How science-based nutrition information can be used to improve policy is focus of new book, "Beyond Nutritional Recommendations: Implementing Science for Healthier Populations," edited by Cornell nutritionists.
In polymer chemistry, as in architecture, it's important to pay close attention to your builing base.
By revealing exactly how oxygen and various organometallic molecules interact, fundamental studies at the University of Delaware may someday support the development of improved organometallic catalysts for making a variety of molecules--from plastics to hydrocarbon fuels, researchers reported April 15 during the American Chemical Society meeting. EMBARGOED: 5 p.m. EST, Tuesday, April 15, 1997
The pollution control system in the United States is fragmented and inefficient, targetting the wrong problems, and lacking in all kinds of information needed for effective decisionmaking, according to a report released today by Resources for the Future. The report describes and evaluates the nine major federal environmental laws, the administrative decisionmaking system at the Environmental Protection Agency, and the federal-state division of labor that are the main elements of U.S. environmental policy. It is based on a comprehensive three-year examination of the pollution regulatory system, the first systematic evaluation of the nation's pollution control efforts to date.
Novel techniques developed by Boston University researchers that allow computer users to assess the performance of their link to the Internet have been incorporated into Net.Medic, a new consumer software product which is being released today by VitalSigns Software, Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. Embargoed: Monday, April 14, 1997 8 am EDT
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--New information, based on molecular-scale studies of different metals in soils, may help environmental engineers immobilize these contaminants more effectively, University of Delaware researchers reported April 14 during the American Chemical Society meeting. At the soil's surface, key industrial metals including nickel, copper, chromium, cobalt and zinc--but not lead--form mixed metal compounds that dramatically diminish their mobility in the natural environment, says Donald L. Sparks. EMBARGOED: 11:00 a.m. EST, Monday, April 14, 1997
University of Delaware research might someday help computer companies "grow" next-generation semiconductors faster while also achieving greater control over material properties, chemist Douglas J. Doren reported April 14 during the American Chemical Society meeting. EMBARGOED: 4 p.m. EST, Monday, April 14, 1997
New research shows that fish in the Antarctic and Arctic oceans, at opposite ends of the earth, independently evolved nearly identical antifreeze glycoproteins.
A material with fuel potential ten times greater than all known coal, gas, and oil reserves on the planet lies deep within the oceans or in the permafrost of the arctic tundra, according to Dr. Timothy S. Collett of the United States Geological Survey
UC Santa Cruz news tips, American Chemical Society meeting: antibiotic- RNA interactions, active compounds from marine sponges, clues about aggregation of partially folded proteins.
ARS News Service Tip Sheet for April 12, 1997: 1- Biocontrol Duo Gang up on Armyworms; 2- Snap Beans Fingered as Calcium Source for Youths; 3- Dieters' Responses Slowed in Study; 4- Berry Good Food for the Brain; 5- Too Little Magnesium Makes One Work Harder.
University of Delaware researchers at the American Chemical Society's 213th national meeting April 13-17 will describe: 1- immobilizing metal contaminants in soils, 2- unlocking the secrets of natural compounds derived from red sea algae, 3- improving the "growth" of computer chips from chemical vapors, 4- new catalysts for oxidizing fuels and plastics, and 5- educational strategies to help science teachers interact effectively with both girls and boys. EMBARGOED: Monday, April 14, 1997
A group of Bell Laboratories scientists have developed a 193-nanometer single-layer photoresist that will support the manufacture of integrated circuits with features just 0.13 microns wide. The scientists, reporting to the 213th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society Meeting April 13-17, 1997 in San Francisco, discuss their investigation on the design, formulation, and processing of the resist based on alternating copolymers of cycloolefins with maleic amhydride.
How can one jury set O.J. Simpson free and another find him libel for the same crime? What does one jury see and hear when it acquits the police officers who beat Rodney King while another finds them guilty? "CBS Reports" wants to know; so on Wednesday, April 16, it will run a two-hour documentary titled, "Enter the Jury Room," which follows jury deliberations in three trials in an attempt to uncover how jurors think and act. For the documentary, the news crew turned to Valerie Hans, a University of Delaware professor of criminal justice who is nationally known for her expertise on how jurors interact. She is one of the experts interviewed by Ed Bradley for Wednesday's program.
NSF Director Neal Lane is scheduled to speak at a National Press Club (NPC) luncheon later this month. The event is timed to coincide with the celebration of National Science and Technology Week (April 20-26), an annual public outreach program aimed at highlighting the role of science in people's everyday lives.
One of the minor horrors of the computer age is to be working on a document not yet saved to the hard drive ìmemoryî and lose everything because of a power outage or a screen freeze-up that forces the operator to shut down the computer. Now scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and France Telecom have applied for a patent on a prototype memory-retention device that is inexpensive, low-powered, and simple to fabricate. The device, referred to as ìprotonic,î is reported in todayÃs issue of the journal Nature.
Plants have been recycling waste carbon dioxide into life-giving oxygen for as long as humans have been breathing. Now Purdue University researchers are prodding them to take the cleanup a step further - to collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from polluted water and contaminated soils.
Highlights of April 12 New Scientist,
ATHENS, Ga. -- Scientists know Carolina bays are naturally occuring, shallow elliptical depressions largely fed by rain and shallow ground water. Beyond that, however, their natural history is a mystery. One researcher has identified at least 18 different theories on their origins, and new ones come along every few months. Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that the bacteria in the bays include species heretofore unknown to science.
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has contracted to purchase an HP Exemplar X-Class system from Hewlett-Packard. The National Center for Atmospheric Research and HP expect to develop the use of distributed shared- memory systems, such as the Exemplar, for numerical computer models employed in climate and weather prediction.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) established a program of Science and Technology Centers in 1987 to exploit new opportunities in fundamental science and technology as well as education. The centers are also designed to stimulate technology transfer and applications for various sectors of society. NSF funds 24 centers with an operating budget of more than $60 million. Below are a few samples of ongoing projects at major research institutions.
The National Science Board (NSB) has approved new criteria for evaluating funding proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Board, which is the governing body of NSF, took the action at its March 28 meeting.
A Cornell University psychology experiment with moving shapes and colored strobe light shows that color composition occurs in the visual cortex of the brain, not in the eye, as was previously thought. The experiment that may confirm, once and for all, the "central synthesis" theory of human color vision.
ATHENS, Ga. -- A sense of "self" and the enjoyment of play may have more to do with rearing history than was previously thought, according to a new study by a graduate student at the University of Georgia. In studies with the noted chimpanzee Washoe and others like her reared in a human environment, the researchers found that the capacity for self-knowledge may exist before it is ever expressed. The study was apparently the first ever to examine the reaction of chimps to their own images in hand-held mirrors.
A Cornell student raspberry project may turn into a full-fledged agricultural industry. The raspberries are grown in the middle of winter, in greenhouses, in upstate New York.
It took only the first day of this month to record the snowiest April ever for Boston, Worcester, Mass., and Providence, R.I., in what is being called the Great April Fools' Day Storm of 1997, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Between launches of new instruments and ongoing analyses of data from satellites already in orbit, 1997 promises to be a banner year of space research for Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The search for potential pharmaceuticals derived from indigenous natural medicines -- marred in the bad old days by exploitation of local Third-World populations -- has now been refined to funnel significant benefits to these groups.
Should the U.S. continue to support scientists from the former Soviet Union to keep them from selling their expertise to forces hostile to the U.S.? The cost and utility of this support is explored in an article in the April 7 issue of Chemical & Engineering News
Tipsheet from ARS for April 5, 1997 1- Cloned Gene May Benefit Cattle Feeders, Plastics Manufacturers; 2- New state-of-the art acoustic technology is uncovering the secrets of soil--undisturbed in the field or moving in streams; 3- New "Pineapple" orange coming for Florida growers; 4- Natural chemical found in avocados kills fruit flies; 5- "Plum" of a rootstock may boost a premium almond; 6- WeedCast predictions save farmers money
Precision research to make perennials bloom on command will revolutionize the way consumers by flowers in the spring, thanks to research at Michigan State University. This story and other ideas on the spring garden tip sheet.
A tree-top study of the common crow by a Cornell ornithologist who climbs more than 100 feet each spring to tag them is explaining an uncommon behavior in the avian world -- crows that forgo breeding for years to help their parent raise more siblings.
As the launch date nears for the first commercial remote sensing satellite, Resources for the Future is helping the National Aeronautics and Space Administration find a reliable way to measure the economic return from its transfer of formerly-classified space technologies to the public and private sectors. Researchers are using methods that have been developed by RFF for the valuation of hard-to-measure assets, such as clean air or a national park.
Press release of issue dated April 5 for New Scientist, the international science and technology weekly news magazine
Cornell nutritionists examine links between body weight and dating attitudes, marriage and marital satisfaction.
Insects as entrees will be a featured attraction at Purdue University's annual Bug Bowl, April 18-20. That's where the vendors rattle off a menu that includes chocolate chirpy chip cookies, mealworm chow mein and a trail mix called "caterpillar crunch."
LSU researcher's study says the probability of a catastrophic hurricane striking anywhere along the northern Gulf of Mexico is once in an average of 400 years.
A researcher at Louisiana State University has developed a prototype of a hand-held device that analyzes air to detect the chemicals, including those found in bombs. Edward Overton, director of the LSU Institute for Environmental Studies, developed the environmental detection device that can also be used for explosive and chemical war fare agent detection.
A multi-center partnership led by the University of California, San Diego has been named as one of two awardees for the National Science Foundation's new Parterships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program.
Since December, the nation has been inundated by a series of floods unusual in their scope and severity, with more on the way. Here is a list of experts, related Web sites, and background information on U.S. flood risk from a new report by NCAR political scientist Roger Pielke, Jr.
Four automotive researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have received special recognition from Vice President Al Gore for their work in connection with a multi-player initiative aimed at developing a new generation of fuel-efficient, low-emission vehicles.
Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the mysterious decline of coral reefs throughout the world and are recommending more extensive research into the potentially serious problem. Two Johns Hopkins biologists are publishing an overview of the problem of declining coral reef health in an April issue of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
Three tips from Los Alamos: 1. Atomic tags give unique signature to industrial processes. 2. High-speed cameras from nuke tests now spotting watermines. 3. New ion beam improves coating, other material processing.
Press release of issue dated March 29 for New Scientist, the international science and technology weekly newss magazine
On March 30, Dr. Anne Schiller, NC State University assistant professor of anthropology, will be featured in Ntional Geographic Explorer's "Borneo Beyond the Grave," a documentary about how the Nagju Dayak people, once legendary head-hunters, prepare the remains of deceased family members for the afterlife in the festive and complex ritual call tiwah. Since 1983 Schiller has been traveling to Central Kalimantan Province in Indonesian Borneo to study tiwah. She has published a book on nine years of research, also to be released on March 30.
Volcano expert Stanley Williams of Arizona State University in Tempe barely survived an eruption that killed several of his colleagues while taking gas samples on the side of a Colombian volcano named Galeras.
Someday you'll be able to get behind the wheel of your car, sit back, and relax for a four-hour trip. "You may be able to go as fast as 200 miles per hour without touching your steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedals," says a professor who is working on intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
One-paragraph summaries of science news at Sandia National Laboratories, including an instrument sent to collect Artic weather data, the resurrection of order in a local high school, a virtual reality game for cops against hostage-takers, and a new use for Sandia's Prosperity Games.
Weekly Tip Sheet from the Agricultural Research Service, USDA: 1-New Way to Grow Broccoli Cuts Chemicals, Saves Water and Protects Soil; 2- Formulas to Help Microbes Clean Up Toxic Waste; 3- New Technique Extracts Potential Cancer-Fighting Agent From Citrus; and 4- Dumping on House Flies
In a unique, real-world test of the theory of evolution, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported research team has demonstrated that animals can adapt to sudden changes in their environment with surprising speed. ItÃs a finding that challenges current methods of evaluating evolutionary changes through the fossil record.
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