A University of Illinois engineer is experimenting with non-wood fiber crops to show that it is possible to make high-quality products and reduce the demand for fibers harvested from trees.
A team of proteins vital to fertility because of their ability to send signals that allow sperm to pass through an egg membrane has been isolated by researchers at two universities. (Development, 2-01)
NASA researchers are studying insects and birds, and using so-called smart materials with uncanny properties to develop mindboggling new aircraft designs.
Cornell University researchers, using techniques developed to observe subatomic particles, have measured turbulent flow in liquids over a wide range of velocities and have come up with some surprising results: Particles often get an extra kick that accelerates them out of proportion to the general motion of the fluid. (Nature, 2-22-01)
The National Science Foundation is accepting written requests from professional journalists to visit its North Pole Environmental Observatory in April 2001.
The National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S. Antarctic Program, is accepting written requests from professional journalists to visit Antarctica during the 2001-2002 research season (early November through mid-January).
You might not see it, but it's there. Chemical and heavy metal contamination, a health threat, lies silently in our backyards. Now, a University of Missouri Columbia researcher is reducing this threat and the cost of eliminating it.
Peter Gierasch, one of Cornell University's most distinguished scientists, who has almost "written the book" on planetary atmospheres, will be honored at a two-day seminar March 2 and 3. The two-day event is being held to celebrate Gierasch's 60th birthday.
Researchers studying the tips of chromosomes in Arabidopsis thaliana--a weed in the mustard family--are learning about gene functions that determine how rapidly plants age, which could lead eventually to advances in human medicine.
What distinguished Neanderthals and near-modern humans from their predecessors 300,000 years ago, it is believed, was their ability to make and use complex tools, but there is no consensus among experts about how this dazzling leap in technology influenced human evolution. (Science, 3-02-01)
Scientists at The Salk Institite have shown that running can boost brain cell survival in animals with neurodegenerative disease. "The results suggest that exercise might delay the onset and progression of some neurodegenerative diseases." (Genes and Development, 3-1-01)
Curious chains of magnetic crystals have turned up in a meteorite from Mars.
The National Science Foundation has pledged $1.35M over three years for the Smithsonian Institution's new permanent exhibit, "Explore the Universe," which will open in September 2001 at the National Air and Space Museum.
The tropical Pacific Ocean may be able to open a "vent" in its heat-trapping cirrus cloud cover and release enough energy to significantly diminish projected climate warming caused by a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 3-01)
A NASA alliance with minority colleges and universities is working to create futuristic computers that operate using particles of light.
Perched on the surface of asteroid 433 Eros, NASA's NEAR spacecraft is beaming back measurements of gamma-rays leaking from the space rock's dusty soil.
The American Society for Microbiology urges the President and Congress to fund agencies supporting basic research at levels to ensure United States preeminence in science and technology, and to provide essential new funding resources for the CDC and FDA, the protectors of our Nation's public health.
In the 1960s, Africa's Lake Chad was larger than the state of Vermont, but is now smaller than Rhode Island. NASA-funded researchers now understand why Lake Chad has been disappearing over the last 30 years. (J. of Geophysical Research, 2-27-01)
The American Society for Microbiology commends President Bush's proposal for a record $2.8 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in FY 2002.
A study published by nutrition researchers from the Georgetown Center for Food and Nutrition Policy shows that added sugars are relatively unimportant when it comes to overall diet quality. (Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2-01)
An object that fell to Earth more than 136 years ago has revealed new clues about the origin of meteorites in space and new information about how life may have started on early Earth.
1) Nano-Structured Diamond Coating Will Reduce Wear In Mechanical Devices, 2) El Nino Predicted With the Help Of A Wind Trigger, 3) Silence of the Clams: Upstream Dams Imperil Downstream Clams
The orangutan - the only great ape found in Asia - may vanish from the wild within a decade, unless illegal logging of its habitat and poaching can be greatly reduced, according to research funded by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). (Oryx, 2-01)
Researchers have developed an important tool for understanding how one key molecule regulates a wide range of physiological activity in mammals. Using the natural tendency of certain proteins to glow - their fluorescence - has revealed some surprising variations in how even cells of the same type behave.
An NSF-supported researcher has published new evidence that Meteorite ALH84001, one of the meteorites retrieved from Antarctica, may contain remnants of primitive life that existed on Mars billions of years ago. NSF is making available video of a U.S. Antarctic Program official explaining how meteorite searches are conducted.
Linux is poised to storm the once-closed world of embedded applications.
Hybrid electric vehicles are not yet worth the price.
Finding out what genes do is opening a huge new market for old-line companies.
The Amiga computer is reborn! The nearly-20-year-old computing platform is getting ready to appear in a new generation of cell phones, set-top boxes, home control systems, and PCs.
Yes, there really is a Moon hoax, but the prankster isn't NASA.
They say lightning never strikes twice. Well, how about asteroids?
A research team has found a gene in yeast that is essential for yeast cells to change their shape, a property necessary for them to become infectious. Yeast causes not only nuisance infections but death in 30 percent of vulnerable patients who suffer systemic infections. (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
A joint U.S and New Zealand team has completed an environmental survey of a former Antarctic research station at Cape Hallett and has recommended steps to safeguard penguin chicks at a nearby rookery from melt pools contaminated with oil from an unknown source.
The $500 hobby-shop helicopter whirling through a basement laboratory at Johns Hopkins is not there to amuse the undergraduates. The copter is a key teaching tool in a demanding electrical engineering course aimed at preparing students for high-tech jobs in the aviation and automotive industries.
Announcement that Dr. Fran Berman will succeed Dr. Sid Karin as director of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
The Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute has elected renowned researcher Robert Gracy, PhD, of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, to its board of directors.
Measuring temperatures inside holes in the ground is an accurate way of showing that Earth's Northern Hemisphere has warmed about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the Industrial Revolution began, University of Utah scientists found.
Researchers studying ways to capture radioactive chemicals swimming in a sea of hazardous waste have created a new class of molecular cages that, like lobster traps, let certain species in while keeping others out.
A magnetic field that accelerates pellets faster than anything except a nuclear explosion has been developed experimentally at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. (Impact Engineering)
Inside Rocky Mountain caves during the coldest part of winter, hibernating black bears are providing researchers with information that eventually could help lessen the debilitating effects of muscle atrophy or help astronauts to maintain their strength during long space flights. (Nature, 2-22-01)
With some help from the massive eruption of a Philippine volcano, scientists from North Carolina State University and the National Climate Center of China believe they have solved a climate change mystery. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2-15-01)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their efforts in the commercialization of important laboratory-developed technologies.
The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, a University of California-based center funded by the State of California, announces the approval of its first proposals for the study of cannabis as a treatment for specific medical conditions.
Edward H. Burtt, Professor of Zoology at Ohio Wesleyan University, is the Tracy Aviary Distinguished Lecture Series lecturer. He will talk about "Life Among Feathers: It's a Jungle Out There." He will speak on Thursday, March 1 at the Skaggs Biology Bldg. in Utah.
Earth's most severe mass extinction -- an event 250 million years ago that wiped out 90 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates -- was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid, according to new findings by a team led by a University of Washington scientist. (Science, 2-23-01)
NASA scientists are using an experimental radar to monitor a swarm of space dust surrounding our planet -- cosmic junk that can pose an electrical hazard to satellites.
Thousands of miles from the Pacific Northwest, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory work to preserve the salmon habitat and balance power generation needs.
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a technology that could make the coming transition from current analog television to high-definition television a whole lot easier.
A team of University of Illinois researchers has demonstrated a way to "purify" and restore maximally entangled states, the bizarre quantum mechanical connection that can exist between particles. (Nature, 2-22-01)
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