Warming trend seen in late freeze, early thaw of northern waterways, say Science researchers
...d the compiled data from their study in a publicly accessible database, with the hopes that scientists and public policy officials will incorporate the findings in future analyses....Biodiversity databases: biodiversity information on every desktop
...formation to the Internet, where it will be freely accessible to anyone, a consortium of 28 interested countries...rganisms involved, nor is that information readily accessible by research scientists. At the heart of GBIF will be a catalog of the scientific names o...Fugu fish sequencing project potential boon to gene hunters
...ercent of the Fugu genome sequence available in an accessible database by March 2001. The other members of the consortium will be responsible for the finishing phase of the project as well as contributing to the computational analysis of the genomic data. The long-term goal of this consortium is to generate...The silence of the clones: new link between DNA replication and 'silent' chromosome architecture
...tly packaged into forms of chromatin that are less accessible to transcriptional activators, the proteins that s...rnate chromatin structures that are generally more accessible to transcriptional activators . Now, Bruce Stillman and his colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Labora...Zooming liquid particles show technological promise
...t Surface." (Theearlier article was given the more accessible title of "How to MakeWater Run Uphill.") Ten years ago, Chaudhury found a new way to make droplets of water"creep" against their natural instincts. Writing in 1992 in Science, thenations leading science journal, Chaudhury said he had coaxed amicrolit...Amidst genome data, a practical tool for researchers
...y referring to the BAC Resource database, publicly accessible on the Internet, scientists can identify DNA sequences underlying particular locations on chromosomes. The scientists can then obtain those specific segments of DNA, called bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones. The BAC Resource links chromoso......s Europe and the United States, a digital library, accessible on the web, which will save the images and sounds of extinct and endangered species for future generations and an IMAX film explaining the links between people and nature A special education webpage for children was launched in January and, later in ...Organgutan numbers plummeting worldwide; species may vanish in ten years, study says
...itary and police. "All remaining forests that are accessible by road or river are subject to a seemingly unstoppable pandemic of illegal logging, regardless of their protection status," van Schaik said. Van Schaik found that orangutan densities decreased more than 60 percent in areas that have been selectivel...Dieting study finds Internet effective in producing initial weight loss
...armaceutical. The studys Web site was accessible on an Intranet maintained by the network of hospitals in which all of the study participants were employed. Researchers recommended participants follow a standard weight loss regimen including a diet of 1,200 to 1...Preserving Moroccan forests need not endanger Barbary macaques
...ni and his colleagues recommend making water more accessible to the monkeys. This would be easy to do: for instance, macaques could use ladders to reach the water in cement wells. The researchers' plan has the added benefit of being cheaper than relocating the macaques. This study underscores the importanc...Mouse gene trap helps decipher brain's wiring diagram
...n effort to develop a bank of mutant mouse lines - accessible at www.genetrap.org -- expressing particular populations of labeled axons as a resource for the neuroscience community. In the current study, Tessier-Lavigne, Skarnes and colleagues demonstrated, for the first time in vivo, an axon guidance role fo...Anthropologists find evidence of early humans in southern China cave
...is primarily chert, basalt and limestone. The most accessible material is the limestone, but it is the poorest quality material. As a result, the prehistoric peoples probably chose other materials for tools--one of the reasons the bamboo tool hypothesis was proposed. "We believe we're the first to show that la...Global warming: Science, economics, politics
...book on global climate change that will be readily accessible to policy makers. Gerald North, head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M, will speak about the likely effects of the most probable CO2 (carbon dioxide) growth path on temperature, sea level and rainfall patterns, among other t...Global change conference sets the scene for next round of Kyoto Protocol talks
...ce has been modified and more than half the worlds accessible freshwater is being used directly or indirectly by humans. These and many other changes are putting stress on the global environment. But do we know enough about the functioning of our home planet to know how much stress it can take? A major conferen...Laser treatment reduces scarring after heart attack
...n and other ischemic heart conditions that are not accessible to current revascularization procedures. "The use of low-energy laser irradiation has no known deleterious effect in humans, so it can be postulated that such irradiation is probably safe," Prof. Oron said....National survey reveals profound lack of scientific knowledge
...my has a profound responsibility to make reliable, accessible scientific information available to inform these deliberations and to help find sensitive and workable solutions to these pressing issues." Who the Public Trusts to Provide Scientific Information When asked whom they trust as a reliable source of in...Key step in gene activation discovered
...t stretch of DNA so it can unwind far enough to be accessible to another molecule, the "Transcription Enzyme," whose job is to move along the gene's length coping its code. Other molecules then use this copy to make proteins, which do the work specified by the gene. Using these previous discoveries as clues,...Penn researchers find proteins more dynamic than previously known
...hance the effectiveness of drugs by targeting more accessible protein sites, Wand said....Joint research project to improve butterfly identification system
...nverts butterfly information into a format that is accessible on the World Wide Web. Volunteers input the information they obtain in any order and then through the process of elimination, identify the correct butterfly species," he said, noting that diagnostic traits and photographs appear online for verificat...Climate change affecting even remote arctic environment, study says
...rams and photographs, the report is designed to be accessible to both scientists and non-scientists. By bringing together local and regional information, it paints a circumpolar picture of the status and trends in Arctic flora and fauna, including information on population sizes and changes, and a list of globa...