2,000+ brown recluse spiders in a Kansas home inflict no bites in the occupants, UCR study notes
...e study focused on Barger's home built in the 19th century in Lenexa, Kansas. Barger collected 2,055 brown recluse spiders for six months, from June 2001 to November 2001, and shipped them to Vetter for recluse verification and study. Despite the abundance of spiders in the Barger home, none in the Barger ...Hatchery salmon may endanger wild cousins
...st hatcheries have produced salmon for more than a century and today release more than a billion each year. Most of the salmon in the Columbia River Basin are hatchery-reared, including more than 70% of both steelhead and spring-run chinook adults. Despite these enormous hatchery releases, wild steelhead ha...DuPont Chief Science and Technology Officer to address summit during Asia Pacific trip
...rative initiatives as the company begins its third century from its early days in 1802 as a gunpowder manufacturer to today's innovative $35 million DuPont-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Alliance to collaboratively advance research and development in materials and biological sciences. Japan Pr...Getting at the roots of terrorism
... and 40 percent, respectively, in the next quarter century just to keep per capita purchasing power from falling. Furthermore, the very strictness of religious fundamentalism makes many people in these countries extremely resistant to change and promotes a willingness to die for beliefs. Gender, poverty and...Artificial intelligence, swimmer detectors, and blast resistant structures
...een especially brisk. In London rooms used a half century ago by Eisenhower to wrap up the business of the War, the Navy recently wrapped up this year's business of overseas "imaginative research" by reviewing 63 international science and technology program proposals. Twenty-five of those, from 13 countr...Health of American Indians on decline before Columbus arrived in new world
... But equestrian nomads of the 19th century were also among the healthiest groups in the study. People living in rural settlements were typically healthy skeletons found in these areas had less evidence of any of the negative heal...UCR's Arturo Gmez-Pompa receives Honorary Researcher Award and the Gold Medal Merit Award
...he department traces its lineage to the early 20th century when the University of California developed the Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside in 1907. The department has strong programs in basic plant cell biology, responses of plant to environmental stresses, plant ecology and evolution....When Media, Science and Public Policy Collide: The Case of Food and Biotechnology
...he debate in the late 1990s and early days of this century has been characterized by hysteria and hype, to borrow a phrase from some reporters . . . as well as some truth. Which brings us to Cambridge in November. This full day workshop will engage the stakeholders of this debate in a discussion of how medi...Tiny plant may yield big environment, energy payoffs
...mydomonas plants have been useful to science for a century in both agriculture and energy research. In nature, the organisms are widely present in fresh and brackish water, all kinds of soils, underwater thermal vents and even under the Antarctic ice shelf. One species of Chlamydomonas sports a red pigment -...UCLA study shows water reclamation could become an important source of future water supplies
...ers received a "D" for their efforts over the past century to preserve habitats and biodiversity. For the last decade, state and federal agencies, and new proactive planning processes involving both developers and environmentalists received a "C-plus." Sustainable building For the first time in the Southern ...Sandia pursues biotechnology as new technology focus area
...st 20 years, biology is going to dominate this new century like nothing else will. How can Sandia not go into biology?" said Bill Camp, Sandia National Laboratories Director of Computers, Computation, Information & Math Center. Biotechnology - the coming together of traditional inorganic sciences of physics,...Duke ecologist's book offers hopeful view of Earth's plight
...eeing either bird alive. We all lost that chance a century ago." Jackson, whose scientific research examines the environmental effects of global change, is particularly critical of the United States' rejection of the international Kyoto Accords to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. T...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in Albuquerque, October 12-15
...23-9011, dirkliebe@web.de ) A fact-based 21st century energy scenario The use of clean coal technology as the nation's prime energy source will be discussed. E. Gerald Meyer, Chemistry Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 307-766-5445, egmeyer@uwyo.edu ) Proteomics: new methods and applica...Chestnuts used chemicals to dominate southern Appalachian forests
...t the rapid encroachment of this shrub in the 20th century may be largely due to the end of the tree's allopathic influence." One of the most interesting results of the experiment was the ability of chestnut leaf extract to suppress the germination of eastern hemlock, which has steadily migrated into the che...Scientists decode mosquito/malaria parasite genomes
...ost important carrier of the parasite. Just over a century ago, scientists proved that Plasmodium enters the human bloodstream through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito, starting the human disease cycle. Today's landmark achievements hold the promise of greatly accelerating the search for methods to...Scientists at Scripps Research develop new technology to map spread of malarial drug resistance
...of which falciparum is the most deadly. Despite a century of effort to globally control malaria, the disease remains endemic in many parts of the world. With some 40 percent of the world's population living in these areas, the need for more effective vaccines is profound. Worse, strains of Plasmodium falcip...Wrong proteins targeted in battle against cancer?
...is the benefit to medicine in all the twenty-first century promise of proteomics if we cannot selectively inhibit protein-protein interactions?" Many of the transcription factors involved in cancer normally allow a healthy cell to respond to signals from the external environment by activating the "expressio...$10 Million center for theoretical biological physics created at UCSD by NSF
...ne of the critical intellectual challenges of 21st century science. Our approach of using computation to couple data from experimental biology with conceptual frameworks provided by physicists will enable a whole host of breakthroughs, both for biology and physics." The new center represents the first time t...Howard Hughes Medical Institute's million dollar professors
...rgraduates to the interdisciplinary nature of 21st century engineering. Physiologists, biomedical engineers, biomathematicians and physician-scientists will collaborate on new courses for engineering majors and non-majors, exploring experimental medicine, human research and imaging technologies. Tim Stearn...New initiative will assess disease control priorities in developing countries
...oject pushes disease-control studies into the 21st century by bringing scientific, demographic, and epidemiological advancements to bear on disease-control research and strategies in developing countries," said Gerald T. Keusch, M.D., FIC Director. "The DCPP will collaborate with partners around the world t...