Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla hope to reduce the occurrence of offshore oil leaks by analyzing current methods for detecting such leaks in the Gulf of Mexico.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered the genetic and molecular means by which roundworms, and probably insects, can develop resistance to the most widely used biologically produced insecticide-crystalline toxins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt.
A prototype, solar-powered robot, developed with support from NASA by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, has demonstrated a concept that could pave the way for future long-term robotic exploration of distant planets and moons.
Scientists may have discovered the largest flood channels in the solar system on Mars, currently a cold desert planet.
Cattle weaned early and put immediately on high-energy finishing diets produce more high-quality beef with less waste fat than traditionally later-weaned-and-finished cattle, according to a series of research projects at the University of Illinois.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a fundamentally new approach for tailoring the stability of colloidal suspensions.
Modern microchannel tube technology -- widely used in the automotive industry for heat exchangers -- offers an excellent opportunity to rethink the use of ammonia as a refrigerant, say scientists at the University of Illinois.
A non-invasive diagnostic tool that can study changes occurring at the surface of the brain because of brain activity has been developed by scientists at the University of Illinois.
As a leading professional society aimed at providing informantion and technical discourse on the emerging field of nanotechnology, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers has launched the ASME Nanotechnology Institute.
A celebration honoring the 125th anniversary of the Morrow Plots -- the nation's oldest continuously used agricultural research area -- will take place at mid-day on Aug. 23 during Agronomy Day.
A Mississippi State University archaeologist believes the ancient remains of a tiny, plodding creature may hold clues about the distant past and offer lessons for the future.
With only bones for clues, scientists continue to puzzle over many details of dinosaur appearances and physiology. Detective work by a paleontologist at Ohio University now indicates that the creatures' fleshy nasal passages were larger than had been thought, which could lead to more-realistic depictions and greater understanding of their respiratory functions.
As Congress ponders a $3B increase in funding for a national missile defense system, A University of Illinois professor is looking at the program's prospects for success from a mathematician's perspective.
The fossilized remains of a new, nearly complete longnecked sauropod dinosaur were recently unearthed on the island of Madagascar.
The 2001 Perseid meteor shower peaks on Sunday morning, August 12. Will it be an extraordinary sky show like last year -- or a moonlit disappointment?
A Colorado State University statistician's model for safe takes of the bowhead whale, hunted by native Alaskans for millenia, tied in an international conference this month and will undergo a year of rigorous testing.
In a key step toward improving the prediction of hurricanes, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research have reproduced in a computer model the fine-scale structure that drives the birth and strengthening of tropical cyclones.
Silicon carbide devices are the hottest news in semiconductor technology and may create useful advances in automobile, plane and utility power systems. University of Arkansas researchers are developing the computer models to make wide implementation possible.
Stunning close-up views of asteroid 433 Eros from the descending NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft get top billing in a new movie from NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission. The minute-long movie, available on the NEAR Web site at covers the final moments of NEAR's yearlong orbit at Eros.
Effective August 1, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology launches a new website to facilitate media access and highlight up-to-date news and information about cutting-edge research projects now underway at the institute and its affiliated partners.
More than 2.2 million wild orchids are being strip-mined each year from a unique region of Africa, fueled by a growing demand to use the plants as food, according to a report by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Six months after its creation, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology is on firm financial footing. Gov. Gray Davis signed into law the 2001/02 state budget including $25M in capital funds for Cal-(IT)2, the second of four annual installments.
A $1M grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation will help establish a laboratory for metabolomics research in Iowa State University's Plant Sciences Institute. The grant, along with $1.3M from the university, will enable ISU to set up and operate a world-class facility for development and use of new, high-throughput technologies to study metabolism in plants.
Preview the upcoming contests of RoboCup 2001, a five-year-old sporting and scientific event featuring more than 100 teams of autnomous soccer playing robots from 23 countries, making its US debut in Seattle Aug. 4-10.
A University of Tulsa chemistry professor is studying the potential of expired beer to improve the efficiency of man-made wetlands, which could help clean up hazardous wastes in Oklahoma's Tar Creek, one of the nation's most contaminated sites.
Russia's attempt to raise the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk is generating concern worldwide about radiation leaks and environmental contamination, but a University of Arkansas chemical hazards expert has found that the environmental disaster has already happened.
Six subsurface science projects, including a University of Idaho study of the possible fate of stored nuclear waste, have won Inland Northwest Research Alliance and U.S. Department of Energy Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory funding.
A fireball that dazzled Americans on July 23rd was a piece of a comet or an asteroid that exploded in the air like 3000 tons of TNT. Contrary to reports, however, it probably didn't scorch any cornfields.
Increased awareness and understanding of Lake Michigan issues leading to positive action is the goal of a Lake Michigan tour undertaken by Grand Valley State University's Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute.
Cell phones and e-mail may have become common forms of communication in the 21st century, but centuries of evolution have made face-to-face communication man's preferred method.
Temple University geology professor Dr. Gene Ulmer sits in his home and closely watches the continued eruptions of Sicily's Mt. Etna volcano on his television.
UIC researchers, working with yeast, have found that the presence of one prion protein can spark the formation of other unrelated prions. They also devised a screening test that can be used to pinpoint unidentified prions-- the first genetic assay for these mysterious biological agents.
RAMPART, software developed by Sandia National Laboratories that is the first risk-based approach to building management, may soon help the General Services Administration assess the risks of terrorism, natural disasters and crime to the nearly 8,000 federal buildings it manages nationwide.
A team of scientists at NC State has played a key role in the first analysis of the function of an organism's important proteins, the main building blocks of all living organisms.
One of the scientists leading the effort to understand exactly how infants go about learning language told a White House Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development that the fundamental steps in language acquisition later play a critical role in the ability to read.
When the new U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker HEALY departs Tromso, Norway, July 31 for a two-month cruise across the Arctic Ocean, scientists won't be studying the ice cap but the seafloor far below. Their focus will be the Gakkel Ridge, three miles beneath the ocean surface, the slowest spreading ridge on earth.
Zapping laser beams through the air speeds communications without the expense of burying optical fiber.
The queen of beasts takes a downright democratic approach to breeding. Female lions exhibit no trace of any hierarchy in which certain animals are more likely than others to produce cubs. Such egalitarian breeding sets female lions apart from other social carnivores.
Dinosaurs grew more rapidly than their living reptilian relatives asserts an FSU evolutionary biologist and paleontologist.
Seed pods from a commercial gardening experiment aboard the International Space Station are back on our planet.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $3M grant to a team of scientists at North Carolina State University to research the breeding and genetics of the loblolly pine, one of the Southeast's most economically important tree species.
First lab-raised sea urchins to be released on coral reef in Florida Keys; science team starts pioneering efforts to reverse decline in coral reefs.
Potentially damaging soybean aphids have been detected in several central and western counties of New York state, according to Cornell University entomologists. The insect has infested several other agricultural states since last summer, particularly Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have unveiled a wheeled police robot that makes many of the "how to" decisions on its own, freeing up its operator to make the more critical "what to do next" decisions during potentially dangerous bomb-disablement or other law enforcement missions.
The ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, co-developed and hosted a senior-level war game exercise called "Dark Winter" June 22 and 23, 2001. Dark Winter examined the national security, intergovernmental, and information challenges of a biological attack on the American Homeland.
The ANSER Institute for Homeland Security supports development and implementation of a national strategy for ensuring the security of our American homeland.
Inspired by science fiction classics, NASA scientists are building a talking, thinking and flying robot to help astronauts with their chores in space.
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a partnership between UC San Diego and UC Irvine, has signed up a new industrial partner: Enosys Markets, a San Diego-based software firm.
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