Animal Studies Indicate Aging Brain Responsive To Estrogen
...en replacement therapy,Williams said. "While most people are aware that estrogen treatment acts on cholesterolsynthesis and bone growth," Williams noted, "they are unawarethat it acts on the brain as well." Information is lacking on such effects, she said, because "living foranother 25 or 30 years after m...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
...lion people. With global estimates of 8.9 billion people to feed by the year 2030, the Cornell scientists are looking for ways to improve production of staple food crops. "We've been breeding rice for 70 years, with the same set of rice types," McCouch said. While examining wild rice, McCouch and her colle...KU Researcher Eyes The Rain Forest Through The Trees
...this deforestation going to have an impact?' Local people know there is an impact," Terwilliger said. "We ne... and survive than is now known. "Quite a number of people are now studying what it takes for many species to get from a seed to a young sapling," she said. "F...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
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...ain," he said. "This is more complicated than most people think Darwins theory about reproduction in evolution is. The bottom line isnt how many babies you have now, but the total number of healthy offspring over the long term. "When you have more young in a brood than you can care for well, it may pay to ...Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
...6, 1996 -- Some of the barriers faced every day by people in powered wheelchairs may soon be removed because...icleReplacement). "I like to explain it by telling people this wheelchair is perfect forparallel parking," said co-inventor Stephen Killough of ORNL's Robotic...World's Experts Plan Global Locator Service For Environmental Information
..."An information locator service is useful wherever people communicate, but there is a special urgency to the...ke use of base standards that are so essential for people to find the environmental data and information they need." The agreement was reached among ...Christmas Bird Count: Another Holiday Tradition
...lable on the World Wide Web. Nearly 50,00 people each year volunteer their time on behalf of the National Audubon Society to record sightings of birds at Christmas time, providing the raw data for the best source of data on distribution and population for the many species of birds. This year the co...Urbanized Watersheds More Sensitive To Climate Change
...such as Saddle River, N.J., which in 1940 had 518 people per square mile and in 1980 had 2590 people per square mile. This area is 100 percent urbanized and had an increase of 70 percent in stream fl...Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
...tizens of New Zealand and 10 to 20 times more than people living in some areas of China. Selenium blood levels vary among populations largely because of wide differences in soil, agronomic practices, food availability and preferences and methods of food preparation. Although a 1995 Harvard University study...Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
...see this DNAmoving around, and it's something that people had only imaginedbut had never seen," Wirtz says. "This is exciting stuff!"...Bog Beetle, Misidentified For 85 Years, Is 'Discovered' At Cornell
...his beetle loves bogs. "It lives in habitats that people don't usually get to," Liebherr said. "New York state and the surrounding areas have these things that are unique to our region, and they are worth protecting. We've been here in the Northeast for some 300 years, and we still don't know it all." Th...ORNL Finds Common Genetic Cause For Epilepsy, Migraine
...s rare, variations in the same gene may predispose people to themore common migraine, which affects an estimated 24 percent of women and 12percent of men. Funding for this research was provided by DOE's Office of Health andEnvironmental Research....The CIA Would Like To Know What Scientists Are Seeing Over The Rainbow
...s Ried. "I receive about one phone call a day from people who want to learn the technique," he says, anticipating the technology will be common in diagnostic and research laboratories in the coming years....Birds Deal With "Cocktail Party Effect"
...y. They mayhelp scientists analyze how animals and people accomplish thefeat and draw further parallels betw...s into an order, called a serialorder, animals and people are able to navigate theirenvironments. Forexample, Hulse originally worked with rats, studying how ...Learning From Birds And Bees: Engineers Study Insects For Ideas On Tiny "Micro Air Vehicles"
...ance Office (DARO). "When you approach technical people with this idea, their firstresponse is that you ca...copter is extremely difficult, andeven experienced people crash them all the time," Blankenship said. "These aircraft will need autonomy so we don't have to s...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...r Fitzpatrick said. "An estimated 30 to 60 million people watch and feed birds," Fitzpatrick said. "At this moment thousands of people are jotting down notes about their observations. If they 'jot' them on the Web, we will be able to......t that this vitamin is key to human health or that people get it from the foods they eat, but researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. at Cornell University have new information to explain why plants make this important anti-oxidant. Humans are among the few species that do not produc...Blood Test Can Identify Some Children With Strep-Related Behavioral Disorders
...pt onset of OCD or tic symptoms to check the young people for strep, and ifstrep is present to treat it with...olves testing for thepresence of D8/17 in 27 young people with OCD and tics associated with strep,nine children with Sydenham's chorea, which is a variant of ...A Phoenix From A Ring Of Fire Is A Pattern For The Recovery Of Mount St. Helens
...-type hydrogen bombs, killing an estimated 30,000 people and leaving a wide swath of devastation. The recovery from that volcanic upheaval is providing scientists with glimpses of the renewal that can be expected after more recent eruptions, in particular that of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Tod...