World's Experts Plan Global Locator Service For Environmental Information
...ries ago confronted the same problem. They held an amazing diversity of content but had to work out common agreements on how to catalog it," Christian said. "Today, librarians and citizens everywhere rely on the common formats used in library catalogs. The information locator service builds on these standar...Study: Hydrogen Bonds Aren't Key To DNA Pairing After All
...e fundamental question of what's really behind the amazing fidelity of DNAreplication. Eric Kool, the University of Rochester professor of chemistry who led the study reported in the September 30 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy ofScience , suggests that it's now more likely than ever t......ation stateonce again. "This is an amazing process because it requires a great deal of energy.They fast for seven months, relying solely on the fat they've stored as anenergy source," Florant said. To study hibernating animals, Florant uses a special chamber at ColoradoState t...Lactose-Intolerant People Should Drink More Milk, Expert Says
...down the lactose. "Our studies have shown a really amazing adaptation of the large intestine of humans," Savaiano says. "The large intestines contain bacteria that help digest lactose. By altering the diet over time, bacteria more effectively digest lactose, making milk better tolerated. "The bacteria are ve...Coastal Development Threatens Rare Atlantic Shorebird
...he least terns," said Schweitzer, "andthey're such amazing little birds, it would be a tremendous loss to let themslip away." -30-...Bears Cubed: Virginia Tech Studies Three Bears, And Three Bears, And Three More Bears
...Vaughan's continuous studies have resulted in some amazing findings. "Bearsbreed between June and August with the peak of breeding in July," the wildlifeprofessor explains. "The embryo, however, develops only to about 300 cells inthe blastocyst stage. It floats and remains unattached in the uterus until earl...Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
...al form of sonar, fish-eating flying bats have the amazing ability to detect underwaterfish, even though only a thousandth of the energy in their sonar signal penetrates into water, and only amillionth of the original energy gets reflected back. Presenting a theoretical model of this process, AnatoliStulov o...DFG To Fund Six New Research Units
...o many metals and metal-based compounds display an amazing physicalproperty: They conduct electric current without any resistance and hence without any lossesdue to heat radiation. Helium, which is gaseous at room temperature, becomes superfluid atextremely low temperatures so that it flows up container wall...... of today'sinteractive technologies to bring these amazing creatures and their continuallyunfolding stories to the public. This type of robotics technology is acutting-edge exhibit technique we are proud to debut." The Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Dinosaur Hall displays what areconsidered th...... central nervous system, with the possibilities of amazing consequences, from treating mental disease to improving mental powers," says Richard N. Zare, who headed the research effort. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Chemistry, and his colleagues published the technique that allowed them to re...University Of Georgia Researchers Help Design Decision Support System For Forest Managers And Owners
... deal with these once-intractableproblems has been amazing over the past few years," said Dr. Donald Nute, headof the Artificial Intelligence Center and the department of philosophy at UGA."But in order for them to work, we first have to have deep knowledge of aproblem area." Ecosystems are complex h...Plant Pathologists Collaborate Worldwide To Combat Sorghum Ergot
...ica,the Caribbean and North America. "One of the amazing characteristics of thisdisease is its propensity for rapid, uncontrollable spread," says Bandyopadhyay. "In Brazil, less than one month after the initial ergot sighting in 1995, thedisease had spread over an area of more than 800,000 km square." A...Crystal Structure Of Key HIV Protein Reveals New Treatment Targets
... attack by a dense array ofcarbohydrates and by an amazing capacity to change shape," says Dr. Sodroski. Among their findings were: A shape-shifting device that allows gp120 to shield itself from antibodiesuntil it reaches CD4 receptor sites on the immune system's T-cells - the firststep in hijacking t...Birds Of A Feather: The Physics Of Flocks
...d up in a different direction than before. What's amazing is that themagnets can line up in one of many directions, but the atoms have chosen a singledirection out of all other possiblities. This is an example of what physicists call "spontaneously broken symmetry"--theunmagnetized material has properties t...Lake George Water Is Death On Zebra Mussel Larvae
...cium conditions,Nierzwicki-Bauer said. "One of the amazing wonders of the natural world is that creatures can adapt.Nature can produce offspring that survive and prosper where they once would havegrown weak and died. So it is always important to exercise caution and not givezebra mussels a foothold," she sai...Scientists Find First Protein In Central Nervous System Junctions
...make proper use of molybdenum. "This is an amazing illustration of how wacky nature can be," saysJosh...gephyrin hastwo seemingly unrelated functions - an amazing example of nature using whateverworks to get the job done."...Butterflies Help Reveal The Source Of Life's Little Luxuries
...ys, the output can be very different." "One of the amazing things about butterflies is that these genetic programsresult in a tremendous variety of color patterns, not structures," said Lewis. "Few would have guessed," said Keys, "that those beautiful color patternsevolved from the same genetic processes whi...Scientist Fancies Frogs For Pain Research
...alternative model inthe early 1990's. "It's pretty amazing to think that frogs can help us understand pain in humans,"says Dr. Stevens who runs the only amphibian-model laboratory of its kind in theUnited States. "But our research shows there is much similarity in the actionsof morphine and other opioid dru......ely changed the atmosphere onour planet. That's an amazing process. Now, we can more fully explore it!" Mimicking Nature's magic tricks To change water into one of its constituent elements, dioxygen (O2), the Yaleresearch team needed a catalyst to trigger the reaction. Their solution was ametal-based, "dio......r chairs," said Tessier-Lavigne. "It'sone of those amazing moments in the laboratory when you think you're working ontwo different things, but in fact you’re working on two different faces ofthe same thing." Both Goodman and Tessier-Lavigne view the serendipitous convergence of thesetwo lines of study,...