Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
...and thisproject so that the 'virtual zoo' will one day be a reality." To make the project an effective teaching tool, researchers workedhard to make both the virtual environment and the virtual apes asrealistic as possible, said Hodges, an associate professor in GeorgiaTech's College of Computing anda...Mutate Or Die: New Polymerase Gives Desperate Yeast An Option
...same way in humans, then it'sconceivable that some day we could inhibit this enzyme in people prone to mutations, such as those receivingchemotherapy or people with a genetic history of cancer," says Hinkle. The team performed the study by usingultraviolet light to intentionally cause a well-placed...Southern Pine Beetle Reaching Outbreak Levels In North Florida
...nfestations to spread at a rate of up to 50 feet a day under the worstconditions, Meeker said. Florida has been laying the foundation for a pine beetle attack over thelast few decades, with planted acreage of loblolly pine twice what it was30 years ago and at a higher level than in 1949, when Florida's f...Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...small amountsof fluid, every hour, throughout each day of the competition." Houtkooper said Jackie Joyner Kersee fell victim to dehydration during theJune trials in Atlanta, a rare error in athletes at that level. The other key, Houtkooper says, is eating enough of the right kinds of foodsand eating them...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...essing. With turkeys going through the process all day longand new water replacing the water that is discharged after chilling, a turkeyplant can use a tremendous amount of water. Recycling the water obviously saves water. In addition, the system allowsthe user to save on energy, sewer and pretreatment ...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...pbacks carried on as if it were just another noisy day in the ocean. "In 84 trials beginning in February and continuing through March off the Kona-Kohala coast of Hawaii, we saw no overt response from the whales. For example, a cow-calf pod remained about 100 meters from our playback boat througho...Salvage Gene Is At The Root Of Many Mutations
...ommon occurrences in our cells,"taking place every day in about 10,000 to 20,000 of the three trillion DNA bases in each of our cells. Uncorrectedabasic sites can be lethal to cells because they act as vast potholes, halting the polymerase enzymes that usually zipalong a strand of DNA during replication....NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...en at levels approaching those of a high-pollution day in a major city. Satellite pictures show that the plumes of ozone stretch, at times, as far as South America. NCAR scientists have made several trips to Africa in the past three years to take preliminary air samples, install instruments, and make arr...North America Hit Hard By Asteroid Strike In Yucatan 65 Million Years Ago
...ed sleigh ride,"Schultz said. "This was indeed the day the Earth shook." As evidence, the researchers show that the horseshoe-shaped Yucatan cratermatches the structure of craters on the moon and Venus that were created whenobjects struck those heavenly bodies at oblique angles. Venus's thick atmosphere...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...en at levels approaching those of a high-pollution day in a major city. Satellite pictures show that the plumes of ozone stretch, at times, as far as South America. EXPRESSO may shed light on a global problem in biosphere-atmosphere chemistry. Plants take up vast amounts of carbon, particularly in the......e, and who smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day 20 years before diagnosis, had seven times the ris... of smoking -- the number of cigarettes smoked per day at two, 10 and 20 years prior to the interview -- appeared to be more significant than duration of s......"The same processing that used to take more than a day on workstations we can now do in minutes." "This is a big step forward," said Dr. Jonathan Cohen, codirector of the Laboratory for Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience, a joint venture of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. "The C...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
...tality. Nearly 2,000 new cases are diagnosed every day in the U.S., for a total of 625,000 each year. Support for these projects was provided by the U.S. Public Health Service; Wellcome Trust; Bristol-Meyers Squibb; the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International; the Blum-Kovler Foundation; Pew Charitabl...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...lly about six days apart, siblicide occurs about a day after the second egg hatches in the nest. The older chick forces the younger one out , leaving its tiny sibling prey to certain death from heat or patrolling mockingbirds. The question for Anderson, who first began examining siblicide in...Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
..., Dec. 6, 1996 -- Some of the barriers faced every day by people in powered wheelchairs may soon be removed because of an invention licensed to a new company in Florida by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Cybertrax Innovative Technologies of Tampa plans to introduce...A Sensor, A Switch, A Zipper: Protein Engineers Design Potential Tool
... with further refinements, their protein may one day be used to detect environmental toxins or--in a laboratory setting--act as a switch to activate genes or as a molecular zipper to join together proteins. The newly designed structure is featured in the cover ...Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
...etween the twoforms of RNA.Such insights could one day enable scientists to make betterantibiotics. In the search for more effective antibiotics, Draper is workingwith abiotechnology company to investigate compounds that bind to thesame segmentof RNA as thiostrepton. Thiostrepton is not water-soluble en...Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
...mmend that men consume 70 micrograms of selenium a day and women 55 micrograms; Americans typically get between 100 to 160 micrograms a day in their diets, Combs said. Selenium blood levels vary widely in populations. Even Americans with t...The CIA Would Like To Know What Scientists Are Seeing Over The Rainbow
...stay, says Ried. "I receive about one phone call a day from people who want to learn the technique," he says, anticipating the technology will be common in diagnostic and research laboratories in the coming years.......r way to South America. You will come home from a day of birding, logon to BirdSource, and share your checklist with thousands of other amateur birders and with professional ornithologists who need your data." And if feeder-watchers aren't sure whether they've spotted a Northern Flicker or a Varied Thru...