ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
...derstanding of storms that produce hazards such as flash floods. The overall Global Precipitation Measurement mission consists of a core platform equipped with microwave instruments and a number of smaller satellites to give a repeat observation cycle of approximately three hours. One of these satellites w...Imaging the brain solving problems through insight
...the clue, which suddenly seems obvious. The sudden flash of insight that precedes such "Aha!" moments is ch...ocesses, the authors conclude, underlie the sudden flash of insight that allows people to "see connections that previously eluded them."...Research reveals brain has biological mechanism to block unwanted memories
...ink about a pink elephant or a white bear,' people flash onto it immediately." Anderson likened the brain's ability to control memory to an individual's reflexive ability to halt an unwanted action. For example, Anderson recalled once standing at an open window and noticing a potted plant starting to fall....Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2004
...wallira@ornl.gov ] HEALTH -- Decontamination in a flash . . . Anthrax and other potentially deadly biological agents pose considerable threats to the military and the public, but Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers think they have a quick and safe cure. In a matter of seconds, the ultraviolet porti...Non-lethal methods can resolve conflicts between bears and humans
... your garbage? Play the sound of a helicopter, or flash a strobe light, say scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other organizations, who tested several non-lethal techniques to minimize conflicts between humans and large carnivores. The scientists, who published thei...Tufts University biologists unveil more mysteries of fireflies flash
...hat male fireflies are saying to females when they flash their lights - and it looks like the males are bra...ratsley examined the link between a male firefly's flash the nutritional gift he is able to give to his mate. Their findings, published in the January/Febru...New CU-NASA research belies previous idea that Mars was once warm, wet planet
...r broken by episodes of scalding rains followed by flash floods. "Only during the brief years or decades after the impact events would Mars have been temperate, and only then might it have bloomed with life as we know it," they wrote. Although temperatures in the subsurface of Martian soil may have exceed...Mole-rat Methuselahs push evolutionary theory of aging
...outside an animal's control, such as drowning in a flash flood or being devoured by a snake. In nature, naked mole-rats are largely protected from sources of extrinsic mortality by inhabiting subterranean burrows in extremely hard soils. Protection is enhanced by cooperative defense against predators. As a...Stealthy new deep-sea camera system may find new deep-sea creatures
...od on the deep ocean bottom, waiting quietly for a flash of bioluminescence to bring it to life. The instant any creature in the inky depths flashes its chemical signal, the camera will record the bioluminescent flash, and then send out a beam of red light, invisible to the animal, while simultaneously tak...Japanese shore crabs invade Penobscot Bay, Maine
...d helped turn over the boulder. Indeed, the purple flash was a Japanese shore crab. Meet Hemigrapsus sanguineus (pronounced hemmy-grap-sis san-gwinn-ee-us), also called the Asian shore crab, or the Pacific shore crab. It was first found along the Atlantic Coast in 1988, when a Franklin and Marshall Colle...Frozen 'lake' beneath Antarctica ideal to test sterile drilling techniques
...ctic ice to search for microbial life. The devices flash ultraviolet light, and detectors record any telltale fluorescence from bacteria. Such fluorescence is faint, however, and the team is still perfecting the instrument. In a second approach, Price and his colleagues have built at UC Berkeley a refriger...Clemson researchers create biosensors to protect nation's food and water supplies
...particles that are luminescent, providing a way to flash an alarm to hold the food for closer examination." Chemists used a similar technique to identify worms in pecans. The worms would absorb a chemical that would glow under UV or "black" light. Dawson, along with professors Ya-Ping Sun, Xiuping Jiang, ...University of Chicago chosen as Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence
...Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Suddenly, we can flash the entire genetic blueprint of a complex organism on the screen, which was inconceivable just a decade ago." Enabling the Campus Grid To accomplish its task, the University of Chicago will develop a data warehouse that links genomic data to pati...Stanford scientist seeks participants in NASA hypergravity study
....`` To determine that limit, a pair of lights will flash in the centrifuge cab as it rotates faster and faster. The lights will appear in the passenger`s peripheral visual field and will be moved closer together as the G force increases. The centrifuge will be stopped when the lights are about 40 degrees a......s, which then emit a brilliant but extremely brief flash of light called sonoluminescence. Sonoluminescences exact cause is still somewhat mysterious, but many researchers believe that the shock waves of the collapse generate high temperatures and pressures in the bubbles gas, which releases a burst of ene...Prenatal alcohol exposure affects visual processing
...l or auditory). For example, the letter "X" would flash on the computer screen (for 85 milliseconds) in a random manner. The adolescent was instructed to press the space bar only when they saw the letter "A" precede the "X." Their task was to remain vigilant for the "A," which would alert them to respon...Insect bites on plants reduce photosynthesis, imaging device shows
...high-intensity light-emitting diodes. A momentary flash of bright light hits a leafs surface, and the computers instantaneously collect data, providing high-resolution images....Research team unlocks secrets of the firefly flash
...efliesresearch team unlocks secrets of the firefly flash Light fades from the summer sky, and the spectac...) to evolve an elaborate courtship system based on flash communication, a kind of Personals Listing just for fireflies. "Fireflies are very romantic beasts,......sity of Texas Medical School, the group used laser flash spectroscopic techniques on naturally occurring marine microbes to search for the new photochemical activity in oceanic waters. The scientists observed chemical activity stimulated by light flashes in native marine microbes, similar to the activity ...Oceanic bacterial photopigments convert light into biochemical energy
...of Texas Medical School, the scientists used laser flash spectroscopic techniques on naturally occurring marine microbes to search for the new photochemical activity in oceanic waters. The scientists observed chemical activity stimulated by light flashes in native marine microbes, similar to the activity ...