Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...pwreck containing a gold scarab inscribed with the name of Queen Nefertiti was cut down in 1316 B.C. The jewelry would not have been made until Nefertiti was queen, so the timber confirms that she held the throne by then -- which supports earlier historical findings. Elsewhere, juniper and cedar logs fro......eleased, grapes are referred to by number only. A name can make or break a grape's commercial acceptance. "A bad name can hamper a good grape," said Reisch, who won the New York Wine & Grape Foundation's annual Researc...Researchers Identify A New Cellular Structure: The "Dumposome"
..."Such inactive regions mightjust be trashed in the name of streamlining. But it's also possible that these genes are of use only during reproductionand are thrown away afterward." The PDD1 gene was cloned by Malavi Madireddi, a former Rochester graduate student now at Columbia-PresbyterianCancer Cent...Scientists Discover Smallest Frog
...ntist Alberto Estrada gave the frog the scientific name Eleutherodactylus iberia . Those two words are more than three times longer than the frog itself. "NSF's biotic surveys and inventories program is unique in that its purpose is funding the discovery of species new to science," says Meredith...Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
...Scientists have given this method of infection the name "type III secretion pathway." Researchers found evidence that indicated that the type III secretion pathway also operated in plants, and Martin recognized that this pathway would explain why the kinase proteins are found in the plant cell cytoplasm, ...Bog Beetle, Misidentified For 85 Years, Is 'Discovered' At Cornell
...ts Bulletin (Dec. 30, 1996) published the official name of the new species and genus. Other entomologists can use the accompanying key to identify this new species within their collections. The article was authored by Leibherr and Will. A member of the ground beetle family, Platynus indecentis now joins...Purdue-Made Soil Benefits The Environment
...0 cubic yards of topsoil, or roughly 200 tons. The name Soilermaker is derived from "Boilermaker," the nickname for Purdue sports teams and students. The latest phase of the project is a larger-scale pilot program, which has yielded about 1,000 tons of material in addition to the 600-plus tons now at the ...Second Gene Responsible For Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Identified
...rm, potato-like nodules that give the disorder its name and are madeup partly of abnormal neuronal cells and glial cells, the brain's connectivetissue. Other brain abnormalities include distortion and migration of certainneurons. TSC is inherited as an autosomal dominant disorder, meaning that any person...... example,a woman called Sophie Baldwin (fictitious name used to protecther privacy) has a family history of breast cancer. Almost everyfemale relative had died of that disease, and she is convincedshe has inherited the disease. Although she is eager to be testedfor breast cancer, she decides against doing...Gene For Last Major Form Of Batten Disease Discovered
...ly called Batten disease, although their technical name is neuronalceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs). The other major childhood forms include infantileNCL (also called Santavuori-Haltia disease) and juvenile NCL (Batten disease orSpielmeyer-Vogt-Sjogren disease). Genes for both of these disorders wereidentif...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...e consists of a mixture of four viruses (hence the name tetravalent orquadrivalent) that together protect against the four most important clinicalstrains of rotavirus. The NIAID team designed the vaccine by substituting agene from a human rotavirus strain for one in a weakened rotavirus that infectsrhesu......r believes. Damastesis an obstetrical writer whose name shows up in at least oneother Greek medical writing, while Damnastes is never used as aGreek name and is clearly a mistake by an ancient scribe, theclassics researcher said. Damastes held to the bel...Discovery Channel Returns From Underwater Scientific Expedition Off The Coast Of Cuba
...ery.com]. To access the photos, your special user name is [dcimm0] and the password is [lens$cap]. Captions for each photoare also available at the FTP site as text files. All photos downloadedmust be credited Discovery Channel Online/Bill Belleville. Several members of this expedition including Dr. G...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...n to human-computer interaction issues. Under the name Project Ernestine, Wayne Gray and Michael Atwood of the NYNEX Science and Technology Center and Bonnie John of Carnegie Mellon University (1993) designed and conducted a comparative field test, replacing 12 of the current workstations with 12 of the ...Summary Of USGS Presentations And Activities, AAAS, 1998
...nteragency team that developed an online taxonomic name database for theidentification of biota. * evening - Ray Herrmann, a USGS physical scientist, will be inductedinto AAAS "Fellowship". Herrmann's specialty is watershed research; he hasbeen instrumental in the development and coordination of the U...Researcher Identifies Two New Violet Species In Central America
... Once that finding was recorded, Ballard had to name his discoveries, afamiliar job for him. Ballard ha... linked to its name. Ballard contrived the name Hybanthus hespericlivus for this nondescriptviolet -- Hybanthus the Latin name for the genus it pres...Biologists Map First Gene For Age-Related Hearing Loss In Mice
... age-related hearingloss research. Its abbreviated name is the B6 mouse. Larry Erway, professor of biological sciences at theUniversity of Cincinnati, said the mapping work involvedtraditional and time-consuming genetic crosses as well as thenewer DNA microsatellite techniques. "We started the genetic cro...GCTE/LUCC Open Science Conference:
... threaten theplanet as a whole, thus deserving the name of global changes. These include:Climate change ("global warming"), changes in the composition of the atmosphere(e.g. increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases),changes in land-use cover under increasing human pressure and pol......s can bendlight and change its color. And as their name suggests, they can flow likea liquid. Wristwatch displays and computer screens employ this light-bending yetfluid quality. With electrical fields, they direct the orientation of therod-shaped molecules within liquid crystals. The orientation determi......with her world" 3.2 million years ago. Lucy is the name given to the skeleton of a small female Australopithecus afarensis found by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia in 1974. The skeleton is about 40 percent complete, which is unusually rare among early human ancestors. Many species, including other australopi...