UF study suggests life on Earth sprang from borax minerals
...rdo, Matthew Carrigan and Alison Olcott built on a famous experiment done 50 years earlier by Stanley Miller that is found in many textbooks. In 1953, Miller showed that electric sparks in a primitive atmosphere made amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Miller's experiment failed to identify sugar...The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa's Notorious Man-eaters
...onal conservation agencies." Two Tsavo lions are famous for having killed and eaten as many as 135 railway...ictoria and the Indian Ocean. Their story was made famous by the major motion picture "The Ghost and The Darkness" (Paramount Pictures, 1996), and those two m...... of Shamrock, La. Dublin, Ohio is perhaps the most famous Dublin on this side of the pond, but it's not the only one. There are 151 other Dublins here. Finally, there are 287 variations of Irish in American places including Irishman Ditch in Alabama and Irish Hill, Maine. Consult the database for more fasci...Rockefeller University scientists take on controversial 'vibration theory' of smell
...dd number. Aldehydes are a family of odorants made famous by being the major components of Chanel No. 5 perfume, and Turin predicted that the vibration of odd versus even aldehydes would not be the same because the aldehyde group of even number aldehydes would have more freedom to rotate, producing differen...Fat hormone leptin alters brain architecture and activity, which in turn drives feeding behavior
...mory," said Pinto. For her research, Pinto used a famous mouse strain that resembles obesity in some humans. These mice lack leptin and grow to twice the size of a normal mouse with a body that contains five times the fat. Using the obese mice, Pinto and her colleagues were able to show effects of the hor...Long-forgotten samples may help save species
...early extinct Tahitian land snails. The snails, famous since the late 1800s as classic examples of specie...etailed study of evolutionary relationships in the famous Tahitian snails. But the collaborator died before the research could be done, and Burch became absor...Into the dead zone: Galveston researcher examines loss of marine life
...ssippi River delta area has become one of the most famous dead zones in the world, but other recent ones have occurred in South American, Japan, China and Australia, the United Nations report says. Dead zones range in size from just a few square miles to more than 45,000 square miles, and the loss of fish a...Archaeologists announce discoveries at the ancient Maya site of Waka' in northern Guatemala
... the site (located approximately 60 km west of the famous Maya site of Tikal) in 2002, is part of an alliance of government and non-government agencies trying to halt a cycle of destruction in Guatemala's largest national park, Laguna del Tigre. The ancient Maya center, known from ancient Maya inscriptions...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting June 2-4 in Indianapolis
...Shakespeare, which may be the only likeness of the famous writer made during his lifetime, and a review of the sampling and analytical techniques used to evaluate the Vinland map, which may be the only map representing North America prior to Columbus. (Abstracts 220-226, Thursday, June 3, 1:30 p.m.-5:05 p...UCLA researchers recreate patterns formed by mammalian cells
...usion discovered by Alan Turing, the mathematician famous for his role in breaking the Nazi code during World War II. He showed that patterns required interaction between an activating protein that draws cells together (activator) and another protein that stops them from coming together (inhibitor). The i...Study: Artificial sweetener may disrupt body's ability to count calories
..., known for his work in the early 20th century, is famous for his experiment in training dogs to associate food with the ringing of a bell. After being conditioned to the bell, the dogs salivated when they heard it - even when they did not see or smell food. Davidson and Swithers propose that rats learn a s...Summer in the South: Kudzu and oriental bittersweet
...ueraria montana var. lobata ) is arguably the most famous exotic plant to invade the southeastern region of the U.S. First introduced from Asia in 1876, kudzu vines with their grape soda-scented blossoms cover millions of acres of disturbed land, forming dense mats over everything, including mature trees. K...New model explains why costly insect 'outbreaks' hard to predict
...tic. "Voles and other small mammals are famous for having outbreaks," said Dwyer. But like previous insect-outbreak models, vole-outbreak models have emphasized regularity, even though vole outbreaks are often irregular. Now that the insect-outbreak riddle might be solved, small mammals like vole...Protein is key for digestive function of the pancreas
...at may lead to pancreatic disease. While the most famous role of the pancreas is the production of hormones like insulin that regulate blood sugar, the pancreas also produces digestive enzymes that are secreted into the gastrointestinal tract and break down carbohydrates, proteins, and fats present in the ...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
... vertebrae. Comparison of this new creature to the famous long-necked reptiles and a fellow protorosaur from Europe and the Middle East called Tanystropheus offers new insights into protorosaur hunting strategies as well as their evolution and diversity during the Triassic Period. The new creature's specia...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...d oxygen diffusion. Christensen would later become famous for his work on the International High Altitude Expedition to Chile where he and his coauthors "fully confirmed...the opinion of Krogh, Barcroft and others that diffusion can account for the transfer of oxygen in the lung." Completing the circle, S...