Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
...in 1990. She found that 27 percent of the 110,000 street trees in Brooklyn are Norway maples -- the trees this new beetle attacks most often. "I think this could be devastating for the city," Bassuk said. "After all, the Norway maple is the most widely planted shade tree in New York State."...Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...el Delimata, of Raleigh, can get muchmore out of a street hockey game now that Duke University engineering s... the pavement when acting asgoalie in neighborhood street hockey games. That is, until students in aDuke "Devices for the Disabled" course came to the rescue....Fruit Flies May Shed Light On Cocaine Addiction
... Cocaine is one of the most powerfully addictive street drugs. Extensive studieson rodents and monkeys have provided little information about the molecularprocesses that underlie cocaine's behavioral and addictive effects. Using fruitflies in such studies offers several advantages. The genetics of the ...Genetic Clue Found To The Leading Cause Of Blindness In The United States
...Further researchwill focus on uncovering the exact street address of the gene." Previousresearch has focused on a gene in a different area of chromosome 1 that causes ajuvenile form of macular degeneration and also may be associated withage-related macular degeneration. But this is the first published resea...AAAS Annual Meeting And Science Innovation Exposition
...housed at the Hilton, which is directly across the street from the Marriott. The workshops sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) will be held on Thursday, January 21 at the Marriott. Go to hotel registration . Newsroom Hours The newsroom operation will be located on the fourth...Hopkins Study Shows Brain Damage Evidence In "Ecstasy" Users
...tingly put themselves at risk" The common street drug "ecstasy" causes brain damage in people,according to a new Johns Hopkins study. In a report in The Lancet released thisweek, Hopkins scientists show that the drug -- known chemically as MDMA --damages specific nerves in the brain that release s...In The Genes: Extra Belly Fat, Insulin Resistance Linked
...enes along the length of human chromosomes the way street names help locatesomeone's house. Once genes linked to the traits are identified, tests could be developed toindicate a person's risk for becoming diabetic and gaining abdominal fat.Designing such tests would be easiest if a few -- or even one -- ge...Plastics - Easier To Recycle Than Commonly Thought
...from recycled material,such as fleece clothing and street furniture, could increase dramatically....In Animal Groups, Scientists See Patterns That Could Predict The Future
Like teenage boys hanging out on a street corner or fans cheering at a footballgame, animals behave differently when they're in a large group than they do whenthey're by themselves. The mechanics and patterns of nature's aggregations - schooling fish, flockingbirds or swarming insects - prov...Scientists Discover Important Molecular Link That Allows Cells To Form Blood Vessels
... likensthe process to someone driving a car down a street looking for a specificaddress. The driver reads th...r. "This system appears to work something like the street addresses we use totarget our destinations," Daniel said. "Vascular endothelial cells appear to useE...Rockefeller University Scientists Receive Prestigious Awards For Cancer Research
...st quality," he said. "And we're right across the street from SloanKettering and New York Presbyterian Hospital. Together, we'll see theapplications of our research, by working with people who need our help." Sloan Prize recipient Dr. Roeder is an equally accomplished scientist. A memberof the National A...Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...automatically detect certain patterns (loved ones, street signs,grocery items, for example) and then offers audio instructions such as "Theperson you're looking at is your brother Bill"; "You have bought milk and eggs,but you forgot the bread"; "This is Oak Street; turn left if you want to gohome." One goal...Large air pollution center established at NYU School of Medicine
...study will measure levels of particulate matter at street level in New York City, (the site will be at 1st avenue and 26th street, near NYU Medical Center), with a set of collection instruments in order to characterize the air that New Yorkers breathe. Another will develop models for tracking the route of u...Register now for the 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting
...e for the newsroom, is located directly across the street from the Omni Shoreham Hotel. NEWSROOM INFORMATION The newsroom operation at the AAAS Annual Meeting will be located on the Mezzanine Level of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. It will offer news briefings, a workroom equipped with Internet access an......ce signaled by bees traveling the same course near street level, presumably because "as the ground drops away, it doesn't seem to move as quickly by the bees' eyes," Srinivasan says. Building on this earlier work, Srinivasan and his coauthors-Shaowu W. Zhang of ANU and Monika Altwein and Jüergen Taut...International trade imperils U.S. plants, animals and crops
...China in wood packaging material and is destroying street trees in several cities in the East," she said. "It has a very wide host range and, while it is currently feasting on a variety of maple species, it has the potential to expand to many other types of trees." Crop weeds accounted for $26 billion in ...Beetle uses fecal defense against predators
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Like eccentric street people who deter muggers by acting crazily, one crafty beetle has developed an equally outrageous defense: Larvae of the tortoise beetle species Hemisphaerota cyanea cover themselves with their own feces, persuading most predators to pass them by, Co...UC Berkeley psychologist finds evdence that male hormones in the womb affect sexual orientation
...0 people who attended three San Francisco Bay Area street fairs in the fall of 1999. Using a portable copy machine, his research assistants had subjects lay their hands flat on the machine to record finger lengths. Breedlove also administered a questionnaire that explored birth order and sexual orientation.......ngiogenesis," says Sawhney. "We can shut off every street or alley supplying the tumour," he says. The same device is being tested experimentally as a way of treating aneurysms, the cardiovascular equivalents of tyre blowouts. Martin Cortvriend of Genzyme, the company in Boston which makes exi......fossils in your basement and the hospital down the street does CT scans for you, you get calls from researchers around the world. Especially when your computer can handle 3-D photos and you can send digital images over the Internet. That's what Jack and Celeste Horner have found at the Museum of the Rockies...