Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...l house or building will showup as only one or two dots in the images. That's detailed enough to show the heat patterns in the city. ATLAS lets scientists see how different objects reflect or absorb and emit heat. It's related to the greenhouse effect thatmade life possibl...Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
...se tiny structures tothe cotton leaves. They glued dots of cotton fibers to the undersides ofcotton leaves growing in the field and found that the spider mites' naturalenemies - the western flower thrip, the big-eyed bug and the minute piratebug - readily took up residence in the simulated domatia. Furthe...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
... microscope. The absolute distance between the two dots ranged from 4 mm to 27 mm in a field of view measu... mm x 30 mm. The distance in depth between the two dots ranged from 0 mm to 19 mm. Overall bias was an overestimation of 0.3 mm with a 95% confidence interv...Researchers Discover Way To Grow New Kidneys In Rats
...idney capsule. But when the researchers placed the dots of kidney tissue insidea sac-like membrane that surrounds and supports abdominal organs, they reached athird of the size of an adult kidney within 6 weeks. The membrane releasesgrowth promoting factors and ones that stimulate blood vessel formation. ...'Molecular' Computers? Munich/UD Researchers Report First Glimpse Of Artificial Molecule In Action
...ectrons inside box-like structuresknown as quantum dots or "artificial atoms," Blick says, researchers can harnessand manipulate quantized energies. Pairs of artificial atoms have been coupledto create artificial molecules. And, groups of artificial molecules eventuallymight be assembled to form basic mol...Porous Silicon Joining Humans To Machines
...drofluoric acid. The acid left a number ofquantum dots in the silicon which trap electrons making it an efficient,luminescent semiconductor. The initial research findings from De Montfortsuggest that the material may also be biocompatible. Professor Sue Bayliss fromDe Montfort says, "The ability to cult...University of Chicago researchers uncover first steps in cell-cell adhesion process
...e seen in fluorescence microscopy images as yellow dots on the outer membranes of adjacent cells. Scientists call these dots "puncta." Because cell-cell adhesion is dependent on calcium concentration, Vasioukhin was able......f California, Berkeley, Claire Farley tapes bright dots to the legs of students and videotapes them running across a similar platform to determine the relationship between muscle stiffness and springy legs. Across campus, Robert Full tests cockroaches, crabs and centipedes to discover how springy legs pro...New robotic microarray technology finds novel genes involved in cardiac hypertrophy and recovery
...e, the pins of the robotic microarrayer positioned dots of gene fragments from the Genome Sciences Department's library of cloned genes on glass microscope slides. Each gene fragment is capable of binding to the messenger RNA (mRNA) that codes for a particular gene's protein product. Messenger RNA extract...Simple and inexpensive, an artificial nose senses smell by seeing colors
...e an array, the researchers paint a series of tiny dots each dot is a different dye on an inert backing such as paper, plastic or glass. The array is then scanned with an ordinary flatbed scanner or an inexpensive electronic camera before and after exposure to an odor-producing substance. "By subtra......res" with hundreds of trillions of nanometer-zided dots etched silicon chips. Sangeeta N. Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego Michael Sailor, Ph.D., professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego ...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...nds. On a Ping-Pong ball they painted hundreds of dots so that the ball's position could be tracked by computer, the same way the movement of a computer mouse is tracked. The ball was floated on a jet of air so that it could easily be turned by a walking fly. Then they placed a tethered fly on the ball...Scientist uses 19th century fishwheel' device to study fish populations
...d by individual fish. A fish shows up as a line of dots on a computer screen; software then allows the researchers to determine the size of the fish being tracked. "The combination of these two approaches is giving us a lot of information about what's going on in the river," Hightower said. So far this ye...Gene chips accurately diagnose four complex childhood cancers
...n such a way that they literally light up the gene dots on the chip. The luminescent pattern is then measured with a special type of microscope and the results fed into a computer for analysis. The NHGRI team applied this technique to the childhood cancers to see whether it could simultaneously test for ...Biting may drive division of labor among social wasp workers
...ers from the three colonies, color-coded them with dots of paint on their thorax and observed their interactions. O'Donnell focused on females because this species of wasp is basically a female society and males seem to do little work. The range of biting behaviors observed varied, ranging from mild t...Dupont donates patents to UCSD
...bot. Our research will focus on using the adhesive dots and covering them with small-diameter powders, said Talbot, professor of chemical engineering at UCSD. Luminescent phosphor powder will be tested to improve the image quality of flat-panel display screens, while powder made of photocatalytic material...Scientists develop protein nanoarrays for biological detection
...ing complex materials. Once the pattern of protein dots that matches a particular biomolecule or structure...eters in diameter, the gold surface in between the dots was processed to prevent it from absorbing target proteins and disturbing the readings. (A nanometer...Braille reading strategies may enhance stimulation of the brain responsible for vision
...of writing and printing by means of reading raised dots corresponding to letters, numbers, and punctuation. How can a person who has become sightless learn Braille, allowing access to the printed word? For most, hard work and determination plays a major role. However, new research has demonstrated tha...Even neurons have favorite numbers
...l cortex of monkeys trained to judge the number of dots on a computer screen reflected changes in quantity...rogressively as the discrepancy between numbers of dots increased, the researchers found. The study adds to mounting evidence showing how the prefrontal co...Biomedical scientist testing nanoparticles as early cancer detection agent
...is testing the use of nanoparticles called quantum dots to dramatically improve clinical diagnostic tests ...d ability to conduct electricity. Because quantum dots are so small, their electrons are compacted, causing them to emit light or to act as a fluorescent t...