Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
...he article is scheduled to be published later this fall in the journal Global Change Biology. The scientists conducted the study by analyzing data collected by the U.S. Forest Service, which measured and cataloged 2.7 million trees on 250,000 plots of land across the country. They calculated the VOC emiss...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...wer for several years has, at the beginning of the fall quarter, asked students in a freshman-level and a senior-level biology class whether they would favor routine paternity testing when a baby is born. The answers were very similar year after year, he said, but those results were never formally compile...Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
... will help determine how much of the airborne PCBs fall and dissolve into the Great Lakes. Once in the water, PCBs accumulate or "bioconcentrate" in some Great Lakes fish to concentrations that are thousands to millions of times higher than PCB concentrations in the water surrounding the fish. The bioconc...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...th nuclear waste treatment technologies during one fall and two summer terms. Delmau joined ORNL's research staff in 2000 following a postdoctoral research appointment. She was instrumental in the development of a selected process for removing radioactive cesium from nuclear waste material. She has mo...Prion propagation: Avoiding the toxic oligomer
...fect their neighbors. Like molecular dominoes, the fall of one malformed protein precipitates the downfall of its neighbors, as one protein after another assumes the misshapen form of the first. Any chance of developing methods to contain the expansionist tendencies of these proteins depends on understand...Byproduct of water-disinfection process found to be highly toxic
...ge 2 is to reduce DBPs, particularly the ones that fall under EPA regulations, and especially the ones that have been structurally identified and found to be toxic." The use of chloramines, a combination of chlorine and ammonia, is one of three alternatives to chlorine disinfectant, which has been us...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...fuel cell materials economically feasible. In the fall of 2002 and winter of 2003, a Virginia Tech alumnus and entrepreneur, Charles Strickler of Manakin-Sabot, Va., funded workshops involving researchers from Virginia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) to discuss the viability of fuel cells...Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...e of cancer's outstanding success stories but the fall in mortality has diverted attention from a rise in incidence, a London conference will hear (Monday 6 September). "The marked disparity between incidence and mortality trends crystallises the problem posed by childhood leukaemia from a public health ...NASA satellites detect 'glow' of plankton in black waters
...the nature and origin of a dark plume event in the fall of 2003 near Charlotte Harbor, off the south Florida coast. Moderate concentrations of one of Florida's red tide species, were found from water samples. "Our study traces the black water patches near the Florida Keys to some 200 kilometers (124 miles...Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...lastic designed to expand and eventually break and fall off of the growing cubs-weigh just over five ounce...archers to follow the tiger cubs until the collars fall off or the cubs themselves die. The transmitters emit a "mortality" signal if the unit remains stati...NJIT chemist speaks Aug. 25 about compound derived from pine tree
...s of Malhotra's study will be published later this fall in the journals Biotechnology Progress and Tetrahedon Letters. "We think our results could change the synthetic processes in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry," said Malhotra. "These changes could make the current processes environmental...New OHSU lab will speed drug discovery process
...ical Research Building, which will be completed in fall 2005. "The Program in Chemical Biology will stimulate the identification of small molecules that act on specific cell components to modulate or control cellular processes," Dawson said. "A critical component of such research is the ability t...Carnegie Mellon researchers to demonstrate autonomous robotthat will seek life in Atacama Desert
... used in more extensive experiments conducted this fall and in 2005. Zoë is the result of that work. In the final year of the project, plans call for Zoë, equipped with a full array of instruments, to operate autonomously as it travels 50 kilometers over a two-month period. David Wettergree...Genes may be central to cocaine addiction
...d by cocaine and the proteins are known to rise or fall in response to environmental cues and distress "not only does Homer provide an important window to understand cocaine-induced neuroplasticity and addiction, but also to study the molecular basis of the important link between environmental stress and ...Study shows how consensus is attained in a noisy world
EVANSTON, Ill. -- A month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, 70,000 people gathered in the streets of Leipzig, East Germany, on Oct. 9, 1989, to demonstrate against the communist regime and demand democratic reforms. Clearly, no central authority planned this event; so how did all of these ...Outcome for acute lymphoblastic leukemia linked to gene expression patterns
...py to treat ALL. "The fact that resistance genes fall into groups that perform different functions in the cells demonstrates the importance of using combination therapy to treat cancer," said Ching-Hon Pui, M.D., director of the St. Jude Leukemia/Lymphoma division, the F.M. Kirby Clinical Research Profe...Gulf of Maine marine ecosystem may have entered new phase
... of time because the 'driver' species increasingly fall below functional population densities," Steneck explains. "When a threshold is reached, the system changes fundamentally. Everything that came before it is thrown out the window. What this does in the long run is make the system unpredictabl...Urban heat islands make cities greener
...the growing season lasted eight days longer in the fall than the rural areas. The researchers used MODIS surface reflectance data to measure seasonal changes in plant growth for the entire year of 2001. By accounting for angles of views from the satellite, varying sunlight, land surface temperatures, cl...Whale carcass yields bone-devouring worms
...ood-limited environment of the deep sea. One whale fall can provide as much organic material as thousands ...sual animal community at the Monterey Canyon whale fall in a paper to be published in the October 2004 issue of Deep Sea Research. Like the animal c......indicatingthat smaller particles within the clouds fall in a sedimentation-like process to thelower portions of the cloud while larger particles remain at its top. They alsopropose that atmospheric gravity and tidal waves likely contribute to the twodistinct sides of the noctilucent clouds [i.e., clouds t...