Lazy snakes! Pythons can be couch potatoes, too
...and amino acid mixtures and digestive assimilation efficiency of meals that induce SDA. Essentially, pythons are governed by physiological principles that encourage consumption of specific foods, to optimize their metabolic rate, and allow energy expenditure for activities other than digestion....Convergent technologies: Is your company ready for the future?
...erging technologies will positively influence work efficiency and production. Individually or combined, nanotechnology, information technology, biotechnology, and cognitive science, can be used to develop manufacturing systems that will mechanically adjust design features without the need to stop production or ...New mouse model shows how news of pathogen reaches immune system
...een the dendritic cell and the T cell improves the efficiency of the immune response," said senior author Hidde Ploegh, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. professor of immunopathology at Harvard Medical School. The action was recorded by a special microscope for viewing living cells recently developed in the laboratory o...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2002
...ound, air and soldier detection and identification efficiency and related information. Combat ID is part of an integrated system whose purpose is to develop the Army's future combat system and give U.S. forces increased survivability and superior firepower. [Contact: Glenn Allgood] FORENSICS Invisible finge...Imaging apparatus characterizes drops in 'dirty' laboratory environments
...m can be scavenged in the combustor. "That kind of efficiency would be great for most applications, but it's not good enough when dealing with radioactive waste," said Alexander Scheeline, a professor of chemistry at Illinois. "Understanding the cause of the unscavenged fraction and devising a way to reduce it...DNA unzipping found to take at least two proteins, not one alone
...ng their microscope, they measured energy transfer efficiency from each DNA during helicase binding and movement. Red or green fluorescence signals appeared and disappeared, indicating distances between the probes during unzipping. "The unwinding can begin and then stop in the middle of the process," Ha said. ...First soybeans grown in space return to Earth
... that information to further improve the soybeans' efficiency and profitability for farmers. According to the United Soybean Board, soybeans are the largest single source of protein meal and vegetable oil in the human diet. Domestically, soybeans provide 80 percent of the edible consumption of fats and oils in...Scientists tackle the question: 'What will it really take to stop global warming?'
...nd slow down global warming, such as conservation, efficiency improvements, hydrogen production, storage and transport, superconducting global electric grids and geoengineering. CO2 emissions from fossil fuels trigger global warming by enhancing the atmosphere's "greenhouse effect", which traps energy that wou...DuPont Chief Science and Technology Officer to address summit during Asia Pacific trip
...ty. Past recipients have enhanced productivity or efficiency in agricultural, industrial and medical areas. During 2002, DuPont is celebrating its 200th year of scientific achievement and innovation — providing products and services that improve the lives of people everywhere. Based in Wilmington, Del., D...From designer milk to 'green' cows: predictions for milk and dairy products in the next 50 years
... traits that will enable scientists to improve the efficiency of milk production and select for milk with specific traits. Although the development of genetically modified cows and milk products shows promise, consumer resistance to such products will remain a barrier well into the future, the researchers predi...Sugar gene helps rice tolerate drought, salt, cold
...ar appears to help plant cells regain function and efficiency when stress is gone. But, Garg adds, "We still have a lot to learn about trehalose in important crop plants." Likewise, several years of research-and-development work, safety testing and certification are ahead before large-scale production and distr...Ultrasound shown to be potentially safe, effective way to kill bacteria
..., who is director of R&D at Ultran. He says, "The efficiency of an NCU device is dependent on the properties of the transition layers on the piezoelectric material which create the high acoustic pressure ultrasound waves in air. This principal, in conjunction with new materials, is applied in the new patented...Novel gene therapy approach shows promise
...tors will continue studies in cells to improve the efficiency of the method before they test it in a group of Sparky's descendants -- a dog model of myotonia congenita....JCI table of contents, December 15, 2002
...n cultured cells, but the generalapplicability and efficiency of the process is still unclear. In an articlebegi...g reaction remains a critical issue. Overallrepair efficiency in the study was low, but detailed analysis revealed astriking heterogeneity among individual cells....Computer program reveals optimum microstructure for new materials
...pproach could help bring to man-made materials the efficiency of design that characterizes so many biological materials. "Biological materials are inherently multifunctional," said Torquato. "They have evolved over millions of years to cope with a wide range of situations, so they perform a variety of functions...Peoples' household dynamics crucial to biodiversity
...bute to global warming. "In larger households, the efficiency of resource consumption will be a lot higher because more people share things," Liu said. "Usually, many people will share living space and other resources. This is true in all countries." Moreover, households may be shrinking in size, but growing in...Researchers tie worldwide biodiversity threats to growth in households
...e materials consumed for construction, and a lower efficiency of resource use per person. In hotspot countries, where this trend is most prevalent, the authors believe there may be severe limits on efforts to conserve species, thus "degrading the ecosystem services that biodiversity delivers to humanity." In t...Is remote sensing the answer to today's agriculture problems?
... research remote sensing techniques to improve the efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer applications in crops. These techniques will allow growers to more efficiently apply nitrogen fertilizer, increase profitability, and avoid detrimental environmental effects....Early mammals used pelvic bones to trot, study finds
...ones had something to do with increasing locomotor efficiency in the very earliest mammals." As the mammals radiated after the dinosaurs went extinct, the epipubic bones in most mammals, including humans, became fused with the pelvis, which allowed mammals to use many gaits besides the trot. The findings coul...Mouse model links alcohol intake to marijuana-like brain compounds
...e explanation for this phenomenon by comparing the efficiency of the signal sent by the CB1 receptors in different regions of the brain in young and old mice. In old mice, they found diminished CB1 signaling in an area known as the limbic forebrain. The part of the limbic forebrain known as the nucleus accumben...