Bacteria use 'molecular lasso' to cop copper
...s methane before it can reach the atmosphere use a neat trick to gather a key nutrient for the job. They produce a small organic compound and release it into the surrounding environment, where it "lassos" atoms of copper. The bacteria then reabsorb the compound and use the copper as a weapon against metha...Research reveals role of gene in infertility
...ges of meiosis in their mutant plants revealed not neat chromosome packages but a chaos of many broken sections of chromosomes. "We found that plants in which the RAD51 gene does not function are not able to recombine the sections of their chromosomes that are broken during meiosis," Ma says. The resear...APS recognizes Intel high school finalists for experiments in physiology
...ta, Canada, who said, "Mr. Finlayson's study was a neat example of integrative physiology." His study was entitled, Effect of Chlorine on Lung Function of Outdoor Swimmers. The two third prize winners, who received $500 each, were John Zeqi Luo of Bishop Hendricken High School, Warwick, Rhode Island, an...Two dinosaurs from Africa give clues to continents' split
...for food. Sereno is puzzled by the presence of two neat rows of seven holes along the dinosaur's snout. He speculates that the holes anchored something ornamental, used by the animal for display. "This may have been a scavenger with head gear," he said. "It's really a beautiful intermediate species of the...For a male sand goby, playing 'Mr. Mom' is key to female's heart
...er University in Ontario, called the results "very neat and very novel." Asked about analogies to human behavior, she said, "Being a good father is very sexy. This is almost a clich, as it has become a standard joke that the best way to get women to be interested in you as a single guy is to borrow a bab...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
... colleagues have found evidence contradicting that neat explanation. Heller, for example, has documented i...mewhat frustrating," Heller said. "But it's such a neat story, people sometimes don't want to hear conflicting evidence." Added Gordon: "I think rea...Seeing the forest for the trees: The future of environmental policy lies in interaction
...on't supply. "Environmental problems don't come in neat boxes. Students have to be trained to think out of their disciplinary boxes," he said. Dietz is director and Liu a member of MSU's ESPP, a groundbreaking new effort that gathers the university's vast multidisciplinary resources to best position stude...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
... of the contents be well organized and placed into neat bins for access by those with authorized roles. Protection is poor for data that are complex, multipurpose, unstructured, formatted as images, or now used for roles not recognized when the data were first collected. Medical records, for instance, ar...Smallest whirlpools can pack stunningly strong force
...ition of the journal Nature. "It's just something neat that we stumbled upon," Chiu said. "You have a tiny volume of fluid and it is zipping around very rapidly." The work, paid for by a grant from the National Science Foundation, could have future effects, as scientists and engineers explore microfluid...The 'fixed' hotspot that created Hawaii was not stationary after all, study finds
... includes the Hawaiian and Midway Islands, forms a neat line of volcanoes that extends some 1,800 miles northwest across the Pacific. At that point, the Hawaiian Ridge meets the Emperor Seamounts an older volcanic chain that abruptly changes course, stretching more than 1,000 miles almost due north to th...Abnormal plant shows scientists path to plant, animal development
...s a regulator of gene expression," Ogas said. "The neat thing about this work is that it's also shown that in animal systems, a protein homologous, or corresponding, to PKL is also involved in turning off developmentally regulated genes. So, we're finding similar regulatory roles for both human and plant ...Science picks-leads, feeds and story seeds (May 2003)
...v/highlights/drying_deserts.html (There's also a neat photo of desert vegetation at the Amargosa Desert Research Site where USGS scientists are studying methods for characterizing the mechanisms that control subsurface migration and fate of contaminants in arid environments.) Gail Wendt, gwendt@usgs.g...Wilmington chemist wins national award for environmentally friendly processes
...und, carbon tetrachloride, as a byproduct. "What's neat is that in less than two years we were able to go from lab work to a full-scale commercial plant," he said. "It's an example of solving a problem at the source instead of at end of the pipe -- that is, instead of using incinerators. And the process i...Fetal death, miscarriage linked to genetic mutation
...found that in normal placentas, the labyrinth is a neat and well-ordered environment, with maternal blood sinusoids and trophoblasts evenly dispersed among fetal blood cells. In the Rb defective placentas, however, the trophoblasts had grown wildly out of control, clumping together and disrupting the smoo...Even green pond scum can suffer from jet lag
...eria. Like many such rules of thumb, however, this neat formulation was disproved in the 1980s by a group of Taiwanese scientists who didn't know any better. They were investigating how blue-green algae (also known as cyanobacteria) found in rice paddies remove nitrogen from the air and fix it chemically ...Study of aquatic mussels indicates they may yield new antifouling materials, surgical adhesives
..."I think we'll be able to come up with some really neat materials by combining what we learn from the mussels with basic knowledge of synthetic adhesives and polymers." (This paper will be presented at 9:10 AM, Tuesday, June 4, in the Regents Room in the Radisson Hotel Metrodome )...Freezing cancer cells makes them prime targets for anti-cancer drug, new study finds
...UC San Francisco physician Gary Onik in 1981. "The neat thing is this research really could have clinical applicability in a very rapid matter," said Onik, currently the director of surgical imaging at Florida Hospital Celebration Health's Center for Surgical Advancement in Orlando, and one of the reviewe...Is the evidence for human 'replacement' really clear?
...tern, said Clark. They dont show up in Europe in a neat package at around 40,000 years ago, as textbook generalizations would have it. Clark sees a possible alternative cause for the cultural and technological changes (in both modern human and Neandertal populations) in adaptive behaviors brought on by ch...Gene for neat repair of DNA discovered
...tterdam have demonstrated that a gene helps in the neat repair of DNA. Without this gene the body would re... Rad54 gene is important for repairing breaks in a neat manner and for preventing mutations. The scientists hope that their findings combined with future re...Using neat genetic tricks with fruit flies, scientists from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have found the key signal that allows a group of normally stationary cells in the ovary to travel, they report in the current issue of Cell. Because fruit fly genet...