Lawns and streets are main urban residential sources of phosphorus for Madison-area lakes
...at occurred and the factors that contributedto the collapse of buildings. Two of the USGS scientists, Dr. Mehmet Celebi, of Menlo Park, Calif., and Dr.Erdal Safak, of Denver, Colo., are natives of Turkey, who now work for the USGS. They are accompanied by fellow USGS earthquake scientists: Tom Fumal, TomHol...USGS releases assessment of nation's biological resources
...ries Service inthe report's Executive Summary, the collapse of some of the nation's fisheries,the poor welfare of some Pacific coast salmon stocks, and serious declines insome marine mammal populations are examples of situations that deserve specialattention. Groat noted that while the United States is blesse...1999 Fall Meeting: Press conferences and special events
...ing how to assess the risk factor for catastrophic collapse of specific volcanoes and are devising mitigation strategies. FAST Tuesday afternoon. This will be the first ever press conference on science results from the FAST satellite. It focuses on two phenomena: an invisible upward moving aurora (as contra...Fall Meeting: updated press conferences and special events
...ing how to assess the risk factor for catastrophic collapse of specific volcanoes in Japan, Latin America, Indonesia, and the United States and are devising mitigation strategies. Panel: Robert J. Watters, Geological Science Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada James K. Crowley, U.S. Geological Surv...Human stem cell research leads Science's top ten list of the best scientific advances in 1999
...osions known as gamma ray bursts are linked to the collapse of massive stars, or "supernovae." Gamma ray bursts emit more power in a few seconds than the sun does in ten billion years. Details of the link between these colossal explosions and supernovae should come from two NASA satellites, to be launched in ...UNC-CH scientists create world's smallest pieces of ice
...le lacks this scaffolding, and the water molecules collapse into a non-ice-like arrangement." The new work involved developing methods that would allow researchers to force individual ice molecules into shapes they wouldn't normally assume on their own. "We used a liquid helium method that tricks nature int...New Orleans ... the new Atlantis?
...ically profitable in the nation), and the possible collapse of the entire ecosystem. However, Penland, Reed, and other researchers have shown that the coastal ecosystem, while damaged, is sufficiently intact for restoration efforts to succeed in managing the problem. They, along with other University of New O...Researchers find volcanoes are bad for your health...long after they finish erupting
...loud of super heated matter) formed by a lava dome collapse within the volcano. This generates between three and fours times as much finer ash than volcanoes that have more rapid and explosive eruptions. The problem is made even worse in volcanoes such as the Montserrat one as the pyroclastic flows can produc...UC Berkeley biologist disputes current dogma that genetic mutation is the cause of cancer
...ing a large and arbitrary set of genes is just the collapse of normal regulation seen in cancer. Altering just one enzyme activity rarely produces much effect, ... but simultaneous alteration in many activities can overwhelm the normal controls." In 1998, Nature Biotechnology science editor Harvey Bialy noted...... bends, Williams said. Their lungs are designed to collapse progressively with increased hydrostatic pressure ...oo quickly from deep dives. "The progressive collapse of the lungs in marine mammals preadapts them for taking advantage of the buoyancy change," Williams...Studies of marine mammals indicate a "breathtaking" ability to dive to great depths
...h whales and seals apparently developed lungs that collapse progressively as water pressure increases so that air is forced out and into the upper part of the respiratory system. As the increasing pressure compresses the animals' body and the air in its respiratory system into a smaller and smaller volume, t...Nanofabricated 'gel' separates DNA
...whether or not a DNA strand has time to completely collapse back into a spherical shape before reaching the ne... through the pores of the gel, but then they never collapse back to spherical form; as a result, he says, strands of varying length all move through the gel at ...Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?
...solution - but also a contributing factor - to the collapse of fisheries stocks around the world." Carnivorous fish "The industry is growing so rapidly that it's important that people start looking at the future," says Naylor, a senior research scholar at Stanford's Institute for International Studies and le...Heart attack sufferers putting their lives at risk by failing to recognise symptoms
...ack] is only of crushing chest pain accompanied by collapse and unconsciousness, which may happen in a minority of casesthe onset may be gradual, the symptoms intermittent, and the location of pain variable," say the authors. And Glasgow is not unique they add. And it's important to seek help quickly because...Vanderbilt archaeological team unearths buried Maya royal palace
...ud typical of other sites. As a result, it did not collapse the way that other Maya structures did when enveloped by jungle. The preliminary survey of the palace found that it contains a densely packed labyrinth of hundreds of small rooms with extravagant, 20-foot, corbel-arched ceilings. This design, combine...Snapping shrimp drown out sonar with bubble-popping trick, described in Science
...a and hydrophone had recorded in the aquarium. The collapse of the bubble generates a shock wave that stuns small prey, such as small crabs, worms, goby fish, or other shrimp, when they are just a few millimeters away, the researchers propose in Science . In encounters with other snapping shrimp, the shrimp ...Fishing woes will cast need for aquaculture biotech
...to supply enough seafood because of the continuing collapse of commercial marine fisheries," said Zohar who is director of the University of Maryland's Biotechnology Institute's Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB) in Baltimore, Md., USA. Even at its current rate of growth, however, aquaculture will still n...Geological Society of America: Annual Meeting 2000
...earch Institute, Piston cores from the Blake Ridge collapse structure. W. Steven Holbrook, Univ. of Wyoming, Seismic studies of the Blake Ridge: Implications for gas dynamics, hydrate distribution, and methane expulsion. Ivano Aiello, Univ. of California Santa Cruz, Anatomy and origin of carbonate structure...A genetic basis for attachment disorganization in infants
...r finding suggests a genetic susceptibility to the collapse of organized attachment strategy under stress.......t's coordinated pumping, are an immediate cause of collapse and death. "Drug treatments can help, but don't fix the underlying causes of the problem," Donahue adds, "and continued use can actually encourage arrhythmias in some people. Pacemakers or defibrillators are expensive and invasive," he adds, "and c...