NSF funds summer research program abroad for undergraduates at UC San Diego
...dress the imbalance in the high number of students coming to the United States, especially in the sciences, compared to the number of American researchers going overseas," said William Chang, program manager at NSF. "In today's global marketplace, you want members of your society to understand what it's lik...OneWorld Health plans to form network of volunteer pharmaceutical scientists for global health
...tation of the volunteer scientists' network in the coming months. The as-yet unnamed network is projected to launch later this year....Southern Californians commonly misinformed about beach water quality, study finds
...hat a large fraction of the shoreline pollution is coming from a region where there are no obvious sources of fecal indicator bacteria. "We answered a lot of questions, but a few mysteries remain," Grant said. ...First large-scale trial of genetically personalised treatment for breast cancer to start soon
...gnatures in breast cancer will get underway in the coming year, scientists announced today (Friday March 19) at the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference. TRANS-BIG, a translational research network involving about 40 partners from all over Europe and from Latin America, is in late-stage negotiation with...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
... Fresh products will add to this number during the coming year, while existing products undergo a process of...plays an important role in supplying GMES services coming on stream with the data they require: from the advance of ice floes in the Canadian Arctic to the da...Fuel-cell microbes' double duty: treat water, make energy
... At the cathode, oxygen from the air, hydrogenions coming through the membrane and the electrons coming downthe circuit combine to create water. In other microbial fuel cells, microbes have been fed glu...Experimental Biology 2004 - Translating the Genome
...l impact those scientists receiving NIH funding in coming years; how the NIH's Roadmap initiatives will complement or compete with investigator-initiated research; and how various institutes and centers will implement and plan for future Roadmap projects. Scientists can stay current on the rules designed ...A shrinking sink? Carbon fertilization may be flimsy weapon against warming
...e pools of carbon that are likely to shrink in the coming century. A key reason for the differing conclusions, Field and his colleagues found, is that the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other studies have relied on models that don't reflect some of the major processes by w...Dirty air from Asia can push U.S. air pollution to unhealthy levels
...ine until May, and there were several pushes of it coming across." Before 2001, particulate measurements from the 110 interagency network sites dating back to the mid-1980s show just one comparable event, in 1998. Asian pollution comes across on winds pulled by a sort of high-speed conveyor belt, with a l...Local, regional governments could take lead in curbing global air pollution
...bal climate change also cause the pollution that's coming here," Dolak said. "At the federal level, we have decided not to get involved in global climate change policy, but the states and cities are doing a lot." Local and regional involvement in solving problems with global resources is the focus of Dolak...Report details growing climate change threat to coral reefs
... carbon dioxide that are expected to accumulate in coming decades. However, recent losses in reefs show that human-related impacts are exceeding the adaptive ability of coral reef organisms. The severity of what has come to be known as the "coral reef crisis" is expected to worsen with future climate change...RNA inner workings partly unveiled in Stanford study
...od in which the newly made RNA could be visualized coming off the DNA. "When we look to see where the two separate, we find that lo and behold, the RNA passes through a hole and the DNA comes out over the top," said Kornberg. "The separation that is achieved at the hole is revealed for the first time in th...New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
...when they leave the island, and see where they are coming in contact with longlining vessels or other dangers." The new data allow scientists to discern patterns in marine animal movements: when and where they stay near the surface or swim in deeper waters, what temperatures they prefer, and what oceanog...Out-of-balance ecosystems play role in demise of amphibian populations
...tation also may expose tadpoles to more trematodes coming from the infected snails, because the tadpoles cant hide or use the vegetation to brush off the parasites, Schotthoefer said. So while the parasites seem to contribute to declines and deformities in frog populations, the challenge is to find manageme...Century may bring unprecedented climate change to southern hemisphere
...explain why there was less extinction in the Andes coming out of the last ice age, as well as why the area may be particularly susceptible to global warming. "According to the International Panel on Climate Change, we can expect a minimum of one to two degrees Celsius increase in temperature in the Andes by...Genomic changes reveal evolution of SARS virus
... of those in direct contact with infected patients coming down with the disease. Within a few months that rate increased to nearly 70 percent of direct contacts. This study, which combines a precise epidemiologic narrative of the emergence of the virus with rigorous analysis of the virus's genetic adaptati...Ebola outbreaks are simultaneous 'mini-epidemics'
...are sometimes seen in forests just prior to humans coming down with the disease. They recommend that a monitoring network to look for dead and dying large animals be established as an early warning system. Gorillas in particular, have been hard-hit by the Ebola, the authors said, pointing out that mor...If airbags work well, then Mars landing sites can be chosen more boldly, says UB geologist
...of that early, warm history." When pictures start coming back from Opportunity, Gregg will have her eyes peeled, searching for layers in the walls of the dried-up river channels. "Those layers could be lava flows," explained Gregg, noting that often the best place to look for evidence of life on any plane...Wound-healing genes influence cancer progression, say Stanford researchers
...ess and slow the cancer's spread. "There are drugs coming out that block blood vessel growth, so perhaps those drugs should be targeted to this population of patients," Chang said. Additional Stanford researchers who contributed to this work include postdoctoral scholars Ruchira Sood, PhD, and Jen-Tsan Chi...Endurance of plants under quartz rocks possible model for life on early Earth, Mars
...wned on me that they photosynthesized on the light coming through the rocks." Years after he first noticed the primitive plants -- mostly species of blue-green algae -- growing under every quartz pebble he turned over at the site in California's Joshua Tree National Park, Schlesinger assembled a scientific...