Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...leuthy assignment -- the mini-sub includes a video camera and hydrophones (sonar mikes) to track its prey. M...on the surface watching images from Shadow's video camera and waiting for something to happen," Vincent said. "We'll manually control the video camera. But fa...Early detection hope for eye disease
...The images are captured by a sophisticated digital camera - a cooled, low noise CCD camera. Image processing corrects for the movements of the eye while the pictures are being taken, and a large set of images are combined in a "data cube" to improve the quality of the resolution. Spectral imaging is unique ...Computer scientists at UH developing 'nurturing' computers
...raction. The sensing element is a thermal imaging camera that is employed as a computer peripheral. Through bioheat modeling of facial imagery, almost the full range of vital signs can be extracted. This physiological information can then be used to draw inferences about a variety of health symptoms on a...Molecular motor myosin VI moves 'hand over hand,' researchers say
... one of the arms and took a picture with a digital camera attached to a microscope to find exactly where the dye was," Selvin said. "Then we fed the myosin a little food called adenosine triphosphate, and it took a step. We took another picture, located the dye, and measured how far the dye moved." By exa...Water on Mars not easy to find, says Texas A&M researcher
... the Spirit Rover at Gusev Crater" that focuses on camera images taken by the rovers as they slowly traversed Mars' surface. Texas A&M University research Mark Lemmon, a member of the Mars rover team and professor in the College of Geosciences, is one of the co-authors of the two articles. Two rovers, Spir...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...Sea, which was designed by Dr. Widder. This unique camera system will be deployed on the seafloor using the ...t deep-sea animals cannot see. This will allow the camera to capture natural behaviors and quite possibly footage of animals that have evaded scientists using...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
... called flow cytometry to act as a hidden security camera monitoring the note-passing molecules. The data is a snapshot of which molecules have a phosphate note in hand and which don't in response to normal signals that a cell would encounter. Postdoctoral scholar and first author on the paper Jonathan...UCSD undergraduates participate in collaborative studies abroad on cyberinfrastructure
...at UCSD, is concentrating on migrating code from a camera at UCSD's National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) to the same camera on the Osaka microscope. Khoshabeh and Geist are working with professors Shimojo and Toyokazu Akiyam...Laos camera traps capture tigers
NEW YORK (June 22, 2004)-- A recent camera trap survey launched by the Wildlife Conservation ...s been encountered by survey members at all of the camera trap sites. Set up to opportunistically blow up large animals such as gaurs and tigers, these traps ......y workforce, to design and build a high-definition camera system that can be carried on an AUV to map new seafloor sites, and to purchase equipment that will greatly enhance member institutions' ability to rapidly and accurately analyze the pharmaceutical potential of new chemical compounds. "We're really ...Mother lode of jaguars discovered in Bolivia park
...t tigers in India, the researchers employed remote camera "traps" to photograph jaguars, recording each animal's unique spotting pattern. Through a statistical analysis that counts each animal re-photographed within a given territory, an accurate population estimate can be determined. "Our results show th...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
...ompact instrument package, including a small video camera mounted harmlessly on the backs of the seals, reve... with this seal. It's like the rovers on Mars--the camera takes you to where people have never been." The videos showed Weddell seals gorging themselv...Mantis shrimp may have swiftest kick in the animal kingdom
...omatopod, or mantis shrimp. With the help of a BBC camera crew and the loan of a high-speed video camera, Un...t spring, however, the BBC rented a new high-speed camera for the team as part of a series on how new technology contributes to biological research. With this...Jefferson scientists use gene therapy to restore function of damaged heart cells in lab
...he heart cells. They then were able to use a video camera to actually measure how strong the individual heart cells were beating. The virus used in this study is a version of the common cold virus that has been rendered non-infectious and serves to carry the therapeutic gene to the failing heart cells. "We ...Tigers: Big cats need cat food
...les to count prey animals, and setting hundreds of camera traps over 8,600 days of effort. Densities of ungulate prey such as deer, antelopes, wild cattle and wild pigs ranged from a low of 5.3 animals per square kilometer in Meghat Reserve, to more than 63 per square kilometer in Pench Reserve. The model...AGU journal highlights - 6 January 2004
...r the phenomenon. Kelley et al. reporton lidar and camera views of the heretofore-mysterious "trains" castbehind meteors. The authors studied the persistent emissionscommonly left behind by meteors from the 1998 and 1999 Leonidmeteor showers and propose that one of the tails is left by gaseousvapor emission...Nomadic outposts of transplanted stem cells tracked in Stanford study
...ight enough to see by eye, an ultrasensitive video camera originally developed by Contag can detect the fain...unders of Xenogen, which makes the sensitive video camera used in this study....First view of giant crabs - at home on the slope
...versity of Tasmania. "We used a specially designed camera platform towed behind a research vessel to provide a tremendously exciting first look at the type of habitat that supports the giant crab fishery," says project scientist, Dr. Alan Williams, from CSIRO Marine Research in Hobart. "We were as pleasantl......'s Proba micro-satellite was also useful. The main camera on Proba has four times the spectral bands on MERIS, and its resolution is 30 metres instead of 300 metres so we could make out individual fields with Proba, to check them against what the larger-scale MERIS images were showing." Microscopic kill...