Cornell University researchers report in the journal Science the isolation of a bacterium, coccoid Strain 195, that turns toxic tetrachloroethene and other chlorinated ethylene pollutants into nontoxic ethene gas. The discovery could lead to better bioremediation strategies for the nation's number-two ground water pollutant.
Members of the national Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force, including the Cornell University Feline Health Center, recommend that cat owners and veterinarians reconsider the risk of exposure to certain infections before vaccinating cats. According to some estimates, as many as four out of every 10,000 vaccinations result in cancerous tumors at the vaccination site where certain vaccines are administered.
1- Heat Wave Forecasts Could Help Save Cattle; 2- Fungus Is a Crop-Friendly Weed Whacker 3- Potato Late Blight May Be Arrested Earlier; 4- Trickle-L Group Offers Online Expertise to Growers, Gardeners.
Imagine getting your clothes dry-cleaned using carbon dioxide and detergents. There are no toxic dry-cleaning solvents involved, no toxic fumes, and your clothes are as clean as if they'd been cleaned using the traditional process. You can see it in Las Vegas -- and at North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus.
Some 1,000 scientists and engineering working in the fields of control, automation and relted areas will be on hand for the 1997 American Control Conference June 4-6 in Albuquerque. Conference host is the University of New Mexico.
A study of the federal Conservation Reserve Program, an agricultural program aimed at reducing erosion, finds that the program also provides suitable bird habitat for many declining species of grassland birds.
Press release of issue dated May 31 for New Scientist
Murray Hill, N.J. -- Bell Labs scientists, working with colleagues at Opto Power Corp. in Tucson, Ariz., have demonstrated record-setting output powers from optical-fiber lasers.
Solar wind--those hot, charged-up particles linked to power outages on Earth and lost satellites in space--may be even rowdier than some researchers have previously reported, University of Delaware scientists said today during the American Geophysical Union's Spring Meeting.
Starting this week the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is sponsoring a series of regional workshops in the Great Plains region, to improve understanding of the implications of global climate change for the United States.
Two new joint degree programs, one designed to strengthen the science and technology backround of science writers, and a second to train students in designing computer-based educational materials
1) "Sea Sawdust" Enriches Tropical Oceans; 2) Increased Ultraviolet Light Harms Antarctic Algae; 3) Ocean Drilling Expedition Hopes To Shed Light On Sea Level Changes
It's a tale of Down Under, set against a backdrop of international terrorism. On a dark night in May, 1993, somewhere in the empty miles of dry-as-dust Australian outback, a streak blazed through the sky and the ground shook, according to eyewitnesses, aborigines prospecting for gold.
In a major technological breakthrough, Bell Labs researchers have demonstrated continuously tunable, single-mode, high-power room-temperature QC distributed-feedback lasers operating at mid-infrared wavelengths (5 and 8.5 micron) in pulsed mode. The single-mode tuning range is typically 50 nanometers in wavelength, and the peak powers are 60 milliwatts, one and two orders of magnitude better, respectively, than commercially available mid-infrared lead-salt lasers.
In a major breakthrough, Bell Labs scientists have demonstrated the world's first laser-based semiconductor sensor that operates at room temperature and at high power to detect minute amounts -- potentially parts per billion -- of trace gases or pollutants by scanning for their optical-absorption "fingerprints."
Texas A&M University and its Institute of Biosciences and Technology join 34 other institutions receiving grants from the National Science Foundation for high speed computer network connections, part of the foundation for the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative.
Tips from Agricultural Research Service: 1) Getting honeybees to build smaller cells may help bees survive mite attack; 2) Heterophils to the Rescue! 3) A Close-Up Look at Cotton Fibers; 4) Process May Enhance Rice Cake Flavor; 5) Prodigal Wasp Gets Second Chance Against the Gypsy Moth
Unconscious fear of intimacy linked to early parental loss, U-M study shows, using subliminal perception.
U-M study probes the unconscious using subliminal perception; shows unconscious defenses really do exist.
Waves might be great for surfers and sports fans, but if you're trying to find a safe harbor to dock your boat, they can be a disaster. Vijay Panchang, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, and his students have developed a computer model now being used to predict wave heights in harbors around the world.
Contrary to popular beliefs, female chimpanzees routinely sneak away for what could be dangerous liaisons with males from neighboring communities. If their secret activities are discovered by the males of her community, they could be beaten, and any offspring sired outside the community killed.
A quarterly roundup of NC State University research, teaching and outreach activities. For use by the media as briefs or as background for stories. 1) Life and Death Among the Headhunters of Borneo; 2) A Caution Flag for Transgenic Cotton; 3) Detox' Treatment for Harmful Fumes; 4) A New Slant on Static Cling; 5) When Homework's Online, the Dog Can't Eat it; 6) Shedding New Light on a Supernova; 7) Early Detection for Late Blight; 8) Smog Alert; 9) Designing Students; more.
Although positive interactions are now known to be so common that many ecologists tend to dismiss them as obvious, surprisingly little is known about their community-wide consequences, particularly how they affect species diversity.
Imagine a milky white, peppermint-flavored liquid that, when added to a pool of water teeming with cholera, within minutes makes the water safe to drink. Imagine a cream that could be used like a sunscreen to protect a soldier from anthrax, botulinum, ricin and other toxins in the biological warfare arsenal. This may sound like science fiction, but these products may soon be used in humans, says University of Michigan Medical Center researcher
Despite 1960s-era predictions of a color-blind society, "the blacks who are worse off have taken a giant step backward," and racism persists because "people find psychological solace in elevating themselves at the expense of others," a University of Delaware researcher says.
With the lines between television news and entertainment blurring, people's beliefs in unidentified flying objects can easily be swayed by what they see on TV, says a Purdue University communication researcher.
Teens with a preference for a particular brand of cigarette or beer are using those substances more and are more likely to use them in the future, according to a study of more than 4,000 ninth- and 11th-grade students.
A new study indicates that recent U.S. hurricane damages do not reflect any unusual increase in hurricane strength or frequency, but rather a continued flocking of Americans to vulnerable coastal locations. The shift could spell trouble if more hurricanes make landfall in coming years, as they did before 1970.
UC Santa Cruz has formally created its Jack Baskin School of Engineering, launched with a $5 million philanthropic gift. The school is expected to play an important role in training future Silicon Valley engineers.
The biodiversity of nearshore marine ecosystems in Monterey Bay has flourished over the last 25 years despite increasingly heavy human impacts, according to marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz.
As American engineers and scientists gather today in Moscow for a meeting comparing power plants in the United States and Russia, what many of them know will likely shatter long-standing assumptions in the Western world.
Scientists specializing in how hormones affect the brain and behavior will discuss recent findings during a first-of-its-kind week-long meeting beginning May 27 in Baltimore.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made grants to 35 research institutions across the United States that will allow them to connect to NSFÃs very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS), an extremely sophisticated telecommunications system that enables scientists across the continent to share powerful computing resources.
Researchers say that their findings in a 1978 landmark National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study of risky behavior still holds true nearly two decades later -- most people are reluctant to purchase insurance against natural disasters because they believe such events will not happen to them.
Weeds can be more than just a backyard nuisance, according to a University of Massachusetts biologist who will produce a documentary film on the topic.
1- Ranking Soldier Flies; 2- How Chemicals Seep into the Aquifer; 3- Hairy Vetch Mulch System Moves to Poland; 4- Piglets, Pituitaries and Chilly Temperatures; 5- Research Counterattack Against New Sorghum Fungus
A unique safety device, developed by a Michigan State University engineer, will be worn by an Indianapolis 500 driver this year -- the first time the device has been used in the Memorial Day race. The device, known as HANS -- head and neck support -- is a combination helmet and yoke that supports a driver's head, helps reduce neck fatigue and avoid the accompanying injuries common among drivers.
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to make the first detection of radio emission from a cosmic gamma-ray burst. This sheds the first light on long-standing questions about the actual physics of these mysterious, tremendously energetic events.
Three snowfall records were shattered in April in cities in the Northeast, all records fell before the month was 24-hours old, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. April's temperatures were cooler than normal and the month was also drier than normal.
The tracked vehicle that spurred the production of the military ship-to-shore amphibian tractors used in the assault on Normandy during World War II, has been cited for historic significance by ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
When it comes to cleaning up the environment, the answer may be right under our feet. A Purdue University engineer is investigating how and why bacteria in the soil eat certain toxic chemicals, and he is developing procedures for using the hungry bugs in environmental cleanup efforts.
Low-flying planes and an array of new surface gauges in the Walnut River watershed east of Wichita, Kansas, are gathering data from the lowest few thousand feet of the atmosphere to improve weather forecasting. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado coordinate the experiment.
To come up with new product ideas, researchers at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seed consumer imaginations with tantalizing triggers such as blow-dry dog, fold clothes, or shrink car.
Scientists affiliated with the National Science FoundationÃs (NSF) Center for Biological Timing have identified and cloned a gene for the biological clock in a mouse, the first such gene to be identified at the molecular level in a mammal.
If we had to pay for the services that nature provides, how much would it cost? A paper appearing in the May 15th issue of the journal Nature, co-authored by 13 ecologists, geographers and economists, estimates this value at between $16 and $54 trillion per year.
To assist in the effective monitoring of whether a nuclear bomb has been detonated anywhere in the world, geologists are compiling an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS), a database of global seismological, geologic, geophysical remote sensing and geographic information so that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty can be verified.
A way for a double amputee to use his power tools. A ground-hugging surveillance robot for the military. An inexpensive page-turning device for the disabled. These are some of this year's inventions by engineering undergraduates at Johns Hopkins.
Cornell/University of Utah time-use experts find that parents with two children put in 7.5 hours a day raising kids -- three times more than experts had previously estimated because they had only considered primary child care.
Scientists at Northwestern University have cloned and identified a gene for the circadian clock in a mouse, the first such gene to be identified at the molecular level in a mammal.
On Friday, May 16, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia will unveil for the first time ever the skull of the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered--Giganotosaurus. Dr. Rodolfo Coria, the paleontologist credited with its discovery will lead a panel discussion that will reveal the paleontological implications of the discovery of this South American giant and present new data refining the continental drift theory and knowledge about the evolution of dinosaurs.
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