A new technique for reducing waste from chemical processes involved in everything from petroleum refining to pharmaceutical manufacturing also may hold the key to cleaning up radioactive remains at eastern Washington's Hanford nuclear site, according to University of Washington researchers studying the new process.
Overdevelopment and the rise in human population are fast becoming the downfall of coastal regions. The greatest threat to sea life today -- other than overfishing -- arises from human activity on land. In fact, humans affect coastal areas, even if they live hundreds of miles inland. This is a critical, global topic, and the New England Aquarium is one organization tackling it.
A study led by University of Minnesota molecular biologist David Zarkower has found that a nematode maleness gene is very similar to maleness genes in fruit flies and maybe humans. These are the first examples of sex-determining genes whose structure has been conserved through eons of evolution, in this case the approximately 500 million years since ancestors of the three animal species split from each other.
A Sandia National Laboratories physicist and his Texas-based colleague have done calculations that may offer additional insight into a decade-old controversy about whether up to 30,000 house-sized snowballs, or icy comets, are striking Earth each day.
1) "Seismic quiescence" sometimes precede the world's strongest and most damaging earthquakes, 2) Scientists have detected an ongoing seafloor volcanic eruption 300 miles off the Oregon coast, 3) Certain habitat conservation plans that promote timber-cutting accords often are based on few hard scientific results
Creighton researchers spent three months fishing in Antarctica. A three-year NSF grant funds the study of Antarctic teleost fish's ability to survive in the Antarctic Ocean. Research will focus on the fish's salt regulation, and function and size of their chloride cells.
A molecular biologist at the University of Georgia has proposed that transposable elements may play a crucial and central role in evolution and could be the "missing link" in our understanding of how multicellular organisms work.
Two University of Wyoming scientists have discovered a gene that produces the most highly elastic fiber from a spider's silk.
NIGHT VISION -- Military and beyond ENERGY -- Lighting tomorrow's way COMPUTING -- Passing today's chips
After several well-publicized meat safety scares in recent years, irradiation was approved late in 1997 for beef, pork and other red meats. What will this mean for food safety? For consumers?
A University of Arizona geologist and a Yale University colleague have found an unlikely new source of informati9on source of information about prehistoric earthquakes - rock-loving lichens.
A team of Argentinean and U.S. scientists has found fossils of a duck-billed dinosaur, along with remains of Antarctica's most ancient bird and an array of giant marine reptiles, on Vega Island off the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
A bright but frail member of the silicon family has found new vigor through a process developed at Purdue University, lighting the path to faster, smaller computers and new types of sensing devices. Purdue researcher Jillian Buriak has developed a way to stabilize the surface of porous silicon.
An insect that serves as a biological control is part of a new program to combat invasive Eurasian water milfoil (EWM), a fresh water weed. The process is commercially available in the United States and Canada from EnviroScience Inc. of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, through a licensing agreement with Middlebury College of Middlebury, Vt.
Sea Grant Story Idea Tip Sheet Feb. 6, 1998 1) Ruffe Not As Great A Threat As Originally Thought 2) Estuaries, Ocean Current Crucial to Successful Shrimp Fishery 3) Researchers Seek Mass Production of Cancer-Fighting Marine Compounds
A new interactive World Wide Web site sponsored by Zeneca Pharmaceuticals-Cardio.net (www.cardio.net)-now offers doctors and allied health professionals access to up-to-the-minute information on all aspects of cardiovascular medicine.
Research Corporation Technologies and Heritage Partners in Tucson, Ariz., have formed Terrapure Systems L.L.C. to develop an innovative process for cleaning contaminated ground water and industrial effluents without the need for off-site disposal of hazardous wastes.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 2-4-98
White-Sided Dolphin Emergency on Cape Cod: A Stranding Update 71 dolphins dead in and around Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Vast amounts of dissolved organic matter in the ocean, once thought to be inert, may play a surprising role in mitigating the greenhouse effect, according to bioengineering researchers at the University of Washington, reporting in this week's (Feb. 5) issue of Nature.
In a steamy underwater hell west of Costa Rica, weird deep-sea worms survive temperatures nearly hot enough to boil water--too hot for any other complex creature on Earth--and they don't care if their `heads' are two-and-a-half times cooler than their `tails,' a University of Delaware researcher reports in the Feb. 5, 1998 issue of Nature.
A facility used to test the sea-keeping qualities of ships and submarines has been cited for historical significance by ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
Promoting quality assurance in the application of manufacturing standards, ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) this year will continue the Program for Certification of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professionals (GDTP).
Baylor geology doctoral candidates Bruce Byars and Steve Clamons and geology undergraduate Scott Cherry recently took over development of an internationally recognized Geographic Information System (GIS) called Geographic Resource Analysis Support System (GRASS).
The pheromone trail laid down by an Aphaenogaster rudis ant -- to help the ant and its recruited nest mates find their way back to prey they plan to kill -- contains a chemical now undergoing clinical trials as a possible Alzheimer's disease treatment, Cornell University chemists report in the January 1998 issue of the German journal Naturwissenschaften.
Scientists have advanced standard PCR DNA analysis to enable them to identify different strains of pathogens from tiny, and in some cases many-years-old, tissue samples, providing a new tool for identifying sources of outbreaks.
Four tips: * An easy "green" path to methanol production * Nuclear rocket for a quick boost to Mars * ACE measures upstream solar flow * Ulysses provides unique look at sun
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 30, 1998 At midnight tomorrow U.S. DOE will break its legal obligation to manage the used fuel from the nation's commercial nuclear power plants. The defauft will subject United States' taxpayers to as much as $56 billion in liabilities.
Few scientists are confident of the media's ability to cover science accurately, while most reporters are critical of scientists' ability to describe their work in plain English, according to a yearlong study by a noted journalist and senior space scientist.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will host a briefing at NSF Headquarters in Arlington, Va., beginning at 3:00 p.m. to discuss how the President's budget proposal for FY99 impacts NSF, and to set the stage for NSF priorities in the coming year.
While December was warmer than normal, 1997 was the 25th driest and 26th coolest in 103 years, according the the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Diagnosticians at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are urging farm operators to implement management practices aimed at slowing the spread of Salmonella typhimurium, including the multiply antibiotic resistant bacterium, Typhimurium DT104.
What child hasn't wondered how insects walk on water, easily climb walls, or hang from the undersides of smooth leaves, while humans clearly can not? Robert B. Suter, a Vassar College biology professor, is also fascinated by the world of "very, very small things." He set out to explain how fisher spiders and water striders walk on the water's surface.
Butter can be more nutritious than low-fat yogurt. An egg is more nutritious than broccoli. At least that's true for many infants and toddlers, and even children as old as 5 years, all of whom may need more fat in their diets than adults, two nutritionists say.
Russia, the Netherlands and the United States were among the countries represented Wednesday, Jan. 28 at the first meeting of the International Thermionic Society held at the New Mexico Engineering Research Institute (NMERI) at the University of New Mexico.
Lam Research Corporation, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment, has donated a plasma oxide etcher used in the manufacture of computer microchips and valued at more than $1.1 million to support the research of University of New Mexico Professor Joseph L. Cecchi of the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department.
Highlights of New Scientist for January 31, 1998
A treasure-trove of formerly classified data on the thickness of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, gathered by U.S. Navy submarines over several decades, is now being opened. Data from the first of approximately 20 cruise tracks -- an April, 1992 trans-Arctic Ocean track -- has just been released, and information from the rest of these tracks, or maps of a submarine's route, will be analyzed and released over the next year-and-a-half.
People across the continent can help make bird-watching history on February 20, 21, and 22 by participating in the first-ever BirdSource Great '98 Backyard Bird Count, cosponsored by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology (CLO) and the National Audubon Society.
Some of Japan's leading indicators of science and technological strength have caught up with or surpassed those of the United States, a special report by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Science Resources Studies (SRS) concludes.
Researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons have discovered the first human gene associated with hair loss. The new gene, called hairless, is linked to a severe form of inherited baldness and may be the trigger that turns on the entire human hair cycle. The discovery could lead to a better understanding of the hair cycle and, eventually, more effective treatments for various forms of hair loss.
Tip Sheet from the National Science Foundation; 1. Satellite navigation system to monitor the movement of an entire continent. 2. Biologist David Anderson will use satellite-tracking to study two species of albatross. 3. Oceanographers study toxic organisms that contaminates shellfish
Scientists at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina have described a new species of copepod, a tiny, aquatic crustacean.
Astronomers have found a fast-spinning pulsar in a companion galaxy to our Milky Way that could be the missing evolutionary link.
Working from his basement lab, a Los Alamos, N.M., scientist has created a miniature fuel cell that can run on common alcohol and air to generate electricity for powering cellular phones and other common portable electronic devices.
President Clinton has named 214 teachers to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the nation's highest honor for mathematics and science teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting requests from professional journalists to visit Antarctica during the 1998-1999 field season to report on research by the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP).
A unique strategy on how to handle ground water pollution ã one that uses "smart laws" to benefit both the environment and agriculture ã may be in store for Indiana, and it may serve as a model for the nation.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $2 million over 30 months to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign to help university users with high performance networking applications. The National Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR): Distributed Applications Support Team will help researchers maximize their use of NSF's very high performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS) for science and engineering research.
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