Bacterial Toxin Surprises Scientists
...n to make sure we're not dealing with some massive hallucination," said Dr. Finkelstein. It may eventually be possible to take advantage of this large protein movement as a transport device for the delivery of drugs into human cells, Dr. Finkelstein said. But......'teaser' of the chemical, and to reward her with a massive nuptial gift if she accepts him for mating." Describing the cleft-like organ in the male beetle's head where the enticing chemical appears, Eisner suggested that the insect is, in effect, saying: "I've got a lot more where this is from, but you can'...Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...ld the inner chamber of the Midas Mound Tumulus, a massive tomb named for King Midas of the Phrygians and loc...r East, Thera had the opposite effect: it spurred massive growth. Reduced exposure to sunlight and increased soil moisture led to tree rings in juniper, ceda...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...d inapplication of a more efficient way to use the massive amounts of waterrequired to process turkeys. The new system uses ozone, a highly reactiveform of oxygen, to recycle water in the plants. The Cargill, Inc., Honeysuckle White turkey processing plant in Springdale,Ark., is the site of the procedure th...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
... Denver. These models present a world blanketed by massive ice sheets over Canada and Eurasia, with tundra covering much of Europe and North America as the Sahara Desert crept southward toward central Africa. Rain forests existed in South America and Africa, as now, but there were fewer trees globally. The w...An Equal Opportunity Extinction? Cincinnati Geologists Find Global Impact from Permian Die
...dence in favor of a long-term, globalcause for the massive die-off. "There's something worldwide going on," insisted Ebersole. "Noone's really been able to find a cause for the Late Permianextinction, but this restricts the cause to something with aglobally consistent mechanism. It's a really exciting findin...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...on blooms; drilling to assess the stability of the massive ice sheets; and an expedition to search for more meteorites on the continent that yielded ALH84001, the now-famous meteorite from Mars that may contain fossil life. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is supporting approximately 145 Antarct...Impact of Meteorites, Drop in Sea Level Caused Mass Extinctions 65 Million Years Ago
...ng a drop in sea level prior to the assault by the massive asteroid or comet, also may have caused some of the extinctions at the end of what is known as the Cretaceous period. Marshall and Ward present evidence demonstrating that a combination of factors caused the mass extinctions. Marshall applie...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
... involvingfruit drinks and fast-food hamburgers, a massive outburst of food poisoning in Japan, and a current outbreak in Scotland that is linked to 10 deaths. Raymond Stevens, a chemist at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory (Berkeley Lab), says the sensors his team have developed are c...President's Budget Proposal Cuts R&D By 14 Percent By 2002
...ts to protect R&D have helped diminish some of the massive cuts previously proposed. While some in the scientific community may feel they can breathe a sigh of relief on seeing the latest figures, it is important to remember that these numbers don't mean that things are getting better for R&D; they're just p...Chemists Compute Answers To The Origin Of Gout
...cess, mankind uses industrial conditions requiring massive amounts of energy and high pressures The characterisation of new chemical compounds to help detect cancer tumours...Subtle Biotic Changes Have Big Environmental Impact
...cedented levels, and industrial fishing is causing massive changes in marine food webs. So the global experiment is underway," said Carpenter. Carbon, an essential nutrient in lakes, typically flows from the land in the formof dead leaves and other organic matter that accumulates and decays underwater. U...Vitamin C Deficit Linked To Skin Disease
...e that boosting levels of vitamin C in people with massive ironoverload -- which itself causes problems -- might cause heart damage," saidSinclair. "What we hope to do now is determine whether vitamin C is effective inpreventing porphyrin accumulation in patients and whether such treatment issafe." In additi...Lethal Parasite Prime Suspect In Fish Kills At Salton Sea
Investigators seeking causes of recurrent massive die-offs of fish and water birds at Californi...ntified as the potential cause of some of the massive fish mortalities". In late summer and early autumn of 1996, a large mortality...Gene For Last Major Form Of Batten Disease Discovered
...most critical question in LINCL is what causes the massive neuronal deathseen in the disease. As many as 50 or 60 percent of the brain?s neurons may dieas the disease progresses, says Dr. Pullarkat. One possibility is that theaccumulation of undigested proteins may harm the neurons. Since neurons don?tdiv...Disease Takes Its Toll On Waterfowl Populations
... quite likely the world. The disease can produce massive annual mortality; during this year's fall migration, Canadian biologists are estimating the losses at one southern Saskatchewan lake to be as high as 300,000 to 500,000 birds. Also this year, at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, along the shore...Virologists Track New Influenza Threat
...rprised virologists. In 1983, a massive epidemic of H5 influenza decimated poultry and cost the U.S. Department of Agriculture $61 million to eradicate the virus. But extensive surveillance at the time found no reported cases in huma...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...ist at GeorgiaTech, is creating software to manage massive storage systems for home computers of the future.These personal terabyte systems will contain morethan 1000 gigabytes of magnetic hard disk space to store World Wide Web data, entertainment video,home movies, encyclopedias and other databases. The r...Discovery Channel Returns From Underwater Scientific Expedition Off The Coast Of Cuba
... was designed to look for new species, explore the massive coral reefs on the coastal shelf (the first outsiders since the mid-1950s to do so), and dive the sea bottom amid shipwrecks from the past. The expedition and the resulting discoveries will be the subject of two Discovery Channel one-hour documenta......omenon, a debris flow, or "sand slide," in which a massive quantity of wetsand rushes down the side of a dune, burying everything in its path in anavalanche of debris. Unraveling the mystery began with a detailed examination of the geology of UkhaaTolgod. The team discovered that there were three distinct ...