From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
... four tiny white marks, maybe 1/4-inch long -- the objects of her attention. These are living corn rootworms in soil, caught in the act of searching for the plant root. "Here you can see where they were when we started. In this picture you can see where they were 24 hours later. The dark lines show the pa...Green Glow: Not Only For Halloween
...be obtained from marine creatures and used to make objects glow green. Now, molecular and cellular biologists have turned this marvel into a powerful research tool used to illuminate the workings of genes and follow the wanderings of protein molecules inside a living cell. The source of the green glow is a...North America Hit Hard By Asteroid Strike In Yucatan 65 Million Years Ago
...th of collisions that caused Earth's craters as if objects struckthe planet at 90-degree angles, or from directly overhead. But such verticalimpacts are very rare. An oblique angle of impact may have more deadly global consequences than avertical impact, because an oblique impact should release a greater fr...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
... a resolution of 10 meters (33 feet), meaning that objects about the size of a small house or building will s... ATLAS lets scientists see how different objects reflect or absorb and emit heat. It's related to the greenhouse effect thatmade life possible on Ear...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
... an accurate and reliable tool for measuring small objects with size scales typically encountered under the o...plane may facilitate distance measurements between objects within the same depth plane, the problem of measuring distances between structures in different dept...USGS Cautions Proper Use Of Pepper Spray To Avoid Bear Attacks
...epper spray isnot a bear repellent when applied to objects such as tents, food containers,clothing or other p...peopleinappropriately applying red pepper spray to objects in order to repel bears arenot uncommon." His research suggests that red pepper spray used in this m...Clusters, Computers And The Human Brain
...igure out that the pictures represent two types of objects -- in other words, that the pictures form two "clusters," one of kangaroos and the other of bicycles. As in Domany's algorithm, this process takes place independently of any instruction about the nature of the categories involved. Adults, too, intui...Hopkins Scientists Clock The Speed Of Comprehension
...e time the patient took tounderstand what everyday objects are in pictures. The Hopkins team, led by... "This disruptionstarted to fade away for familiar objects at 450 milliseconds, and for lessfamiliar objects at 750 milliseconds." Other authors on the...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...conspicuous whenit comes to transporting the right objects to the right places at the right time. This is whyDortmund University intends to look into the "Modelling of large logistic networks",taking into account technical, economic and ecological aspects. Scientists will developmethods for systematically de...University of Florida Researchers Develop Filter Coating That Traps Bacteria and Viruses
...be negatively charged, so the coating attracts the objects to thefilter. The result is decontaminated water without the addition of chlorineor other chemicals, Shah said. Tests of a coated swimming pool filter with contaminated water in alaboratory showed it trapped more than 90 percent of pathogens......sents a 'bottom-up' approach to the fabrication of objects specified withnanometer precision. The work of Seeman's team, which is reported in the August 6th issue of Nature,is regarded as a significant advance in nanotechnology -- scientists' efforts tocontrol the detailed structure of matter on the finest...Bat Sonar Sharper Than Thought; Much Better Than Man-Made Gear
... returning sounds - echoes -from surrounding objects ranging from buildings to bugs. Depending on itssi...m is expressed as the minimum spacing of two objects which can be detected separately. According to Simmons, bats process returning sound waves in ...Teaching Great White Sharks To Link People With Food Is A Recipe For Disaster
... the water. Sharks are naturally curious and mouth objects floating onthe surface. "The sharks are getting the opportunity to find out that every time theysee a surfboard there might be food around," says George Burgess, a shark expertat the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. "One day...Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
...mputer-generated images containing as many as nine objects and torespond to them in ascending order, with a s...h picture contained adifferent number of different objects from one through four, for example, onetriangle, two bananas, three hearts and four apples. The sti...Williams Syndrome: UD Research Pinpoints Language And Learning Traits Of Those With The Disorder
..."If something is "on top of"something, and the two objects are close together, that's easy," she notes. "Butif they're far apart, the child may be less likely to be able to conceptualizeit, less likely to store it in memory, and possibly even less likely to mentionit." Children with Williams Syndrome don't s......ectrical stimulation, the patient is asked to name objects and imitateactions. This procedure is often used on speaking people undergoing the brainsurgery, but Corina's report and an in press paper, are the first detailedaccounts of its effects on a deaf signer. "Although Broca's area has gotten con...Pioneering Research Could Lead To Treatment
... found a way to move some ofNature's most delicate objects with the precision of pieces on a chess board.With their new technique, they hope to lay the foundation for constructingcustom-made, living tissues, possibly even creating bridges of nerves to repairspinal cord injuries. Assistant professors ...X-Ray Concentrator Will Expand Window On High-Energy Universe
...hey lookedwith more sensitive telescopes, the more objects and the more detail they saw. But X-rays can be focused by the same effect that can make a transparent pieceof glass act as a mirror: If light strikes glass at a shallow angle, the lightis reflected, as if by a mirror. This is called "grazing inciden...Growing Up On Their Own: Smart Plastics Organize Themselves Into Useful Optical Devices
...ther, developing methods to make billions of those objects cometogether to form even larger, highly ordered s... so they will organize themselves into large-scale objects withspecific characteristics. Jenekhe and graduate student Chen worked with apolymer known as poly(p......in the tophalf of the frontal cortex and memory of objects was stored in the bottom half. But using a relatively new brain-mapping technology called functional magneticresonance imaging (fMRI * ), Courtney discovered that the human brain has adedicated place for spatial working memory located further back in...