Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
...al effect for more than a century, advances in the field of perception now allow for better ways to study why it occurs, Todd said. "Researchers have developed powerful techniques that allow us to measure the perception of complex shapes in a very precise way," he said. In this study, the authors viewed on...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...er, also signifies her tremendous potential in the field of chemical sciences," ORNL Director Jeff Wadswort.... This year's TR 100 group was selected from a field of nearly 650 candidates under the age of 35. Delmau and other TR 100 winners will join top innovato...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...search Institute (Boulder, CO) for her work in the field of planetary science. Ever since the Apollo missio...on University, (Princeton, NJ) for her work in the field of mathematics. Maria Chudnovsky wants to understand the world completely. Why do storm clouds appe...The American Phytopathological Society announces 2004 awards
... potential to change, the direction of work in any field of plant pathology. The Noel T. Keen Award for Research in Molecular Plant Pathology went to Brian J. Staskawicz, University of California-Berkeley. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in host-pathogen inte...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...ches. He and his colleagues spent two years in the field observing this behavior, and took tissue samples to test the paternity of the eggs in numerous clutches. What they uncovered was a strategy apparently linked to the unusually skewed operational sex ratio in the Pyrenean ponds, that is, the ratio of e...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...ons a second, and tilted just so inside a magnetic field being pelted with radio waves. The tiny rodent-adv...s in animalswould be necessary to see how strong a field and fast a spin they couldstand. He admitted that patients might balk at being spun and believesengi...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
...ntists $345,000 to build and instrument a portable field laboratory for research and research training. As...and. The URI scientists who will initially use the field laboratory are geological oceanographers Steven D'Hondt, Arthur Spivack, and John King, biological o...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...r systems as a strategic approach to advancing the field of tissue engineering and associated services to address current laboratory and clinical challenges," Kaplan explained. The experts will focus their research on two areas: studying and designing biodegradable and biocompatible tissue engineeri...APS Foundation names student travel award recipients
...ards are designed to help students studying in the field of plant pathology present their work, either in an oral or poster presentation, at the society's annual meeting. The 2004 student travel award recipients include: Abby Guerra-Moreno, University of Florida; Gladys Mbofung, University of Arizona; Sar...ConocoPhillips & Conservation International launch 'Biodiversity Action Plan' in Venezuela
...ConocoPhillips discovered the Corocoro gas and oil field in the Gulf of Paria in 1999 and declared it comme...y viable in October 2002. Prior to developing the field for production, ConocoPhillips partnered with Conservation International on a multi-phase Initial Bi...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...ative leadership and superior contributions in the field of diabetes research and is the highest scientific...the research of Dr. Kahn has literally defined the field of insulin signal transduction and mechanisms of altered signaling in disease. In 1981, Dr. Kahn's ...NJIT professor receives Presidential Award for breakthrough research with adult stem cells
...ng new undergraduate and graduate curricula in the field of tissue engineering, and is doing community outr...increase the number of minorities and women in the field of engineering. Two years ago, Arinzeh published an influential paper in the Journal of Biomedical ...Ventilation in bars, casinos doesn't control health risk for hospitality workers
...tive contributions of national significance in the field of substance abuse. Each award includes a grant of $300,000, which is used to conduct a project over a period of up to three years that advances the field. The program addresses problems related to alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs, through educati...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...Bloomington campus next week to decide where their field should be going as part of a conference, "Informatics: Defining the Research Agenda," Sept. 10-12. Daniel Reed, director of the Institute for Renaissance Computing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of President Bush's I...Single isolated mouse skin cell can generate into variety of epidermal tissues
...egion of the hair follicle that researchers in the field thought might be the home of these stem cells. Because they are so powerful, and so few in number, stem cells are used sparingly by the body and are tucked away in protected places. In the skin, cells suspected of having "stemness" because they divid...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...enges included purchasing Russian vehicles for the field teams using federal dollars an unprecedented bureaucratic challenge for the researchers importing all laboratory equipment and supplies, and then figuring out a way to maintain them without the standard resources that one takes for granted in the U...NASA satellites detect 'glow' of plankton in black waters
... organizations provided rain, river discharge, and field survey information. By knowing which way the winds blow and the currents flow, Hu and colleagues can predict where black water may move. Red tides occur every year off Florida and are known to cause fish kills, coral stress and mortality, and skin a...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung
...reatments." PNNL established its leadership in the field in 2001 when it rolled out the model of working rat lungs it called "the virtual respiratory tract." At the time, it offered the clearest picture yet of how pollutants enter the respiratory system, how they move and where they accumulate. ( http:// w...New tool predicts how long pollutants will stay in soil
...rs and regulators in the environmental engineering field can take advantage of it." Nguyen agreed. "Over the past several decades, more than 90 equations involving the old octanol approach have been developed, and those equations do not work very well on many chemicals," she said. "More people should be u...Highlights of American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26
...ert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. "The field of infectious diseases is currently facing significant challenges given an increasing prevalence of highly resistant microorganisms, the emergence of new microbes and the existence of large numbers of immunosuppressed individuals in whom standard ant...