Is that plant a tortoise or a hare? Answer predicts its response to environmental change
...re category, said Reich. Their strategy is to grow fast and quickly release seeds, and they tend to grow in places where the vegetation is disturbed. Data for the study were collected from the University of Minnesota's Cedar Creek Natural History Area, forests in Wisconsin and Minnesota, the New Mexican d...Mantis shrimp may have swiftest kick in the animal kingdom
...chers were finally able to visualize the extremely fast strikes. The BBC television crew spent a week in C...to 8,000 times that of gravity. Other animals with fast feeding strikes are the trap-jaw ant, at 17 meters per second, and the much smaller nematocysts of t...Chicken litter harbors agents that generate antibiotic multi-resistance, according to UGA study
...resistance to new antibiotics will develop and how fast and how far it will spread and have implications for all antibiotic use, not just that in agriculture....Newborn lambs' central heating system could aid fat busting in humans
...at Wye and leader of the project says: "Obesity is fast becoming one of the biggest problems for the Western world. In the UK statistics suggest 20 per cent of us are overweight and in the USA the situation is even worse with more than 60 per cent of the population either overweight or clinically obese. ...Embryonic skin cells committed at an early age
...ell populations that terminally differentiate at a fast rate likely provide a smaller target size than cells turning over at a slower rate. Conversely, more deleterious and uncontrolled effects could result from loss of normal growth/ differentiation mechanisms in cells that would be otherwise programmed ...Better techniques needed to predict earthquake hazards, UC study finds
...ur on the fault, the path it might travel, and how fast it might move. "We know that under very strong shaking the soil may not behave in a linear fashion," said Archuleta, "so we used nonlinear soil dynamics computer models to calculate the surface ground motions created by fault ruptures." Heuze and Ar...UF study: Barren Siberia, of all places, may be original home to animal life
...ow closely related they were. While six inches is fast by comparison to today's continental movement of speed of one to two inches per year, it is far slower than that proposed by another prominent theory on early continental movement. That theory, known to scientists as "inertial interchange true polar ...Ancient Greeks help scientists build environmentally friendly nano devices
...ting surfaces, as well as enabling new devices for fast optoelectronic communication. CMMP 2004 is composed of twenty-two symposia including 'Nanomagnetism and Spintronics', 'Quantum Fluids and Solids', 'Semiconductor Optics and Photonics', 'Applied Superconductivity' and 'Bose-Einstein Condensates'. In a...Creating polymers that act like biomolecules
...to understand just how these micelles look and how fast the polymers respond to changes in temperature and pH. "Samples are plunged into liquid ethane which freezes them so quickly that ice doesn't form and disrupt the crystal structure," she says. "We're able to then view the gel formation at va...Chestnut trees to spread across landscape again, says Purdue scientist
...Jacobs said. "Its rot-resistance, coupled with its fast growth rate and its straight form, make it an ideal tree for utility poles and mid-grade furniture production." Jacobs said he expects to see blight-resistant American chestnut become widely available in another 10 years and suggests that...K-State uses geographic tools to track plant pathogens
...puzzle: we wanted to see if we could determine how fast the aphid moves, where it's been; then if we could predict where it's going throughout the country, and, finally, by looking at the data could we work backwards to determine its point of entry." Before 2000, Asia was the only known territory ...Antarctic fish study may aid cardiac research
...rgery involving heart-lung bypass) or fail to beat fast enough (e.g. as a result of hypothermia in water or exposure on a mountain). At the BAS Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula small acoustic tags (called 'pingers' due to the sound they make) are painlessly attached to the fish and the ...Scientists develop new cloning technique that dramatically shortens the search for genes
...ntifying and cloning important plant genes that is fast and may be applicable to almost any plant species." Long, Mitra and their colleagues at the John Innes Centre are so confident that transcript-based cloning will have broad applications that they have applied for a patent. Other co-authors of the PNA...Press workshop 'Life, a Nobel Story'
... Time slots for one-to-one interviews are limited; fast registration is essential! Ask for your registration form at info@lifeanobelstory.org and register today. Availability is limited. Registration for the Press Workshop on April 29 is free....Plant, bird and butterfly species dwindling in the United Kingdom, researchers report
...n allow a few species, especially grasses, to grow fast and crowd or shade out their neighbors. The nitrogen is deposited from the atmosphere as the result of agricultural fertilization and fossil fuel combustion. "When species are lost through pollution or habitat fragmentation, it is often the native o...Nerac rebuilds TOC Journal Watch service with new search engine
...TOC Journal Watch provides a new online system for fast and easy set-up. Subscription clients can directly access the online database of 21,000+ journals and several hundred conference proceedings through Nerac's customer-only Website. Advanced searching allows clients to easily target publications by jou...As obesity skyrockets, Joslin Diabetes Center urges action to stem the tide of type 2 diabetes
...But much more can be done. "More restaurants both fast food and fancy food -- should re-examine their offerings as McDonald's did last week when it announced plans to eliminate its supersized offerings. The food industry needs to boost its efforts to clearly label nutrition facts and cut marketing of un...Are you slow in coordinating your thoughts?
...matical expressions which precisely determined how fast neurons can coordinate their activity, i.e. how fast neural networks can synchronize. Using these random matrix theory expressions, the dependence on pro...Purdue scientists: Genetically modified fish could damage ecology
... survived to adulthood. "What surprised us was how fast a GMO mating advantage could cause a transgene to spread in a population," Howard said. "Additionally, we were intrigued at the outcome predicted if this advantage was combined with the disadvantage of young with reduced survival ability." Howard obs......pensive proposition" but that UD's current ship is fast approaching its retirement age and "not having a research vessel at our College of Marine Studies would seem about as logical as a race car driver without a car. "At a time when the importance of marine science is growing nationally," Roselle said, "...