Halford House believes wastewater is too precious to dump down the drain. So House, a NC State University water quality specialist, has created North Carolina's first and only self-contained wastewater treatment system for an office building.
Gonorrhea rates increased between 1997 and 1999, while syphilis rates continued to decline, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A Mayo Clinic study provides new evidence that estrogen is dominant in the regulation of bone resorption in elderly men. Based on the study conclusions, men also need to be concerned about the long-term effects of bone loss, or osteoporosis. (J. of Clinical Investigation, 12-00)
Anyone not satisfied with last year's millennial celebrations might take comfort from a mathematician at Williams College, who patiently insists that the new millennium arrives January 1, 2001.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President announced that the Institute has obtained a gift of $130M from an anonymous donor to construct two major new facilities: a biotechnology research building and an electronic media and performing arts center.
Hybrid seeds of greenhouse tomatoes are expensive to produce because bees ignore parent flowers that lack nectar and pollen. As a result, pollination becomes an expensive, labor-intensive human task.
The University Press of Kansas, noted for its books on America's presidents, offers several administrative histories on the three of the four presidents who won the Electoral College but not the popular vote. Two such presidents were also sons of previous presidents.
A major study of patients who were hospitalized because of life-threatening blood clots after hip replacement surgery report that pneumatic compression--external devices that massage and compress the legs--can dramatically lower the risk rehospitalization but it is only effective in average-weight patients. (NEJM, 12-14-00)
Genetics reached a major milestone as an international research team announced it has completed the first plant genome sequence. The species Arabidopsis thaliana has emerged as the plant counterpart of the laboratory mouse, offering clues to how all sorts of living organisms behave genetically. (Nature, 12-14-00)
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center may have identified the cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), a gastrointestinal condition that afflicts about 20 percent of the adult population and is diagnosed in twice as many women as men. (The American Journal of Gastroenterology, 12-00)
After reaching record-breaking proportions earlier this year the ozone hole over Antarctica has made a surprisingly hasty retreat.
In the early days of Hollywood, the movies portrayed it seductively: the couple smoking together, enjoying a romantic interlude. Today, some couples find it extremely difficult to break that bond despite overwhelming medical evidence that smoking kills.
On December 21 at the University of Maryland, Tasha Inniss, Kimberly Weems and Sherry Scott will do something few other African American women have done -- receive Ph.D.s in mathematics.
Given the fact that America is aging - and 43 million Americans have arthritis -- most people have a gift list that includes someone with arthritis or another strength or mobility limitation.
The National Science Foundation will webcast a press conference hosted by the journal Nature at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on December 13. The event is to announce an important milestone in plant genetics research.
Food animal well-being has become a mainstream issue with consumers and businesses as well. Researchers at Purdue University also are asking questions about farm animal well-being and supplying some of the scientific support for sound livestock handling practices.
The Sequella Global TB Foundation announced the first recipients of the inaugural series of VIP grants designed to fund high risk/high reward research that could lead to successful new vaccines against tuberculosis.
Safe sex for scarlet-bodied wasp moths means avoiding being eaten by predators while mating. So, the male moth, in order to protect his intended during courtship, covers her with a bridal veil of poison, according to a Wake Forest University researcher. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 12-12-00)
Carnegie Mellon University and NASA have formed a High Dependability Computing Consortium whose mission is to eliminate failures in computing systems critical to the welfare of society.
A list of 15 Purdue University experts who can discuss various aspects of animal and livestock well-being, ethics and animals, livestock management and the human-animal bond.
On Christmas Day, weather permitting, people across virtually all of North America will be able to watch the Moon partially cover the Sun. The editors of SKY & TELESCOPE magazine have created a complete guide for where/when to see this solar eclipse and how to view it safely.
Iowa State's December science tips include: 1- Separating microbes in the manner of molecules; 2- Learning the detail of materials; 3- "Fast-talking" computer clusters
Based on their recently completed survey of high school athletes, Mayo Clinic doctors are recommending a large-scale study on the use and long-term effects of creatine, a supplement used by athletes who believe it enhances athletic performance. (Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 12-00)
Purdue doctoral student has led a team developing a new type of cement that cures in below-freezing temperatures, an innovation with implications for the construction industry, which spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to heat construction sites.
Responsible business practices are successful business practices.
Understanding why a terminally-ill patient wishes to die has become a focus for improving end of life care as well as a crucial part of the physician-assisted suicide debate.
New research appearing in the December 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, finds that an innovative model for home health care used at U.S. Department Veterans Affairs medical centers yields more satisfaction for patients and family caregivers, than private-sector home care.
An innovative Veteran's Affair's home health care model provides patients and their caregivers with higher health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care than does private-sector home care, according to a study jointly conducted by researchers from the UIC, the VA and Northwestern University.
Vacuuming dry pine needles off the carpet is an inevitable part of having a live Christmas tree--or is it? Washington State University Plant Pathologist Gary Chastagner and geneticist Ulrik Nielsen have been working to develop better-quality Christmas trees that wonÃt dry up and shed their needles.
A new hydrothermal vent field, which scientists have dubbed "The Lost City," was discovered December 5th on an undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean.
Moral panics occur when the public voice of a society calls out to condemn a certain influence or activity in the community. An Arkansas anthropologist traces the trajectory of one moral panic in Egypt and gives insight into how such panics happen in the U.S.
Dr. Justin Congdon, a senior research ecologist with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, has been awarded the 2000 Longevity Prize by the Fondation IPSEN, a French organization that supports work in the field of longevity.
A new study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) provides new information about how HIV-associated dementia develops in patients infected with HIV. (Journal of Virology, 10-00)
A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the entire continental U.S. on Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25. It is important, though, to observe it safely.
While the digital economy poses serious threats to established brick-and-mortar firms, e-business represents a significant opportunity for entrepreneurs, conclude two Saint Joseph's University researchers in a new study. (New England Journal of Entrepreneurship)
A University of Arkansas law professor and a graduate student in biochemistry call for regulation of the use of millions of tons of antibiotics in livestock, citing their contribution to the growing problem of antibiotic resistant infections that plague humans. (Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review)
A cellular signaling system that responds to THC, the active substance in marijuana, as well as to anandamide, a cannabinoid-like molecule normally produced in the body, may regulate sperm functions required for fertilization in humans, a study headed by scientists from the University at Buffalo has found.
People at risk for heart disease shouldn't wait for results from big clinical trials of homocysteine-lowering nutrients before having their levels tested and taking more folic acid and vitamin B12 to cut homocysteine levels and heart risk, a new cost-benefit study finds. (Archives of Internal Medicine, 12-11-00)
Scuba diving has no long-term effects on the brain, according to a study in the December 12 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Mouse allergen, in the form of mouse urine or dander, is widely distributed in the inner city and may be a significant contributing factor to the childhood asthma epidemic in urban areas, according to two studies by Johns Hopkins researchers. (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 12-00)
People diagnosed with first-episode schizophrenia may fare much better when treated with newer anti-psychotic drugs than with traditional medications that were first introduced over forty years ago.
Most meteor showers are caused by comets, but the Geminid meteor shower, which peaks next Wednesday morning, seems to come from a curious near-Earth asteroid.
A research professor of anthropology at The University of Tulsa will direct a $297,300 project for last-ditch efforts to preserve the Yuchi language, which is spoken fluently now by only five elderly tribal members.
Ten scientists and engineers from the United States and Austria will meet in Chicago on Jan. 4 for the first scientific gathering of its kind convened to discuss research on vibration signals used by animals.
1) Employer flexibility enhances holiday productivity. 2) New president is likely to face a divided house on the hill. 3) Temple psychologist suggests celebrating life to combat holiday blues. 4) Exercise caution when decorating.
People will be able to retrieve the law as it stood at any point in time, thanks to a $100,000 grant to Cornell's Legal Information Institute from the Red Hat Center, a nonprofit foundation in North Carolina that seeks to make shared information freely available to the public.
Outer space will come to earth today with the formal opening of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Center for Space and Planetary Sciences on the University of Arkansas campus with facilities that will allow scientists to simulate conditions found on other planets and in space.
Engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore's Law, a general rule that is central to the evolution and success of the computer industry. Research findings to be presented in December show how the rule might be kept in force for another 25 years or longer.
No matter who ultimately wins the presidency, says a University of Alabama at Birmingham political scientist, voters in Florida are going to hold their politicians' feet to the fire in upcoming local and statewide races.
Globalization, competition and shareholder activism are increasing corporate citizenship programs around the world, according to a report from The Conference Board.
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