The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine is home to a new federally funded center that will study the effects of exposure to toxicants in fish being eaten in large quantities by Laotian and Hmong refugees in Green Bay and Appleton, Wis.
Concerns over energy shortages and global warming have raised new interest in nuclear power and new concerns as well--among them nuclear terrorism, the safety of relicensed reactors, and different reactor designs that could be more efficient.
Purdue University announced that Lilly Endowment has awarded the university a grant of almost $26M for its new Discovery Park, a complex for advanced interdisciplinary research and education.
Climate change, not early humans, is the likely culprit which caused the extinction of a large array of North America mammals including mammoths, mastadons, saber-toothed cats and giant sloths, says a University of Washington archaeologist.
Researchers in San Diego and the United Kingdom have identified a protein segment and the mechanism that underlies excess fibrous tissue growth leading to conditions such as liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. In addition, they've developed a mutated version of the protein that blocks this excess scar tissue in mice.
Geneticists at Dartmouth Medical School have discovered a new family of unusually small genes that act in the finely tuned yet remarkably versatile orchestration of development and behavior, adding still another dimension to the diversity and complexity of the cell.
Arguments that the link between productivity and species diversity in ecosystems could be an experimental artifact were dealt a blow when data analysis failed to support the "sampling effect" conjecture.
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft reached Mars last night and was captured into orbit after a successful main engine burn.
There are plenty of black holes that gobble energy. Now astronomers have spotted one in a distant galaxy that's giving some of its energy back.
Autumn leaves that light up hillsides in bold strokes of gold and other colors also appear to play a role in regional air quality and climate. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research are measuring chemicals emitted as leaves change color and fall to the ground at a research site in northern Michigan.
A group of researchers have demonstrated an ultrafast switch for X-rays. The switch will enable the researchers to follow the movement of constituent atoms, and actually obtain information about the dynamics of molecular motion.
Since the tragic events of Sept. 11, the ability of U.S. buildings to withstand terrorist attacks has come under question. While it is unclear what steps will be taken, University of Missouri-Columbia researchers are working to make all buildings safer from explosions.
Late Tuesday night the Mars Odyssey spacecraft went into orbit around Mars. The small robotic spacecraft will be the key communications link for the Mars Exploration Rover mission in 2003. Cornell University's professor of astronomy has a leading role in both NASA's Odyssey and the Rover missions.
A lush, tasty squash with cream-color skin and forest-green stripes, named Cornell's Bush Delicata, has been named a 2002 All-America Selection, a seed-industry award. It is the first Cornell-developed variety to win the prestigious award in 39 years.
Just as a movie theater's "coming attractions" helps viewers chose movies they may want to see, preview images "computer-generated " of possible micromachines help designers choose the device they want fully fabricated, in new fields where designs fight for dominance.
A University of Arizona Earth scientist is using radiocarbon levels in corals to devrive long records of El Nino variability in the equatorial Pacific. He also suggests these results are useful for tracking variations in carbon dioxide emissions from the equatorial Pacific, an important region for controlling releases of this potent greenhouse gas.
Cornell University has received support from Microsoft Corp. to develop and test new technology that could help protect computers from viruses and other malicious code downloaded from the Internet.
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have produced evidence that bacteria living inside a small marine animal may be the source of a new drug compound being developed to fight cancer.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and collaborators at Harvard Medical School have found the receptor that anthrax toxin binds to in order to enter cells.
For the first time ever, astrophysicists have found evidence of energy escaping from a spinning supermassive black hole.
The world's most powerful computer system for open research-- The Terascale, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)--is up, running, and capable of performing six trillion calculations per second.
The crucial job of ensuring that just one copy of a genome gets made during cell division turns out to be shared by two independent "controllers," researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine report.
Most people have pesticides, paints and cleaning products in their home, but few know how to handle those products safely.
Oct. 20, dive into the frigid, ice-filled waters of Antarctica and join the latest adventure on the UAB interactive research Web site.
As experts work to develop better detection technology for anthrax and other bioterrorist threats, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are developing a process that can destroy chemical or biological toxins quickly, completely and safely.
Cellulose in a new group of organisms may be a promising new resource for the industrial production of the substance and could eventually eliminate the need to harvest trees for wood or pulp, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin say.
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey probe is poised to enter orbit around the Red Planet.
A shock-absorption system modeled in a paper authored by theoretical physicists at the University at Buffalo demonstrates that it may one day be possible to protect bridges, ships, skyscrapers, highway structures and even automobile bumpers from extremely powerful impacts.
At its annual world congress on diseases of the chest, CHEST 2001, November 4-8 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the American College of Chest Physicians will address pressing health issues surrounding recent terrorist attacks.
The National Science Foundation has announced a grant of $1.56M to Cornell University's Digital Library Research Group to develop the core infrastructure for the National Science Digital Library, which will make high-quality science source materials available to students from kindergarten through college.
The National Science Foundation and the European Commission signed an Implementing Arrangement for Cooperative Activities in the areas of climate research, marine science and technology, seismic risk and hazards reduction, Arctic research and environmental biology.
It won't happen overnight, but eventually, the floor of the Atlantic Ocean will plunge beneath the North American continent, forming a deep trench about 2,000 miles long and possibly generating volcanoes. It will be triggered by water seeping into offshore rock.
In what may prove to be a major step forward in developing molecular electronics, a team of researchers have found a method to "solder" individual molecules on a molecular "circuit board," creating molecular "wires" with through-bond electrical contacts. The method produces reproducible measurements of the molecules' conductivity that agree with quantum predictions.
The annual Orionid meteor shower peaks this weekend on October 21st. Sky watchers will see as many as 20 fast shooting stars each hour -- each one a tiny piece of Halley's Comet.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Superconductivity program has been selected to partner on three new superconductivity proposals that are being negotiated by U.S. industry.
An international team of scientists reported that a rock core drilled from the seafloor off the coast of Antarctica is the first to show cyclic climate changes in polar regions that are linked to cores taken from the ocean bottom in both temperate and tropical zones.
Growing fat cells and nerve cells in the same dish has produced what is believed to be the first demonstration of two-way communication between the cell types, say Johns Hopkins scientists.
For a geomorphologist, past environmental conditions compared with modern pollution levels, tombstones serve better than test tubes or high tech instruments.
The last time NASA's durable Galileo spacecraft visited Jupiter's moon Io, it sailed through a cloud of sulfurous snow erupting from a previously-unknown volcano.
New research presents evidence that waves in the North Pacific Ocean--particularly in southern California--have increased substantially in size and intensity over the past half century as a result of stronger wind and storm activity.
A genetic analysis of a protein believed to affect the formation of blood vessels has proved that Thrombospondin-1 does indeed regulate a tumor's ability to form the independent blood supply that cancers need to grow and thrive, UCLA researchers report.
Some Earth-orbiting satellites will be able to keep in touch longer with controllers on the planet's surface thanks to computer programs that mimic Darwin's evolutionary model of survival-of-the-fittest.
A North Carolina State University graduate student has discovered that a dinosaur egg unearthed more than 30 years ago in Alabama contains well-preserved and incredibly detailed remains of a nearly hatched dinosaur embryo.
An international team of astronomers has discovered eight new extrasolar planets, bringing to nearly 80 the number of planets found orbiting nearby stars. The latest discoveries, supported by the National Science Foundation and NASA, uncovered more evidence of what the astronomers are calling a new class of planets.
A new study identifies an important link between the two main inherited forms of Parkinson's disease, and might also connect them to non-inherited versions, Hopkins scientists report.
Two NASA spacecraft are giving scientists a ringside seat for the biggest global dust storm seen on Mars in several decades.
Most of the world's ozone-destroying pollutants have come from the northern half of our planet.
A radioactive isotope deposited on the moon by the solar winds is teaching scientists more about the sun's dynamic workings.
Bioengineers at Cornell University have demonstrated a system for transplanting clusters of brain cells, together with controlled-release microcapsules of protein, to enable cell differentiation and growth.
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