Scientists find gene that fuels 'sexual arms race'
...e smitten no less than when confronted with a male flying all the colors of machismo. According to Kopp, what this suggests is that the male is constantly under pressure to evolve something new in order to stay competitive in the mating game. It is very much a sexual arms race, he says. "What we found was t...Screensavers of the world, unite!
... well. After all, they picked his screensaver over flying toasters. -By Louisa Dalton-...Study sheds new light on Lyme disease transmission
...ts the concept that arthropod vectors are not just flying or crawling syringes that go around inoculating bacteria. There's a developing biology going on inside this vector. The bacteria population essentially adapts during the transmission process to maximize the chance of infecting the host," de Silva sa...... by rubber bands to the backbone atoms, constantly flying outward and snapping back. Every so often, the surrounding water molecules, each with a small electric field, line up and create a large field that pulls the hydrogen ion farther from the parent molecule than usual - as much as five neighbors away. M...Science paper suggests strategy to more effectively control harmful ozone
... the research team used data collected by aircraft flying through plant emission plumes to pinpoint the critical factors involved in ozone production within these plumes. Focusing on two Tennessee power plants, Ryerson and colleagues found that power plant plumes with a lower concentration of NO x emiss...New peach variety has strange shape and sweet taste
... Australian Saucer peach. "We named it after a flying saucer -- a UFO," he said. "The UF prefix goes on all of our new firm-textured varieties of peaches and nectarines." Sherman said fruits with extra-firm flesh can be allowed to ripen on the tree. That means the fruit will have greater sugar conten...Hendra virus has a growing family tree
...s and Menangle virus are believed to be carried by flying foxes, (fruit bats). A group of Queensland-based researchers proved the link between bats and Hendra virus when they isolated the virus from the animals, confirming other evidence such as some bats being found with specific antibodies to the virus. ...Israeli teams grows heart cells and insulin producing cells from human embryonic stem cells
...ract faster." The cells passed all the tests with flying colors, demonstrating that they are indeed early-stage cardiomyocytes. It seems likely that if placed in an adult human heart, these cells would produce mature human heart muscle cells, Gepstein says. The next step in moving towards clinical applica...Sleepless aged rats show biological clock problems
...ck in a different environment for instance, after flying to Paris but other structures inside and outside of the brain." ...Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...mous efforts government and industry exert to make flying one of the safest forms of travel. For example, statistical 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 suite of tools called the Aviation Perfo...NASA unveils spectacular suite of new global data products
...rate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite. Whereas good MODIS data have been available since November 2000, the newly released data set, called Collection 3, marks a significant step forward in data quality and consistency. "MODIS achieved a steady-state level o...UC Berkeley expert on insect flight receives prestigious MacArthur 'genius' award
... one of the world's experts on the aerodynamics of flying insects was named a MacArthur "genius" Fellow toda...tudies the nerve and muscle connections that allow flying insects to maneuver so expertly that they are among the most versatile and sophisticated of all flyi...Horseshoe Crab Research Center provides information to improve management
...MFC). Researchers are testing the feasibility of flying over spawning beaches using video cameras with nightscopes to index the number of spawning horseshoe crabs in the spring. If feasible this technique could supplement time consuming, manpower intensive beach surveys that have proven less than reliable......ediate locomotion. Inroads are even being made in flying robots that fly by flapping mechanical wings. Professor Macmillan has focused his research on the Yabby's powerful tail, and it has revealed some interesting implications for future robotic design. "The tail of the Yabby acts like a hinged lever, ch...Gondwana split sorts out mammalian evolution
...) Euarchontoglires [rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, flying lemurs, and primates (e.g., humans, monkeys, lemur...vides the first convincing molecular evidence that flying lemurs and tree shrews are the closest relatives to primates." The scientists find that Afrotheria i...New theory of the evolution of bird flight linked to parental care
...ranes between their front and back legs, much like flying squirrels or bats, he asserts. And, if the cursori..., Carey adds. In this paper, he also discusses why flying dinosaurs with nonfeathered membrane-like wings, such as the pterosaurs, became extinct. He suggests...Satellites vs. mosquitoes: Tracking West Nile Virus in the U.S.
...temperature is likely to get the mosquito off to a flying start." The idea is to let the satellite capture where the disease is spreading from year to year and make some predictions about where the disease is going. Computer models can determine which areas have the right combinations of temperatures an...Bat sonar and anti-submarine warfare
...gnals into a system that will enable us to mimic a flying bats ability to detect and classify a flying beetle in three dimensions at thirty feet. ONRs Bio-Sonar program supports the bat research of Brown...American Cancer Society funds Space Station scientist who studies how good cells turn bad
...e disorders. Analysis in her Ohio laboratory and flying samples on future Space Station expeditions will bring Borgstahl closer to learning how good cells turn bad....... reduce the number of birds who kill themselves by flying into buildings, says Doug Stotz, PhD, a conservation ecologist at The Field Museum. During 2000 and 2001, Stotz and his colleagues counted dead birds around McCormick Place every day during the migration seasonsfrom late March to the end of May and f...