Cave men diets offer insights to today's health problems, study shows
...he foods that people ate 10,000 years ago is not a flight of scientific esoterica. The researchers say this finding has important implications for what we eat today. Although 10,000 years ago predates all modern civilizations, it is a small blip in the evolutionary timeline of humans. Some nutritionists bel...New theory of the evolution of bird flight linked to parental care
...to birds began to fly, the ecological interplay of flight and parental care may have been mutually reinforce...the modern bird were acquired." The origin of bird flight is a fundamental issue in avian biology and in overall evolutionary theory. Many scientists point to...Protecting waterbirds from watercraft
...ich makes sense because they need more timeto take flight due to their slower take-offs and flight speeds. Based on their data, Rodgers and Schwikert conclude that a single bufferzone can protect wat......n ambitious project because it was the first space flight in which researchers directly recorded the sympath...ing sympathetic activity in astronauts after space flight in response to standing upright may not be necessary. Rather, efforts to combat the primary problem,...Single enzyme may be linked to obesity
... the glucocorticoid hormone cortisol, the fight or flight hormone that helps people survive stressful situations. Observations of patients with the endocrine disorder Cushing's syndrome who have too much cortisol in their blood had shown that they develop increased intra-abdominal fat as well as other me...Science steps up on International Space Station with new experiments, fresh crew to operate them
...the Shuttle behind Raffaello. STS-108 is the first flight of this new carrier. The combination of a talente...sible to get this new carrier ready for its maiden flight in less than a year, said Susan Spencer, a systems engineer in Marshalls Flight Projects Directorate......system. We hope to develop a program that mimics a flight simulator to help train future surgeons, said Dr. E. Carmack Holmes, professor and chairman of the department of surgery at UCLA. The collaboration with Computer Motion and our partner universities will extend the reach of the pioneers of minimally i...UC Berkeley expert on insect flight receives prestigious MacArthur 'genius' award
...ments he and his laboratory colleagues dissect fly flight muscles and nerves to tease out their interconnections or to record electrical signals from them. "There is nobody in the world who has the range of expertise, from neurophysiological approaches through fluid mechanics, that Michael has," Lauder said...Space Research Briefs - Sept./Oct. 2001
... HOUSTON - Factors associated with extended space flight might impact the body's ability to fully defend itself against disease. Potential problems include weakening of the immune system and activation of dormant viruses present in the body. "We're gathering data on viral levels in normal populations and i...Monarch butterflies, corn pollen coexist in cornfields
... how Bt affects factors like monarch reproduction, flight ability and size," Oberhauser said. Oberhauser's colleagues in the study were from the University of Guelph, Ontario; the University of Maryland; Iowa State University; the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Program, Indiana; the U.S. Department of Agric...Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ators for computer system administrators Just as flight simulators provide real-world experience to pilots...tical science is playing a larger role in ensuring flight safety. PNNL and Battelle, which operates the lab for the Department of Energy, are developing a sui...Tiny trickster flies into the zoological books
...reat advantage on a windy islandwhere even a short flight might carry you into the ocean. A related study to be published later this year, has compared DNA fromother wasps with that of the new family, and traced its closestrelatives to others whose ancestors evolved in Gondwana. The Family'sclosest living r...Joint research project to improve butterfly identification system
...r many traits about size, color, wing patterning, flight and feeding habits. Bringing computer principles to the task should not only make identification easier, but also improve accuracy, Heidorn said. What happens, more specifically in Heidorns program, called BIBE, or Biological Information Browsing ...Technology patented to create Pierces disease-resistant grapevines
...lassy-winged sharpshooter, that has a much broader flight range than that of previous Pierces disease-carrying insects in California. The problem has just exploded in the past few years, Gray said. Pierces disease has another negative effect: It is endemic to the Southeast, where it prevents the cultivat......ormation in an instant to control a whole range of flight performance - among other such pesky mysteries. ...man) at UC Berkeley studies the dynamics of insect flight control - not in airplanes, theyre too big to play by the same rules - but in fruit flies and hawkmo......or College of Medicine, where he hopes to become a flight surgeon, and Hamerski said he would find it "awesome" to some day practice medicine in space. "These students are the dreamers who want to be astronauts," Kram said. Chai, who plans to pursue an MD/PhD, is hooked too. "I want to find another project ...First experiments from NASA Commercial Space Centers get started on International Space Station
...flights. Initial study results indicate that space flight has a stimulating effect on microbial antibiotic p...stringent review requirements for commercial space flight research. Most of the centers are located on university campuses and work closely with other academ...New Zealand aircraft to fly mission to USA McMurdo Station
...U.S. and New Zealand Antarctic programs." The flight is unrelated to the evacuation of Dr. Ronald S. Shemenski from NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.......urch. Options other than a medical evacuation flight also being considered are continuing the treatment available at the station or airdropping additional supplies. Fifty people are spending the austral winter at the pole. Raytheon employs 39 of them and eleven are scientists from various universiti...Santa Cruz, CA--A new study of flight performance in wandering albatrosses reveals signi...es forage for food in the open sea. Few studies of flight performance in birds have looked at differences between males and females. Sexual dimorphism in bird...