Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
... this collaborative effort," says McGrath. Down hole sensors improve oil reservoir knowledge, oil production efficiency According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), two thirds of oil discovered in the United States remains in the ground, largely because of incomplete data a...Images reveal how rotavirus - leading cause of diarrhea - enters cells
...ion causes the spike's "body" component to break a hole in the cell membrane, allowing the virus to enter. The key finding for vaccine development is that the "head" and "body" portions of the VP4 protein contain many of the targets that the immune system recognizes when it attacks the virus and protects ...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
...of 80 microbes found in their lab and in the drill hole that could have contaminated the Vostok ice. All b...rom an international panel to drill a new, cleaner hole through the ice and enter the lake using a self-sterilising "cryobot", the Russians plan to enter th...Reading hexametric rhyme supports cardiac synchronization, especially after a heart attack
...sents a hexameter: Down in a | deep dark | hole sat an | old pig | munching a | bean stalk | A New Study Now, European physiologists have investigated the cardiorespiratory synchronization in healthy subjects using a cross sectional study design: recitation of hexameter verse, contro...'Anti-plume' found off Pacific Coast
...Fisk and a team of researchers found bacteria in a hole drilled 4,000 feet through volcanic rock. Basalt rocks have all of the elements required for life, Fisk pointed out, including carbon, phosphorous and nitrogen. Only water is needed to complete the formula. Dziak is able to monitor offshore activiti...Protein controls acid in cells by direct detection of volume changes, study finds
...s group made their pipette larger to make a larger hole in the cell, which allowed them better control over what was inside and outside of the cell. They also optimized the use of tiny sensors that can measure exactly the movement of protons across the cell membrane. "This tells us how the acidity is cha...Design competition for new Antarctic Research Station
...bal change to continue at the site where the ozone hole was discovered. The enormous logistical challenges of building on a floating ice shelf that is accessible only during the Antarctic summer by ship, requires innovation and creativity in design, engineering and technology. BAS hopes this internation...Melting ice cap gives urgency to new census of marine life project in Arctic Ocean
...sin, a huge, largely unknown underwater ice-lidded hole 3,800 meters deep immediately north of the Yukon Territory and Alaska. It connects to the Pacific Ocean through the 70-meter deep Bering Strait, and is sheltered from the North Atlantic's influence by the narrow Fram Strait and Lomonossov ridge, whi...Study probes ecosystem of tree holes
... in St. Louis has studied theecosystem of the tree hole and the impact that three factors predation, reso...en talking about the ecosystem he studies. A tree hole can be found in nearly every forest and is an ecosystem surprisingly overlooked by ecologists. Crea...Choice of food helps hungry caterpillar
... of fruit. The caterpillar carefully bores a small hole in the calyx because, unlike the fruit, the leaves and flowers of the plant do produce linolenic acid. Caterpillars will often squeeze out of the same hole, even though they have grown. "A caterpillar will eat three or four fruits dur...Mysterious beach closures may be linked to contaminated groundwater, study finds
...s. However, one sample, pumped from a shallow test hole on the beach, contained bacteria concentrations we...n excess of California health standards. That test hole was located about 300 yards from a restroom sewer line - a potential source of bacteria and nitrates...Teachers turn to Tolkein to explain physics
... you turn a tyre's inner tube inside out through a hole in its wall? This question, first posed by physicist Eric Voice in January, had many Physics World readers stumped. But what made the question harder was that readers were asked to find the solution using only their minds - without writing or drawin...UCSD finds genetic time bomb in heart that leads to heart failure in some patients
...ular Medicine at UCSD. "If a child is born with a hole in the heart, it can be patched. However, as these patients survive, it is now clear that there is an intrinsic, progressive problem with the heart that makes them get late stage heart failure and in certain cases, sudden death due to cardiac electr...Citizens asked to monitor impact of invasive bird species
...ed areas. Another strategy is to plug the entrance hole of nest boxes until the desired species arrives for breeding, in the hope that house sparrows in the area have already set up housekeeping elsewhere. Since house sparrows are not federally protected, experienced monitors also often remove nests or e...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
...ng seals. Watching a seal disappear through an ice hole with $50,000 of equipment on its back was nerve-racking, but the results were riveting. "When we put that first videotape in the VCR, it was the most amazing thing," Williams said. "Suddenly we were on the bottom of McMurdo Sound, 500 mete...Study reveals poor Houston air quality
...register almost zero, forming an urban scale ozone hole which is caused by nitrogen oxide emissions from the refineries and petrochemical plants and power plants. Nitrogen oxides eat up ozone at night. "It all means a significant health risk is possible for people in this area unless something is done."...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
...robot) head moves over, finds the spot and pokes a hole in the gel." After the proteins are broken down at the 2DiDx workstation, the "few dozen to few hundred" peptides are sent to the mass spectrometer. There, high-voltage electrostatic charges and a pump flowing at 200 billionths of a liter per minut...Three personal ads for physics
...ile airbags, cell phones, nanotechnology and black hole formation. Kakalios tries to avoid bland examples that involve the infamous likes of "a 60 kg woman getting on 10 kg wagons filled with 5 kg bricks," unless he's talking about Wonder Woman....NHLBI awards $68 million to fund clinical centers in pediatric heart disease
...on characterized by a ventricular septal defect (a hole in the wall separating the right and left ventricles) and pulmonary stenosis (obstructed blood flow to the lungs). Projects will explore aspects of TOF, including its genetic causes; the developmental, neurologic, and behavioral outcomes in adolesce...... find that lo and behold, the RNA passes through a hole and the DNA comes out over the top," said Kornberg. "The separation that is achieved at the hole is revealed for the first time in this paper." How the strands of RNA and DNA are pushed apart has ...