Purdue researcher finds space fertile arena for gene transfers
...e experiments and then design equipment for use on earth to increase our efficiencies here," he says. The Purdue soybeans will have another Purdue Boilermaker connection while on board the space shuttle Atlantis this spring. Payload specialist Mary Ellen Webber, a Purdue chemical engineering graduate, will...USGS scientists find new population of Asian swamp eels in south Florida
...an aquarium fish. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. This in...Bacterial strain may help clean up harmful industrial waste
...ofessionals might be able to avoid pockmarking the earth if researchers can understand what conditions must exist for bacterial strains such as T1 to digest dangerous contaminants. "The potential is that it can be more cost-effective and less damaging to the environment," says Coschigano, whose research ...USGS seeks citzens of all ages to listen for frogs and toads
...ogWatch/index.htm. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. This in...Stream size major factor in nitrogen reaching the Gulf of Mexico
...v/nawqa/sparrow . As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian mapping agency the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. This inf...The future of planet earth: scientific challenges in the coming century
...er at 703-648-5748. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science, and civilian mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2,000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. This i...Lung ailments come with the paycheck for wide swath of workers
...construction workers who break down rocks and move earth as part of highway or building construction. In hospital or pharmaceutical laboratories, employees have higher rates of asthma because of the latex gloves they wear. A physician at the University of Toronto Medical Center has found that it's the co...ASM statements on FY 2001 federal budget proposal: NIH, CDC, NSF
...NSF grants. The computational field, mathematics, earth sciences, and the physical and chemical sciences all play a crucial part in advancing the biological sciences. An increase of this nature will ensure that each of these scientific fields can fulfill their vital role in an increasingly interdependent......ion years ago, when asteroids routinely pelted the earth and caused the oceans to boil, Onstott said, so microorganisms living deep underground may provide clues about the emergence of life on the developing planet. "If you want to understand primitive microbial ecosystems, the only place you can go is int...One theory solves two ancient climate paradoxes
... the Earth would have remained warm." Tilting the earth 70 degrees gives large parts of each hemisphere 24...t would take about 100 million years to return the earth to a tilt between 20 and 30 degrees. "Based on what we know about the climate then, this is a viabl...Bacteria may thrive in Antarctic lake
...ost, which once recorded the lowest temperature on earth (-126.9 degrees Fahrenheit/-89.9 degrees celsius) -- is located on the ice above the lake. As part of a joint U.S., French and Russian research project, Russian teams have drilled down into the ice covering the lake, producing the world's dee...Team led by MSU biologist finds bacteria deep in Antarctic ice
...tain life in really extreme environments, said MSU earth sciences professor andco-author David Mogk. "I think the message is really, 'Life is where you find it'," Mogk said. "If you find itunder nearly 4,000 meters of ice, I mean, that's pretty staggering." In addition to searching for bacteria, the gr...Peter H. Raven voted president-elect of AAAS
...tropics, where much of the biotic diversity of the earth is concentrated but scarcely known and is severely threatened by human activities. Raven came to the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1971, and since then the garden has grown to be one of the foremost botanical research institutions in the world. The G...Chemistry to play major role in solving 21st century challenges
...obal view of water - "looking at the waters of the earth as an interconnected whole," notes the magazine. Gleick believes that in the long run, we must require a "new ethic" that is sustainable - one that involves getting more from less without causing harm. It will take about $50 billion a year to meet...Fall Meeting: updated press conferences and special events
...omment on the increasing links between biology and earth sciences (a theme of this meeting) and call for scientists to further expand their connections both within and beyond the scientific community. Glennda Chui Highlights Holiday Dinner of Northern California Science Writers Association (NCSWA) Monday, ...1999 Fall Meeting: Press conferences and special events
...omment on the increasing links between biology and earth sciences (a theme of this meeting) and call for scientists to further expand their connections both within and beyond the scientific community. Chui Highlights Holiday Dinner of Northern California Science Writers Association (NCSWA) Monday (6:30 P......rst used on NASA satellites to 'see' conditions on earth byinterpreting light and thermal energy waves as images packed with information, such astype of vegetation or crop, mineral resources, pollution, etc. In essence, a spectrareading is taken for each pixel in the image and then compared with spectra of...On the floor of the sea: watch while biologists search for rare white abalone
...on of Oceanography. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian mappingagency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2000 organizations acrossthe country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific information to resourcemanagers, planners, and other customers. This infor...USGS finds elevated levels of organochlorine pesticides in Aleutian bald eagles
...gle eggs. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other ...Virginia Tech microbe-minerals group launches new field of study
...ch geochemist Michael Hochella. "We know that the earth communicates with water and air, that microorganis... the diversityand distribution of microorganism on earth is at least in part due to thedynamic geochemistry of mineral surfaces," says Hochella. "Thousands o...