Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...important to understand that just as much sunlight falls on cities as on woodlands of the same size. The di... roofs soak up virtually all of the radiation that falls on them and reradiate it as heat. The NASA Lear 23 will carry ATLAS plus a standard 9x9-inch aerial...Chemists Develop High-Throughput Method To Synthesize And Screen Novel Antibiotics
...oncentration (or MIC) of prescription beta lactams falls between0.1 and 1.0 microgram per milliliter. Some of the compoundsdeveloped in Day's lab were effective at the sub-nanogram level. That might make it possible to develop antibiotic skinpatches. The patches have an advantage over pills, because thepa...New Mechanism To Explain Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Identified
...y don't fit this traditional explanation. Science falls down in terms ofwhat we see in day-to-day practice." Interaction of Deadly Gases Now, Thom and Penn colleagues Harry Ischiropoulos, PhD, ResearchAssistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Y. Anne Xu, ResearchSpecialist in Envi...Recombinant Protein Immunizes Mice, Promises New Strategy Against Infection And Cancer
...ing cells infected by virusesor deformed by cancer falls to the second arm of the immune system, led byimmune cells called T cells. T cells orchestrate a multi-pronged attack, and ifappropriate, turn into 'killer cells,' called cytotoxic T cells or CTLs, thathome in on infected cells and destroy them. ...'Rolling Circles' Provide New Way to Amplify and Detect DNA
...until it runs out of raw material or spontaneously falls off. "This is how some viruses replicate themselves," says Kool."We tapped methods that have been proven over millions of yearsof evolutionary engineering." Scientists currently use various other techniques to reproduce DNA. In PCR, or po...Population Growth Costs Include Global Warming Impact
... considered shared global expenses. Globalwarming falls into that category, he explained. To estimate the external costs of a larger population, the Yalescientists used computerized, dynamic, general equilibrium models of the economyand climate changes. These models come in both an aggregate ver...Common Infection Linked To High Blood Pressure
...land. "Nowwe know that severe high blood pressure falls into the same category." Severehigh blood pressure is indicated by a reading of 160/90 millimeters of mercuryor greater. The American Heart Association previously reported (Circulation, July15, 1997) that heart attack survivors who had the...USC Study On Soy's Anti-Cancer Effects
...imes more soy per capita than Americans.Soy intake falls in Asian-Americans, according to a 1996 report from USC/Norrisresearchers led by Malcolm Pike, professor and chair of preventive medicine atthe School of Medicine. In that study, the team found that Asian-American womenwho ate the most tofu had a low...High Altitudes May Be Harmful To Some Infants
... . However, four infants unpredictably had severe falls in oxygen saturation (hypoxaemia). Parkins et al...espiratory infection, develop sudden or persistent falls in blood oxygen saturation. They also suggest that their study may contribute to understanding the ...Spinal Cord Injury Treatment May Improve With New Findings On Nervous System Damage
...plastic around an electrical wire. If their myelin falls into disrepair, axons cease to function, even though theythemselves aren't damaged. So protecting oligodendrocytes after brain or spinalcord injury might keep intact axons in action. A chance observation led researchers at Washington University Scho...... the region are extremely poor and current funding falls far short of the estimated $2 billion needed in order to meet family planning and other reproductive health needs. In 1990, African governments spent only about $200 million of their own money for all preventive health services, including family plan...Researcher Uncovers New Species Of Fungus In Wisconsin Lake
...iology at the University of Illinois. "When a tree falls in the water, you have a lot of microorganismsthat climb on board to decompose it," he said. "They have manychemicals in them. Fungi are very specialized. They are a very much untappedsource of new compounds." The species was described recently i...Commercial Fish: Eat Up, Despite Low Levels Of Mercury
...ermometers. Mercury vapor entersthe atmosphere and falls in rainwater to the Earth. Then, in apoorly understood process in the oceans and other bodies ofwater, microbes play a key role, transforming the mercury into asubstance known as methyl mercury, which works its way up thefood chain and accumulates pr...American Society Of Animal Science Recognizes Global Scope Of Virginia Tech Researcher's Work
... animals thatare more productive. Much of his work falls into the category of basic research,which adds to the foundation of knowledge of a subject. Other parts of his work,however, are applied research, or research in ways to make basic understandingdirectly useful to producers. "I enjoy doing app...Study Of Raindrop Energy To Aid Fight Against Crop Diseases
... standard rain gauges measure how much rain falls overtime, but cannot record droplet size. Madden said the fewsensors on the market today that do detect droplet size are both difficult to use and prohibitively expensive, costing a...... andimpaired mobility, increased susceptibility to falls and injury, and jointstress and degeneration. Even in young adult mice, the new treatment increased muscle strength bya dramatic 15 percent over untreated muscle. But in older mice, the improvementwas even more remarkable: The researchers do...In Animal Groups, Scientists See Patterns That Could Predict The Future
.... Snowflakes are a classic example. A single flake falls and is beautiful tolook at. A stormful of flakes stick together and are carved by the wind intoelaborate ridges and cornices. A winter's worth of flakes slip and slide andadjust to gravity, eventually producing an avalanche. But animal aggregations h......rvives on less than 10 inches ofprecipitation that falls throughout the year. Just three months ago, in the Jan. 8 issue of Science, researchers from thesesame institutions presented evidence that the ways humans changed the vegetationcould have caused 85 percent of Australia's animals weighing more than 1...Under the hood of a cellular transport machine
...hrin-coatedvesicle, is formed, stays together, and falls apart. A video of the clathrin protein can be viewed on the Web at www.hms.harvard.edu/news/clathrin/. Clathrin-coated vesicles are constantly assembling and disassembling to performtheir task of transporting proteins from the outside of the cel...Many patients not treated for easily corrected life-threatening condition, new study shows
...heir hip fractures may well havebeen the result of falls following the seizures. "The importance of hyponatremic encephalopathy both as a cause of seizures andinjury at home, as well as a dangerous complication in the hospital should notbe underestimated," he says, particularly when such a simple and effe...