A trio of genes that produce a flower within a flower within a flower, one of the earliest recognized abnormalities in flowers, has been identified by University of California, San Diego, biologists, as reported in the May 11 Nature.
New instrumentation makes it possible to analyze the localized chemical content of extremely small specimens -- single cells, single fibers, single crystals, and botanical parts; slicing them thin enough is all that's needed to probe their chemistry (Chemistry and Industry).
Tracking pollutants in urban environments is necessary to ensure sustainability of urban areas. A University of Arkansas researcher has developed a linked air-water modeling system that can predict concentrations of nitrogen compounds in urban stormwater.
A University of Maryland professor is lending his expertise to the search for a simple and accurate test for the detection and identification of illegal drugs on surfaces such as desks, computer keyboards and steering wheels.
To introduce youngsters to physics, water conservation, turfgrass research, and other scientific concepts, Mississippi State University is driving area youngsters to the golf course.
CIIT plans to nearly double its wet lab space to meet growth needs and expanded research sponsored by the chemical industry; the human health institute will spend $5 million on new labs and equipment.
Pigs on treadmills? The idea has proven to University of Missouri-Columbia researchers the importance of exercise in preventing heart disease; according to their research, exercise can fend off one of the nation's biggest killers.
Are consumers manipulated into buying things they don't want? BU history professor Regina Blaszczyk, in "Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning," reveals that leading manufacturers of home goods devote considerable effort to learn their customers' priorities and preferences.
As one of the nation's foremost advocates for enhancing the lives of future generations through health and social service programs, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala will be the guest speaker at New York University School of Medicine's Commencement Day Exercise on May 11.
David Neff, executive editor of "Christianity Today" and "Books & Culture" magazines, will deliver the Samford University commencement address on May 20.
Don't look for the one "true" interpretation of the Second Amendment -- the controversial amendment concerning the right to bear arms -- because it doesn't exist, according to an Ohio State scholar who edited a new book on the topic.
Results of DASH-Sodium, a multi-center trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, is one of the press briefings scheduled for the American Society of Hypertension's 15th Scientific Meeting (May 17-20).
Only 14 percent of patients treated for three common mental illnesses -- depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder -- received care that met with accepted standards, according to a new Harvard Medical School study (Journal of General Internal Medicine).
A very high intake of dietary fiber, mostly from fruits and vegetables, lowers blood glucose levels in diabetics, shows a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers (NEJM, 5-11-00).
Armed with the strongest evidence to date, University of Wisconsin researchers have established that sleep apnea -- episodes of breathing pauses during sleep -- is likely to be an important cause of hypertension (NEJM, 5-11-00).
A number of incontinent women diagnosed with overactive bladder may have bladder obstructions their doctors miss, a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center urologists showed (Journal of Urology, 6-00).
The Sun appeared nearly featureless this weekend (May 6-7) as the sunspot area dropped 10 times below its average value.
Smokers who want to quit but really enjoy the taste of a cigarette may soon have a new weapon at their disposal -- it's a mouth rinse that claims to make smoking taste terrible.
Vermont's U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders -- the country's only Independent representative in Congress -- will address 44 graduating seniors at Marlboro College's 53rd Commencement on May 14.
The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a national conference May 22-24 to explore future trends in poverty issues.
President Clinton today named 200 teachers to receive the 1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for mathematics and science teachers in grades K through 12.
A University of Michigan engineer is on a team that discovered one of the solar system's most unusually shaped objects, asteroid 216 Kleopatra (Science, 5-5-00).
The class of 2000 has more to be excited about than just being finished with final exams and textbooks -- this year's crop of college graduates can expect to see an increase in starting salaries and an expanded job market.
Approximately 2,000 Hofstra University students will take part in commencement activities, May 21 and 22. Speakers include Maurice R. Greenberg, Cy Coleman, Hon. Richard Conway Casey, Jeffrey Lyons, John H. Marburger III, and Raymond A. Jansen.
Patients and physicians with questions about digestive diseases now can turn to a newly launched website for answers; the Johns Hopkins Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology announces the launch of their in-depth Gastroenterology and Hepatology Portal.
Auditors are much less likely to distort new information when they make decisions than salespeople; when held accountable, though, salespeople are likely to shed their biases, whereas auditors' decisions don't improve, shows a Cornell University study (Management Science, 1-00).
Cornell scientists have found that both songs and mating rituals of cowbirds correlate with brain size, the first time this information has been correlated in a parasitic bird species (Behavioral Neuroscience, 5-00).
University at Albany Professor John Delano, a nationally known geochemist who is working with NASA to investigate the origins of life, will be the featured speaker at UAlbany's 156th undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 21.
Rodrigo Rato, deputy prime minister of Spain and minister of the economy and Haas MBA from the class of 1974, will give the commencement address at this year's Haas graduation ceremonies on May 21.
Aether Systems, Inc., and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have initiated a $510,000 research and education partnership to strengthen the Baltimore region's role in the rapidly growing field of wireless and mobile computing.
An international panel of AIDS experts has established a broad set of recommendations for drug resistance testing in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus; the recommendations are published in the May 10 JAMA.
Research study shows evidence that exposure to indoor allergens from dust mites and cockroaches is a risk factor for the development of allergic diseases and asthma.
1- common lung exam often causes unnecessary pain: more pain control needed, 2- quicker asthma diagnoses may lower hospital admission rates for elderly: based on research expected to be presented at the American Thoracic Society Conference May 5-10 in Toronto.
The Washington State University International Business Institute has launched the first cooperative MBA program involving an American and a Vietnamese university.
Swarthmore College President Alfred H. Bloom will award honorary degrees to physicist and theologian Ian Barbour, innovative dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, and political and civil rights advocate Elizabeth Martinez at the College's 128th commencement on May 29.
Deaths due to smoking leave hundreds of thousands of youth in the U.S. motherless or fatherless, and the resulting taxpayer costs included nearly $2 billion in Social Security Survivors Insurance costs in 1994 alone, says a UC Davis epidemiologist (Preventive Medicine, 5-00).
You're less likely to find contaminants in store-bought fillets than in fish pulled from local streams and rivers, according to research by a Purdue University professor of foods and nutrition.
Every picture tells a story, and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons will tell the stories of artists with orthopaedic conditions and the physicians who treat them through a special art exhibit -- eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art.
A new type of natural progesterone improves the quality of life for post-menopausal women, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the May Journal of Women's Health.
Contrary to popular belief, people enrolled in managed care plans are no longer less likely to be admitted to hospitals than are individuals covered by non-managed care plans, according to a study from AHRQ.
The highest resolution map of the cosmic microwave background yet published confirms BOOMERANG results showing a flat universe, inflation and a cosmological constant.
Farmers may be risking future sales if they don't avoid commingling genetically modified and conventional crops when plotting, planting and harvesting, says a Purdue University Extension corn specialist.
In recognition of National Better Hearing and Speech Month, a University of Arkansas researcher of communication disorders reveals that America's older population is being silenced -- not by illness or physical impediment but by the social stigmas associated with growing old.
Obtaining lower cost insurance and satisfying employees who want to keep their current doctors may be more important to small businesses when negotiating health care coverage than the plans' quality of care or accreditation status, according to a study from AHRQ.
With healthcare and work environments changing at light speed, psychologists are examining the possibility of having prescription privileges, the advantages and disadvantages of online therapy, ways to reduce workplace violence and discrimination and the medical and societal implications of gene therapy.
Vertical structures, called microcolumns, found in the cerebral cortex of normal brains are disrupted in the brains of people affected by Alzheimer's disease and may be connected to the cognitive loss associated with it, report Boston University scientists in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
A $10 million commitment from Purdue alumnus Jerry Rawls, one of the largest private gifts in the university's history, has pushed the Krannert School of Management's fund-raising campaign past its halfway mark.
If a common heritage conferred peace, then the history of conflict in the Middle East may have been resolved years ago. For, according to a new study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years.
Many patients who suffer from episodic cluster headaches, which are even more painful than migraines, may find rapid relief from the drug zolmitriptan, according to a study reported in the May 9 issue of Neurology.
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