Have DNA lab, will travel: mobile unit first of its kind
...It's a state-of-the-art lab that can go just about anywhere there's a road." The lab cost $120,000 and was funded by a matching grant from the Trans Pecos Desert Bighorn Sheep Restoration Society, which is led by Clayton Williams Jr., a Texas A&M alumnus and prominent West Texas businessman. Fittingly, the f...One change in farming makes for cleaner waterways
...rm-related pollution levels in Lake Erie decreased anywhere from 5 percent to more than 50 percent in a 10-year period. The most striking change in farming practices was the rapid adoption of conservation tillage in both watersheds. ...Ancient tick found in New Jersey leaves experts guessing
...The tick, estimated to be anywhere from 90 to 94 million years old, was fossilized in its larval stage. Entomologists know more about hard ticks (or ixodids) because of a more extensive fossil record. Still, the age ...... can update their assigned sections anytime, from anywhere they have access to the Internet, notes Sharon McAvinue, director of the initiative known as Hopkins Point of Care Information Technologies (POC-IT). McAvinue conceived of and spearheaded the ABX Guide project as part of POC-IT, while Bartlett serve...Collapse of simple life forms linked to mass extinction 200 million years ago
...aces in the world," Ward said. "There are no roads anywhere close by. The forests are virgin old growth, and the wave action is such that you can't get there by boat." Samples from a spot called Kennecott Point, in the northern Queen Charlottes, and from Kunga Island, about 100 miles to the southeast, showed ...Unusual source of ocean water contamination may rewrite environmental textbooks
... scientists -- he suggested. "One scenario is that anywhere along the coast in the United States, you might run into this problem," he said. "We thought there were multiple sources for the bacteria at Huntington Beach. What we've found is that the marsh is one of those sources. This beach is ground zero of wh...Scientists monitor global air pollution from space
...osely track where pollution travels year round and anywhere on Earth. The first observations are being released Wednesday at the American Geophysical Union's spring meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Launched in December 1999, MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) tracks the air pollutant car...Global air pollution monitoring debuts at AGU press briefing, May 30
... track where the pollution goes all year round and anywhere on Earth. The first observations from this unprecedented environmental monitoring capability will be released at a press briefing Wednesday, May 30, at 11:00 a.m. EDT at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Boston, Mass. The event will be held i...Tropical glaciers formed while earth was giant snowball
...as the Andes and Mt. Kilimanjaro, and do not reach anywhere near sea level. Pollard and James K. Kasting, professor of geosciences, first looked at the possibility that tropical ice sheets formed before the oceans completely froze into a snowball Earth, when equatorial oceans were still ice-free and could ...Muddy waters: letting the Gulf of Mexico breathe again
... of the problem. It could cost anywhere between $300 to $2,000 per acre to restore and create wetland areas in the Midwest; it's less expensive to create a wetland in an area that used to be a wetland." In com...Researchers find large discrepancies in spouses' reports on birth control
...Dominican Republic, and Pakistan than for Haiti or anywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. Husbands reported current contraceptive use about twice as often as did their wives in Benin, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, and Mali. The condom and periodic abstinence were the main methodsreported by men whose w...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
...le). In the laboratory, bananas can be grown with anywhere from one to six sets of chromosomes. Once the banana genome is known, scientists will be able to probe the effects of multiple chromosome sets on basic plant functions, such as how plants use and store carbon. Bananas are the only known plant in w...New insight into diet and colon cancer
...ate, the biggest problem is that they do not speak anywhere near the same language," he says. "We spent four years learning one another's language, so we want to teach highly trained statisticians enough biology so that the communication difficulties break down." The program has been awarded a grant by t...Botanists collect, study rare Hawaiian plants
...2 percent of the native land plants can't be found anywhere else in the world. Ballard, an international expert on violets whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation, is collecting DNA samples of the flowering herb to determine what varieties have taken a foothold on the islands, and whether the...The genetics behind miniature plants
...ant Arabidopsis. Arabidopsis plants grow normally anywhere between 16 and 33 degrees Celcius. However, as the name suggests, plants deficient in BONZAI1 are perfectly miniature at 22 degrees, but grow to a normal size at 28 degrees. Using electron microscopy, Dr. Fink determined that BON1 mutant cells fail t...Complex carbohydrate found to regulate plant growth
...re's even one sugar that's actually not been found anywhere else." The work of O'Neill, Darvill, Stefan Eberhard and Peter Albersheim shows that normal plant growth depends on the ability of RG-II strands to cross-link with boron and form a network in the cell wall matrix. Boron cross-links RG-II strands toge......., of Jersey City, N.J., that can find human faces anywhere in a field of view. It can track up to 10 faces simultaneously in a live video. It can follow that face as it moves through a crowd while also searching for matches against a database at a rate of 60 million/minute, per central processing unit (CPU)....First global-scale assessment of biodiversity beneath our feet
...poorly known. There is not one experimental plot, anywhere in the world, for which all species of soil and litter fauna have been described. The dearth of information on belowground species is partly because of their sheer abundance and diversity. The species diversity of fauna in litter and soil is likely ...Museums must play a bigger role in conservation
...engage local communities (in the United States and anywhere around the world) to take immediate action. The essay was coauthored by Georgie Boge, The Field Museums special assistant to the president for environmental initiatives, and Gillian Darlow, manager of business development and operations for the Envir...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: January 2002
...at cancause persistent diarrhea in humans, lasting anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks. The most common mode of transmission is consumption of contaminated water.Previous studies have identified wild Canadian geese as one source ofcontamination. "The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent Cryptosporidiu...