Scientific explanation for success of klapskate
...e between the shoe and the blade, or a hinge at an angle between them, may make it possible to improve the effect of the skaters push-off even more. These innovations still have to be tested in practice. STW has applied for two patents on the klapskate improvements, one of which has already been granted....Gulp! URI professor studies how sharks eat
...ow it is doing it. Wilga takes measurements of the angle of the sharks fins, how wide it opens its mouth, a...around the shark and to see that sharks swim at an angle to the flow. As part of her postdoctoral research, Wilga showed that the sharks body and tail provid...Chemists spin materials to improve magnetic resonance data
...angle spinning (MAS), spins materials at a certain angle with respect to the NMR's magnetic field. Unfortunately, MAS doesn't work for 70 percent of known elements. For these elements, including oxygen, aluminum, and sodium, the ...Marine snail study suggests conservation efforts should move beyond genetic diversity
...f its range. "This novel study provides a new angle to research on genetic/morphologic diversity," says Rich Lane, director of NSF's geology and paleontology program, which funded the research. "It has been thought that morphologic variation is greatest in populations where genetic diversity is highe...Researchers find 'north pole' of the molecular world
...their mark, and they can determine at exactly what angle the pole is oriented. Novotny sees other applications for molecular dipole moments. "Cells in the body communicate through proteins located in their membranes. During an exchange of information, the shape of the proteins changes. By attaching molecul......spine, instead of being straight, develops a sharp angle to one side. It's as though the animal had been snapped by bending its head down to its feet," she said. No koalas are being euthanased for the study. Cleland Wildlife Park, where koalas are permanently on show, has a number of cadavers from natural...Pattern in protein manufacture found in hippocampus
...decided to tackle this from a completely different angle by looking at protein synthesis in dendrites." Job and Eberwine grew particular cells from the hippocampus called neurons that extend long structures (dendrites) away from the main portion of the cell, known as the cell body. Cell bodies store the ge...Stanford scientist seeks participants in NASA hypergravity study
...with a specially built floor that tilts back on an angle to accommodate increasing G forces. Every four hours, participants will be required to perform three-minute sitting, standing and reclining exercises while their cardiovascular response is evaluated. ``At any time, and for any reason, participants wi...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...ending northwest corner by a zone striking at high angle to the New Hebrides arc, i.e., the Hazel Holme extensional zone. Moreover, impingement of another topographic feature (the d'Entrecasteaux Ridge) into the overriding plate led to local deformation and fragmentation of the arc. Migration of methane g...Death by color: Spiny spiders' bright stripes attract prey
...so learned that spiny spiders set their webs at an angle and that they sit on the underside of their webs with their backs to the ground. This suggests, says Hauber, that sun and nearby vegetation offer camouflage for the web. "Daytime web-building and hunting, along with the web placement and orientation,...UCR entomologists report bee-dancing brings more food to honeybee colonies
..., the bee will bisect the circle at an angle. The angle with respect to 12 o'clock represents the angle to fly with respect to the sun. If the bee ran from 6 to 12 o'clock (i.e., straight up), this would...Fluid flow technology takes a cue from fast-swimming sharks
...3M so that the ridges made an angle of 45 degrees with the length of the pipe. The ridges on one side of the pipe formed a converging pattern, and the other side formed a diverging pattern. In tests, the converging riblets...MITs smart surface switches properties reversibly
...th water, or wettability, by analyzing the contact angle of a water droplet on it. They also looked at the microscopic properties of the new surface. The latter was actually a very difficult task since the monolayer was only about one nanometer thick, or one-millionth the thickness of a dime, Lahann s...Myosin V, the molecular motor, moves in monkey-bar motion
...ng an electromagnetic field that could resolve the angle at which the molecule tilts. Using single-molecule fluorescence polarization, we could detect the three-dimensional orientation of myosin V tilting back and forth between two well-defined angles as it teetered along, said Goldman....Molecule offers insights into fertilization
...egg, and study how fast they are swimming, and the angle at which they are swimming. "This has been the best collaboration I have ever worked on," Zimmer said. "This is a perfect example of the importance of basic research. We were working with a marine animal; a group in Germany isolated a human gene and ...UGA faculty of engineering researchers awarded $1 million NSF grant to develop nanoscale biosensors
...wly developed nanofabrication technique - glancing angle deposition (GLAD) - to fabricate nanoscale 3-D pillars. This development will provide several unique features to suit the needs of biosensing applications. "With such a joint effort, we move to the forefront of this cutting-edge research and get th...Laboratory 'theme park' re-creates RNA world for study
...elephant, each approach may have captured only one angle of life's origins. "We'll never really know the whole story of how life got started," says Bartel, "but every insight that we can discover is important. This is one of the most significant and fundamental questions in science, right up there with 'ho...NSF news tips - September 22, 2003
...sheet of paper. "There are ways to standardize the angle at which an x-ray is taken, but they are complicated and not all dentists' offices would be able to apply them," said team member Robert Howell, a professor of oral pathology at West Virginia. Central to ADIS is evaluation of the computer science te...John Allen Paulos receives prestigious AAAS Award for Public Understanding of S&T
...resses issues in the news that have a mathematical angle to them. During the 2000 presidential elections, for example, Paulos contributed pieces that led to a number of media appearances and much commentary, most notably a citation by the Florida Supreme Court. He has appeared frequently on television and...