Specific areas of the brain impaired by years of heavy drinking have been identified in young adult women by researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Health Care System, San Diego. (J. of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 2-01)
Inspired by biological systems in which damage triggers an autonomic healing response, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a synthetic material that can heal itself when cracked or broken. (Nature, 2-15-01)
A senior research scientist with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute urged development of "workload managers"---computer systems that assess driving demands and driver capabilities on a moment-by-moment basis and adjust the flow of information to the driver accordingly.
The National Science Foundation is making available still photographs, at print resolution, of NSF-funded researchers placing Automatic Weather Stations on a massive Antarctic iceberg.
Fabricating pathways and manipulating fluid flow in microdevices just got a lot easier with the help of "virtual walls" -- sides that lack physical barriers.
An award-wining paper by a University of Arkansas professor shows how universities are collaborating to address difficult educational issues in power engineering.
University of Washington scientists using gravity measurements to hunt for evidence of dimensions in addition to those already known have found that those dimensions would have to occupy a space smaller than 0.2 millimeter. (Physical Review Letters, 2-19-01)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has an accomplished group of scientists working in the genomics field, including some who have ties to the federal Human Genome Project. Scientists here also are studying the social and ethical implications of unlocking the human genome.
A new field of biology promises to bring great and fast strides into the understanding of living organisms. This new map of life is called genomics. This focus on genomics promises to change the way life science research is done at universities such as Purdue.
What has happened to our understanding of the universe in the 20 years since Carl Sagan produced the successful television series Cosmos? That is the subtext of a major physics conference sponsored by Vanderbilt and being held in Nashville March 5 to 10, 2001.
UCSD researchers have found that essential brain fibers that shrivel up and disappear in aged monkeys can be restored to normal levels with infusion of tissue genetically altered to produce nerve growth. (PNAS 2-13-01)
Christian and Jewish religious leaders respond to the publication of the human genome with mixed reactions, ranging from resounding affirmations of the underlying science to profound worries about its applications. This release contains quotes from carefully selected, well-informed religious leaders.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded a $500,000 research project involving Cornell University, the University of California-Santa Barbara and Pennsylvania State University. on the behavior of rock-derived nutrients and the accumulation of toxic elements in relation to ecosystem age and climate
An article by two LSU researchers about their breakthrough discovery in physics was published in the Jan. 11 issue of Nature magazine. The discovery uses beryllium to show that there is a universal standard for limiting a metal film's resistance to conductivity.
A University of Arkansas research team has created semiconductor nanocrystals that are made from materials that don't cost the earth, kill people, or explode when mishandled. Such nanocrystals can be used in semiconductor, energy storage, optoelectonics and medical industries. (J. of the American Chemical Society)
A speech by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) director, a symposium involving members of the National Science Board (NSB), and research discussions by many NSF-supported scientists and educators will highlight a week-long agenda at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in San Francisco from February 15-20.
Artificial greenhouse gases that are bad news on Earth could provide the means to make Mars a more comfortable place for humans to live.
The worst of the recent fuel spill in the Galapagos has passed ... or has it?
Procedure may make mining for coal more environmentally friendly.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has awarded Richard Seymour, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego engineer the 2000 John Moffatt and Frank Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award.
An experiment measuring the magnetic moment of muons directly confronts Standard Model of particle physics.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are using the latest solar-powered wireless technology to help a pair of Native American tribes bridge the digital divide.
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, the first to orbit an asteroid, is coming to an end.
Virginia Tech Photonics Laboratory won a $1.8 million grant to continue its work in self-calibrating temperature and pressure sensors that will help commercialize the energy saving device.
Most of today's water pollution tests can identify the presence of pollution, but not the source. To solve this problem, University of Missouri-Columbia researchers are using a "fingerprinting" test that can trace water pollution back to its source using DNA from bacteria.
Cornell University and Harvard Medical School are collaborating to decipher the structures of proteins associated with human cancers. As the Harvard research group identifies and purifies proteins, samples will be sent to the Macromolecular Diffraction Facility (MacCHESS) at Cornell to find their three-dimensional.
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.
Scientists at Penn State have developed a precise method for making nano-sized metal wires spaced very close to each other. The process could speed the miniaturization of electronic devices used for circuits, high-density data storage and sensors.
As people learn to live with grizzly bears and wolves that have recolonized areas around southern Yellowstone National Park after a 50-year absence, so too must moose, which apparently have forgotten to recognize predators, according to a study funded by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). (Science, 2-9-01)
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new technology application that could all but eliminate the use of hazardous corrosives and the production of wastewater in the fabrication of integrated circuits, or chips, for computers.
NSF Director Rita Colwell will host a media breakfast for journalists attending the annual meeting of the AAAS in San Francisco.
A Science Media Collaboratory on the Web for scientists, the science press and the general media is available during February, 2001, providing an opportunity for scientists and members of the media to openly discuss scientific topics with broad implications in society.
University of Arkansas researcher Kevin Hall has developed a simple test to help highway engineers build roads that resist water damage.
University of Maryland Biotechology scientists are unraveling the molecular structure and function of recoverin and other key eye proteins to help solve retinitis pigmentosa and other eye diseases.
Already glowing away on thousands of consumer electronics products, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are proving to be useful as chemical sensors. (Nature, 2-25-01)
Solar cells work fine in sunshine, but do not generate electric power in the dark. That creates a special engineering problem for cells on the international space station because it is powered by solar cells on the giant set of wings recently attached to it. Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin are working to solve that problem.
Using a technique developed to track pathogens in sewage, a California Sea Grant funded researcher has shown that potentially harmful human viruses are contaminating coastal waters in Southern California at major river mouths. (Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1-01)
Here on Earth the only way to make carbonate rocks is with the aid of liquid water. Finding such rocks on Mars might prove, once and for all, that the barren Red Planet was once warm and wet.
While Earth as a whole has warmed during the last half-century, much of the continental United States has grown slightly colder. The trend toward cooler temperatures in the central and eastern United States is due to warmer ocean temperatures, a University of Illinois researcher says.
In "The Little Book of Stars," University of Illinois astronomer James B. Kaler brings the subject of stars down to Earth for the general reader. In clear, precise and light-hearted prose, he explains how astronomers have come to understand our distant stellar companions.
A Michigan State University astronomer is a member of an international team that has measured the amount of the radioactive element uranium in a star in the Milky Way Galaxy, a first-of-a-kind discovery that will help scientists more accurately determine the age of the universe. (Nature, 2-7-01)
Broken rails or damaged wheels can cause train accidents with potential loss of life, injury or property damage. Researchers at the University of Illinois are fabricating fiber-optic sensors that can improve train safety by detecting flaws in rails and wheels.
A protein located in the cytoplasm between a mammalian cell membrane and nucleus is more important than previously believed. It shuttles in and out of the nucleus as part of a "nuclear experience" that helps regulate cell growth and division, University of Illinois scientists say. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 12-00)
The blowup of CaliforniaÃs electricity system demonstrates how soaring demand combined with artificially low prices can disrupt a commodity that everyone relies on ñ and takes for granted.
Flee, freeze or fight. A response to a threat is based on experience and memory. Now scientists have discovered that an area of the brain, the amygdala, which was thought to store painful and emotion-related memories, also initiates memory storage in other brain regions. (Journal of Neuroscience, 1-01)
Cornell University astronomers hope that surface details as small as a hand-size rock will be captured by the camera in NASA's NEAR Shoemaker in the final few minutes before it bumps down on the boulder-strewn surface of Eros Feb. 12. Helping to answer questions about the geology of the 22-mile-long asteroid.
For the past year, the imaging team at Cornell University has been figuring out how to slew the NEAR spacecraft and aim its camera for the mission's final act: alighting on an asteroid.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered how to genetically convert leaves into petals, an achievement that may be the botanical equivalent of the medieval alchemistsà dream of transmuting iron into gold. (Current Biology, 2-01)
With about $2.9 billion in sales, the "green industry" in Illinois has blossomed, surprisingly outdoing traditional agricultural front-runners corn and soybeans and even the combined production of beef and pork, University of Illinois researchers say.
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