Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
... in Ithaca. "These trees are generally growing in places not made for trees, since there are sidewalks, houses, cement. The tree-lawns in Brooklyn are only 5 or 6 feet wide," Bassuk said. "The roots have little chance for water and the roots tend to be restricted. These insects might weaken the trees st...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...t, or very salty, or strictly lacking in oxygen -- places where no other life can endure. Recent studies, however, reveal a surprise: archea comprise more than 30 percent of biomass in waters off Palmer Station, Antarctica -- the highest rates measured in the ocean. A team led by Edward DeLong of...Sea Turtles Have Favorite Oceanic Routes
...portant to consider not only this species' nesting places and feeding grounds, but perhaps the interconnecting corridors as well. "People might say, 'Oh, at least they have the whole ocean to live in.' With the discovery that turtles are concentrated within narrow corridors, what we're finding is that this...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
...hen these toxins areproduced, they hunt around for places to bind. When they find the rightreceptor site, they attempt to bind. This activity in humans causes disease.In the sensor, it is what triggers the color change." The backbone of the sensor molecule is composed of a long diacetylene lipid, a...Methane Deep In Ocean Crust Could Feed Chemical-Hungry Microorganisms
...measured in the gases from seafloor volcanoes, the places where lava has been able to reach the surface of the seafloor rather than remaining locked below. In addition, Kelley and Gretchen Fruh-Green, a colleague from Zurich, Switzerland, have done the first-ever isotopic work on rocks from layer three an...New Study Shows Steps Leading To Colon Cancer
...awry, however, when beta-catenin becomes active in places where it should not. It then triggers cells to reproduce indefinitely, or it prevents them from dying, leading to benign tumors that can later become malignant. "It is now clear that this sort of mistake underlies essentially all cases of colon can...Corn Byproduct Shows Promise As Biodegradable Packaging Material
...e are growing environmental demands, especially in places suchas Europe and Japan, for solving a lack of landfill space," said foodscientist Graciela Wild Padua. "Part of the problem in using zein beforenow has been its price. If you try to develop products out of commercialzein that is available, it wouldn...First Planned Release Of Captive Lemurs In Madagascar Wilds Expected In Fall
... programs. Those programs are underway in distant places like the Duke Primate Centerand other MFG institutions, as well as in Madagascar's own two zoos: TsimbazazaBotanical and Zoological Park and Ivoloina Zoological Park. "This project is an outstanding example of what zoos can do andmust do to preserve...Houseflies May Transmit Ulcer Bug
...e congregate, as well asmarkets, stores, and other places where human food is available. It justas freely frequents human and animal excrement alike," he says. Dr. Grbel warns that this research only proves that the housefly iscapable of carrying the bacterium, and that no definite proof exists that...Better Peroxidase Improves Disease Diagnosis
... at least a year. Such kits will be very useful in places such as China, Africa and Central America, he says. Vierling, director of the Genetics Laboratory for the ICIA, started experimenting with soybean peroxidase because it is a hot "green" industrial commodity that can be extracted from soybean seed co...Coming Extinction Of One Of UK's Most Minuscule Plants Yields Information On Climate Change
... Iceland. It also occurs around the south pole in places such as Tierra del Fuego. Dr Barry Meatyard from the University of Warwick's Institute of Education is directing a project to monitor the growth of the plant over a number of years and to relate that information to climate change and other biologic...Wild Plant Genes Increase Food Production
...Y. -- With a burgeoning world population and fewer places to grow food, Cornell University scientists have begun to locate high-production genes from wild plants to put into domesticated, edible crop plants -- thus boosting food production worldwide, according to their report in the journal Science. "We are...Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Promises To Help Allergy Sufferers
...suites and hospital nurseries are just two obvious places for this system. Sick building syndrome will be a thing of the past where this system is used. The photocatalytic system can quickly kill off 100 percent of bacteria in indoor air," said Goswami. The technology is being readied for the market...Captive Lemurs To Depart For Madagascar Oct. 17 For First Release Into The Wild
... programs. Those programs are underway in distant places like the Duke Primate Center and other MFG institutions, as well as inMadagascar's own two zoos: Tsimbazaza Botanical and Zoological Park and Ivoloina Zoological Park. "This project is an outstanding example of what zoos can do and must do to preser...Limits Of Life On Earth: Are They The Key To Life On Other Planets?
... Nsf Grants To Foster Answers From scalding hot places that rival Dante's Inferno to frigid locations colder than the dark side of the moon, scientists taking part in a $6 million National Science Foundation (NSF) research initiative are searching for life forms on Earth that may provide insight about po...Strange South American Fossil Mammals Found In Madagascar And India
...f their highly distinctive teeth in such disparate places as South America, Madagascar and India has fundame...y over the face of the earth and were in different places in the past than they are today. Ironically, though the group of mammals was previously known o...UF Researchers Investigate Phenomenon Of Seizure-Alert Dogs
...e-alert/seizure-response dogs. "Some of these places make more aggressive claims than others," Reep said. "Different organizations have varying degrees of success." Researchers want to know what dog trainers have to say about the reliability of training dogs to "detect and alert." Among the questions t...Genetic "Short Circuit" Leads To Cleft Palate
...f genes," said Melnick. "There are many potential places for things to go wrong, and the places may vary among families and racial groups. We have identified one pathway that accounts for steroid...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...the open ocean and see what is different about the places the birds go and where they don't go? "These birds have never been satellite tracked before, so they are finding out the answer to the big question, 'Where do they go when they leave the nesting site?' along with us." The data from Anderson's study...Termites' Attraction To Small Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide Lures Pests To Their Deaths
...er other agricultural and householdpests away from places they do harm. "Manmade insecticides assume the pests will come into contact with thechemical and die," Bjostad said. "This is a case where we're using the pests'own genetic predispositions to elements that already exist in nature to changethe...