Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
... in the College of Architecture) hasspent over 700 hours creating the computer model of the habitat." Accurate models, in turn, will help researchers design betterhabitats -- a goal of any zoo conservationist -- and build betterexhibits for spectators. But making an accurate virtual reality environment w...From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
...d. In this picture you can see where they were 24 hours later. The dark lines show the path of the rootworm," she says. No ordinary pictures, these. Allee is making use of a Cornell resource to study, along with Paula Davis, assistant professor of entomology, the behavior of this major corn pest in the ...DNA Techniques Allow Scientists To Become Pollution Detectives.
... the country to detectpollution in water." Despite hours of complex testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial, theDNA "fingerprint" testing used by the UF scientists is fairlysimple to understand, Tamplin said. Picture a thread thatrepresents one person or animal. By taking one thread from oneentity and another ......et by as much as 70 degrees as they did in just 12 hours last January, are questions of bottom-line survival. It can take 20 to 30 years of careful breeding, testing, and evaluation before a variety is ready for release. New grapes that have been bred for the climate are eagerly anticipated. Under the le...Medicinal Leech May Offer Clues To Neural Regeneration
... are severed, and it remains active well beyond 48 hours after the injury," Sahley says. Axons are the long...d when the signaling process was blocked. After 24 hours of regeneration, the groups without the inhibitor showed tight gatherings of microglia around the ar......ing couldn't keep up with the data, and it took 24 hours or more to produce a usable image. To deal with this bottleneck, the researchers turned to PSC. CMU statistician William Eddy and UPMC physicist Doug Noll worked with Goddard and PSC research programmer Greg Hood to integrate and "parallelize" the so...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
... present in a sample to detectable levels. Several hours must pass, however, before results can be obtained. The instant analysis provided by Berkeley Lab's new sensors has obviousadvantages as a public health tool. Dangerous pathogens can be detected before a food product has been shipped to the s...Eating After Exertion May Be A Key To Speeding Body's Recovery
...ar to a sugar-based sportsdrink took at least four hours for complete recovery, although they attained60 percent of their recovery in an hour. "No one has really focused on the issue of post-exercise food consumption,"Layman said. "If we can shorten recovery with dietary treatment afterexercise, then obvi...Erodible plastic microspheres could be effective oral drug delivery system
...marol first appeared in the bloodstream within two hours and persisted forthree days. For insulin, blood sugar levels were reduced within two hours. Theplasmid DNA was incorporated into cells of the liver and small intestine andproduced an active protein within five days. Moreover, use of the microsphere...Duke Study Shows Early Marrow Transplant Key To 'Bubble Boy' Disease Cure
... an outpatient or with "observation admission" (23 hours inthe hospital). "This makes the treatment both easier on the mother and baby andcost-effective" said Buckley. "What we're saying is that essentiallyevery baby with SCID could be cured if diagnosed early enough. SCID shouldbe considered a pedia......life, each parent will be gone for no more than 36 hours at a time, returning with digested fish which is regurgitated for the offspring. But then, as the chicks grow and become more demanding, the parents are gone for much longer periods, sometimes up to a week, in search of food. Boersma has witnessed ma...Everyday Technology Underlies First DNA Computer Logic Gates
...arrangements. A DNA computer would need just a few hours to analyze a flood of information that would take today's conventional computers hundreds of years to solve. Ogihara and Ray believe that when coupled with new DNA microchips being developed by researchers at a biotechnology company cal...Houseflies May Transmit Ulcer Bug
...nd the control group andtested at intervals of six hours for the presence of the bacteria on theirskin, in ...ria in their gut and their excretions for up to 30 hours afterexposure. The control group had no presence of the bacteria. "We postulate that H. pylor...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
... limited or no outdoors barbecuing, and restricted hours to mow lawns and do other outdoor activities. Summer Sizzle The good old summer time is "Ozone Season." Ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant that can cause health problems, especially for children, the elderly and people with respiratory cond...Lethal Parasite Prime Suspect In Fish Kills At Salton Sea
...ealthy fish in aquaria can die after only 12 hours of exposure to Amyloodinium. Like other USGS science centers, the National Wildlife Health Center has a primary responsibility for assisting the public land managers of the Interior Department. "Because a national wildlife ref...Scientists Find New Trigger For Nerve Cell Death
...h assistant professor of neurology. In the hours or days after the brain is injured, healthy cells ...r various events that cause apoptosis. Six hours after the neurons were deprived of serum, the current flowingout through one type of potassium chann...Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
...to safety while Ross drove to the nearest town six hours away to retrieve a shotgun. Becausehe was the best shot of all the researchers in the party, Steumke was charged with entering the cave and shooting the snake. Tocelebrate restored peace, each member of the research team ate a piece of the cobra, coo...Many Dog Foods About Equal In Nutritional Value, Researchers Say
... situationfor a person who goes off to work for 10 hours and leaves the animal inside." In a paper published in the September issue of the Journal of AnimalScience, Fahey's team reported that pet food with either raw meat or animalby-products (beef and poultry) were nearly identical in digestibility, that...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...etter be prepared for so-and-so to come back. Ten hours from now this bird is going to be showing up on your island,'" he said. "We have the same kind of interaction here." Five years ago, Anderson said that a study like The Albatross Project would not have been possible. He said that there wasn't a tr...Discovery Channel Returns From Underwater Scientific Expedition Off The Coast Of Cuba
...terested in underwater expedition and he spent two hours on the boat talking with the scientists about their findings and about the issues of underwater conservation. Discovery Channel Online, the network's award-winning web site ( http://www.discovery.com ), is featuring a complete dispatch and photos ...