Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...mwalt, a former center trustee and former chief of naval operations for the U.S. Navy, new relationships were established. In 1992, a research consortium consisting of three international teams working in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine was created to study long-term health effects of the radiation released at...Scientists report on the current state of INEEL's nuclear waste contamination
... of Energy (DOE) facility, was used as a test-fire naval gunnery range during World War II. Following the war, the site was used for the development and demonstration of nuclear energy. In recent years, research at the INEEL has focused on environmental issues. For more than 50 years, nuclear energy resear...Lead poisoning still threatens albatross chicks on Midway Atoll
...aii, was the site of one of World War II's biggest naval battles the Battle of Midway, June 4-7, 1942 and was the location of a U.S. Naval Air Facility until it was closed in the mid 1990s. The decommissioned military base, which was designated a National Wildlife Refuge in 1988, is home to the world's l......ic science, and to survey waters before amphibious naval operations are conducted. REMUS works until its batteries need recharging and is many times faster than the human dive teams." The dolphins are trained and handled by the Navy in San Diego, CA. REMUS is now a commercial product available from Hydr...Remote sub can patrol Shores. Sound Fishy? It is, but not like you think.
...d be used to patrol coastlines, harbors and moored naval assets like ships and subs becoming an important tool in the war on terror and the battle to keep our shores safe....The roots of human behavior? AAAS and The Hastings Center host a public meeting
...istics, from a supposed propensity toward becoming naval officers (supposedly a genetic trait called thalassophilia, for "love of the sea."), to qualities like "pauperism" and "feeblemindedness." Along with these investigations came the idea that undesirable traits could be bred out of a population, and t...Artificial intelligence, swimmer detectors, and blast resistant structures
...back whales acoustic research pertaining to joint naval activities. The Czech Republic will investigate advanced software for monitoring and reasoning the interactions among distributed intelligent agents for possible exploitation of adversary networks, but also to provide a technology base to assist in...Bat sonar and anti-submarine warfare
... the width of a human hair. ONR would like to get naval sonars, both in listening and in processing the return information, a bit more, well, bat-like, notes ONRs Harold Hawkins.......arch has funded a successful program to help train naval aviators to recognize the early effects of hypoxia...ize the onset of hypoxia is vital to the safety of naval aviatorsif you pass out, you cant fly the airplaneand so its an important training point at Pensacol......en than other species in areas with high levels of naval activity, he says. Darlene Ketten of the Harvard Medical School has also discovered that loud blasts, like those produced by military shells, can damage the heart, lungs, liver and spleen of dolphins, as well as the most sensitive organ, the ear. S...Snapping shrimp drown out sonar with bubble-popping trick, described in Science
...ese findings should be particularly interesting to naval researchers, according to Lohse, since the shrimps' snapping is the dominant source of background noise in the shallow ocean. This noise seriously interferes with efforts to detect underwater objects by sonar. In fact, Lohse says, the study of snappi...UT Southwestern researcher finds genetic cause for Gulf War syndrome
...ese studieswere conducted in a single battalion of naval reservists, Haley and colleagueshave planned a nationwide survey to see how strongly the new neurotoxicitysyndromes are associated with low-level PON-Q enzyme levels in a random sampleof Gulf War-era veterans. Haley, who has been researching Gulf War...Bat Sonar Sharper Than Thought; Much Better Than Man-Made Gear
...y of Sciences, may lead to improvedsonar for naval and other uses. The new view of bats comes from research at Brown University thatsuggests the mammal's sonar images are of a higher quality and are suited to awider variety of orientation tasks than just catching insects. The proc...