Scientists Discover Proteins Which Help Set The Body's Clock
...ey still wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night thesame as the sighted. Dr. Sancar believes this happens because of the presence ofCRY 1 and 2, both in their retinas, and in other cells elsewhere in the body.For example, he said, because CRY1 and 2 were found in the skin, they could behelping set ...Research Into Cockroach Behavior Could Lead To Better Baits
...ould have to come out of their hiding places every night and bump into food and water by accident. But roaches never seem to go hungry, so she theorized a chemical cue might guide their forays into the kitchens of the world. Researchers already knew roaches emit a sex pheromone that helps them find mates a...Dog Blindness Gene May Help Humans
... causes dogs born with normal vision to develop to night blindness and then totalblindness. The disease only becomes evident after dogs reach reproductive age. Work to develop diagnostic tests for prcd is already underway at Cornell. The first beneficiaries of a test will be breedersand owners of the five...Females' Siren Song Initiates Courtship Duets In African Frogs, Columbia Biologists Find
...eriod, or lose her progeny. Mating takes place at night in murkyponds crammed with frogs, making it diffic...nstrated the female behavior andsong to her. That night the four of us, husbands included, sat around thinking upnames for the song," she said. "I hit on '...New Research Suggests REM Is About Eyes Not Dreams
...t 20 minutes but become progressivelylonger as the night wears on. And the fact that the womb is at uniformtemperature could explain why REM is so active in the fetus. If taking sensoryinventory is the purpose of REM sleep, why does an unborn child spend many hoursa day in REM? he asks. Likewise, why do a...Pacific Northwest Staff Win National Awards For Transferring Research To Industry
...d documents and themes as star topic clusters in a night sky and/or themeswithin terrain maps. Following immense interest in the software's capabilities by industry,Battelle partnered with the Smaby Group of Minneapolis, Minn., to form a new company,ThemeMedia Inc., Redmond, Wash., to market and sell the ...Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...e, a two-student team found themselves working all night in theclass lab at Duke's School of Engineering mastering the intricacies of microprocessorsto build an electronic teaching game for blind children. This "spelling and tactile identification game" operates intwo "modes," said Varish Goyal, of Athert...Human-Like Ability, Categorical Perception, Found In Insects
...ecome bat bait." For a cricket flying through the night air, life is a sound spectrum-filling cacophony, Wyttenbach said, but only two sound sources really matter: other crickets, calling at 4 to 5 kHz (4-5 kilohertz, the familiar chirping that is just above the highest note on the piano), and insect-eat......etition is preferable to one ortwo large meals the night before. A cup of yogurt or a few crackers an hourbefore an event is likely to have cleared the stomach and gone to the smallintestines ready to be absorbed. Houtkooper said most of the women and their coaches were skeptical at first.They look at it a...