Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...arlier, in 1628 B.C. The "Porsuk event," as Newton calls the growth spurt in the Porsuk trees, was dated to 1628 B.C. -- lending further evidence that this was the year of the Thera eruption. The findings reported by the Cornell team move back the Aegean Late Bronze Age by as much as a century. This age h...... started selling his 1994 varietal label, which he calls "Traminette '94." "This grape produces a flavorful, spicy wine with certain honey and apricot flavors that seem to age well," said Brahm, who has been in the wine and grape growing business for over 30 years. Because his vineyard is situated above C...Human-Like Ability, Categorical Perception, Found In Insects
...ere showing that playback sounds mimicking cricket calls made the tethered insects "fly" toward the speaker. And sounds in the bat's ultrasound range made the crickets veer away from the speaker. Still, he couldn't very well ask the crickets: "Do 20 kHz and 40 kHz sound the same or different?" So the n......trols singing in the zebra finch, which Margoliash calls the "white rat" of songbirds. Neurobiologists have used them extensively to study brain function. "It doesn't have the most beautiful song ," admits Margoliash. "It sounds like a squeaky door. But it's a wonderful system for studying learning and me...PET Project Helps Reduce Pollution Threat From Heavy Metals
...vil and environmental engineering at UC. Sansalone calls thesystem "PET" for partial exfiltration trench. It's a modificationof the current systems used to improve drainage under highways,so it's expected to be easy to install and relativelyinexpensive. There are two key components to the system. The first...'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
...ey sighted only a single bamboo lemur andheard the calls of black-and-white ruffed lemurs. "There should have been many more, but hunting in the area is rapidlydepleting the population." And, when Glander and his colleagues exploredthe area where Romeo had been captured three years ago, they found a heavi...... Geological Survey (USGS) in Fiscal Year 1998 that calls forincreasing the availability of water quality information, for expandingearthquake monitoring to reduce hazards and support the comprehensivenuclear test ban treaty, and for increasing biological science in supportof federal land managers. ...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...ource will offer up detailed pictures and recorded calls from those and dozens of other birds, drawing on sound archives at the Ornithology Lab's renowned Library of Natural Sounds. Constructing a fully interactive Web site to process both historic data and continuously updated reports has stretched the ca......2. The President's most recent (FY 1998) proposal calls for more moderate reductions, but the trend is still downward. New England is home to 12 of the top 100 research universities in the nation. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and Yale all rank among the top twenty university r......2. The President's most recent (FY 1998) proposal calls for more moderate reductions, but the trend is still downward. Universities in Washington and Oregon depend on the federal government for more than two-thirds of their research funding. The University of Washington relies on the federal gover...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
..., Schneider sees signs indicating that the wake-up calls sent outby the 1993 floods are being picked up. For instance, he cites the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service's acquisition of the Thompson Lake Levee Districton the Illinois River. The area is being converted for use as a wildliferefuge and recreation ar...... Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. The UW researcher calls for the creation of marine management zones in which commercial fishing and oil transportation are regulated. Although some nesting areas along the Argentine coast are protected, the penguins' marine environment remains uncontrolled. There is, howe...First Planned Release Of Captive Lemurs In Madagascar Wilds Expected In Fall
...they've beenobserved issuing the appropriate alarm calls when they spot local predators.In North Carolina, their enemies include hawks, foxes and owls. At Betampona,the main predator will be the fossa (pronounced "foosh"), a bobcat-sizedcousin of the mongoose. After a summer of observations, medical check...Female Adolescents Need Calcium During 'Window Of Opportunity'
... is renaming the Dietary Reference Intake, or DRI) calls for between 1,000 and 1,300 milligrams of calcium ...maximized peak bone mass," Weaver says. "Our paper calls for an increase in calcium intake." Weaver recommends 1,300 milligrams of calcium per day. A cup of ...One Chimp Can Perceive States Of Awareness In Others
... that chimpanzees in the wild will giveoff warning calls when they see a potential threat. Boysen said that thesewere generalized warnings -- not specific ones. These experiments removedmost of the variables that exist in the wild and tested if one chimp wouldwarn another specific chimp of a threat. ...Early Menarche Puts Young Girls In Peril
...cular interest to American psychologists. Brumberg calls for a new era of "girl advocacy" in which multigenerational dialogues on sexual ethics would better prepare girls in ways that go far deeper than the simple maxim, "Just say no." As a social "intimate" history of girls, Brumberg draws heavily from gi...Fossils Show British Columbia Was Once 2,000 Miles South
...t simply been remagnetized over time. Ward calls the 131 rock samples he obtained from the two islands, Hornbyand Texada, "critical and crucial" in resolving doubt they were deformed byheating. The evidence comes from the shelled marine animals, called ammonites,which Ward's team recovered from sit...Smoking Mice Lead To Emphysema Breakthrough
...reated a strain of mice that lacked the enzyme. He calls them "mighty mice" andestimates their value at tens of thousands of dollars apiece. "We couldspeculate for years about the function of this enzyme," he says. "These micehelped us pin it down." Researchers put both the mighty mice and normal m...Long-Time NIH Grantee Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry
...f ATP synthase, the enzyme he calls the "splendid molecular machine" that produces ATP. The enzyme is a complex protein rooted in the inner membranes of cellular structures called mitochondria, the "powerhouses of the cell." Over several deca...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...a master's degree program is established, the plan calls for developing a Ph.D. program. Primary research areas include sensory systems, artificial joints, and the biophysics and biomechanics of bone. Interactions with industry will be emphasized. Tulane will expand its biomedical engineering program ...