Hebrew University excavations strengthen dating of archaeological findings to David, Solomon
...rchy headed by kings David and Solomon in the 10th century B.C.E. has been revealed as the result of excavati...findings described by Yadin were only from the 9th century B.C.E., the period of the Israelite kings Omri and Ahab. Writing in the April 11 issue of Science......redict will kill up to half the world's reefs this century as climate change raises sea temperatures. What we have missed is that some bleaching may actually be an infectious disease spread by a worm, a "malaria of the oceans". Israeli scientists say they have studied a type of coral whose bleaching is trig...New book entertainingly tells 'What Good Are Bugs'
...sects. Charles Darwin also had described sundews a century earlier. Another more recent personal story involved a mysterious infestation in his home in Urbana, Ill., where caterpillars had been eating grain products in the pantry. It was discovered that seed-eating meal moths came home aboard "two necklaces...Physics tip sheet #33 March 28, 2003
...engineering of brick structures intended to last a century or more by allowing designers to account for expansion that might otherwise lead to cracks. The studies may also be handy for archeological dating of bricks and ceramics....With toxic crystals, bacterium targets - and takes out nematodes
...ecticides. Their effectiveness known for nearly a century and first approved for use in the United States in 1961, these Bt insecticides kill crop-killing caterpillars and beetles, and disease-transmitting black flies and mosquitoes. According to the PNAS report, "The success of these toxins is due in large...UCSD biologists discover key to blocking inflammation
...ion for the function of white blood cells almost a century ago," says Cramer. "By using genetic technology we were not only able to confirm these experiments, we also identified a key molecular player involved in white blood cell energy synthesis. To me this is one of the most exciting details about our stud...[Mis]understanding village abandonments
... disappearance of the inhabitants in the late 13th century was not due to failure at village life or an inability to grow. Native people moved often to sustain a regional presence. Pueblo households moved regularly, but the overall length of occupation spans increased over time, according to Mark Varien, res...Computer models forecast sharp increase in temperature if heat-trapping emissions continue to rise
...er) models for global climate change at end of the century is 1.5 to 6 degrees centigrade, with most of the models in the range of 2-4 degrees. In the polar regions the changes of the order of 8 to more than 10 degrees in the winter time of the years. The computer predictions, produced by the NCAR Parallel ...DuPont science leader discusses 'Sustainability and Integrated Science for the 21st Century'
...ment. But that is changing. "As we enter our third century at DuPont, we are transforming ourselves to grow sustainably to increase societal and shareholder value while decreasing our environmental footprint," Chowdhry noted. "By integrating emerging technologies like biotechnology and nanotechnology with ...Why we are what we eat: New links between our biology and food choices
...ote French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, in his 19th century tome, The Physiology of Taste. In the same spirit, scientists reported today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting that our biology plays a major role in determining our food choices. While specific food cra...NIH leader outlines future of U.S. medical research
...nome, for example, the real challenge for the 21st century is to discover how all the parts work together. Biomedical research in the year 2002 is at a turning point that will require new strategies." The quest will require multidisciplinary teams and cross-cutting initiatives, he said, as well as the "creat...Virginia Tech professor Marjorie Grene is the first woman in The Library of Living Philosophers
... as a woman in the middle portion of the twentieth century in gaining the professional positions and recognition for her ideas -- recognition that men with only a fraction of her talent and learning could easily have commanded." Grene was interested in philosophy when she started college in 1927 at Wellesley...Jefferson Lab experiment generates THz radiation 20,000 times brighter than anyone else
...rahertz light's usefulness is like what happened a century ago with X-rays -- only terahertz light will have a much wider range of applications. The task now will be to develop those uses." Bringing 10-year-old idea to fruition About 10 years ago Williams wrote a paper proposing a method for generating larg...Prehistoric NW Indians hunted fur seals of sustainable basis
...from Ozette with 405 animals collected in the 20th century from the Pribilof Islands. He found that Ozette seals were smaller in any age class than the Alaskan ones. At first glance this would seem to support the idea that the Ozette seals came from a relatively large population. However, Etnier said there ...Field Museum uncovers evidence behind man-eating; revises legend of its infamous man-eating lions
...assed through Tsavo in the second half of the 19th century despite proclamations banning the international slave trade. The authors document the abandonment of sickly or injured slaves and porters in Tsavo. A minimum of 80,000 humans was estimated to have been annually lost along the northern caravan routes,...World-first Australian truffle find
...n looking for this round the world for well over a century and here it is, in Australia." Since the original find by Dr Bougher, he and colleague Dr Teresa Lebel of Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens, have identified no fewer than five new species of what has now been scientifically named Amarrendia a marri...UCLA offers CASE Media fellowships on genetics, society and the individual
...cCabe, the center's director. The dawn of the 21st century has witnessed the sequencing of the human genome and other organisms, producing a billion-dollar enterprise. The post-genomics era is giving rise to genetic engineering for disease prevention, new insights into aging, development of genetically modif...International functional genomics study looks for genes that cause drug tolerance and dependence
...hine is nothing new and has been around for half a century because we still don't have any better drug than that to manage chronic pain," said Nagalla, assistant professor of pediatrics in the OHSU School of Medicine. "We need better drugs to manage pain without the adverse effects of tolerance, and we hope ...An unlikely new weapon against a deadly bacteria in oysters: A virus
...een used in the United States since the early 20th century because antibiotics have worked pretty well," he said. "That's changing now, and there is more interest in investigating the phage alternative." Vibrio vulnificus is related to the cholera bacterium and occurs naturally in the presence of microscopic...Combining global environmental changes yields surprising ecosystem response
...n the campus of Stanford University -- grew from a century of ecological research at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology, also at Stanford. Using the latest technology--from satellite imagery to the tools of molecular biology--Carnegie scientists have been analyzing the complicated interactions of Earth's...