The Year of Biodiversity and Conservation
... scientists from The Field Museum have traveled to remote parts of the world and pored over specimens, from bird wings to plant fossils, to learn about the biological diversity of life on Earth. Much of this research has focused on describing extinct and living plants and animals, of which some 1.7 million...Researchers combine electronics with living cell to create potential toxicity sensor
... could wear on a nametag or that is stationed as a remote sensor in the field. Because this is a MEMS-based single-cell analysis technology, it's primed for miniaturization." In this year's new design of the bionic chip, a cell essentially lives in a nutrient-rich culture between two electrodes on a silicon...Science Picks-Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (June 2003)
...anning. Because the Everglades is so expansive and remote and includes environmentally sensitive areas, impe...lumb bob, the AHF system distinguishes itself from remote sensing technologies in its ability to physically penetrate vegetation and murky water, providing re...SARS pre-screening protocol developed for AACR Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
...d professionals in SOS alarm centers, clinics, and remote medical facilities....Study says government counts of tigers in India are inaccurate
...er numbers, the use of advanced techniques such as remote "camera-traps," and measuring prey densities is essential, the paper argues. The Wildlife Conservation Society is working to save tigers throughout their range, with field conservation projects in not only India, but also the Russian Far East, China,...Destination Deadhorse...and beyond
...nd in situ measurements, researchers are verifying remote sensing methods and models. Biologists are studying ice algae and its role in the Artic food web. Several projects are being undertaken as part of the Shelf-Basin Interaction (SBI) program, funded by ONR and the National Science Foundation, which aim...Exploring the sights and sounds of a deepwater coral marine protected area off Florida
...s offshore from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral. This remote area includes the East Coast's first Marine Protec..., due largely to the difficulty of patrolling this remote location, illegal trawling continues in the closed area. The Oculina Banks cruise will take place on......iles) away. Overall, forest land was slightly more remote than other landcover types, but the data followed similar trends. "Imagine that the U.S. has been divided into 8.6 billion parcels the size of a baseball diamond infield, and that you could stand on home plate in each of these parcels," said Riitters...Carnegie Mellon University research story ideas on DNA
...uns the gamut from detection of life in hostile or remote settings (the desert or Mars, for instance) to the use of biosensors for sensitive detection of molecules in biomedical settings or the detection of specific biological and chemical warfare agents. The upshot is that DNA has become much more than ju...UCLA biologists elucidate fertilization process
...dentifying the functional role in fertilization of remote chemical communication between sperm and eggs, Zimmer said. We are learning how chemical communication occurs....Catastrophic decline of Africa's apes, Nature says
...owed the intrusion of mechanized logging into once remote areas. Scientists believe the great ape decline is not restricted to Gabon. Neighboring Republic of Congo and other countries in the region have higher human densities and worse deforestation than Gabon. An outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Ga...Carnegie Mellon, NASA to develop robot illustrating how to seek life on distant planets
...onal "virtual worlds" that realistically represent remote sites, enabling students to experience the mission...orking to develop next generation tools for public remote experience. The goal is to have hundreds of students participating remotely in the Atacama experimen...Molecule offers insights into fertilization
...dentifying the functional role in fertilization of remote chemical communication between sperm and eggs," Zimmer added. "We are learning how chemical communication occurs. Knowing the molecular structure, we are now defining the physiological function." The German cell physiologists had isolated human genes...Best chance to protect giant pandas
...ges where the species still survives. "Most are so remote that there are no people or infrastructure development there," says Dinerstein, which increases the chances of saving the pandas. Loucks' co-authors are: Lu Zhi, who did this work while at the World Wide Fund for Nature-China in Beijing and is now a...Chimpanzees with little or no human contact found in remote African rainforest
...n a Central African rain forest, is so remote that primate researchers who traveled ...uman density in northern Congo and the remote location of the Goualougo Triangle, it is unlikely that these chimpanzees ha...Study: Prenatal screening in Haiti region cut syphilis by 75 percent
...cal discoveries to the poorest of the poor even in remote areas." More than 90 percent of Haitian women in the Artibonite region deliver their babies at home unattended by medical personnel, she said. German scientist August von Wasserman developed the simple blood test for syphilis in 1906. In 1928, Britis...Smart sensor technology finds tremendous potential in various industries
..., transmitting, and processing data from harsh and remote environments. Just as important, they promise bett...of cables with radio frequency transmission allows remote programming using information collected from sensors located throughout a facility, while radio freq...HHS announces contracts to develop safer smallpox vaccines
...ister the contracts. To protect ourselves from the remote but extremely grave threat of a deliberate release of smallpox virus, we need a vaccine that can be safely given to all Americans, including individuals with weakened immune systems, children and pregnant women, said Secretary Thompson. The new contr...Researchers will no longer be 'snowed' in predicting future avalanches
...also to property, as more people choose to live in remote areas," says Tom Baerwald, NSF's Geography and Regional Science Program director in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. "This fundamental research by Hansen and her colleagues will give us valuable new information that will save lives ...Opening the black box: Scientists gain new tools to learn about the near-shore environment
...e authors explain that one expanding technology is remote sensing via satellites that measure characteristics of the ocean including color, temperature, surface elevation and winds, helping to map the physical forces that drive ocean circulation. Warner provides an example of the complexity. "It is as if on...