Merging Physics And Neuroscience: First Evidence Of Self-Organized Criticality In Brain Networks
...iologicalsystems," said Dr. Peter Jung, a visiting physicist at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology. "It is a starting point for a completenew way of thinking about waves in the brain and diseaseprocesses." Jung and Dr. Ann Cornell-Bell of Connecticut-based ViatechImaging, combined theoretical modeling with e...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
... stoves to keep warm. Now, physicist Dr. Bijan Miremadi has developed a unique gas sensing unit that could prevent disasters caused by dangerous gases both at home and in the workplace. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the only one of its kind in ...Human Cloning: Grappling With Reality Penn Bioethicist To Explore The Facts Behind The Hysteria
... headless human clones for organ parts and Chicago physicist Dr.Richard Seed's statements that he will soon clone human beings demonstratesthat our society is far from ready to grapple with the hard moral questionsraised by human cloning," states Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Director of theCenter for Bioethics at th......bly of any functioning electronic component," said physicist UriSivan, who conducted the research with Erez Braun, another physicist, andchemist Yoav Eichen. Wires are the foundation of any circuit because they link circuitcomponents to each other and to the outside world. The Technion team constructed...Study Of Sulfides In Bacteria Casts Doubts On Evidence Of Life In Martian Meteorite ALH84001
...t Dennis A. Bazylinski, and California Polytechnic physicist Richard B. Frankel, found clearevidence of mackinawite and greigite and, possibly, cubic iron sulfide. One of the iron sulfides they did not detect is pyrrhotite , a mineral that has been found in the now-famousMartian meteorite ALH84001 and that fr...'Molecular' Computers? Munich/UD Researchers Report First Glimpse Of Artificial Molecule In Action
...viorfirst described by the late Austrian-born U.S. physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi. Theresulting technique, van der Weide says, is analogous to conventionalspectroscopy, used for studying real molecules by analyzing their energies basedon observations of their spectra, which include colors. Specifically, he says, ...Birds Of A Feather: The Physics Of Flocks
...isms. Back in 1993, at his laboratory in Budapest, physicist Tamas Vicsek was watchingmovies of bacteria colonies made by a group of biologists in Germany and hiscollaborators in Israel. As the bacteria multiplied, he noticed, parts of thecolonies of bacillus circulans and a strain of bacillus subtilis formed...If You Can't Stop Polluting, Try Changing The Weather Instead
...us number of electrons. Dionisio Moreno, a physicist in Mexico's environment department, says agovernment committee evaluating the project -- of which he is a member -- remainssceptical. He says they are still unable to detect a clear change in theintensity or direction of any winds produced by the ant...Gold Finds Life, Energy, Controversy In Earth
...f rotation. But Gold's most controversial idea, as physicist Freeman Dyson notes in thebook's forward, is that of the nonbiological origin of natural gas and oil,which he first proposed more than 20 years ago. These hydrocarbons, Goldpostulated, come from deep reservoirs and are composed of the material fromw...Sandia Discovery About Protein May Help Clean Up Pollutants, Find Cures For Diseases
...ing up pollutants, saysdiscoverer John Shelnutt, a physicist at the Department of Energy's SandiaNational Laboratories. The first time such a correlation has been made, thediscovery is being heralded by the biochemical and biophysical communities asone of the most intriguing new findings about proteins in rece...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
...ciences, should know. After all, the prize-winning physicist can point to thebenefits he already has derived fr... was encouraged to enter the DNA-discovery race by physicist ErwinSchrdinger's comment that the future of biology lay in the molecularunderstanding of the gene. ...Findings suggest new oxygen-sensing application for material
...t MarkBrazier, materials engineer Said Mansour and physicist Michael McElfresh. Meanwhile, the research showed that the material's sensitivity to oxygenrepresents a drawback to its potential application in computer memory. Forexample, the devices --called ferroelectric capacitors --will wear out in 15perce...Unique web site provides live access to laboratory research
...re it wasintroduced," said Robert London, research physicist and NMR group leader atthe National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research TrianglePark, N.C....The Tour de France--In terms of jelly donuts
...0-32 jelly donuts per day in calories,according to physicist PhilipMorrison of MIT. Morrison conducted an investigation of the Tour de France forhis 1987 PBSdocumentary series "The Ring of Truth." (In comparison, a normal adult male eatsthe equivalent of12 jelly donuts a day, assuming that each jelly donut is ...Astrobiologist to hunt small game in Siberia
...astern Siberia. It is in Kolyma that Hoover, solar physicist turned astrobiologist, will becomea roughneck. "I'll be turned into a driller's helper," Hoover explained, "after DavidGilichinsky trains me. We'll be using aseptic drilling techniques to obtain deeppermafrost and ice samples for microbiological res...Nearby supernova may have caused mini-extinction, scientists say
...omy, Fields and colleague JohnEllis, a theoretical physicist at CERN, claimthe measured iron-60 abundance cannot be explained by known sources, but couldbe the radioactive ashes of a supernova --the explosion of a massive star. This cataclysmic explosion occurred 100light-years from Earth about 5 million years...Stanford scientists use noise to sort proteins
...ice called a Brownian ratchet,popularized by Nobel physicist Richard Feynman, who used it to illustrate theinviolability of the second law of thermodynamics, the law that explains why itis always easier to make a mess than it is to clean it up. The original Feynman version of a Brownian ratchet is a mechanical...Advance may put gene chip technology on scientists' desktops
...of the UW-Madison Environmental ToxicologyProgram; physicist Sangeet Singh-Gasson, now of the University of Illinois atChicago; Yongjian Yue of the UW-Madison department of electrical and computerengineering; Clark Nelson of the UW-Madison Biotechnology Center; Fred Blattner,UW-Madison professor of genetics; S...JMU builds supercomputer for national model undergraduate program
... "It's really tough to be a science major," said physicist Peterson, "During your first two years of courses, a lot of the time it's just really hard work and you're not really getting into any of the interesting stuff yet. We're hoping that the freshmen and sophomores will see the interesting things that th...