The National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency will host a workshop on June 4 in Washington, DC highlighting research that examines economic and other motivations for companies to go beyond environmental compliance requirements.
Established programs in lightweight materials, intelligent vehicle systems, and advanced diesels place the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory firmly in the cab when it comes to the 21st Century Truck Partnership.
A spacecraft that will explore one of the last frontiers in Earth's atmosphere is nearing launch. NASA's TIMED spacecraft was shipped from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where it was designed and built, to Vandenberg Air Force Base. The spacecraft is currently scheduled to launch from Vandenberg's Western Range on Aug. 10, 2001.
Biologists have discovered a "channel" that allows key elements such as calcium and magnesium to enter living cells. The research provides new insight into the link between metabolic activity and a cell's ability to regulate its levels of key elements.
Estimates of deforestation that are significantly better than those currently used by the United Nations can be developed using data from NASA's new Terra satellite and a University of Maryland-developed method for mapping tree cover, say researchers in the Department of Geography and the Global Land Cover Facility at the university.
The world sounds very different to infants than it does to adults, sometimes being filled with a cacophony of sounds that makes it diffcult for babies to distinguish a single sound. That's because babies are generalists and hear all frequencies simultaneously, says a University of Washington researcher.
NASA's own 'Bionic Woman' is applying artificial intelligence to teach robots how to behave a little more like human explorers.
One of the world's largest and most malodorous flowers is about to bloom at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A team of University of Arkansas physicists has won a National Science Foundation grant to study spintronics, a revolutionary method of making devices that use an electron's spin, or magnetic properties, to produce high-speed information transfer using less power.
In a preliminary analysis of 12 cities using data from NASA's ASTER satellite, researchers have found three significant configurations of urban development that they believe can be used to classify cities by their growth and density patterns. The models give urban ecologists the first data-based patterns of city formation.
A Johns Hopkins undergraduate has developed a two-dimensional computer model that simulates the inner workings of a tiny amoeba that behaves like a human white blood cell. Her electronic model is aiding biologists who believe these microscopic animals hold the key to creating new treatments for diseases ranging from asthma and psoriasis to cancer.
NASA's first flight director doesn't mince words.
The cable modem traffic jam is all too real, but don't lean on the horn yet; fixes are near at hand.
Herwig Kogelnik, laser and optoelectronics pioneer, wins the IEEE Medal of Honor.
Why must fuel spills, chemical leaks and other hazardous accidents tie up traffic so long? To keep a bad situation from getting worse, says an instructor at the UAB Center for Labor Education and Research.
Mississippi State University leads a national team of academic institutions and industry partners that will support the four Department of Defense high-performance computing research centers.
Learn about astronomy developments supported by the National Science Foundation at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, Calif., June 3-7, 2001.
With Memorial Day Weekend signaling the traditional start of the summer beach season, NOAA's National Weather Service and National Sea Grant College Program are teaming up to help educate the public about the dangers of rip currents which account for 80 percent of beach rescues annually - 36,000 rescues in 1997.
Experts from Iowa State University who can speak about the issues surrounding U.S. energy production, consumption and policies.
1) Monitoring spacecraft water quality, 2) Disciplined light from disordered systems, 3) Cyber-security scholarships
New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the 'Face on Mars' for what it really is.
Born out of the need to adapt software developed for traditional computing applications into the underwater environment, the "marine mouse" allows a diver to point and click on objects that are displayed on an underwater computer screen.
Researchers have discovered that they can obtain more precise data about the atomic structure of high-tech materials, and do it faster than ever before possible, if they spin the material at just the right speed inside a nuclear magnetic resonance instrument.
By analyzing the earstones of red drum, Texas A&M University at Galveston marine biologist and Sea Grant researcher hopes to identify red drum nursery grounds and determine the contribution of each area to the adult red drum population.
Three research teams recently published groundbreaking articles in a leading international journal demonstrating the power of ion trap mass spectrometry in proteomics studies. All three teams used Thermo Finnigan LCQ(tm) DECA ion trap mass spectrometers in completing their research.
Erosion claims as much as 10 feet of Galveston Island shoreline a year. In a Sea Grant project Texas A&M University at Galveston's Thomas Ravens is studying the effectiveness of erosion-control methods as well as how much sand is being lost, how much is being gained, and how it's being carried around in offshore water currents.
A Texas Sea Grant-funded study examined the role physical factors, such as winds, tides and currents, play in moving red drum larvae from the Gulf of Mexico into the nursery grounds of Aransas and Corpus Christi bays and found physical factors play a key role in explaining why red drum larvae only settle in certain parts of the bays.
Nothing can prevent a tropical storm from pounding coastal communities, but a team of NC State University researchers is testing new designs for "breakaway walls" that could reduce damage to homes and buildings should a hurricane make landfall.
Researchers have found that endangered sperm whales frequent the deeper waters off the Mississippi Delta. Scientists estimate that at least 530 sperm whales can be found in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
University of Arkansas physicists have achieved the highest efficiency ever in transferring polarized electrons into a semiconductor surface, which could lead to the creation of small but powerful computational devices that may revolutionize the electronics industry.
Farmers will soon have a new tool for getting the most out of their fields. NASA's Aqua satellite will provide crucial information about the water in the ground and the weather on the horizon.
The University of Tulsa is among six schools awarded $8.6M by the National Science Foundation to train elite squadrons of computer security experts -- America's "Cyber Corps" -- to form the country's first line of defense against Internet hackers and terrorists.
University of Arkansas researchers have moved one step closer to growing microorganisms under Mars-like conditions by suspending them in water containing dissolved matter from Mars soil simulant.
A field study on the effects of elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) on forest ecosystems raises doubts about the ability of trees to absorb excess CO2 accumulating in the earth's atmosphere.
Neurons in the human visual cortex can respond to patterns too fine for subjects to resolve. The work shows that some visual information, while not consciously perceived, is still conveyed closer to the brain's center(s) of consciousness than was previously thought.
Everyone knows that dry weather leads to dusty soils, but new research suggests that dust might in turn lead to dry weather.
Discovery of Prehistoric Domesticated Sunflower Seeds Challenges Widely Accepted Theory of Plant Domestication in North America.
New "green maps" track environmental landmarks with easy-to-read icons and show faith in the power of mapping to show what's right and what's wrong with the world.
Most people don't consider a parking lot a thing of beauty, but the honeycomb design of some new parking lots in eastern North Carolina is easier on the environment than standard asphalt and could be considered an attractive alternative to traditional designs.
The National Science Board, the 24-member policy body of the National Science Foundation and advisor to the President on national science policy is honoring the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo, Education Division with the 2001 NSB Public Service Award for organizations.
NSF Director Rita Colwell will deliver the keynote address at the fifth annual National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education at George Mason University's Fairfax, Va. campus on May 22 at 8:30 a.m.
When Comet LINEAR broke apart last year it revealed what many scientists thought all along: Water in Earth's oceans could have come from outer space.
Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute will host experts in computerized speech recognition, speech translation, machine translation, datamining and more at a meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2-7
North America has been sprinkled with a dash of Asia! A dust cloud from China crossed the Pacific Ocean recently and rained Asian dust from Alaska to Florida.
Astronomers seeking to chart the solar system's evolution reaped a windfall of information when a comet disintegrated just as it made its closest approach to the sun and they were able to observe the comet's contents and, possibly, its origin.
New findings do not support a recent analysis of the rough draft of the human genome that suggests that bacterial genes have been laterally transferred into the human genome.
Enlisting a new technological tool to understand the complex interactions of Arctic ice and global climate, researchers are conducting flight tests and gathering scientific data with small, pilot-less planes that can fly under conditions poorly suited for manned aircraft and that have incredible range, due to their fuel efficiency.
The Maya were talented astronomers, religiously intense in their observations of the sun, moon and planets. Now, new research shows that something in the heavens may have influenced their culture and ultimately helped bring about their demise.
In some of the strongest evidence yet to support the RNA world--an era in early evolution when life forms depended on RNA--scientists at the Whitehead Institute have created an RNA catalyst, or a ribozyme, that possesses key properties needed to sustain life in such a world.
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