Study: King Midas' feast offered golden opportunity for fungi
...gi to flourish," Filley says. "The fungus, without competition from other wood decomposing microbes, was able to feed off the nitrogen sources found in the tomb." To determine the nutrient sources that fed the fungus, Filley analyzed stable nitrogen isotopes found in the wood and other artifacts from the tomb. I...Russian universities receive US funding to improve basic scientific research capabilities
...onference in Moscow today the results of the third competition under their Basic Research and Higher Education (B...r promising young investigators. The 2001 BRHE competition was held in March - October 2001 and consisted of two rounds. Russian universities submitted 52 eli......hile, skunk populations are booming due to reduced competition from foxes. "The presence of exotic pigs has total...d. "This is the first case that documents apparent competition from an exotic species causing a decline in a native species, and it may be an important mechanism i...Alaskan waters growing hospitable to sharks while seals and sea lions decline
...n the other hand, commercial fishing of pollock in competition with sea lions may have indirectly benefited sharks, Gallucci says. "Sharks, being the more efficient eaters, just may be able to take greater advantage of changes in the food that's available," he says. Then there are other factors such as the 1992 ...Human and fly studies tally good and bad mutations, stress ongoing role of natural selection
... much of existing genetic variation matters in the competition for survival. The neutral theory, proposed by geneticist Motoo Kimura in 1968, was initially controversial but slowly gained near-gospel status. Before the advent of modern genetics, people studied evolution by looking at observable differences --...Merck/AAAS announce 2002 winners for Undergraduate Science Research Program
...terest in it from schools around the country. The competition has also become an annual event, which means that it is providing far more opportunities for students to participate in research," said Jeff Charvat, Senior Program Associate in the Education and Human Resources Directorate at AAAS. The program was l...Small grain breeding program benefits producers, consumers, agribusiness
...ilities in the mid-Atlantic region. "This friendly competition and cooperation between private and university breeding programs lead to better products," Griffey says. "In addition, our students are getting experience and training that prepares them to be plant breeders in the private sector." One of Griffey's m...UAF biologist tracking extinct bears published in Science
...en 35-21,000 years ago. They also examined whether competition between the two would help explain the 14,000 year absence of the brown bear and the extinction of the short-faced bear around 21,000 years ago. "We concluded that other factors probably were responsible, because the two bears were quite different e...Basic Research and Higher Education Program Conference breaks new ground
...ion. To date 12 RECs have been established, and a competition is underway for another four due to be announced this summer. Funding for the Basic Research and Higher Education program and its activities is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Russ...UMass anthropologist investigates dental development and body size in primates
...ying out elsewhere because of the islands lack of competition and predators. Humans came to Madagascar from Africa and Southeast Asia about 2,000 years ago and have put the lemurs in great danger....Study suggests global extinction crisis more serious than previously thought
...tion of hunting by local people and sport hunters, competition with livestock and desertification. Understandably, Australia, which is the continent with the largest number of mammal species extinctions, is also a continent showing a widespread severe reduction of populations, Ceballos and Ehrlich wrote the res...Scientist explores the future of research collaboration
...gly common counterpoint to an existing emphasis on competition and individuality." Beaver looks at how the collaborative model was incorporated into research design at major universities, where professors or primary investigators work with post-doctoral students, graduate students, and sometimes with undergradu...Three-D images shed light on first steps of RNA synthesis
...know that abortive initiation happens because of a competition between RNA and the linker peptide. If the peptide wins, the RNA falls out and transcription starts over. "Every once in a while the RNA manages to push the peptide all the way out, and once its long enough to push it all the way out, its done, and t...Two plans win Northeastern Universitys business plan competition
...ement and Entrepreneurship. Sponsors of this years competition include BancBoston Ventures, Inc., Deloitte & Touc...r LLP and Stonepath Group. The seven judges of the competition represented Altron, Inc., Hale and Dorr, Braintree Laboratories, First Health, First Light Capital a...HHMI selects new clinical investigators
...linical research. The purpose of this investigator competition was to identify researchers whose scientific work is guided by their interaction with patients or other human subjects. Although several of the 324 current HHMI investigators are doing patient-oriented research on diseases such as colon cancer, hyper...Weizmann Institute scientists win global competition in predicting protein-protein interactions
...ction of Interactions) Challenge, an international competition in which participants submit predictions of struct... the three targets. Dr. Eisenstein won a similar competition as part of a Weizmann Institute team six years ago. Prediction of the structure of protein-protein c...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $80 million for undergraduate science education
...nhance undergraduate science education and the 5th competition targeting research universities. Since 1988, the Institute has awarded $556 million to 236 colleges and universities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a medical research organization whose...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
...nhance undergraduate science education and the 5th competition targeting research universities. Since 1988, the Institute has awarded $556 million to 236 colleges and universities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico....'Rock-paper-scissors' preserves biodiversity in bacterial neighborhoods
...er dispersal and interaction of populations turned competition for an ecological niche into a winner-take-all battle. That quickly led to demise of all but the resistant strain, as colicin producers killed sensitive strains but colicin-resistant strains outgrew colicin producers. All three of the populations wit...Damage from acid rain pollution is far worse than previously believed
...nt communities," says DeHayes. "It would alter the competition and survival of populations, perhaps even species, including animals at higher levels of the forest food chains." DeHayes points out those calcium deficiencies in plants are passed on to herbivores, altering their nutrition. For instance, birds eatin...