Growing Up On Their Own: Smart Plastics Organize Themselves Into Useful Optical Devices
...e. Just last year the same team created the largest synthetic structuresever made by self-assembly, where molecules organize themselves into discretemicroscopic objects, such as hollow spheres. In the current work they've goneone step further, developing methods to make billions of those objects comet......munity Alliance with Family Farmers,the movement's largest nonprofit organization. Once a critic of UC and statepolicies, the alliance is now a partner with UC and the state in the BiologicalIntegrated Farming Systems program. "BIFS represents a type of public-privatepartnership that is likely to become mor...Large Gene Study Questions Cambrian Explosion
...indicated by their fossil remains, according tothe largest study on the subject using gene sequences, recently completed atPenn State. The research suggests that animals have been evolving steadily intodifferent species for at least 1200 million years, which challenges a populartheory known as the Cambrian ...Solid Waste Incineration May Exceed Leaded Gasoline As Source Of Lead Air Pollution In Cities
...ished by the American Chemical Society,the world's largest scientific society, involved researchers from ColumbiaUniversity, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the New York State Departmentof Environmental Conservation. The article is scheduled to appear in the March1 print issue of the journal. L...Estuaries Vital To The Productivity Of Southeastern U.S. Fisheries
... respond to changing conditionsin North Carolina's largest estuarine system, Pamlico Sound, as well as on theNeuse River that supplies the sound with part of its upstream water. Research suggests that after spawning out on the continental shelf inthe winter, many Southeastern species then migrate sho...Genetics Not Significant To Developing Typical Parkinson's Disease
...l Association(1). Thisepidemiological study, the largest of its kind to investigate the role ofgenetic or e... heredity is not a major etiologiccomponent in the largest group of PD patients, those whose disease began afterage 50," said Michael D. Walker, M.D., Director...A New Encyclopedia Of Mouse Genes
...ed ESTs from abroad range of cell types to get the largest possible sample of genes. The ESTsarose from various adult mouse organs as well as from mice in the earlieststages of development. "The mouse provides a very powerful mammalian model system," Marra pointsout. "If we want to understand the function of...New Method For Destroying Potentially Deadly Toxins In Drinking Water
...ation of theAmerican Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The researcharticle is scheduled to appear in the March 1 print issue of the semi-monthlyjournal. When titanium dioxide, a white powder commonly used in sun creams andpaints, is added to water and exposed to light, it bec...New "Restaurant" For Bacteria May Improve Pollution Clean-Up
... by the American Chemical Society(ACS),the world's largest scientific society. ACS Web publication of this paper wason Jan. 9. The clean up takes place in two liquid phases. The first uses a solvent thatthe scientistssay readily dissolves high concentrations of toxic chemicals such as benzene,toluene,and p...In the largest study of its kind, a national team led by a UC San Franciscoscientist has found strong new evidence that HIV-positive women run a high riskof infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), a major cause of cervical cancer.Women who already harbor the HIV...Major $17 Million Grant To Fund Ocean Research
...servation of marine organisms. This is the largest single grant ever made to a university by the Davidand Lucile Packard Foundation, and will allow the four institutions to learnmore about the vast near-shore region along the Pacific Coast. The Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coa...Largest Acoustics Meeting In History Expected
...rs will be gathering at what is expected to be the largest meeting ever devoted exclusively to this scientifi...here 1,600 papers were delivered. The ASA is the largest scientific organization in the United States devoted to acoustics, with nearly 7000 members. Founde...Gene Study Shows Turtles Are Next Of Kin To Crocodiles And Alligators
...lesand alligators, according to an analysis of the largest available collection ofreptile genes. The study's conclusions contradict decades of research based onanatomical and fossil studies, which had firmly positioned birds as the reptilegroup most closely related to crocodiles and alligators, a group know...Ancient Volcanic Cataclysms Discovered In The Indian Ocean
...entists conducted their research aboardthe world's largest scientific drilling vessel, the JOIDES Resolution. Thedrillship departed Fremantle, Australia, on December 13, 1998, and returned toFremantle on February 11, 1999. Kerguelen Plateau is located in the southern Indian Ocean, is one-thirdthe si...Mojave Desert Is Subject Of Las Vegas Science Meeting
...t the registration. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific information to resource managers, planners, ......ity interest in Immunex. AHP is one of theworld's largest research-based pharmaceutical and health care productscompanies. It is a leader in the discovery, development, manufacturing andmarketing of prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications. It is also aglobal leader in vaccines, biotechnology, ...Secrecy In Science Focus Of AAAS-MIT Colloquium
...rts. Founded in 1848, AAAS represents the world's largest federation of scientistsfrom a variety of disciplines and has more than 143,000 individual members. Theassociation publishes the weekly, peer-reviewed journal Science and administersEurekAlert!, the online news service featuring the latest discoverie...Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Discover Heavy Metal Contamination In Northern Mexico
...r with apopulation of about 500,000 people, is the largest nonferrous metallurgicalcomplex in Latin America and the fourth largest in the world. The smelter inChihauhua, historically a prosperous mining center, has been inactive s...Tigers And Land Mines: Wildlife Experts Discuss Fate Of Korea's DMZ
... Today, the150-by-two-mile-long DMZ represents the largest contiguous ecosystemleft on the Korean peninsula. It supports rare and endangered speciesincluding the Siberian tiger, Amur leopard, oriental stork, and Asiaticblack bear. Experts will outline a variety of wildlife and managementtopics including a p...Whitehead Receives $35 Million Grant From National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
...e based on a peerreview process that evaluated the largest of the pilot projects, those that hadcompleted 15 million bases of high-quality, finished sequence by December 1998. NHGRI will review additional applications in March and plans to award additionalfunds for large-scale human DNA sequence production i...