Carnegie Mellon dorm honored as first green residence hall
...y-friendly ammenities ranging from a sophisticated air ventilation system to specially-designed high efficiency washing machines to conserve water use. "The carpeting was specifically made for Carnegie Mellon from recycled yarn,'' said Tim Michael, director of housing services. The New Ho...DuPont awarded highest US honor for technological innovation
...mpact of CFCs, commonly used for refrigeration and air conditioning, among other applications. DuPont th...to develop products that could be used in existing air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, avoiding the societal disruption and expense of developing...Scripps scientists link ozone to atherosclerosis
...ituting on average fewer than one part per million air molecules. The gas plays a crucial role in protect...t radiation. Ozone is also a familiar component of air in industrial and urban settings where the highly reactive gas is a hazardous component of smog in t...President Bush to present DuPont with National Medal of Technology
...mpact of CFCs, commonly used for refrigeration and air conditioning, among other applications. DuPont th... to invent products that could be used in existing air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, avoiding the societal disruption and expense of developing...World's most alkaline life forms found near Chicago
... and used to fill in wetlands and lakes. Water and air reacts with the slag to create lime (calcium hydroxide), driving up the pH. There is an estimated 21 trillion cubic feet of contaminated industrial fill dumped in southeast Illinois and northeast Indiana, about half of which is thought to be slag, Ro...Ultra-low oxygen could have triggered die-offs, spurred bird breathing system
...day's atmosphere, low enough to make breathing the air at sea level feel like respiration at high altitud...ntosaurus. Rather than having a diaphragm to force air in and out of lungs, the Saurischians had lungs attached to a series of thin-walled air sacs that ap...Pack rat middens give unique view on evolution and climate change in past million years
...d conditions, Barnosky said. With more dust in the air and an increase in plants adapted for arid conditions, which contain more hard silica, it makes sense that evolution would select for voles with teeth that had more cutting surface that would not wear out as quickly. Barnosky and Bell compared these ...UGA researchers track greenhouse gases in forests
...e of the heat radiating from the earth causing the air temperature to rise. In a nutshell, that's the "gr... field." Americans could help reduce carbon in the air by driving smaller cars. "But no one wants to give up their SUV," she said. "Climate change is here ...University of Minnesota receives NSF grant to sequence legume genome
...led nodules. Within nodules, nitrogen gas from the air is converted into a form that living organisms can use to make amino acids and proteins. The special compounds legumes make include phytoestrogens and isoflavones, which have been linked to many health benefits. By sequencing the genome, scientists ...Inability to pump oxygen during exercise could pinpoint early heart problems
...lled oxygen pulse. During exercise, lungs take in air and transfer oxygen to the blood, which is then pumped by the heart to the muscles that need it. Oxygen pulse is the amount of oxygen put through this process with each heart beat, and is a measure of cardiovascular efficiency. Researchers studied...Down and dirty: Airborne ozone can alter forest soil
...us, plants and soils may be less able to clean the air of excess carbon dioxide when ozone levels are high. Ozone pollution occurs at levels known to be toxic to both plants and people in many parts of the United States and throughout the world. It is formed when chemicals produced by burning fossil fuel...NIEHS-funded researchers find low-level ozone increases respiratory risk of asthmatic children
...s or pollens. But researchers have also shown that air pollutants such as ground-level ozone, an active f...ted to design a study that examined the effects of air pollution on a particularly vulnerable population - children with active asthma - in regions where p...Brookhaven Lab develops 'ThraxVac' to clean up anthrax
...d as part of a building's heating, ventilating and air conditioning system, where it would continually capture and kill suspect bacteria and spores. In both of these technologies, a disposable filter is fitted with its own enclosed low-level polonium-210 source that emits alpha particles to continuously ...Rating the performance of residential fuel cells
... extract hydrogen from it, react the hydrogen with air and, presto, you have a home power plant! As the hydrogen and the oxygen in the air combine, they produce electricity. The primary "waste products" of the whole process are water and h...Envisat observes resurgent ozone hole
...n the presence of high-altitude clouds in the cold air above the South Pole these reactive chemicals brea... ozone. And there are large amounts of them in the air largely stored within intermediate and inactive 'reservoir' compounds, but activated by particular ...Nasal contribution to breathing with exercise: The effect of race and gender
...ng. The nose also effectively conditions inspired air to near body temperature and between 98-100% relat...ungs. The ability of the nose to condition ambient air in these ways serves as a protective mechanism against toxicity to the lower respiratory tract. A ...UGA scientist to study effect of air quality on unborn babies
...reet of a large city. She doesn't know it, but the air she's breathing could be hurting her unborn baby. ...entists suspect a relationship between exposure to air pollution and health problems like preterm births, low birth weights, poor fetal development and mor...$8 million grant establishes program to uncover genetics of asthma
... genes interact with such environmental factors as air pollutants, the five-year $8 million program promi... lung's response to ozone -- a common component of air pollution -- in patients with and without asthma. Jonathan Stamler, M.D., a Howard Hughes Medical In...NSF news tips - September 22, 2003
...escope lens in space, folding proteins and stowing air bags. NSF supported Demaine's postdoctoral fellowship (DMS-0102015), and he is now a co-PI on an NSF Information Technology Research award to design a network architecture that integrates millions of sensors (ACI-0205445). Xiaohui Fan of the Unive...New technology helps fire managers anticipate smoke problems
...03. Smoke from planned fires and wildfires affects air quality and visibility. Firefighters, forest manag... "We worked with smoke managers, burn bosses, and air regulators for many years prior to developing BlueSkyRAINS," Ferguson says. "As wildfires became lar...