Dangerous Chemical Combination Presents Possible Scenario For Gulf War Illnesses
...ng, leg weakness and a reluctanceto walk, impaired flying or tremors. The combination of all three chemicalsproduced the most severe signs, resulting in total paralysis or death insome chickens. A laboratory analysis of tissues in the central and peripheral nervous systemsshowed that multiple chemical exp...Human-Like Ability, Categorical Perception, Found In Insects
... ones that waffle become bat bait." For a cricket flying through the night air, life is a sound spectrum-fi...breeze from a fan, to make the cricket think it is flying while tethered in midair. "We weren't looking for the so-called continuous perception," Wyttenbach ...NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...p to a kilometer France's Arat research aircraft, flying out of Bangui While relying on many standard sensors, EXPRESSO will serve as the debut for some specialized equipment, including a new isoprene flux sampler (built by NCAR's Alan Hills) that is "the world's best," according to Klinger. Isoprene, a fa...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...p to a kilometer France's Arat research aircraft, flying out of Bangui "There's never before been a program in this region that has combined all the elements of photochemistry, biochemistry, and meteorology," says NCAR's Pat Zimmerman....Learning From Birds And Bees: Engineers Study Insects For Ideas On Tiny "Micro Air Vehicles"
...e formidable challenges and ahost of unknowns. No flying vehicles of this size currently exist, meaning designersmust look to birds and insects for information about flight principleson a scale this small. Researchers believe aerodynamic principlesgoverning aircraft with six-inch wings may be significantl...A Phoenix From A Ring Of Fire Is A Pattern For The Recovery Of Mount St. Helens
... that covers the islands. "They were jumping and flying around in all this tephra (volcanic material) seemingly unaffected by it," says Edwards. "The fact that the insects seemed to be moderately indifferent to the ash was my biggest surprise." Why the difference between the sites of the Was......oriented or uncoordinated behavior such as erratic flying or impaired ability to swim or dive. The public is urged to report observations of sick or dead eagles or coots to Dr. Kimberli Miller at the National Wildlife Health Center at 608-270-2448. As the nation's largest natural resources science...Divorce, Insect Style: Termites Swap Mates
...ould make a mortgage banker proud. Withinhours of flying to a likely log and making their ultimate mate choice, newlypaired termites are building their future home. They erect concrete-like wallsfrom their own fecal matter to keep interlopers away from the sections of thelog they intend to mine. The nitr...Smog Spreading To South Pacific
... In 1996, for example, two research planes flying in the South Pacificencountered ozone from biomass burning on 50 percent of their flights, Rowlandsaid. One airplane flew through a plume of smog about 500 miles north of Fijiin which ozone readings reached 131 parts per billion (ppb). The pollutio...Shuttle Mission's "Neurolab" To Study Nervous System
... Tracking the progress of the snails and fish flying aboard Columbia willbe scientists on The Aquatic T...his research involves the inner ears of astronauts flying aboard Columbia, aswell as those of oyster toadfish aboard Neurolab. -NSF- Editors: For illustrat...Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
...als Using a biological form of sonar, fish-eating flying bats have the amazing ability to detect underwaterfish, even though only a thousandth of the energy in their sonar signal penetrates into water, and only amillionth of the original energy gets reflected back. Presenting a theoretical model of this pr...Detecting Deer: New Method For Counting Population In Urban Areas
...h deer from forest undergrowth. While helicopters flying oversnow-covered terrain have been combined in other studies, no other scientistshave employed a Global Positioning System (GPS), a sophisticated, geographicaltool linked to a satellite that gives accurate geographical coordinates,minimizing the chan...Duke Studies Show That Environmental Effects Of Dams Extend To Insect Life
...f thesebutterfly species were perfectly capable of flying to islands even farther awayfrom the mainland. "I was very confused about how I was going to sort out allthese effects and study them," she added. "So I decided to concentrate on onebutterfly species." Shahabuddin chose Hamadryas februa, one ...Fruit-Eating Birds Discovered Crucial To Rainforest Survival
...rse seeds of nearly a fourth of thetropical trees, flying 100 miles or more through the forest in search ofripening fruit. Until this study, the birds were thought to be sedentary,residing throughout the year in patches of rainforest. As other important seed dispersers such as elephants and primates co...Birds Of A Feather: The Physics Of Flocks
...ks, this would mean that misjudgmentsbetween birds flying in a flat, two-dimensional formation would never be able toorganize into a unified flock. Yet in real life, we see flocks of birds thatfly principally in a flat two-dimensional plane. Furthermore, even thesimulations betrayed the fact that there wa...Jurassic Beetle: CSIRO Entomologist Discovers Living Fossil
... "We had set up flight-intercept traps to catch flying insects. Below them was a small trough into which the insects fell. This trough sometimes catches flightless animals too, when they walk into it." That was how the two specimens of the new Omma species came to stumble into the entomologica...Medical Tip Sheet - November 1, 1998
...ery 11/04, and is anticipated to bereleased 11/06, flying home to Coatesville on 11/08. She is available forinterviews, as is the skull base surgeon. Available for interviews: Hrayr Shahinian, M.D., Director, Skull Base Institute;Pamela Tipton, patient...Science Announces Top Ten Research Advances Of 1998
...erse, the discovery thatgalaxies of the cosmos are flying apart at ever faster speeds. Each year Scienceselects those advances from the past twelve months that have profoundly changedthe practice or interpretation of science or its implications for society. In the top research advance of 1998, the accelerat...Swimming Proficiency Of Marine Mammals Ranks Them Among The World's Elite Animal Athletes
...mals. She also extended her comparisons to include flying mammals (bats), aswell as fish and birds. Her find...und out the analysis, Williams also took a look at flying creatures. Thefour species of bats she examined showed transport costs comparable to those ofother m...Brief Exposure To High Temperature Has Lasting Effect On Nervous System
...ed from cooler places to a warm desert havetrouble flying and some even die," says Ramirez. "But locusts exposed to briefperiods of high temperatures and later released into the desert can flynormally. We thought that previous heat exposure might have changed theproperties of the neurons somehow," says Ram...