$5.5 million awarded to tree-ring research and climate studies
...ortunities that enhance creativity and provide for leaps in understanding of the monsoon," says David Verardo, Director of the NSF's Paleoclimate Program, which funded the project. "The science questions being asked are important, the region being studied is vital to understanding fundamental climate proc...World's oldest modern hummingbirds described in Science
...scovery, the fossil record for modern hummingbirds leaps back approximately 29 million years and zips halfway around the world. The pair of four-centimeter-long skeletons, unearthed near the village of Frauenweiler in southern Germany, provides a glimpse into the lives of birds that died near a sea that dr...Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership announced
... at large. Although research capacity has grown by leaps and bounds as a result of computer and sensor technology, valuable collections of biological, physical, chemical, and geologic oceanographic data from academic, public and private institutions have, in large part, remained in isolation from each othe...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
...o answer these questions is poised to make quantum leaps in the next few years."...New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
...ginning to make all this possible with a series of leaps in tagging technologies. High tech tools such as small data storage tags equipped with micro-processors and satellitelinked GPS devices are providing new insights into the little known lives of large ocean animals. Electronically tagged elephant seal......as fans of Han Solo once thought, thanks to recent leaps forward in the development of a powerful free-electron laser, or FEL. Free electron lasers have been shown to generate very large amounts of power, tunable from the microwave to the visible spectrum. The Office of Naval Research is part of a team ...Fighting Mycobacterium tuberculosis with structural proteomics
...overnment will enable our scientists to take great leaps forward in Mycobacterium tuberculosis research," comments Dr. Wilmanns, "We will be able to make significant progress in this battle and be at the forefront of discovering new drugs against this disease."...Sex-pheromone link to insect evolution
...monstrated that insects evolve chemical systems in leaps rather than in minute stages, as had been previously assumed. The researchers also discovered that there are rare males in the corn borer population -- about 1 in 200 -- capable of responding to chemicals produced by the delta-14 gene. "This is one w...Singapore's Ministry of Education to improve life sciences education
...d to none. I'm thrilled to be involved." Growing leaps and bounds since its independence in 1965, Singapore is now ranked fifth in world economies and is poised to surpass Hong Kong as the center of Asian banking and commerce. As a center for manufacturing and high technology, Singapore is devoted to dev......very of this general mechanism for producing major leaps in evolutionary change has other implications for scientists. It may provide biologists with insights into the roles of other regulatory genes involved in more evolutionarily recent changes in body designs. In addition, the discovery in the UCSD stud...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2002
...le as nature - the nanoscale - could lead to giant leaps in the such areas as chemical and biological sensing, disease detection and management, and a number of other areas. ORNL researchers devised a novel way to construct the devices with the result being an array of carbon nanofibers within microscale s...Scientists track phosphate to better understand global warming
... scientists. But this small step may lead to giant leaps in understanding that shape public policy in areas ranging from forestry to global warming. A better scientific understanding of Earth's complex chemical cycles couldn't come too soon. Consider that on Nov. 25, 2000, negotiations broke down between ...... modern molecular genetics, leading to fundamental leaps of understanding, including the identification of tumor-suppressor genes and their role in cancer. But essential as they are to nearly all life processes, kinases have proven resistant to genetic approaches to study them. "Instead of trying to...Physicist says women could vault to new Olympic records
...of Texas says women are poised to make even bigger leaps in the record books. Cliff Frohlich, who has written articles on sports physics in the American Journal of Physics and the book The Physics of Sports, points out that while the men's pole vaulting record has stood for more than 6 years, we've yet to...Bullfrogs invading Canada's west coast
...eral decades ago. The frogs have been spreading in leaps and bounds ever since. "Their range on the Island is expanding by about five kilometres a year, mainly near urban areas," says Govindarajulu. So far, she's found them in several dozen local lakes and ponds, including Victoria's Elk and Beaver Lakes...Biomathematician named first Aurelio professor of mathematics and science at Boston University
...experimentalists and theorists can lead to quantum leaps in our understanding of difficult problems." "This opportunity will allow me to broaden my efforts in interdisciplinary training throughout the University," says Kopell. "It will give me the opportunity to be much more involved in collaborative acti...ASM Calls For Focus On Microbial Pollution Of Nation's Water Supply
... Though the science of microbiologyhas taken great leaps forward, we still rely on standards and methods for waterquality that are decades old and woefully out of date. There is a critical needfor an integrated, national initiative on the microbial quality of water and onrisk assessment as related to publ...RNA-Dendritic Cell Combo Shows Promise As A Universal Cancer Vaccine
...g a patient's own RNA to produce red-flag antigens leaps a majorhurdle that has halted other attempts at devising an effective and widelyapplicable cancer vaccine, Gilboa said. It produces antigens that are specificto that individual's cancer. Many cancer immunotherapies may fail because theyrely upon a s...