New research findings offers possible clues for avoiding sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
...beneath the infants, with O2-poor and CO2-rich air nearest to the face, fresher air distal to the face, and l...beneath the infants, with O2-poor and CO2-rich air nearest to the face, fresher air distal to the face, and larger tidal volumes being associated with fresher ......l instead of circling the lot, looking for a space nearest the entrance. Climbing stairs, doing yard work, or playing with grandchildren. Always turning off the television. The authors contend that the medical community should lead the way in pulling Americans away from their televisions and computers. The...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...matter carpeted large areas of seafloors then. The nearest modern comparison can be found at the unpleasantly...r, other scientists argued that Axial volcano--the nearest to the eruption--was too far away and that, in addition, the chemistry of the two erupted lavas didn...Understanding our ape 'cousins:' chimpanzee genetics may shed light on human diseases
...n chimpanzees and distancing themselves from their nearest cousin, say the Science researchers. A similar trend appeared when the scientists went beyond the genes to examine differences in protein levels in the brain. Once again, Pbo and colleagues discovered a significant difference in protein expression ...Amazonian devastation: Common sense quantified to predict disaster
...he tide. Human population density, distance to the nearest highway and dry season severity best predict the e...h was only marginally significant. Distance to the nearest river, or the nearest road, were far less significant than distance to the nearest highway. Accordi...Guyana establishes its first conservation concession
...are not affected. The three indigenous communities nearest to the area Apoteri, Rewa and Crashwater participated in all processes leading up to this agreement with the Government of Guyana. The SIA determined that the concession would positively impact the socio-economic conditions of the communities. CI...New mouse model shows how news of pathogen reaches immune system
...rmful germ, it stops snacking and races off to the nearest lymph node to alert the T cells that command the more complex immune responses. The details have been fuzzy, but scientists believed dendritic cells kept busy on the journey by digesting bacteria in its bowels, loading the resulting pieces of antige...Science picks - leads, feeds and story seeds
...atch can then click on their state and then on the nearest stream and get information that is only hours old. This invaluable service has provided life-saving information to citizens and emergency managers when floodwaters threaten homes and critical community infrastructure. And when the streams show up r......e lattice point (onthe substrate's crystal) to the nearest neighboring point whereupon ifthey collided with a...s observed to proceed byrandom hopping over to the nearest neighbor sites of the palladiumsubstrate." Diffusion was studied using an atom-tracking technique a...Lower insulin sensitivity found In Mexican-Americans, regardless of behavioral and metabolic factors
...Body weight was measured on a balance scale to the nearest 100 g. The percentage of body fat, absolute fat mass, and fat-free mass were measured in all subjects. Abdominal visceral fat: A measure of the total, visceral, and subcutaneous fat in the abdominal region was conducted. Dietary intake: Subject...Zebrafish may point the way to mending a broken heart
...n other organs. The specialized heart muscle cells nearest the wound dedifferentiate, that is, they lose some of their specialized characteristics and are capable of cell division and migration. These stem cells then proliferate as cardiomyocytes until they have rebuilt a completed heart. Although most studi...'The end of the world' has already begun, UW scientists say
... to form new planets. That would leave Mars as the nearest planet to the sun, and on Mars the fading sun's glow would be like that of Earth's moon. That end is still some 7.5 billion years distant, but by then Earth will have faced a variety of "ends" along the way, the authors say. The last dinosaur perishe...Chimpanzees with little or no human contact found in remote African rainforest
... 34 miles, mostly by foot, from the nearest village through dense forests and swampland to get there, have discovered a rare find: chimpanzees that have had very little or no contact at all with humans. The chimpanzees' behavior when ......ea was located within 127 meters (417 feet) of the nearest road, and 50 percent was within 382 meters (1253 feet). Only 18 percent of U.S. land area was more than 1000 meters (0.6 mile) from a road, and only 3 percent was more than 5000 meters (3.1 miles) away. Overall, forest land was slightly more remote t...Scientists returning to field of eerie thermal spires
...as hot as 700 F. Lost City is nine miles from the nearest spreading center and sits on 1.5 million-year-old crust. Heat generated by chemical changes in the rocks appears to drive venting: seawater permeates deeply into the fractured surface of the mantle rocks where it transforms the mineral olivine into a...Johns Hopkins researchers devise methods to evaluate disaster drills
... a narrow, one-lane street several blocks from the nearest main street. Local officials and mock patients rehearsed and prepared before the drill was implemented. Within five minutes of starting the drill, the first units of the Guatemalan Red Cross responded, quickly followed by municipal and volunteer fir...New growth-stimulating cue identified for nerve cells
... in the lab grew more and longer axons on the side nearest a source of this protein, called semaphorin-7a. Moreover, in mice without semaphorin-7a, axons of some odor-sensing nerve cells never reached their targets, the scientists report in the July 24 issue of Nature. "I've been studying semaphorins for abo...Hydrothermal vent systems could have persisted millions of years, incubated life
...er them. Lost City is already nine miles from the nearest volcanically active spreading center and sits on 1.5 million-year-old crust. Seawater permeating deeply into the fractured surface of the mantle rocks transforms olivine into a new mineral, serpentine. The heat generated during this process is not as...Duke ecologist finds devastation, hope in Iraqi marshes
...a salt-flat His group found the Hammar Marsh area, nearest Basra, to still have some remaining lush areas where some stately date palms are still in cultivation. But Richardson said Hussein, in his vendetta against the Marsh Arabs, "basically wiped out" the local date palm industry, once the world's largest ......A letters a day, about seven times faster than its nearest rival. Scientists began working on the project in 1999 with a $7 million National Human Genome Research Institute grant. The technology eventually will help scientists quickly determine the exact genetic sequence of the DNA of many different organism...