Beyond patches and pills: the remarkable future of drug delivery
... delivery has gone from a fledgling pharmaceutical art to a $20 billion global industry. And while these years have seen impressive advances -- from nicotine patches to nasal inhalers -- the most promising technologies still lie ahead. This burgeoning area of research could someday produce an insulin pil...Cat parasite killing otters; Michigan's perch pressured; HACCP for medicine
...resources, interviews with scientists, and student art and projects as developed as part of the JASON Project curriculum. This award-winning site is run by Wisconsin Sea Grant. SEA GRANT CALENDAR SPOTLIGHT: Enhancing the Quality and Markets for Alaska Salmon January 27, 2003 - January 28, 2003, Ancho...Researchers reveal new secrets of the brain
... from injury. Svoboda's team employed state of the art technology to show that new connections, called synapses, form and dissolve in the adult brain as the mice take in sensory information. "If a few years ago you could have imagined in your wildest dreams the experiment you wanted to do, it would be t...Three tourist experiences named best worldwide for environmental, social responsibility
...o instrumental in restoring centuries-old works of art and environments and helps local communities maintain their traditional lifestyles. The winner of the Destination Stewardship Award, presented to a group protecting the overall natural and cultural heritage of a destination, is the REST Project for...American Physical Society March Meeting 2003
... associated with financial contracts. More than an art but less than a science, risk analytics bears some resemblance to physics, relying as it does on equations and modeled from statistics and probability theory, but one must always keep in mind that the human element in finance can trump invalidate equ...UCSD brings powerful visualization to high school classroom
... and building new software to keep it state of the art and to ensure that the technological innovation yields a faster, deeper learning experience in the classroom." The center will be linked via optical fiber to the OptIPuter testbed, now under construction on the UCSD campus. The OptIPuter proposal inc...NEI criticizes fear-mongering by authors of used fuel paper
...razor wire; concrete jersey barriers; state of the art detection equipment; and other protective measures to deter attackers and slow any possible entry into plants. Last October, the coordinators of a two-day national security simulation that featured former congressional and retired military leaders an...Genetics may help solve mysteries of human evolution
...ople began to behave in a modern way, in producing art and jewelry and doing a whole variety of other things that they hadn't done before,'' he said. Over the next 10,000 years, these behaviorally modern humans arrived in Western Asia, Eastern Europe and finally Western Europe, and displaced the Neandert...From da Vinci to Monet: Understanding how artists can manipulate the human visual system
...e of the science behind human visual perception of art at the 2003 American Association for the Advanceme...ave known about for years, but not debunking their art in any way," she said. "These artists - the Impressionists, Da Vinci, Chuck Close, and Robert Silver...Opening the black box: Scientists gain new tools to learn about the near-shore environment
...al Frontiers in Ecology, outlines the state of the art of management of marine reserves. The findings will be presented at a press conference of the American Association of the Advancement of Science on Friday, February 15, at noon Mountain Time. Previously, the open ocean has been studied the most, and ...New age for Mungo Man, new human history
...00 years and by 40,000 years had brought with them art and ritual burial," he says. The Lake Mungo remains are still Australia's oldest human remains. Mungo Man is still the first well-dated evidence found anywhere in the world of such cultural sophistication, in this case, the anointing of the body w...Boston chemist wins national award for research with enzymes, antibiotics
... Alfred Bader himself, the chemist and Old Masters art collector who in 1951 co-founded Aldrich Chemical Co. He is currently chairman of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation....Carnegie Mellon, NASA to develop robot illustrating how to seek life on distant planets
...ludes experts in software engineering, interactive art and educational technology working to develop next generation tools for public remote experience. The goal is to have hundreds of students participating remotely in the Atacama experiment by the end of 2005.......orke studied modern German literature, philosophy, art history, communication science and ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. After obtaining his doctorate he qualified as a professor at the Free University of Berlin. Since the summer semester of 2001 he has held a post as C4 Profess...MacKinnon lab's newest picture tells action potential story
...ears have been working like a bunch of blindfolded art critics. Imagine evaluating sculptures, for examp...e privilege of sight. The task of analyzing visual art would shrink to partial, indirect descriptions that fail in conveying the object's true character. S...Society for Conservation Biology to hold 17th Annual Meeting in Duluth June 28-July 2
...olved in the conference by visiting several local art galleries, which are adopting the conference theme of land and water interactions in gallery shows. The meeting will be held at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. For more information or to register, visit the conference Web site at www.c...Nature designs hard and tough materials at the nanoscale
...stones of human civilization. We have mastered the art of making a wide variety of materials with many interesting mechanical properties. Some materials like ceramics, glasses and mineral crystals are hard and fragile. Others like rubbers and collagen are soft and tough. During the Bronze and Iron ages, ...Botanist explores fascinating world of plant resins and amber in comprehensive new book
...played at an international exhibition of botanical art and illustration later this year. "It's a great honor for an artist to have their work accepted by the Hunt Institute," said Ann Caudle, coordinator of UCSC's science illustration program. "They have one of the most respected collections of botanica...UC Riverside's David Reznick receives 2003 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award
...ward consists of an especially appropriate work of art and an honorarium of $2,000, presented at the annual meeting. The UC Riverside Department of Biology serves three main functions: undergraduate instruction, graduate education, and research in basic biology. The department conducts research and tea...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
...and its environment. "I hope that this merging of art and science will get the artists thinking about ou...science, and the scientists thinking about what is art and what is the minimum needed to make a creative entity," Potter said. "On the science side, I hope...