New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...rvations of the microbes making a living in such a bizarre environment. All told, about 100 scientists from nearly 20 science institutions are involved in the quest to unravel the mysteries of the Lau Basin. Lanmuir said the project is the most complex cruise that he has been involved with because of the la...Winner of 2004 EMBO Science Writing Prize announced
...ve me the James Bond idea. After hearing the whole bizarre story of the glowing squid, his immediate response was that it sounded like a scene from a James Bond film. That was it James Pond was born and it was then a race against time (very Bond-like) to write the article before the deadline expired!" The...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...-sea sharks. Finally, the group will travel to a bizarre site 150 miles southeast of New Orleans known as the Brine Pool. There, salt deposits in the seafloor dissolve to create water so dense that it forms a shallow lake 2,100 feet below the ocean's surface. The expedition's main mission will be to disco...There be dragons: New deep-sea predator species discovered
...t. Pierce, Fla., has discovered a new species in a bizarre and elusive family of deep-sea predatory fish known collectively as dragonfish. The find, reported in the current issue of the journal Copeia, is the first new dragonfish species discovered in more than a decade. The first specimen of the new species...Microbe's trick provides a template for willowy crystals
...n microbial oddities, bugs that live and thrive in bizarre and extreme environments, and that accomplish rema...results, says De Stasio, are crystal structures of bizarre form: "The microbes produce a bunch of noodles, filaments on the cell surface, and at the core of th...Endurance of plants under quartz rocks possible model for life on early Earth, Mars
...s who performed the study. "Here you have a really bizarre habitat," said William Schlesinger, dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and principal author of a paper on the study that appears in the December, 2003 issue of the research journal Ecology, which was just published. "When I ...Science's breakthrough of the year: Illumination of the dark, expanding universe
...and Japanese . In 2003, new evidence cemented the bizarre idea that the universe is made mostly of mysterious "dark matter," being stretched apart by an unknown force called "dark energy." This set of discoveries claims top honors as the Breakthrough of the Year, named by Science and its publisher, AAAS, ...New model of Alzheimer's enzyme may help refine future treatments
...very excited to provide more insight into how this bizarre process takes place," says principal investigator Raphael Kopan, Ph.D., professor of medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology. "The more we understand the way this enzyme works, the easier it will be to design better and more intelligent ap...Hydrothermal vent systems could have persisted millions of years, incubated life
...wer of seafloor hydrothermal vent systems like the bizarre Lost City vent field is one reason they also may have been incubators of Earth's earliest life, scientists report in a paper published in the July 25 issue of Science. Discovered just 2 years ago during a National Science Foundation-funded expeditio...The stinky smell of success of Ted the Titan: a tale from Chemical & Engineering News
...m (or titan arum ) and "corpse flower," Ted is a bizarre plant that attracts flies, instead of bees, with its unsavory odor and the insects pollinate it, reports Chemical & Engineering News in its June 30 issue. C&EN is the weekly newsmagazine published by the American Chemical Society, the world's lar...Scientists returning to field of eerie thermal spires
The bizarre hydrothermal vent field discovered a little more than two years ago surprised scientists not only with vents that are the tallest ever seen the one that's 18 stories dwarfs most vents at other sites by at least 100 feet but also because the fluids ...Scientists identify protein channel that mediates body's ability to feel frigid temperatures
...ally more active at higher temperatures. Even more bizarre is the fact that these cold-sensing ANKTM1 proteins are coexpressed with their cousins, the hot-sensing TRPV1 proteins on the same neurons. This means that the same neuron may be responsible for detecting hot and cold temperatures. Scientists had lon...One in every three primates now threatened with extinction
... devastating exploitation for food and body parts, bizarre decoration, and charms or potions," commented Anthony Rylands of the Species Program at Conservation International's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. "The key factor is that all of the species listed as 'critically endangered' and 'endangered...Mating molds provide new insights into speciation and human reproduction
...n of eggs. "Human oogenesis is, at first glance, a bizarre process," Metzenberg wrote in Cell, noting that, at birth, a girl already will have developed some seven million egg cells that are "frozen" in an early stage of meiosis during which all 23 chromosomes sets are paired. Remarkably, the chromosomes rem......g, and electronics have permitted development of a bizarre new class of truly biomimetic beasts. But it isn't as easy as merely taking apart an animal or plant and copying what you see. "Evolution doesn't always come up with the best solution from an engineer's perspective," says Professor Macmillan. Desp...Bizarre new protein blocks a real-life terminator
...n people. ``This protein appears to have a really bizarre mechanism of action,`` he concludes. ``It is a completely different strategy than the one used by E. coli and other bacteria.``...Tiny trickster flies into the zoological books
...ibed wasps; they are only 1.5 mmlong, and they are bizarre as well. "The new family has extremelyunusual features," said Professor Austin. "It appears to be a compositeof two unrelated wasp groups, with the front end typical of one groupand the back end of another," he said. "Although the first species werec...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
... used to be a little defensive about studying such bizarre animals, the assistant professor of biological sciences acknowledges. But then I realized that what makes these animals so strange is their extreme specialization and, for that very reason, there is a great deal that we can learn from studying them. ...Sex lives of wild fish: Genetic techniques provide new insights
...ctive behaviors of freshwater fish a process more bizarre and interesting than commonly realized have been ...ists are asking." But cannibalism isn't the most bizarre part of the spring spawning season. Even for fish, it turns out that it's not always a father-knows-...Fossilized remains of a small and bizarre predatory (or theropod) dinosaur were recently rec...ted by multiple examples. Without doubt, the most bizarre aspect of this theropod dinosaur is the extremely specialized teeth and jaws. The first tooth of th...