Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
...redenburg said. Vredenburg's study, conducted in a remote and rugged area of Kings Canyon National Park, shows both these assumptions to be false. He noted that, while trout were planted in the fishless high-altitude lakes beginning in the late 1800s, mules carrying fingerlings in milk cans could not reach ...Mother lode of jaguars discovered in Bolivia park
...to count tigers in India, the researchers employed remote camera "traps" to photograph jaguars, recording each animal's unique spotting pattern. Through a statistical analysis that counts each animal re-photographed within a given territory, an accurate population estimate can be determined. "Our results ...Brace therapy for osteoarthrisis, legal issues in TBI research, prosthetic fitting
...tasks such as opening and closing zippers, using a remote control button, and stabbing food with a fork in 14 individuals with SCI. Study data will allow surgeons to describe types of tasks patients should expect to perform after reconstructive hand surgery, informing patients' decision about surgery benefi...Researchers awarded $2 million to create high-tech tools for fighting wildfires
...ery rapidly, and in quickly transmitting data from remote locations into a model running many possible scenarios on a supercomputer faraway. You have to deliver this information rapidly, reliably, and in a meaningful way (with images, not words) through secure means to people who may be far from telephones...Newborn lambs' central heating system could aid fat busting in humans
...t's difficult to reach lambs in time especially in remote areas. The ability to extend the period that lambs maintain their brown fat deposits would help to solve this problem. This project is a good example of why we need to understand the basic biology of animals so that we can come up with better ways of...'Springer' - A solution to water pollution?
...operators making them more expensive to run than a remote controlled device. Springer will enable comprehens...m-60m deep. Designed to work autonomously or under remote manual control, Springer will use a wireless link to communicate with its operator and transmit coll...Scientists report on the current state of INEEL's nuclear waste contamination
... be renamed the Idaho National Laboratory, is in a remote location of the U.S. and therefore, it was also used for disposal of wastes containing radioactive and hazardous materials. Some of these compounds have traveled over 170 miles downward through fractured basalt and unconsolidated sediments to the und......e for emergencies and mass casualty events, and in remote and difficult settings such as a battlefield environment. The work by Palecek, de Pablo and Ji, which was supported by a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is also scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue of the j...SensorNet proposed as system to protect millions nationwide
...te sectors to provide state-of-the-art sensors and remote telemetry by strategically locating and connecting remote sensors on or at existing commercial and government facilities. Critical information then can be sen...Breaking the rules on artifical blood
...cold would be ideal for use in disasters, wars and remote areas. But company after company has worked on substitutes only to abandon their efforts because of safety concerns. Most blood substitutes are based on various forms of haemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in most animals. The guiding princ...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...ater samples and online detectors, as well as with remote sensing," says Dr Cristina Rodrguez-Benito of Mariscope Chilena. "MERIS images demonstrated the presence of blooms from the middle of December. "Some show intense patches in several areas, indicating the blooms do not only originate locally but may ...Desert science center aims to bridge rift between Jordan and Israel
...dging the Rift Center will take place March 9 in a remote section of arid land along the Israeli-Jordanian border about 50 miles south of the Dead Sea. When construction is completed in three to five years, this small piece of desert will be transformed into a thriving science and technology village dedicat...Astonishing discovery over the Amazonian rain forest
...ements were performed during the rainy season in a remote location of the Amazon Basin. Wind trajectories showed that the air had traveled over several thousand kilometers of pristine tropical forest before being trapped and analyzed. It is estimated that the photooxidation of isoprene results in an annual...1,136 scientists call for protection of deep-sea corals
...eep as 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), and into the most remote seas on Earth. A 1998 study in Conservation Biology by Les Watling and Elliott Norse showed that bottom trawling has impacts similar to forest clearcutting. But because deep-sea corals are so slow-growing, they'll take centuries to recover, if ever....New reactor puts hydrogen from renewable fuels within reach
...esearchers see an early use for their invention in remote areas, where the installation of new power lines is not feasible. People could buy ethanol and use it to power small hydrogen fuel cells in their basements. The process could also be extended to biodiesel fuels, the researchers said. Its benefits inc...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...phy community that's developing a lot of satellite remote sensing data and models." Halpin is a Nicholas Sch...geographic information systems (GIS) and satellite remote sensing. "Biologists are collecting data from ship surveys or aerial surveys, or tagging animals and......d and will change for the period 1985-2008. Using remote sensing and polar bear movement data, the team will establish how polar bears adapt to those changes spatially, and will test whether there is evidence that changes in sea ice habitat resulting from climate change may alter polar bear condition, prod...Seeing how plants split water could provide key to our future energy needs
...s mobile so it can be used for power generation in remote regions where it's difficult to access electricity. "But the problem is hydrogen doesn't exist on Earth by itself. Instead it combines with other elements such as oxygen to form water, or with carbon to form methane, coal and petroleum. However, wate...New evidence suggests that monkey thought extinct still exists
...y is still alive, it's range may be limited to the remote southeastern corner of Ivory Coast. If the monkey ... delicacy, and many people living in the country's remote areas hunt to eat or sell the meat. Add to that a loss of about 85 percent of the country's original...Scientists discover where snakes lived when they evolved into limbless creatures
...e species live only on certain small islands or in remote parts of the world. "We felt it was important to analyze genes from all the lizard groups because almost every lizard family has been suggested as being the one most closely related to snakes. If we had failed to include genes from even one of the ...