UNC geologist, students to unveil 221 million-year-old top N.C. fossil
...ed alligator. This guy was built something like a football player with a thick neck, powerful shoulders and long arms, the geologist said. Unique for rauisuchians, it also had a thumb hooked into the base of his second finger to make a powerful pincer-like grip. When you put those together, youve got a reall...Amazonian devastation: Common sense quantified to predict disaster
...s since 1995 have averaged the equivalent of seven football fields per minute (nearly 2 million ha per year). In this analysis of forest cover data from 1999 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration imagery, soil fertility and waterlogging had little value as predictors of deforestation. Soil depth was...Gene trigger for pancreas formation identified
...chnique, Wright said, is to picture the crowd at a football stadium and to imagine that somewhere in the stadium, for a limited time, a man gave away unique blue hats and asked people to wear them. "Now we can follow the people who got hats, no matter where they go," Wright said. "Whether they go to get a h...Pythons can be couch potatoes, too
...e chicken and glucose are ready to go out and play football shortly after dining. But the pythons that indulged on the starchy foods cannot budge from the couch, still trying to digest their meal. A scene from a Larson cartoon? Perhaps. But it is also a notion based in scientific fact. A team of UC Irvine res...Lazy snakes! Pythons can be couch potatoes, too
... chicken, and glucose are ready to go out and play football shortly after dining. But the pythons that indulged on the starchy foods cannot budge from the couch, still trying to digest their meal. A scene from a Larson cartoon? Perhaps. But it is also a notion based in scientific fact. A team of California r...The frontier of microelectronics: Building nano-machines, part by part
...would have legs "wave like a cheering section at a football game." Ellenbogen is fine-tuning the leg and motor designs of the test chip, and the plan is to further refine these before moving on to make six-legged insect-like "walkers" that would only be a fraction of the size of the test chip: 3x5 millimeter...Humongous fungus a new kind of individual
...etres, about the size of 6000 hockey rinks or 1600 football fields. "It's one organism that began as a microscopic spore and then grew vegetatively, like a plant," says Dr. Catherine Parks, a research plant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and co-ordinator of...Brain patterns the same whether doing or just watching, Queens researcher discovers
...system. An example would be when sports fans watch football on TV and move in anticipation of action on the screen." Although this theory is supported by previous neuro-physiological and brain imaging studies, until now there has been little direct, behavioural evidence. Dr. Flanagan's findings are published ...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ucture provides enormous surface area -- about one football field per gram of material. PNNL researchers have now coated these positive replicas with carbon, which could speed chemical reactions and thereby increase the yield of many industrial products, or serve as a separations platform to filter hazardous ...How lice and bird feathers stick together
...at a time, let them fly above a University of Utah football field until they landed. In a related experiment, she painlessly removed feathers with the transplanted feather piece and taped them to an electric fan rotating at 50 mph for 20 minutes. Both parts of the experiment showed most of the rock pigeon li...'We are the champions' the new birdie song
It's not just football supporters who join together in a rousing chorus to celebrate a victory. Winning a fight also appears to put the tropical boubou, an African bird, in the mood for a song. Research published in BMC Ecology describes a rare example of a context-spec...Three personal ads for physics
...ing physics with the world. During home games, the football stadium at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln t...g hits," said Gay, who uses the physical nature of football to tackle public fear of physics. Gay also writes and appears in television programs that familiariz...New highways drive accelerating deforestation in Amazonia
...have been destroyed--that's equivalent to about 11 football fields a minute." Deforestation has risen most sharply in the southern and eastern parts of the Amazon, where rainforests are more seasonal and thus more easily burned. "Since 2002, forest loss has shot up by nearly 50% in the states of Par, Rondnia...Gene therapy with growth factor seems promising therapy for incurable muscle disorder ALS
...all affected by ALS. A large number of Italian top football players, pilots and soldiers in the Gulf War were also affected by this fatal disease. Around half of them die within three years, some even within a year, mostly in full possession of their faculties as a result of asphyxiation. In patients with Am...Trapping carbon in soil key for protecting global food security, dealing with climate change
...ns per hectare (a hectare is about the size of two football fields). But fields treated with manure, planted with cover crops and covered with mulch yielded six times that amount. "This is the type of quantum jump in crop yield needed at the continental scale to ensure food security in Sub-Saharan Africa," sa...UCLA researchers recreate patterns formed by mammalian cells
...tion from a conductor to line up in formation on a football field, cells also need guidance to form patterns -- but until now we didn't know how they were communicating or receiving direction," said Alan Garfinkel, Ph.D., first author and professor of physiology and cardiology at the David Geffen School of Me...Clemson researcher places hope on pushy photons
...e, density and shape. Compared to a basketball, a football is smaller, harder, shaped differently and bounces differently. Compared to normal cells, cancer cells are smaller, more dense and wrinkled, like a raisin. Gao proposes that cancer cells will react differently in response to his laser-beam system....Virginia Tech's smelly 'corpse plant' due to bloom Aug. 4
...t 2002, drawing crowds who braved the odor and the football traffic to see it. The smelly plant is rare becaus...a Tech's greenhouse complex, should bloom ahead of football traffic, making it easier for the public to visit the greenhouse. The first of these plants in the U...Maine-based biophysics institute gets funding for first US-based 4Pi nanoscale microscope
...igh resolution that you can spot the local college football field," says IMB co-director Michael Grunze, who h...rg in Germany. "Now, imagine being able to see the football itself, in 3D. The 4Pi represents a comparable increase in resolution, only on a nanoscale." "In ad...