Aging Vehicle Fleet Polluting The Air
...a on 30,000 vehicles a month. Since 1993, theyhave collected data on more than 2 million vehicles in the 13-county metroAtlanta area. Augusta, Ga., Macon, Ga., and Nashville, Tenn., are the controlcities where researchers collect data they compare with their findings inAtlanta. In roadway observations,...Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...tely available and highly personalizedinformation, collected routinely throughout the day in the normal course oftheir lives." In each project engineers and scientists are working closely withphysicians from the outset, making sure the health-care goals are realistic andappropriate. About two dozen cor...Marine Life In South Pacific Region Found To Be Impervious To Oceans' Highest Arsenic Levels
...oncentrations of arsenic when compared tospecimens collected from outside Tutum Bay," says Pichler. "Two mechanisms seem to efficiently control and buffer the arsenicconcentration," according to Pichler. "One is the dilution by seawater and theother is the incorporation of arsenic in iron minerals that prec...The Sagan criteria for life revisited
... lunar sample no. 12025, called Core Sample 1, and collected on the lunar surface, about 225 meters below the point where the Apollo 12 Lunar Module touched down. Soil sample 12025 is closely spaced in collection catalogs with the porphyrin-like pigments in Apollo 12 lunar soil sample 12023. Far Left: A bright...Where the wild ones are: origins of staple crop found
...have found these populations just in time." Olsen collected wild specimens of flabellifolia Manihot pruinosa , another close relative of M. esculenta , on two different trips to Brazil in 1996 and 1997. He collaborated with scientists from the Brazilian agency CENARGEN, roughly the equivalent of the U.S. D...Biologists work to preserve rainforests endangered plants
...ecies which are not endangered.Thirty species were collected in all, ranging from tiny bryophytes to theflowering Piper plant. The research was funded by the Cincinnati Zoo andBotanical Garden and with private funding from Professor Dunford....New study establishes when pregnancy starts
...at theirpatients immediately." Researchers collected daily urine samples for up to six months from 221healthy N.C. women attempting to conceive after stopping contraception, he said.Of 199 conceptions, enough information was available on 189 for analysis. Of those 189 pregnancies, 141 lasted at...Discovery of new bird species in China, oldest beak shows evolution complexity
...onfuciusornis dui in honorof Wenya Du, the man who collected the specimen near the edge of a lake innortheast China's Liaoning Province and donated it to the Beijing institute. Itis a smaller but close relative of Confuciusornis sanctus, another crow-likebird of the same age the researchers found and reported ...Economic model to aid alligator farmers
...s facing alligator farmers.How many eggs should be collected from the wild? At what size and age should thealligators be harvested? And for the Louisiana farmers, how many and at whatsize should alligators be returned to the wild? The economic considerations for the farmer include the cost of raisingt...Purdue study: Aquariums may pacify Alzheimer's patients
...rmation. After thefour-week assessments, data were collected weekly for six more weeks todetermine if the effect, if any, remained or diminished over time. The patientsin the third study received the same treatment but were exposed to a picture ofa seascape for four weeks before the aquariums were introduced. ...Discovery might boost cystic fibrosis therapy
... also reviewed clinicalinformation about patients, collected laboratory data relevant to lung functionand in three adults measured the lungs' ability to clear mucus and relatedliquids. Physicians found their patients bore genetic mutations that preventedtheir sodium channels from functioning and that ...Oxygen measurements yield greenhouse clues
... 1978 from CSIRO's unique'archive' of pristine air collected at the remote Cape Grim Baseline AirPollution Station operated by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology innorth-western Tasmania. In the past, the isotopic composition of carbon dioxide has been used to attemptto distinguish ocean and plant uptake of c...Nearby supernova may have caused mini-extinction, scientists say
... scientists based their analysis upon iron-60 data collected by a German teamled by Gunther Korschinek of theTechnical University of Munich. "If these data are confirmed, together with their extraterrestrial origin, theimplications are profound," Fields said. "Theywould constitute the first direct evidence tha...Sandia-developed remote sensor expected to analyze gases up to two miles away
...tfrom the gas cloud shines on the chip after being collected by an opticaldevice, such as a telescope or binoculars. The way this would actually work, Butler says, is that as a soldier or otheruser peers through the binoculars and the light strikes the Polychromator chip,a microprocessor inside would direct t...Drought brings environmental, ecological changes
...g a host of unusual environmental issues. The data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey is being used by local decision-makers to inform and protect citizens. "We've spotted crabs in the St. Jones River near our monitoring station in downtown Dover, Delaware," said USGS hydrologist Dan Soeder. "Crabs only...... done in anethical manner. Embryonic cells can be collected by using embryos remainingfrom infertility procedures after the embryo's progenitors have decided they donot wish to preserve them and have given full and informed consent for the useof these embryos for research purposes. The study also recommends t......ld be feasible by examiningblood that is routinely collected from newborns in the United States and storedby many states as tiny dried blood spots. (See page 89, ENVR 22, Sunday, August22, 4:30 p.m., Convention Center, Room 209 in the final program.) Monday, August 23: Antibodies for Addiction? In a major sym...Flea collars may expose children to insecticides
...lower and steady over several weeks.(Residues were collected by rubbing the backs of dogs with white gloves.) Chambers is recruiting families with small children and dogs for an in-homebiomonitoring study. "We're going to be looking at urine samples from theadults and the children to find out how much of that...Genome tools pass big test in fruit flies
...nerate mutant flies,which Rubin and Spradling have collected under the aegis of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP), a program backed by HHMI. BDGP makesthe fly strains available to researchers around the world, and scientists haveused the flies to characterize more than 250 Drosophila genes. In ...Eating contaminated Great Lakes sport fish does not inhibit lactation, UB study finds
...tions to conceive. Milk samples later were collected from all new mothers, along with theirhistories of breast feeding, but only first-time mothers were included in thestudy. Lactation is known to help eliminate contaminants from breast milk overtime, so women who had no previous children -- and there...