Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...t, Barnosky has found that during some of the last few glacial/interglacial cycles between 1 million and ...ch to do with extinction as direct hunting. Over a few thousand years, Barnosky said, an extended sitzkrieg may have led to the extinction of large mammals...Houston minority graduation rises in sciences, engineering as result of UH-led alliance
...ich is the goal of the national NSF program. Very few programs come close to reaching this vision, and it is among the strongest out of all the LSAMP programs." A national program, LSAMP is one of a sequence of four NSF programs that seek to build productive capacity and output within institutions ...Chemical engineering grad students will take notable national awards
... Zarkadas, who is expected to graduate in the next few months, was selected as the winner of the 2004 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in Crystallization and Evaporation. Zarkadas is a resident of Kearny. Meredith Feins, of River Vale, who received her Ph.D. in May of 2004, wa...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
... cardiovascular disease and diabetes over the next few decades," said Dr. Grundy, chairman of human nutrition. "We're trying to get a handle on that issue from every aspect." Obesity is associated with many adverse health consequences such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and non-alcoholic fat...'Dead zone' area shrinking, Texas A&M prof says
...more complicated and interrelated factors. "Just a few weeks before we went on our research cruise, other teams in the area reported seeing few if any fishing boats in the dead zone area," DiMarco says. "But we were surprised to see a lot of fi...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...) is between 60 and 80 percent. "There have been a few studies done using arsenic trioxide on a limited number of newly diagnosed patients, but we are the first group to suggest that it is acceptable as a first-line treatment," said Dr. Ghavamzadeh. "The results are comparable to ATRA with chemotherapy a...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...t copy themselves, said Wessler, "But there were a few anecdotal reports of plant TEs that contained frag... a new gene combination. "There are only a few mechanisms known for evolving new genes, and one is genetic recombination, which can bring fragments...'Most recent common ancestor' of all living humans surprisingly recent
...f all humans currently alive may have lived just a few thousand years ago. "While we may not all be 'brothers,' the models suggest we are all hundredth cousins or so," said Joseph T. Chang , professor in the Department of Statistics at Yale University and senior author on the paper. Chang est...Genetic differences might help distinguish thyroid cancers
...can be readily identified by differences in only a few genes, new research shows. The study, by researche...cer of the endocrine hormone system. Over the last few years, thyroid cancer has risen at an alarming rate, Eng says. An estimated 23,600 new cases of thyr...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
... Rohwer said the researchers speculate that few men are likely to father offspring with women to whom they are not married. "Men who are successful as philanderers probably are rare, but they may be successful with many women," he said. Rohwer for several years has, at the beginning ...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...tations with the authors. Below are summaries of a few of the top presentations, with their program references. 1.5 Charles H. Turner (Indiana University, Indianapolis) Mechanisms for increasing bone mass by exercise. Mechanical loading through exercise builds bond mass, with the effects most pronounc...Newly identified master gene key in baby's first breath
...st day of life and died within hours of birth. The few knockout mice that did survive, developed asthma-like symptoms and emphysema later in life. On the other hand, when Foxa2 was fully intact, the newborn mice survived normally. Foxa2 is different from other genes because it is a master gene: it ...A test case for DNA barcodes to identify species
... identify species has never been greater. With too few specialists to do the job, biologists are looking for high-throughput tools that can rapidly and accurately identify individuals from known species and from an entirely new species. In the open access journal, PLoS Biology, Paul Hebert and colleagues...Hidden diversity: DNA 'barcoding' reveals a common butterfly is actually 10 different species
...If the specimens in question differ by more than a few percent in their base pairs of DNA in this gene, it is likely that they have come from different populations. Paul Hebert and Erin Penton at Guelph were able to extract the necessary DNA from 484 adult butterflies deposited at the Smithsonian - all r...Punching the timeclock of life
...prematurely to provide nutrients for the sake of a few individuals who have acquired the genetic mutation...n. Thus, billions of organisms die early so that a few better-adapted individuals can grow." What is even more striking, he said, is that the finding...Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
... policies are needed. "We saw a surprising trend a few years ago," said Hites, Distinguished Professor in...don't know why this happened, but we hope the next few years of data will provide us with some answers." The EPA will give Hites and Basu $3.5 million to o...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...ce aspects of fisheries management. "In the past few years, my primary contribution has been to use 'rational choice theory' to show under what conditions groups of people will and will not develop rules to conserve the resources on which their livelihood depends," Acheson says. "This has led me into a...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
... With relatively short and broad limbs containing few bones, Dinocephalosaurus, more than other protorosaurs, appears fully designed for life in the water. Though protorosaurs with more extensive bony limb structures would have had an easier time on land, Chun Li said Dinocephalosaurus may have ventured...Termites could hold the key to self-sufficient buildings
...ciples could be used to design buildings that need few or no mechanical services (e.g. heating and ventilation) and so use less energy and other resources than conventional structures. Loughborough University is leading this innovative project, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Res...... is perceived and the other's is suppressed. Every few seconds, perception switches spontaneously between the two images. While binocular rivalry is rarely encountered in the normal visual environment, it provides a useful means of probing the workings of the visual parts of our brain: although an experi...