Bones of Crocodile-like Beasts Tell Tale of Global Warming
... as turtle shells and several bones from fish. All came from a sedimentabout 12 feet thick running for sev... Scher and graduate student RoryCottrell. The find came thanks to the perseverance of the students and Tarduno,who spent six weeks during both summers traip...Oil Spill Cleanup Product Made From Sugar Byproduct
... mid 1999. Initial funding for the project came from the Louisiana Oil SpillResearch and Development Program and the LSU Agricultural Center....Clemson Researchers Turn Crabshells Into New Product Lines
... The partnership between Clemson and Gordon came about as a result ofresearch that packaging scientists Bob Testin and Pete Vergano have beenconducting on biopolymer films for food packaging since 1990. A visiting scholarfrom South Korea told them about the many uses of chitosan in Asia, including ...Wistar Institute Professor Named First Koprowski Professor
... outstanding scientists at Wistar." Dr. Trinchieri came to Wistar 23 years ago. Prior to his arrival, he was amember of the faculty at the Basel Institute of Immunology in Switzerland, andan assistant professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the Universityof Torino (Italy) School of Medicine. ...Formaldehyde Emissions From Consumer Products
...ly. "By far, the worst non-wood product emissions came from acid-cured floor finishes," which are commercially applied to wood floors, Kelly claims. "The initial emission rates from both the base and top coats of this product were very high," he says, up to 1,000 times more than those from wood products.......n occurred, more people with heart attack symptoms came to the emergency department. There also was a 10 to 15 percent increase in the number of people choosing to call Emergency Medical Service (EMS)/911 for transport. In most U.S. cities, one-half to two-thirds of those with possible heart attack arri...AAAS Report Attributes Majority Of Killings In Guatemala To State
...rchives for the 36-yearperiod; another 4,000 cases came from documentary sources; and more than 5,000testimonies, most of which were collected directly from the CIIDH. The dataused in the analysis presented in the report are available on the Internet at http://hrdata.aaas.org/ciidh . Meanwhile, the Guat......nd on the whole...Moon was that littlebacteria who came back and lived...." The discovery of things living in extreme environments has clearly changed ourunderstanding of life and where it might be found. Places like the polar caps ofMars or oceans on Jupiter's moons were once thought to be too extreme f...X-Ray Concentrator Will Expand Window On High-Energy Universe
...the universe would be interesting in X-rays." Then came the Uhuru small astronomy satellite, NASA/Marshall's three large HighEnergy Astronomy Observatories, and others. "As it turned out, the sky was lit up in X-rays everywhere you looked," Joysaid. As with optical telescopes, astronomers discovered that ...Growing Up On Their Own: Smart Plastics Organize Themselves Into Useful Optical Devices
...nce of thefuture." Funding for the project came from the Office of Naval Research and theNational Science Foundation. The work was also supported by an Elon HuntingtonHooker graduate research fellowship to Chen, who now works at Bell Laboratoriesof Lucent Technologies....Professor Will Connect With Students Live From China Dinosaur Site
.... Prior to the expedition, Hengst and Buck came to LaPorte to meet with the students in their classrooms, and they will return for a follow-up after the expedition. This not the first time Hengst has partnered with the LaPorte School Corp. in his research expeditions. In 1996, he ...Butterflies Help Reveal The Source Of Life's Little Luxuries
...ion, somewhere along theline, took this system and came up with a way to reuse it in an entirely newcontext while maintaining its original function." "To our thinking, the reuse of genes makes innovation easier," said Carroll, abiologist whose work has helped resolve the role genes play in making suchthin...Little-Explored African Genetic Diversity May Hold Key To Human Origins, Medical Questions
...ans. "Most African Americans in the U.S. came from West Africa and areundoubtedly as diverse, genetically, as those individuals who remained inAfrica," says Tishkoff. "The causes of genetically based diseases in AfricanAmericans may be different from the causes of the same diseases in Americansw...Human Neural Stem Cells Advance Distant Prospect Of Reseeding Damaged Brain
...esearch in the human brain. Snyder's paper came amid a recent flurry of stem cell reports.Researchers elsewhere showed the existence of immature cells in the embryonichuman brain, while others demonstrated continued birth of nerve cells in smallregions of the adult human brain. And two teams descr...Hopkins, Israeli Scientists Link Soybeans With Pain Relief
...st YoramShir of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem came to Hopkins to further study ananimal model for pain he'd previously created with collaborators. Shir's rats were treated to simulate serious painful syndromes that canfollow nerve injury in humans. Patients can develop a heightened sensitiv...Gold Finds Life, Energy, Controversy In Earth
...ne or methane. Once you know that, it's clearthey came outside from the body within." Thus, he writes, life on many other planetary bodies seems probable, even thoughtheir surfaces are either too hot or too cold to support life. " Subsurface life, however, is another matter. Mars, the satellites of th...UI Researcher's Study On Termite Bacteria May Aid In Greenhouse Gas Understanding
... his doctoral and post-doctoral studies.Leadbetter came to the UI in June 1998. The scientists found that these spirochetes consume hydrogen, a key intermediateproduced during the digestion of plant fiber. The spirochetes nourish thetermites by converting the hydrogen into acetate -- an excellent food sou...Old Bone Collection Reveals Basis For Some Dizziness
...Medicine's otolaryngology department. Allspecimens came from cadavers with varying medical problems. Minor and colleaguesused them to study the possible cause and incidence of the disorder. "We foundthat if the temporal bone in one ear was thin, the second ear showed the samethinness, an indication that t...Baby Dolphin "Little Orphan Annie" Loses Battle For Her Life
...anks and our heartfelt gratitude for all those who came forward toassist us in this remarkable effort." Most importantly, I would like to give a very special acknowledgement to Mr.Robin Friday, President of Wildlife International Network (Orlando). Robin wascalled in and was on-site when "Annie" arrived....... phenomenon as volcanic construction ofthe plateau came to an end. Explosive volcanism can perturb theearth-atmosphere system significantly by injecting material into thestratosphere where, depending on the magnitude and altitude of the material, itmay persist for several years. This can cause considera...