Specialized brain helped ancient reptiles fly and hunt
...omparisons generally inform us about the rigors of flight and how animals make it work," said Witmer, whose ...es of pterosaurs. "Pterosaurs and birds developed flight independently, but they're fairly closely related--birds are dinosaurs and pterosaurs are close cous...Genetic differences in termite castes may lead to better control
..."But soldiers don't have wings, so they don't have flight muscles as are found in the developing nymphs, which become winged reproductive adults." Though possibly hundreds of termite species exist around the world that are different sizes and live in different types of colonies, they all have similarities. ...ESA astronaut flies Cervantes mission to ISS
...pedition 8 crew lifted off today in Soyuz TMA-3 on flight 7S to the International Space Station. The launch ...ftermath of the Columbia accident ESA gave up that flight opportunity to make a crew exchange flight possible. This mission is Duque's second spaceflight. He ...Return to space for Spanish ESA astronaut
...ocked with the ISS in case of emergencies. Duque's flight is sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science an...tners in the Space Station programme to forgo that flight opportunity and make a crew exchange possible. ESA agreed to give up its seat and postpone Pedro Duq...Fruit odors lure some flies to evolve into new species
...ds were identified, Linn ran behavioral tests in a flight tunnel. Blends of the apple and hawthorn volatiles identified in the lab were synthesized and then tested for insect behavior. If the insect recognized the test odor, it oriented itself toward the source and flew upwind to reach it. The scientists fo...Scientific equipment including the first European student experiment reaches the ISS
...ss. The third ESA life science experiment on this flight is called BMI. It will monitor changes in blood pr...OT and GENE experiment has been uploaded. The next flight will be on the Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft which will be taking ESA astronaut Pedro Duque to the ISS on 1...SUCCESS 2002 Student Contest award ceremony
...periment with the possibility of qualifying it for flight on the ISS or an alternative research facility. The second prizewinner, Roberto Rusconi, is rewarded with a visit to the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the Ariane launch site. The third prizewinner, Eric Belin de Chantemle, receives a l...Honeybee gene find ends 150-year search
... hard enough already. Wild bees mate only once, in flight to their new nest. In the 19th century, Gregor Mendel, who discovered the principles of inheritance in pea plants, also tried to breed bees without success. In the 1940s, Harry H. Laidlaw, Jr. now a professor emeritus of entomology at UC Davis, and o...Blimp ride & demo of high tech sensors
...vailable to media by request.) The 30-minute test flight will simulate searching and identifying a terroris...Contact Linda Jameson at (808) 221-3552 to arrange flight times and to interview STI experts. Linda Jameson is Corporate Communications Director for STI. Ad...Stanford symposium on future of air and space travel
... the Wright Brothers ushered in the era of powered flight at Kitty Hawk. Most centennial celebrations held this year to commemorate that flight look back at aviation milestones dotting the timeline between then and now. But on July 31, the Scho...Busy weeks ahead for high-flying students
...ce week in Belgium, and to promote ESA's parabolic flight campaigns within the Belgian student community, the first flight of this campaign will take off from Bordeaux and land in Brussels, a first for ESA. The 32 teams h...... their breeding grounds, it takes more than strong flight muscles and an innate knowledge of where they're g... many years that birds recovering from a migration flight do not immediately regain body mass, but we didn't know why. Now it's clear that this digestive con...European experiment hardware reaches the International Space Station
...f the NANOSLAB experiment, which first flew on the flight of ESA astronaut Frank De Winne in November 2002 a...equipment for the Spanish Soyuz Mission. The first flight will be an unmanned cargo flight of Progress M-48, mission number 12P, which will be launched on 30 ...Older pilots OK to fly, study shows
...ne pilots that those with more than 5,000 hours of flight experience had less than half the risk of a crash ...ing the study period, the pilots flew 12.9 million flight hours and had 66 aviation crashes, yielding a crash rate of 5.1 per million pilot flight hours. Cra...Body clocks keep migrating monarchs on course, Science study shows
.... By studying monarchs inside a specially designed flight simulator, the researchers have gathered what they...enetic program to undergo this marvelous long term flight in the fall. They are essentially hell-bent on making it to their over-wintering grounds," said Scie...Scientists break down patterns in nature
...uthatches), or those species that catch insects in flight (such as flycatchers). As niches are specified more exactly, we move to the "terminal twigs" in the analogy: the individual species themselves. One "twig" might be a particular bird that gleans insects from the top leaves of a tree, another twig the ...Opening the black box: Scientists gain new tools to learn about the near-shore environment
...ts will be able to use these markers like internal flight recorders to follow the movements of the marine animal. Another important tool is genetics, according to Warner. The human genome project has moved genetics forward so that scientists will be able to compare the genes in populations of fish and find...UCLA and NASA partner to form new institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration
...re to help us develop fresh ideas for better space flight is an idea whose time has come," said Scott Hubbard, director of NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. "I am delighted that NASA will be working with such a wide variety of university scientists and students from a number of disci...Scientists harness powerful x-rays in new technique to study animal functions
...ole in the evolution of terrestrial locomotion and flight in insects, and be a prerequisite for oxygen delivery to complex sensory systems and the brain, the authors say. This would not only help scientists learn more about the animals studied but also provide insights on human health. For example, studying...Clemson researcher takes part in breakthrough research on insects
...lution of aspects of insect function, ranging from flight to the performance of sense organs, said Richard W. Blob (pronounced "Bl-oh-b"), assistant professor in Clemson University's biological sciences department. "As we come to understand the basic physiology of animal respiration and circulation through...