Green, leafy spinach may soon power cellphones and laptops
...conditions. BUILDING THE SANDWICH The bottom layer of the molecular electronic device is transparent glass coated with a conductive material. A thin layer of gold helps the chemical reaction that assembles the spinach chlorophyll Photosystem I complexes. The researchers then evaporate a soft or...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...o know something about the topography of the ocean bottom in its area so it wouldn't run into a big rock or other obstacle while following the octopus," Vincent said. The advantage of fully autonomous tracking is that octopuses spend a lot of time in their dens vegging out, which is pretty boring for resear...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...veloped plans to raise the sunken ship off the sea bottom and transport it to shallower waters, making recovery operations feasible. But the Navy needed Texas A&M's help. "They wanted to borrow two of the buoys to aide retrieval purposes, especially to measure currents, winds and other data," he recalls. "...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
...ean above it. To further study life beneath the bottom of the sea, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...ity of bacterial life deep in the sediments at the bottom of the ocean by using the chemistry of water in deep-sea sediments to show that these abundant organ...Bacteria use 'molecular lasso' to cop copper
...d wetlands," said Kim. "Methane is produced in the bottom muck and diffuses into the water, where these bacteria live. The bacteria sequester the methane and turn it into methyl alcohol." According to estimates made in the 1990s, the amount of methane produced from all sources worldwide is about 120 billion...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...ry also be used to sequester carbon dioxide at the bottom of the ocean. Gas hydrates form at low temperatures and ocean depths of about 500 meters and some scientists see them as an energy source that could provide a transition to a hydrogen-based economy. Of more immediate concern is the hazard these depos...UCLA molecular biologists uproot the tree of life
...nches and roots, showing groups of bacteria on the bottom and multicellular animals on the higher branches -- turns out to be a misnomer, UCLA molecular biologists report in the Sept. 9 issue of the journal Nature . "It's not a tree; it's actually a ring of life," said James A. Lake, UCLA professsor of mol...NASA satellites detect 'glow' of plankton in black waters
...r black, some phytoplankton die, sink to the ocean bottom and are eaten by bacteria. The bacteria consume the algae and deplete oxygen from the water that leads to fish kills. Chuanmin Hu and Frank Muller-Karger, oceanographers at the College of Marine Science of University of South Florida, St. Petersburg,...Review article makes case for a new source of cells in the body
...gist, says of this cell type that escapes from the bottom of the neural tube early in development, after the tube closes to form the brain. VENT cells then travel along nerve paths, eventually getting ahead of the nerves, and dispersing throughout the body. "They travel in association with the cranial ner...Stem cell research targets cerebral palsy
...ine-A, to those that don't. He'll also look at the bottom line: whether the motor skills of the animal model are improved following the transplant. Since he began his studies of stem cell transplants, parents nationwide have asked when the technique will be available to help children. "I tell them we are w......unity would do well to relegate spider bite to the bottom of the list of differential diagnoses and consider the plethora of other conditions that manifest in dermonecrosis which have higher probability of occurrence than the rare necrotic spider envenomation". ...Two-month study of life in mid-Atlantic yields trove of species, new insights & questions
...y of animal communities in mid-water and along the bottom in a major section of the global system of mid-oceanic ridges. Thus far recorded, using an arsenal of methods and technologies: about 300 fish species, 50 squids and octopods, and an unknown number of planktonic species yet to be identified; Rings...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
...t can produce these," says Priscu. He believes the bottom of Lake Vostok, like that of many lakes, could be anaerobic and so provide a refuge from high oxygen levels in the upper parts. Other researchers also think that microbes will cope with Vostok's challenging environment. "Almost every place we look, ...Goals unlikely to protect Gulf of Mexico shrimp industry
...trogen runoff causes algae blooms, which sink into bottom waters and are decomposed by bacteria, a process that consumes oxygen. The warm fresh water from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers also layer atop the colder salty Gulf waters, preventing atmospheric oxygen from getting to the bottom. As oxygen ...A changing landscape may have dire implications for birds
...nd cover change in the lower 48 United States. The bottom line, according to UW-Madison researchers Anna Pidgeon and Chris Lepczyk, is that as rural forested landscapes are developed and parsed by roads and openings for new houses, many native bird species are at risk as deep forest breeding habitat is perf...Lake research offers clues to managing crayfish invasions
...d the rusty crayfish that crawled across the rocky bottom in each sampling area. The number of crayfish rang...h they have set up 300 rusty crayfish traps at the bottom of a 150-acre lake in northern Wisconsin. The objective is to determine whether fish and aquatic pop...AGU journal highlights - 29 July 2004
...y control the movement and transfer of dense, cold bottom waters that move tothe ocean floor and are subsequently recirculated in the subtropical ocean basins.Stern's result optimizes the unknown parameters in the cross-stream velocityprofile. His data proposes a new extreme value for volume discharge that ...New drug shows promise against Gleevec resistance in mice
...ABL in patients who are resistant to Gleevec. "The bottom line is that our in vitro data indicate that this drug is active against all of the mutations except for one," Sawyers said. At the time Sawyers and his colleagues were writing their Science article, there were 17 reported Gleevec-re...... those free-floating ocean plants that make up the bottom of the marine food-chain. Little plankton may be able to change the weather, and longer term climate, in ways that serve them better. It's almost hard to believe, but new NASA-funded research confirms an old theory that plankton can indirectly creat...