New book urges ecologists to think 'outside the helmet'
...ing over hundreds to thousands of years The next millennium will see continued changes in global climate, species extinctions, and invasive species along with the burgeoning human population encroaching on almost all natural areas. "We think ecology is poised to be one of the most important of the biological...Abandoned penguin colonies may help refine Antarctic climate studies
...ously unnoticed cooling trend that persisted for a millennium caused enough ice to build up in Antarctica's Ross Sea that thousands of Adelie penguins abandoned their colonies beginning about 2,000 years ago, according to newly published research. Using radiocarbon analyses of abandoned colonies on the Victoria...A thermodynamic history traces temperature's effect on Universe, Earth and humans
..., all known species of gas were liquefied. As the millennium came to an end, the low-temperature scale reached billionths of a degree above absolute zero." Ever wonder what's so special about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or why we consider room temperature to be around 70 degrees? Segr explains that people feel m...American Society of Plant Biologists is new name for former American Society of Plant Physiologists
...gists (ASPP), founded in 1924, is entering the new millennium with a new name: the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). The name change was approved through a vote of the Society's membership by a ratio of more than 2 to 1. ASPB President Daniel Cosgrove, distinguished professor at Pennsylvania State U...... researchers at the Royal Meteorological Society's millennium conference in Cambridge this week, could explain long-standing mysteries about the origin of life, such as how cells got their membranes and how simple organic molecules became concentrated enough to join together to form large, complex ones. The th...Whitehead press seminar: Beyond the scientific frontier
...le to look into a crystal ball to see what the new millennium holds for science and medicine. Will gene therapy revolutionize the way physicians treat disease? Will police officers arrive at crime scenes sporting hand-held DNA sequencers? Will people be living on Marsand facing a unique set of biomedical cha...Droughts worse than the 1930's likely in the 21st century
...ons in the earth's water-resources during the last millennium occurred naturally in Eastern Africa. Mounting sci...tions have occurred across the globe over the last millennium and could reoccur independent of human-induced global-warming. The existence of extreme, global c...Formosan termite may be top concern of entomologists of the new millenium, according to report
...ing and emerging entomological problems of the new millennium was published today in the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society in London. Hunter is also a co-author of Ecology of Insects, recently published by Oxford University Press. While the Formosan termite is a problem that will likely get only worse...The future of the world with materials science and engineering
...rt of our technological future. Launching the new millennium with a preview of some of the materials technologies that will be shaping our tomorrows, Materials World has gathered together the thoughts of four leading materials scientists on what they think the materials technologies of the future will be. "T...NIEHS urges safety workers to prepare for Y2K false alarms and malfunctions
... managers and workers who may be on dutyduring the millennium rollover and to help empower them to take the measuresnecessary to protect themselves, their facilities and their communities. The Y2K Awareness course has been developed to be added to an existingtraining program, presented as a stand alone ...Whitehead Receives $7 million NIH Grant To Build High-Speed Sequencing Machines
...ncingmachines will continue to increase in the new millennium as applications of theGenome Project extend into biomedicine. The proposed sequencing machines will incorporate a microfabricated "chip"device that miniaturizes the process of electrophoresis, the method currentlyused to read DNA landmarks. The dev...