USGS responds to Hurricane Floyd in Virginia
... these areas are also causing local flooding. Last night and early this morning, USGS personnel in Virginia headed out in vanspacked with sampling equipment. They are collecting streamflow measurements aswell as water-quality data. Streamflow measurements are needed by floodforecasters in order to warn eme...Botanical evidence indicates "Shroud of Turin" originated in Jerusalem area before 8th century
...ty, the Shroudremained in this cathedral until the night of April 11, 1997, when a raging firenecessitated its removal. The Shroud was not damaged, and was kept elsewhere inthe city until it again was placed in the cathedral for public display fromApril 18 through June 14, 1998. While there have lo...Malaria called failure, puzzle and challenge
...t. If themalaria vector's peak biting period is at night when people are most likelyunder the nets, these will help reduce man-vector contact and theoreticallyreduce transmission."...Antbird capable of increasing testosterone level when threatened
...to mammals who display most of their aggression at night orout of sight. We need to understand aggression in natural systems to reallyunderstand how aggressiveness is regulated in humans, and what kinds ofphysiological parameters are important. We know from this study that socialchallenge plays a role." Co...Protein Misfolding, Not Mutant Gene, Key To Lethal Sleep Disorder
...four months of sleeping an average of one hour per night the patient began tohave trouble walking, lost weight and produced tears excessively (consistentwith the witches' curse to "dwindle, peak and pine"). The patient was referred to Dr. Mastrianni (at that time, a clinicalinstructor of neurology and medi...Tip Sheet: Health Benefits Of Caffeinated Beverages
...ng low alertness situations such as after lunch,at night or when a person has a cold, according to this review of the work. (University of Bristol, U.K.; AGFD paper 22; Monday, March 22, 9:30 a.m.;Hilton, Huntington, A/B/C.) Caffeine and Addiction - While confirming caffeine's benefits to improveperforma......Duke once they were available, they worked day and night to completethe large project in just under five years. The end result is a detailed map of about one tenth of chromosome 11. Among the22 possible genes identified and pinned down in this map, he's identified onethat he believes act...Researchers Determine Three Dimensional Structure Of Melatonin Producing Enzyme
... levels ofthis enzyme. This difference in day and night levels of melatonin is importantfor setting the body's circadian clock. In the current paper, the three NIH researchers determined the threedimensional structure of AA-NAT. This advance will allow researchers to moreprecisely determine how...New Accident Record Analysis Shows Deer Mishaps Climbing
.... "Still, we recommend that people drive slower at night where deerare likely to be, and if you see one run across the road, slow down becauseusually others are in the vicinity." N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles' records are especially valuable becausethey enable researchers to study police nar......is summer, placing them in an altitude chamber one night a weekfor four weeks at simulated altitudes of 6,000 feet, 7,000 feet, 8,000 feet and9,000 feet to try to determine what the optimal altitude is for each person. Theathletes will then be randomly assigned to live at 6,000 feet, the altitude ofthe Uni...Science Announces Top Ten Research Advances Of 1998
...m on Earth keeps trackof the 24-hour cycle between night and day using its "circadian clock," abuilt-in mechanism that researchers got a handle on in 1998. This year, a quicksuccession of discoveries shed light on how the molecular "gears" driving thecircadian clock respond to light and temperature cues an...Duke Study Shows Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant Is Viable Treatment For Genetic Disorders
... in the morning, we know that when we go to bed at night we will have ourdaughters."...Ribozymes To The Rescue: New UF Gene Therapy Shows Promise For Treatment Of Inherited Blindness
...ar during adolescence. As the disorder progresses, night vision, peripheral vision and ultimately all sight can be lost. Currently, there is no way to halt the deterioration. Since the UF research was published in the August issue of Nature Medicine, Lewin has heard from many other scientists who are work...Researchers Link Gene Defects To The Course Of A Deadly Form Of Heart Disease
...come excited. A telephone ring in the middleof the night or an exciting game of bowling can be fatal. Livingwith this disease means thinking twice about jumping into aswimming pool, working out, or playing sports without a "buddy"who can call 911 if trouble strikes. Though the syndrome appears to be a sin......tric dam. Most eels moved through the dam area at night at a variety of depths, and some were delayed for several days before passing the dam. The results of the study will be critical for developing effective eel passage technologies. ("Behavior and Passage of Silver-Phase Eels at a Small Hydroelectric...Genetic Clue Found To The Leading Cause Of Blindness In The United States
...strying to read." Now, Oster is unable to drive at night and she struggles toread music when playing the violin, one of her favorite activities. New researchby a team at the Macular Degeneration Center at Oregon Health SciencesUniversity's Casey Eye Institute shows the disease that's blurring Oster'svision...Blindness Linked To The Cytoskeleton?
...eferential loss of the rod photoreceptor cells and night blindness is one of the first clinical symptoms. During disease progression, cones are affected as well and patients become legally blind between the ages of 20 and 40. The name ‘retinitis pigmentosa’ reflects observati...Research Shows How Shrimps Escape Predators
...ownstream. As Gammarus usually drift downstream at night and troutrely on sight to hunt, this small backflow could allow the amphipods to escapepredation. Author: Jon Copley New Scientist issue 1st Aug. p.6 PLEASE MENTION NEW SCIENTIST AS THE SOURCE OF THIS ARTICLE...Scientists Identify New Gene That Controls Sleep/Wake Cycle
...rhythms that adapt perfectly to a 24-hour cycle of night and day, but theresearchers identified three mutants of double-time that alter this cycle. Thefirst produces an 18 hour clock, among the fastest of all other fruit fly clockmutants. The second mutation slows down the fly's clock, to about 28 hours.......ghout the body,damaging tissues and causing fever, night sweats, weight loss, fatigue, orprogressively severe diarrhea. In people with AIDS, M. avium infection usuallyoccurs late in the course of the disease concurrent with low CD4+ T-cell counts. Currently, any of three drugs-rifabutin, clarithromycin an...