Super hearing in flies may improve hearing aid technology
...ately. "Beyond the mechanical processes of the ear drum movement, we now know how the nervous system converts movement of the eardrums into information on sound direction," says Mason. The fly's ears act essentially as an extremely small, simple and sensitive directional microphone. Hearing aids tha...Scientists using earstones to identify red drum nursery grounds
... Grant researcher Jay Rooker hopes to identify red drum nursery grounds and determine the contribution of each area to the adult red drum population. Earstones, or otoliths, can provide this information. Otoliths are part of the inner ear...Study finds wind, currents play key role where young fish settle
...h for a patch of sea grass in which to settle. Red drum larvae face a lot of challenges traveling from the...h as winds, tides and currents, play in moving red drum larvae from the Gulf into the nursery grounds of Aransas and Corpus Christi bays. Doctoral student C...Fulbright fellow develops environmental biology courses in Zimbabwe
...ial wall and wooden benchesplayed its music with a drum and three rattles. The choir came in to a traditional Methodist hymn, marching to the cadence of the music, Buikema said. Another adventure was sampling African cuisine. He could buy a typical, good lunch of corn-meal beef stew and chomoulia (colla...Expeditions find no evidence of ivory-billed woodpecker
... sounded suspiciously like the distinctive display drum of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Sadly, analysis of the ARU data proved that the sounds were distant gunshots, with reverberations that sounded to human ears like drumming on a hollow snag. "If there is good news here, it is in knowing that the AR...Ocean report calls for the immediate creation of marine reserves throughout the United States
...d. "For example, there are more world-record black drum caught in Florida right now right on the edge of t...are leaking across that boundary." While the black drum experience has been a boon to the sport fishing industry, commercial fishers have not directly benef...Study on worlds oldest monkeys may explain age-related mental decline, Scientists say
...d human primates, Leventhal said. Hopefully we can drum up a little interest, and encourage other people who are trying to figure out how come their kids are smarter than they are now....Unique two-part macroemulsion offers new approach to cleaning up contaminated aquifers
...eet environmental standards. "A single 55-gallon drum of one of the compounds can contaminate hundreds of thousands of gallons of groundwater," Pennell noted. Established remediation techniques (pump and treat) often rely on pumping large amounts of contaminated water out of the ground, flushing the p...Seeking a mechanical solution to nation's number-one children's illness
...surgeries annually, by inserting a tube in the ear drum to alleviate pressure caused by infections. Nonetheless, about 20 percent of children have repeated episodes of ear infections that persist into adolescence and even adulthood. Chronic infections can lead to loss of hearing and balance, as well as to...Scripps Research scientists find deafness gene's function
...dle ear and strike the ear drum. The vibrating ear drum moves a set of delicate bones that communicate the vibrations to a fluid-filled spiral structure in the inner ear known as the cochlea. When sound causes these bones to move, they compress a membrane on one entrance of the cochlea and this causes the...Study in Science reveals recreational fishing takes big bite of ocean catch
...eational) and gag (56%) in the Gulf of Mexico, red drum in the South Atlantic (93%), and bocaccio on the Pacific coast (87%), among others. "The conventional wisdom is that recreational fishing is a small proportion of the total take, so it is largely overlooked," says lead author Felicia Coleman of Flor...Humans march to a faster genetic 'drummer' than primates, UC Riverside research says
...aid, "Humans and primates march to the rhythm of a drum that looks identical; the same size, shape and sound. But, the human drum beats faster." This chemical analysis of DNA structures also showed something else. The spread of t...