Military foods could enhance soldiers' performance by 2025
...allow them to be tracked on the ground or even via remote sensing satellites. The report notes that being able to accurately distinguish between friendly forces and units could significantly improve the Army's command and control. The report also suggests making foods more digestible by including edible enz...Scientists find that heart muscle cells regenerate after a heart attack
...gher in the border zone and 24 times higher in the remote myocardium. The next challenge, according to Anversa, is to find the source of the dividing myoctyes. "Are these cells a sub-population of known cells that retain the capacity to divide, or are they multiplying cells that originate from stem cells...... patient call-backs, an important consideration in remote or underserved areas. Call-backs occur when patie...oping similar mobile units to reach women in other remote areas as well as women in urban settings who have limited access to breast cancer screening. "The ke...New instrument enables remote detection of toxic algae in real time
...ransmits results of probe assays in real-time to a remote location for data processing and interpretation. This capability provides an entirely new means of remotely detecting microorganisms in the environment, enabling water quality assessments in the absence of ship-based sample collection and time-consu...... of the University of Pennsylvania, headed for the remote western desert of Egypt in search of German paleon...cial dinosaur expedition had ever returned to this remote part of Egypt until the Penn team's arrival in January of 2000. During a six-week field season, the ......eas, concrete, agriculture, and grass. After using remote sensing to categorize the land use types, Stefanov..., where he conducted the first tests of the use of remote sensing to map dust transport. Stefanov plans to apply the same techniques to mapping dust sources i...Collapse of simple life forms linked to mass extinction 200 million years ago
...sh Columbia coast. "These sites are among the most remote places in the world," Ward said. "There are no roads anywhere close by. The forests are virgin old growth, and the wave action is such that you can't get there by boat." Samples from a spot called Kennecott Point, in the northern Queen Charlottes, an...WWII landmark becomes a wildlife sanctuary
... from Myanmar (formally Burma) recently declared a remote valley surrounding the old Ledo Road - a once vita...rest Department has recently asked WCS to survey a remote area beyond the Hukuang Valley, to see if it could potentially link to Hkakabo Razi National Park, t......tation, and major scientific advances in genetics, remote sensing, and other fields. The approach, called "ecoagriculture," seeks to help farmers, most urgently those living in or near biodiversity hotspots, to grow more food while conserving habitats critical to wildlife. The approach dramatically breaks...First experiments from NASA Commercial Space Centers get started on International Space Station
... During the mission, some of them will work in new remote control centers set up with NASA's help. From the...al Shuttle missions. BioServe set up and opened a remote ground control site for monitoring experiments and collecting data at the University of Colorado. N...Once thought extinct, Siamese crocodile is photographed in Siam
...le, estimated at seven feet, was photographed by a remote camera trap as it lumbered along a riverbank in an...ilderness areas of Southeast Asia. The team set 41 remote camera traps that automatically photograph animals or humans that walk in front of them, along trail...Dried-out human cells can come back to life
...tored for long periods, for example, or carried to remote disasters without having to be kept cool. Antibodies and vaccines would have an almost unlimited shelf life, making them easier to distribute in developing countries. Desiccated medical supplies could even be sent on long space missions. And it ...Saharan dust "cools" climate warming estimates
...new results, produced with two independent sets of remote observations, found dust absorption to be 1-5 percent." This means that the Earths surface receives less warmth in areas where dust lingers in the atmosphere, because that radiation is reflected back into space. The Saharan dust absorption results ...Panda habitat not protected by nature reserve, say Science researchers
...d areas," says Liu. The Science researchers used remote sensing data, including Corona satellite photographs and Landsat satellite images, to compare forest cover in the reserve and surrounding area before and after Wolong was established as a nature reserve. The team combined these data with information...Nature reserves aren't protecting pandas, study shows
...irable habitat, then mapped it with satellite and remote sensing data. The resulting maps show, over time, prime panda real estate being nudged out by areas of human habitation. "Panda habitat is not only being destroyed and fragmented, but it's the high quality habitat that's being selected by human'......also shows promise for saving money by providing a remote platform for data collection, rather than manning labor-intensive and expensive shipboard platforms. New research to drool over - Having the ability to determine within minutes whether a person has been exposed to harmful chemicals would be an import...Amphibian mortality linked to global climate change
...e team backpacks for 10 miles to reach some of the remote sites. The researchers work in tents for weeks to build their experimental devices, which include boxes they designed to anchor the toad eggs at different distances below the surface of the lake in order to learn whether a thicker blanket of water b...Competing fruit flies show evolution in action
...iologists see the same result in other islands and remote places where a single species has arrived and foun...xample, a finch -- enters an environment such as a remote island with few other species already present, competition within the species becomes more important...Remote monitoring of ICU patients lowers mortality rates, complications
...le the overflow in the ICUs. Our study shows that remote care programs may provide a means of improving qua..., cameras and data transmission equipment used for remote care were installed in the ICU and in the homes of four Hopkins intensivists. During a 16-week peri...