Department of Energy's Office of Science unveils 20-year vision for the future of basic research
...f Science is the nation's largest supporter of the physical sciences and a major contributor to other vital areas of basic research that underpin national security and economic prosperity. "Major advances in science including new materials, advanced computational simulations and new ways to produce energy, un...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
... animals at the same frequency and resolution that physical scientists can use satellite information to follow...to take a gigantic body of data developed from the physical scientists and communicate that to the biological scientists," Halpin said. Another challenge is con......n that contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories. The federally recognized name of each feature described in the database is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by state, county and geographic coordina...UT Southwestern researchers find leptin turns fat-storing cells into fat-burning cells
...stantly searching for food and experienced reduced physical activity. The animals fed a restricted diet also gained back their weight faster than animals receiving the leptin injections. Under normal circumstances leptin produced by fat cells does not interfere with the accumulation of surplus fat, but lepti...ESA to select new Earth Explorer missions
...netic field plays an important role in many of the physical processes throughout the Universe. The Earth is surrounded by a large and complicated magnetic field caused to a large extent by a self-sustaining dynamo operating in the fluid outer-core. Currents flowing in the ionosphere, magnetosphere and oceans,...Pesticide exposure among agricultural workers varies by job task
... prevent pests. Such workers also have substantial physical contact with fruits, leaves, twigs and branches that may contain pesticide residues. In addition, unlike pesticide handlers, thinners are not required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use protective equipment or undergo safety training....New findings bring mixed blessings to those looking to combat jet lag
...orous course of activities involving cognitive and physical performance testing. The subjects were randomly assigned into three parallel groups, each containing 3 women and 6 men to be administered either 300 mg of SRC, 5 mg Mlt, or Pbo. SRC (300 mg) was administered from D1 to D5 at 800 mg; 5 mg synthetic Ml...MIT student dances with robots
... dancing involves both controlling your own body's physical properties and communicating information to the other person." To prove the effectiveness of haptic signaling in swing dancing, Gentry first recruited a pair of fellow Lindy Hoppers and got them to dance while blindfolded. That experiment verified wh...Do we perceive using 'mindsight'?
... the belief in a sixth sense." He has no idea what physical processes generate mindsight, but says it may be possible to confirm it exists using brain scanners. Mindsight is not simply a precursor to normal visual perception, he argues, because there seems to be no correlation between how long it takes someo...Houston scientist named as rising star in chemistry
...a chemist. He received his undergraduate degree in physical chemistry at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1985 and a doctorate in chemistry from Boston University in 1996. He completed post-doctoral work at Harvard University in 2000. As a member of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at Bayl...The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...o draw out the secrets of the comet's chemical and physical composition and reveal its magnetic and electrical properties. Using a specially designed camera, the lander will take pictures in the macro and micro ranges and send all the data thus acquired back to Earth, via Rosetta. "This will be our first ever...UN report: Accelerate global agreement to oversee exploitation of South Pole 'extremophiles'
...ailable. The report concludes that although the physical impact of bioprospecting is currently addressed by the ATS regime, establishing the legal and policy basis that controls the commercialization of genetic resources, in line with the basic principles of the ATS as well as equity and fairness, is a mor...New Georgia Tech Biosciences Center assists life-science startup companies
...ampus is more challenging in terms of managing the physical space and providing business services to the companies," says Susan Shows, vice president of the Georgia Research Alliance, which supported the GCATT facility and has provided more than $5 million to launch the new incubator. "Yet the benefits of thi...Dazzling new light source opens at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
...ductive cross-fertilization between biological and physical disciplines." "SPEAR3's brilliant x-ray beams provide the ability to study smaller objects at higher resolution," said SSRL physicist John Arthur. "In many cases the greater brightness at SPEAR3 will also enable researchers to take their data faster,...Integrated animal model answers questions about environment
...and their surroundings. For instance, the animal's physical properties - body size, fur thickness, body temperature and breathing rate - help determine how much energy it needs to survive. The animal's behavioral patterns, such as how often it reproduces or how active it is, also are important factors. To ap...Gulf between rich, poor will grow if high-profile nanotechnology opponents prevail: ethics experts
...eks to exploit the unique and powerful electrical, physical and chemical properties found at an infinitesimally small scale. While legitimate risks and issues have been flagged, they can and should be addressed without a crippling moratorium being called for on budding research that promises vast improvement ...'Elves' makes protein crystallography easier
...sco and UC Santa Cruz to leverage strengths in the physical and biological sciences and engineering to improve human health and the environment. Structural information about proteins is critical to understanding how proteins work, and, for drug developers, how to design drugs. Facilities like the Advanced ...Thailand dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemics spread in waves emanating from Bangkok
...chnique developed by NASA for analysis of waves in physical materials like water waves and sound waves to study "epidemic waves" of dengue cases. Our study is the first step to understanding the mechanism of how a disease like dengue spreads through the country," said lead author Derek Cummings, a PhD candi...Human migration tracked in Stanford computer simulation
...000 years. These mutations, most of which cause no physical change, tend to appear at a constant rate, providing a genetic timer. For example, if a population has 10 mutations after 50,000 years of evolution from the common ancestor in Africa, then the fifth mutation probably arose 25,000 years ago. But where......ogate protein produced from yeast that has similar physical and chemical properties, but is non-pathogenic. Shih hit upon the idea of using keratinase to degrade prions based on his more than two decades of work as a poultry scientist looking for ways to manage poultry waste. He discovered that a bacteria, Ba...