Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
...16 plenary lectures at the meetingdealing with the hottest topics in acoustics. Some examples include: "How Listeners Find the RightWords," by Anne Cutler ( anne.cutler@mpi.nl ) of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in theNetherlands (June 24); and "Non-Invasive Ultrasound Surgery," by Gail ter H......search Boston, MA--February 25, 1999--One of the hottest fields in cell biology aims tounderstand the molec...hanges in its environment. And one of the hottest fields in neurobiology aims to understand how thehand-shaped end of a growing neuron, called the gro......s of 120degrees Fahrenheit and higher - by far the hottest temperatures for which anerve receptor has been identified. The protein may be part of a network of mammalian nerve receptors coordinated todetect a wide range of temperatures, but it almost certainly has otheras-yet-unknown functions, the researche......atures that place it at theforefront of one of the hottest debates in paleoanthropology: from whatevolutionary branch did the first humans appear? "No one predicted garhi ," said University of California-Berkeleybiologist Tim White, who co-led the team with Berhane Asfaw of Ethiopia's RiftValley Research S...Nearly half of Earth's land has been transformed by humans; 50 'dead zones' found in oceans
... overfishing, as well. The year 1998 was Earth's hottest on record, as human activitiescontinue to increase the concentrations of carbon dioxide and otherheat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. Lubchenco pointed out that while human domination of land masses is clear, thenew data also indicates a dramat...Heatstroke killed four football players during 1998, expert urges precautions
... Practices should never be scheduled during the hottest part of the day,Mueller said. Eight players died from heatstroke in 1970, the highest one-year total,he said. No heatstroke deaths occurred in 1993 and 1994 during practices orgames. Before 1955, no heatstroke deaths were recorded among pla...Monsanto's modified soya beans don't agree with the heat
...t most severe losses occurred during Georgia's two hottest springs since the beans were launched in 1996. "In the years we saw the problems, the soils were reaching 40 to 50 °C," says Vencill. His team replicated these conditions in laboratory growth chambers, comparing the hardiness of the Monsanto pl...Human stem cell research leads Science's top ten list of the best scientific advances in 1999
... salutes this research and nine more of the year's hottest scientific developments for their profound implications for society and the advancement of science. This was the pivotal year in which scientists and the public grappled with the ethical and scientific implications of stem cell research. Late last ye...Whitehead press seminar: Beyond the scientific frontier
... scientists will share their predictions about the hottest tends at the frontier of biomedicine and separate myth from reality. As the enclosed program details, the speakers include Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Valina Dawson of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and ......dwide, the warmer sub-tropical regions produce the hottest chillies. Habanero is the hottest; three times more powerful than Thai chillies, and far more so than the green and red capsicums that decorate many salads. The main quality characteristics of chillies are the colour and heat level, or pungen...Heat kills inoperable liver tumors without initiating onslaught of harmful hormones
By Melanie Fridl Ross Gainesville, FL --- The hottest new weapon in the surgeon's arsenal against liver cancer uses heat instead of cold, a shift that could put the freeze on what until now has been the standard therapy for inoperable tumors. What's more, it's easy, cheap and considerably less risky to ...Whales drawn to waters off Mississippi River Delta
...red sperm whales right in the middle of one of the hottest areas for offshore oil development in the continental U.S," Davis said. As part of the study, researchers will tag whales with tracking devices that will follow the movements of the whales and record information on how often a whale dives -- which ca...CWRU receives $2.2 million for Center for Computational Genomics
... country, and computational genomics is one of the hottest areas of research today, both in academia and the business world. The center will be the home of an interdisciplinary research and training program tackling cutting-edge problems in genomics (the study of genes) and bioinformatics (computer analysis...Magazine article by Rutgers researcher details revival of life after deep-sea volcanic eruption
...eii worm (Alvinella pompejana), which lives in the hottest environment of any animal on Earth, he notes. ...'Nanocircles' act as Trojan horse to shut down disease-causing genes, study finds
...as rolling circle amplification is now one of the hottest fields in biotechnology, because it offers the potential to produce and detect more copies of a specific DNA sequence faster and cheaper than other methods. What is new about the PNAS study is that, for the first time, we used a nanocircle in a livin...Darwin and the worlds first ecological experiment
...functioning of ecosystems, is currently one of the hottest in ecology. But he didn't leave any clues as to where or when this experiment was done, and the source of his knowledge remained forgotten. Now, writing in the journal Science published today*1, Andy Hector of Imperial College, London, UK, and Rowan ...Moffitt Cancer Center receives DoD funds to establish National Functional Genomics Project
...ther chronic diseases. "Functional genomics is the hottest topic in cancer research today," says William Dalton, PhD, MD, Moffitt's new CEO and Center Director. "It could completely change the practice of medicine within five years." The resolution of the human genome into separate genes provided the bluepr...Imaging apparatus characterizes drops in 'dirty' laboratory environments
...heeline said. These drops do not pass through the hottest zones in the combustor, resulting in only partial vaporization. To investigate the role of rogue drops in this process, Scheeline and hiscolleagues -- Illinois postdoctoral researcher Jerry Cabalo, Arizona professor and head of chemical and environme...Global warming has uneven effect on coastal animals
...siderable protection by being submerged during the hottest parts of the day," explain the authors. The article states that "an examination of tidal height predicts that maximum exposure at many northern Washington sites will occur in 2003. Indeed, large mussel mortality events occurred in the summer of 2002 ...High-density storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks
...designed to keep only about 100 metric tons of the hottest rods, while the cooler ones would be moved to a nuclear fuel recycling plant, which was never built. The United States also has not yet built a long-term storage facility for nuclear waste, so the pools have been packed with 400 tons or more. In its ...