruina, mechanical engineers.
Researchers today unveiled a new medical instrument that will help physicians assess patients with brain injuries and diseases and even help solve the mysteries of how the brain works. It is scheduled for clinical trials in the near future.
It isn't the typical Band-Aid approach to solving infrastructure problems, but new lightweight materials that can be wrapped like a bandage around deteriorating concrete beams and columns may become a cost-effective solution to ailing roads and bridges.
In a new book, an anthropologist has found that shamans on all five continents talk of a cosmic serpent, a very long single and double entity that is the key to life. Jeremy Narby speculates that "the global network of DNA-based life" is conscious and communicates with humans and that we perceive DNA signals in halluncinations and dreams. "...DNA in particular and nature in general are minded."
US and Russian scientists have teamed up to provide a needed radioisotope used in heart-imaging procedures.
Scientists from Southern Methodist University and the University of Colorado have found stone monuments in the Sahara Desert that may represent the earliest known efforts to mark astronomical events.
The Academy of Natural Sciences Hosts Paleontological Symposium--Paleontologists from around the world will assemble at the Philadelphia Civic Center from April 17 through April 19 to explore the world of the Mesozoic at the Dinofest Symposium, a component of Dinofest, "The World's Fair of Dinosaurs."
Farmers one day may be able to flip the molecular switch that makes plants tolerate freezing temperatures, thanks to new insight Michigan State University scientists have gained about plants' mechanisms to cope with cold. According to a report published in the April 3 edition of Science Magazine, molecular geneticist Michael Thomashow and his associates report that increasing a plant's expression of a specific regulatory gene helps throw the plant into cold-coping mode, beefing up its defenses against freezing.
1) NSF Aircraft Tests New Clear-Air Turbulence Sensor, 2) El Nino Rains Bring Bonanza of Spring Flowers, 3) Scientists Discover Massive Jet Streams Inside the Sun
Purdue University research is helping farmers choreograph a balancing act with phosphorus, giving plants and livestock just enough of the nutrient so they grow properly, but no more.
LSU researchers have found a way to make sugarcane waste into biodegradeable erosion control mats.
A $1.8 million federal research grant to develop sensors which can detect chemical and biological warfare agents in the environment has received final authorization at the University of Maine. The grant from the Office of Naval Research will support activities at UMaine and two private firms, Sensor Research and Development Corporation (SRD) in Orono and BIODE, Inc. in Hermon and Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Researchers will develop prototypes for portable sensors capable of detecting toxic agents and distinguishing these agents from other chemicals such as smoke and airplane fuel vapors.
Columbia, Mo. -- For the first time ever, American researchers, scientists and private companies will have a chance to look into the world of Russian research, which has been closed to the Western world until this year, through a University of Missouri-Columbia satellite series featuring 12 top Russian scientists.
The statistics are harrowing: 6,500 young adults between the ages of 16 and 20 die annually in the United States -- aproximately 18 per day -- as a result of motor vehicle accidents, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. A collaboration between the University of Massachusetts and the American Automobile Association is aimed at giving young drivers the experience needed to drive safely -- without actually putting them on the road.
A small, gentle shorebird, hunted nearly to extinction earlier this century as an adornment for women's hats, is perched on the brink again. A new study by University of Georgia wildlife researchers has found that nearly all of Georgia's surviving least tern pairs are nesting on some type of artificial site.
A year ago, the Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota was ravaged by one of the most destructive floods in United States history.
DALLAS --Like the flashing yellow sign on a road under construction, glowing molecular markers might help computer-chip makers avoid 'potholes' on super-flat blueprinting materials, a University of Delaware researcher reported today during the American Chemical Society meeting.
Say "glass" and most people think of window panes. But, under the right conditions, metal can also form glass, and it can have very useful properties for products from transformers to golf clubs. A Johns Hopkins engineer is working on new metallic glasses with superior strength, elasticity and magnetic properties.
DALLAS--The properties of materials synthesized by strongly bonding together segments of different "homopolymers"--long-chain plastics composed of a single repeating chemical unit--are significantly better than would be predicted, a University of Delaware researcher reported March 31 during the American Chemical Society meeting.
New images of the inner coma, or gassy head, of Comet Hyakutake are now available. The computer-generated color pictures were taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in April 1996, during observations made using Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, as part of a study of water photochemistry in comets.
Until laboratory tests identify sources of a bacterial disease killing songbirds in the East and Midwest, Cornell University scientists say people who feed birds should not blame themselves for the recent outbreak of salmonellosis in redpolls and other flocking species.
A Dartmouth physicist who has taken a molecular approach to the problem of icing has discovered that applying a small electric voltage across an ice-metal interface can break the bond between ice and metal surfaces.
UC Irvine researchers have found a way to introduce foreign genes into mosquito chromosomes, a technique with the potential to transform future generations of the insects so they can no longer carry deadly diseases such as malaria. The researchers report their work in the March 31 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- There are some good, good vibrations coming out of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the Vanderbilt Engineering School.
Researchers have embarked on fabricating multi-layer assemblies that they hope will capture the sun's energy for useful purposes much as the process of photosynthesis does in plants.
Media Advisory about Sea Grant-sponsored symposium on wetland and marsh ecology and restoration issues using the largest wetland restoration project in the U.S. as a backdrop and example.
University of Delaware geographer John R. Mather received the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Lifetime Career Honor at the group's 94th annual meeting in Boston on March 28.
A gene that has a large effect on the aggressive stinging behavior in Africanized honey bees ó the so-called "killer bees" ó has been identified by a group of scientists at three institutions. Greg Hunt, a bee specialist with Purdue University and principal investigator on the research project, says finding the mean gene in honey bees "may help us understand what makes Africanized bees so aggressive."
Researchers at Ohio State University are developing an early warning system for aircraft degradation -- paint that changes color when the metal beneath it begins to corrode.
The dilemma: how to allow fruit to ripen naturally on the tree or vine to get the maximum in phytonutrients while retarding the softening that occurs after the fruit is picked.
ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) was honored today by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) for promoting the participation of minorities in ASME and in mechanical engineering. Carolyn Meyers, ASME vice president of Minorities and Women, accepted the first-ever "Golden Torch Award" in the category of Association Diversity at NSBE's 24th Annual Convention in Anaheim, Calif.
El Nino may be responsible for severe weather conditions across North America, but an Ohio State University study has revealed that El NiÃ’o weather systems don't always spawn severe hurricanes in the North Pacific.
A mathematics researcher at Ohio State University and his colleagues have discovered two new patterns of electrochemical activity among brain cells.
NASA has opened the way for the signing of a $24.8 million contract between Cornell University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for building an infrared spectrograph that will be sent into orbit to detect and analyze some of the most distant objects in the universe. The contract announcement was made as NASA authorized the start of work on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), an observatory that will be launched into orbit around the sun in 2001.
Gas hydrates which have been found on all the world's oceans like a ring around a bathtub, are estimated to contain more gas than has ever been produced by man or identified in conventional reservoirs.
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