Sea Turtles Have Favorite Oceanic Routes
... America -- there are some leatherback turtles who have just begun to share their traffic information. Sea... number 1109-B and some of her fellow leatherbacks have given humanity a fascinating glimpse into the long-distance migration patterns of vertebrate marine ...Plants Have Future As Environmental Clean-Up Agents
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... the question, 'Is all this deforestation going to have an impact?' Local people know there is an impact,"...o a profitable resource. "In the countries where I have worked, such as Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, there is a real concern that they have overextende...Bacterial Protein Structure Hints At Mechanism Of A Class Of Premature Aging Diseases
...ystem, scientists at Duke UniversityMedical Center have determined the first step in understanding how a n...with a class of proteins known as helicases, which have been shownto be involved in several genetic diseases. Bastia is now starting workon identifying the...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
... them."Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found thatcounting birds can provide important inf... that does environmentalassessments. "It's good to have a quick indicator." As part of his master's research, Coleman developed an indexwhich relies on bird...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
...ikely suspects as a cause of adult-onset diabetes, have now been convicted. Mutations of either gene trigg...y and intestine. "This surprising finding means we have to quit thinking of diabetes purely as a defect in glucose metabolism and starting thinking of it as...Researcher Discovers Key Brain Center For Speech
...ouncing them instead as "dree" or "free." "We may have found an area that in the very least is signficantly relatedto the speech process if not a center for that function," says Dronkers,who conducted the work at the VA Medical Center in Martinez and publishedher results in a recent issue of the journal ...Optical Microscopy Shines Light On Biology
...oral student, and Gregory Cooksey, Quinter junior, have designed a new "cantilevered" probe, which feature...d the softness and fragility of biological samples have been a problem for near-field microscopy because of the way the probe is positioned. The new tip des...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...ution is. The bottom line isnt how many babies you have now, but the total number of healthy offspring over the long term. "When you have more young in a brood than you can care for well, it may pay to pare off some young. These findings ...Fast Measurement Technique Reveals Early Steps In Protein Folding
...carrying protein apomyoglobin,U. of I. researchers have found that the initial steps of helix formationcan...d inefficient process," Gruebele said. "Nowthat we have pinned it down to the range of microseconds, protein foldingseems to be about as efficient as you co...Environmental Impact Statements Need To Be Made Easier To Decipher
...al environmental changes. Mathematicalchance would have resulted in correct responses of 20 percent, 33 percentand 50 percent, respectively, the researchers noted. "These are clearly failing marks," Sullivan said. "The understandinglevel achieved by this document was nothing less than awful. The resultss...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
Researchers have developed a sensor that, for the first time, can i...boratory (Berkeley Lab), says the sensors his team have developed are capableof providing an extremely inexpensive, on-the-spot litmus test for E. colistrai...Scientists Identify Gene For Sexual Behavior In Male Flies
...a slightalteration, or mutation, of the fru gene have subtle changes intheir songs. With severe mutation...esy: JeffreyHall, Brandeis University) Geneticists have known for years that the gene, called fruitless and nicknamed fru , influences sexual orientation ...Methane Deep In Ocean Crust Could Feed Chemical-Hungry Microorganisms
... Fruh-Green, a colleague from Zurich, Switzerland, have done the first-ever isotopic work on rocks from la...n drill it for the first time and get samples that have not been affected or weathered by seawater or the atmosphere. For her analysis she creates paper-t...Scientists Discover Smallest Frog
...ed by that country's economic conditions typically have teamed with foreign colleagues to carry on their w...or subsistence farming and cooking fuel. We still have an incomplete knowledge of the biodiversity on this planet, including areas like Cuba that are very ...World's Experts Plan Global Locator Service For Environmental Information
Experts from around the world have agreed on a standard for locating information, whe... the Vice President said. "That information could have a profound impact on our ability to protect our environment, manage natural resources, prevent and r...Disease Resistance Mechanism Identified in Plants
...urdue University in Indiana says the findings will have wide application. "It turns out that plant...ogy Center. For some 40 years, researchers have known that a plant's ability to fend off an attacking bacterial or viral disease is somehow linked t...Christmas Bird Count: Another Holiday Tradition
...ngbirds. Come Christmas morning, when you have finished setting up that new computer, you can view the results of thousands going out across the land to remote sites, regardless of the weather, carefully recording their observations so that future Americans can better understand the changes in ou...Mechanism For Disease Resistance Identified In Plants
...urdue University in Indiana says the findings will have wide application. "It turns out that plant...ogy Center. For some 40 years, researchers have known that a plant's ability to fend off an attacking bacterial or viral disease is somehow linked t...Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
...LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Scientists at Purdue University have uncovered how plants that are resistant to disease...ze one another, we hope to create crop plants that have broader, more stable resistance." According to Martin, the findings will have wide application. "It ...