Brown earns prestigious geography award
...tal technologies and the potential for U.S. carbon emission reductions. She serves on the boards of several energy and environmental organizations, including the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance to Save Energy. She has served on advisory committees to the Environmental Protec...National Academies news: Report on EPA's particulate matter research
...tter characterize and track particles from various emission sources. The government's continued support and e... specific areas. These improvements could lead to emission control strategies which target the particulate matter that presents the greatest threat to public h...Power plants, other industry could offer contracts to farmers in helping reduce carbon emissions
...y, such as power plants, might face greenhouse gas emission limits and look for ways to offset levels that are...e if the U.S. government enforces a greenhouse gas emission reduction plan, which would strengthen market prices or introduce funded programs that share part of...Astonishing discovery over the Amazonian rain forest
... large quantities by forest vegetation. Its annual emission is estimated to be 500 million tons worldwide. But although isoprene readily oxidizes to form volatile products, popular wisdom held that it didn't form products that could contribute to aerosol particle formation. Intensive measurements over the Ama...Nanoparticle probes are destined for major new role in medical diagnostics and drug delivery
...nts for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) or as fluorescent tracers in optical microscopy. They also may be useful as structural scaffold in tissue engineering. Although nanoparticles are similar in size to biomolecules such as proteins and DNA, nanoparticles can be humanly......camera, a broad-band microscopic imager, a thermal emission spectrometer, a rock scraper, and two instruments designed to measure the composition of rocks and soils. Scientists Ken Herkenhoff and Larry Soderblom are assisting with calibration of all of the MER cameras and providing software tools for analyzi...Laser technology to map industrial plant gases available through Alberta Research Council
...ith wind speed measurements, we can calculate mass emission fluxes of the compound. The Spectrasyne DIAL operates from a self-contained mobile unit that can be set up quickly to provide mass emissions measurements on-site. In the first North American demonstration of the unit in May 2003, Chambers arranged t...Monkey talk, human speech share left-brain processing
...how this works, the researchers used PET (positron emission tomography) scanning. A radioactive tracer visualized the parts of the brain that were active while different types of sounds were being processed. After eight healthy monkeys heard a series of monkey calls, an area just below the left temple, at th...Waste motor oil management may pose threat to health and the environment
...n both human health and the environment. The total emission of heavy metals from used oil fuel in 2002 was potentially on the same scale as the combined emissions from all of California's large stationary pollution sources, such as refineries and other manufacturing plants. These staggering results suggest th...AGU journal highlights - 6 January 2004
... Title: Electrical discharges and broadband radio emission byMartian dust devils and dust storms Authors: Nilton O. Renno, Ah-San Wong, Sushil K. Atreya, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;Imke de Pater, University of California, Berkeley, California;Maarteen Roos-Serote, Lisbon Astronomical Observa......ready now cost-effective (for example wind), major emission reductions will require additional technologies (such as solar), which are currently more expensive. These will be developed and the costs reduced only if timely supporting policies are introduced. Alternative low-carbon development paths are in sigh...Stop to smell the flowers - But do it before they're pollinated
...unias. While ethylene essentially shuts down scent emission in petunias after pollination, the hormone does no... elicit this effect in snapdragons. Instead, scent emission in snapdragons is regulated by a change in the ratio of two compounds produced in snapdragon flowers...Scientists discover potential approaches to enhance existing cancer therapies
...eceptors using F-18-fluoroestradiol (FES) positron emission tomography (PET) may predict the response of advanced breast cancer to endocrine therapy by measuring regional target expression. According to research done by Dr. David A. Mankoff, associate professor of radiology in the University of Washington Sch......rsors like deep earthquakes and the carbon dioxide emission rate from volcanoes, providing more accurate eruption forecasts and allowing greater warning before unexpected and catastrophic eruptions strike. More thorough monitoring of the world's volcanoes with InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar -...Breast cancer can be reversed in laboratory mice, scientists report
...tion, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography (PET) scans. "We're extremely encouraged that we have been able to demonstrate in laboratory animals that we can make mammary cancers essentially disappear by reversing just one mutation," said Lewis A. Chodosh, associate professor at t...College is first to be Kyoto Protocol compliant
...power plant developers to meet this carbon dioxide emission standard by making a payment to the Climate Trust. These funds and the funds provided by participants in the Greenhouse Gas Partnership Program are used to stimulate projects that avoid, displace or sequester CO2 emissions. These projects are called ...E-Commerce and the environment: Good news or bad?
...gain access to the information. The greenhouse gas emission reductions from e-grocery home delivery depend highly on the choice of delivery vehicle (car, van, etc.) and fuel type. When positive effects from IT occur, such as reductions in pollution or energy use, they often fall in the range of 5-20 percent...PET scans used to determine progression of HIV infection
...the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to identify sites of replicating HIV in the lymphatic system of people recently infected with the virus. PET scan imaging is typically used to detect tumors. The researchers believe PET scans could lead to greater understanding...A PET (positron emission tomography) scanner sensitive enough to use on laboratory mice has been developed by biomedical engineers at UC Davis. The device is already being used for studies on prostate cancer. "We think it's the highest resolution scanner in existence. We can...Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
... low frequencies in particular, reducing the noise emission may require a large amount of 'passive' sound abso...trol (ANC) canceling sound by either a controlled emission of a secondary opposite (out-of-phase) sound signal, or controlling the absorption and boundary cond...