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...ners, county extension agents, nature enthusiasts, artists and illustrators as well as for medical scientists, forensics experts, law enforcement agencies and other scientists. The problem: Collecting local or in-state plant life is in steep decline, at a time when habitat is changing dramatically. ...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
...ells. And while the robot's drawings won't put any artists out of business (picture the imaginative scribblin... that this merging of art and science will get the artists thinking about our science, and the scientists thinking about what is art and what is the minimum ne...From da Vinci to Monet: Understanding how artists can manipulate the human visual system
...fade. "I'm demystifying the procedures that some artists have known about for years, but not debunking their art in any way," she said. "These artists - the Impressionists, Da Vinci, Chuck Close, and Robert Silvers, for example-discovered fundamental ...Mount Holyoke College series examines advances in human reproductive technologies
...ts, ethicists, legal experts, science writers, and artists for discussions about existing and emerging human ...s to exchange ideas with scientists, scholars, and artists who are directly involved in these issues. All events in the series, which is co-sponsored by the cl...NSF invites media to report on U.S.-sponsored Antarctic research (2002-2003 season)
...olar Programs offers a separate program to support artists and writers in Antarctica whose primary form of expression is not journalistic. For information see: http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/aawr.htm, or contact: Guy Guthridge, (703) 292-8033/ gguthrid@nsf.gov Application: Focused applications with thorough repo...Fulbright fellow develops environmental biology courses in Zimbabwe
.... The visit to the hot, sub-Saharan plateau where artists produce fascinating stone sculptures, paintings, a...first time with several works of art, including an artists rendition of an African mask done in scrap steel, and the memories of all the people he met and plac......ied by a team of nationally recognized scientists, artists and naturalists, will retrace the 9,000-mile route of Harrimans steamship, following the Inside Passage along the Alaska Peninsula, and the Aleutian Islands across the Arctic Circle to the Bering Strait and Russia. Expedition director Tom Litwin, dir...... Health, Albany, NY) Long term natural aging of artists oil paints - Exhibition, storage and treatment of oil paintings depends on their chemical and physical condition. Researchers will discuss how changes in oil paintings occur over time as well as newly developed techniques to preserve oil paintings a......sulting from her discovery of mobile cut-and-paste artists within the immune system. "We observed an unexpected product in our tests, and oddly enough, it turned out to be really important," Agrawal said of her research experience. "It was one of those serendipitous moments in scientific investigation, when ...Why are the elderly so easily fooled by con artists?
EVER wondered why con artists find it so easy to hoodwink the elderly? Researchers in Iowa have discovered that many older people have localised brain damage that impairs their ability to avoid risky decisions. Daniel Tranel, Natalie Denburg and their colleagues at the Universit...New Studies Shed Light On Facial Features Of Popular Dinosaurs
... and the toymanufacturers, movie set designers and artists whose recreations of dinosaursnow seem to be inaccurate. "I almost expect a backlash as a result of our findings. There is asense that we're changing the way a lot of dinosaurs look," says LawrenceWitmer, an assistant professor of anatomy at......cause of AIDS. These viruses are the quick-change artists ofthe microbial world and outrun both the immune system and medicines designed tofight them. And important in understanding retroviruses are retrotransposons --pieces of DNA closely related to retroviruses. Now, researchers at the University...