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If oil companies have any hope of meeting tough new federal standards for cleaner-burning gasoline and diesel fuel, they will need to find faster and better ways to identify pollutants in crude oil.
Older adults having trouble using a mouse to perform computer tasks may be better served by using a pointing device such as a light pen, according to a new Florida State University study.
Using a 150-year-old mathematical theorem, Florida State University researchers are creating cutting edge maps of the cerebellum to chart a groundbreaking new course in the study of the human brain.
A neuroscientist in FSU's psychology department, joined about a dozen other researchers from universities across the country to determine the brain's chemical response to chronic cocaine use. The results of that study, "Effects of chronic exposure to cocaine are regulated by the neuronal protein Cdk5." (Nature, 3-15-01)
As whales go, the minke is not as popular as, say, the humpback, the blue or even the killer whale. A marine biologist at Florida State University thinks that may change with the publication of an article on the minke whale in the April issue of National Geographic magazine.
Hurricane season starts June 1 and experts from Florida State University and its world renowned meterology program are available to answer media questions and give perspective to news stories as the season unfolds.
Major development and construction planned for China's Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, especially the Three Gorges Dam, could dramatically alter the salt content of the Sea of Japan and thereby change the climate in regions near these ocean waters.
The United States can expect 50 hurricanes -- 20 of them zeroing in on Floridas' the next 30 years, according to a new study by Florida State University climatologist James Elsner. Elsner predicts that 18 of the 50 will be considered major hurricanes.
The Florida Legislature isn't alone this year in discussing the merits of installing Internet filters on computers to shield young eyes from objectionable material. An international conference, May 2-5, at Florida State University also will address the issue and the latest developments and thinking about computers, the Internet and related technologies in the classroom.
Two Florida State University professors, classics Associate Professor James Sickinger and theatre Assistant Professor Laura Edmondson, have received summer stipends for 2001 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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