Researchers Pinpoint Site For Petit Mal Seizures In Brain
...Children affected by petit mal seizures have up to hundreds of seconds-long lapses of consciousness, during which they stare blankly and may blink rapidly or sway before recovering. "Absence seizures usually take hold at a critical period in a child's initial education, and may be interpreted as a learning d...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...ornell Bioacoustics Research Program are analyzing hundreds of hours of underwater sound recordings made during the ATOC session. They are listening for more subtle whale reactions to the simulated sound, such as changes in breathing rates and unusual vocalizations. One analysis tool is "Canary," a compu......ngthat typically takes years and coststens or even hundreds of millions ofdollars," said co-author Pavel A.Pevzner, a professor of mathematicsand computer science. With thismethod, we can find a human geneif an analogous gene from anotherspecies has been identified. Thespecies doesn't matter: mouse,chicken, f...Human-Like Ability, Categorical Perception, Found In Insects
...rception allows human color vision to discriminate hundreds of variations between "blue" and "green," even though humans cannot precisely label each bluish-sort-of-green color. "A more useful ability in some situations is our ability to tell the difference between sounds like 'ba' and 'pa,' " Wyttenbach note...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...apparently been sealed off from the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years. NSF provides flight support for the project and grants to glaciologists studying the ice core. More Favorite Martians? The news last summer that ALH84001, a meteorite from Mars found in Antarctica's Allan Hills, may ...Medicinal Leech May Offer Clues To Neural Regeneration
...generation in vertebrate systems is that there are hundreds of thousands of neurons, making it impossible to identify what each individual cell does, she says. By contrast, the medicinal leech has 21 identical columns of neurons, called ganglia, which run up and down its body. Each ganglion is made up of only......T3E, a "highly parallel" computing system in which hundreds of processors team up to divide the computing. During yesterday's demonstration, a volunteer subject in an MRI scanner at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center observed a whirling visual pattern. After about three minutes, the scanner sent data...World's Experts Plan Global Locator Service For Environmental Information
...cess a vast array of valuable resources, including hundreds of libraries, museums, and archives worldwide--some containing as many as 35 million locator records. It also fits in with many other international and national programs focused on improved access to information, including the Government Information ...A Sensor, A Switch, A Zipper: Protein Engineers Design Potential Tool
...oiled coils. These structures are found in hundreds of proteins and are essential to processes as diverse as gene transcription, muscle contraction, viral attack, and cell division. Please acknowledge partial funding for this work from the National Institute of Genera...The CIA Would Like To Know What Scientists Are Seeing Over The Rainbow
... to determine how genetic composition evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. Although Dorothy did eventually return to Kansas, the full-color wizardry of spectral karyotyping is here to stay, says Ried. "I receive about one phone call a day from people who want to learn the technique," he says, antic...Researchers Corral Millions Of Microscopic Membranes
...in structural biology. Each year the structures of hundreds to thousands of new proteins are solved. But so far only a handful of these have been membrane proteins," Boxer said. He said that this is an area where the new method may help. Many associated proteins can move freely about on a membrane's surface. ...Penn State Wetlands Project Seeks Scientific Evaluation Criteria
...tive Wetlands Center, says Pennsylvania is losing hundreds of acres of wetlands per year to development and ...es and private citizens are restoring or creating hundreds of wetland acres each year. The project, funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Pro......ponsibilities has come the opportunity tojoin with hundreds of new cooperators in every state and more than 100countries to produce the credible, reliable and impartial informationneeded to solve the resource management, development and protection issuesof greatest concern to nearly 2,000 partners at the loca...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
...osts for contaminated soil in the United States at hundreds of billions of dollars. If phytoremediation reduced those cleanup costs by even 10 percent, an estimate Goldsbrough considers plausible, it would save taxpayers billions. Goldsbrough, working with researchers from Australia, has been studying how pla...New Vaccine Blocks Viral Entry In Cattle, May Have Implications For Human Vaccines
...r. These problems cost the U.S. livestock industry hundreds of millions of dollars each year in vaccine and veterinary bills, and in lost production. Letchworth is equally excited by the implications his findings have for controlling viral diseases in humans. "I think our research here will ultimately benef......e small, flightless birds are capable of swimming hundreds of miles, journeys that take three weeks or more, to find food for themselves and their chicks. "The major cause of chick mortality is starvation, often the result of a parent failing to return from a long foraging trip in time with food, " says Boer...Everyday Technology Underlies First DNA Computer Logic Gates
...on that would take today's conventional computers hundreds of years to solve. Ogihara and Ray belie... labeled strands to a DNA chip, which consists of hundreds of squares containing different known strands of DNA. The added DNA would quickly bind to the stra...Enzymes Targeted As Key To Understanding Drug Interactions
...g combinations. "Pharmacists have had to remember hundreds of pairs of drugs that interact," said the program's director, Dr. Rene Levy, professor and chair of pharmaceutics. "But there was a shift in our knowedge in the late 1980s. Instead of dealing with pairs of drugs, we began to focus on the four or fiv...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
...ks said."You have this tremendous ear. The ear has hundreds of kernels, heldtogether on a rigid stalk and enclosed by a husk so they're easy to harvestand dry and store. It provided a wonderful food for the original inhabitantsof the Americas once they began cultivating it." But the earliest known versions o......ashington University more than 20 years ago. Many hundreds of gigabytes are stored at and transferred through CAPITA, which has data that span more than 100 years of American pollution and energy consumption. The air quality workgroup focuses on data spanning 10 years, from 1986-1995. Group members can acc...