Nature's ambush: pregnancy more likely from single unprotected intercourse than believed
...ke a chance' with unprotected intercourse have the deck stacked against them. Intercourse apparently does not happen randomly. It's more likely to occur on the fertile days, even though the average woman won't know when these days are. For whatever reasons (and we don't yet understand the biological reaso...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...k said. "Doing surgery on a 500-pound tuna, on the deck of a rolling vessel, in the middle of winter, is as hard as it gets. It takes a dedicated team to make this all work, but when you see a track from three years of a bluefin's life, moving back and forth across an ocean basin, it makes all the hard wo...Clay sprays control HABS; disease may affect more than salmon
...derstand and appreciate their sea and shore. Enjoy deck and dock tours, touch-tanks, music, eco-tours, demonstrations and "hands-on" interactive displays designed for participants of all ages. Tour commercial fishing vessels; try on a fisherman's "survival suit" and more all dedicated to New Jersey's mari...Basic motion measuring technology may be alternative to more expensive testing procedures
...gest of warships have more than 11 decks, a flight deck area measuring four-and-one-half acres, and more than 3,000 rooms and compartments throughout. Todays sailors, male and female, expend considerable energy walking about these ships. Accordingly, their energy needs must be supported by a diet that is...Researchers distinguish new type of leukemia
... could deal from the genomic equivalent of a whole deck of cards and come up with such a distinctive hand, he said. We couldnt have imagined that amidst this vast amount of data, we could not only clearly distinguish MLL, but come up with FLT3 as a testable drug target for treating the disease....Card tricks and mathematics: Applying the magician's trade to numerical dilemmas
...ain how particles interact. First, he spreads a deck of cards on a table. Each card represents an individual atom, he says, and each has a unique position relative to the others. Also, every card appears either face-up or facedown, which Diaconis equates to individual atoms that can move either forward...New N.C. ferry-linked water monitoring begins generating useful data for analysis
...ake line in the vessel's protected sea chest below deck and amidships, Paerl said. Some of the water, needed for the ferry's air conditioning system, is first diverted to devices that record temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll and geographic position once a minute. A telemetry system ...Searching for biochemical markers in children of alcoholics
...ot their fault that they were dealt with a genetic deck to be susceptible to diabetes, but it is their fault that they don1t take ownership of the disease and seek help." The bottom line, he noted, is that, "as with any disorder, you have to accept that you have it andthen seek treatment." Froehlich ...Chromosome centers defined and sequenced for model plant
...the original five pairs of chromosomes shuffle the deck of genetic information through one replication and two divisions to form the four cells of a tetrad. The researchers studied more than 1,000 meioses to determine the precise areas at the center of each chromosome in which there was absolutely no e...Montana Hantavirus Study Looks At Why The Mouse Goes Into The House
...15 minutes after dark. "If you leave your deck door open, you're going to have deer mice goingin and out and your cat's not going to see them," he said. Once inside, the mice don't move around much, he found. In the winterthey may stay in one small area for three or four days. Th...