Scientists celebrate a sea turtles homecoming
... YORK -- (August 12, 2003) When Miss Pearl finally returned to the Pearl Cays in Nicaragua last month after a three-year hiatus, it was cause for celebration. Best of all, her transmitter was still attached. Named by local Nicaraguan participants and scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation S...17-year study confirms that lead in the soil descends slowly
...of Dartmouth's Trace Metal Analysis Core Facility, returned to the exact plot where the lead 207 was applied on Camel's Hump, a heavily forested, undeveloped mountain near the village of Huntington, Vt. They took soil samples at the site, which is about 200 hundred yards off of a popular hiking trail at an el...Dodging elephants, scorpions, mudslidesUF researcher tracks tigers
...d sensors that triggered the shutters. Researchers returned periodically to pick up film, change batteries and ready the camera for more pictures. Taman Negara's terrain made setting up and monitoring the cameras a mammoth, risky project. The hilly park is dominated by huge, ancient trees with rivers and stre......rostatic support is no longer used once crabs have returned to the hard-shell condition," Taylor wrote. "Most arthropods grow by molting, and thus, many may undergo this change in skeletal support. It is clear that the shedding of the exoskeleton does not incapacitate a crustacean." Some animals, such a...City-grown air pollution is tougher on country trees
...ems. For three consecutive growing seasons Gregg returned to the sites to plant cottonwoods, harvesting them to weigh their biomass and to perform other kinds of analyses. She controlled for differences in light, precipitation, season length and soil factors, making air quality the primary factor of concern...Sleep deprivation within five hours of learning impairs memory consolidation in mice
...ice spent just 4 percent of their time frozen when returned to this environment the following day, compared to 15 percent among mice whose sleep was not disrupted in the five hours immediately after shock administration. "It has been suggested that sleep serves a variety of physiological functions, ranging fr...Researchers discover birds protect trees in neotropics by eating insects
..., Cecropia longipes and Cecropia peltata. Van Bael returned to Panama in late May to begin postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In a project beginning in September and funded by the National Zoo's Migratory Bird Center, she will evaluate plantations of cacao plants (chocolate...Volcanologist Richard S. Fiske receives award
...so published his dramatic photographs. Dr. Fiske returned to research in 1985 after serving as Director of the National Museum of Natural History. He played a major role in the planning of the museum's Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals, which opened to the public in 1997, and was a m...160,000-year-old fossilized skulls from Ethiopia are oldest modern humans
...ered hippo emerging from the ground. When the team returned to intensively survey the area 11 days later, they discovered the most complete of the adult skulls protruding from the ancient sediment. It had been exposed by heavy rains and partially trampled by herds of cows. A portion of the large adult's left...First soybeans grown in space similar to Earth-grown crops
...ement of soybean seeds for farmers." The soybeans returned to earth in October aboard the Atlantis. The prior June, DuPont subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., with the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics (WCSAR) -- a NASA Commercial Space Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madi...Monkey's memory cells caught in the act of learning
... activity after the trials were over, while others returned to baseline. The researchers hypothesize that these "sustained changing cells" may not only participate in memory formation, but also in storage of the associations in long-term memory. "Changing cells" were not detected until now because studies of ...Mosquitoes infected with La Crosse encephalitis found in four Southwest Virginia counties
...ns in the past 10 years. The positive results were returned from approximately 135 "pools," samples containing a number of mosquitoes captured at individual locations. Because the laboratory report only reports a positive result from a pool, Paulson said it is impossible to say exactly how many individual mos...Equine cloning may shed light on human cancer causes
...V.M. degree from Colorado State University. Woods returned to the Northwest briefly to practice veterinary medicine then moved east to complete a residency in large animal reproduction at the University of Pennsylvania under R. M. Kenney. Next, at the University of Wisconsin, he became a student of O. J. Gin...Benefits of lung surgery reported for emphysema patients
...y following LVRS, after two years these indicators returned to the same level as before surgery. In contrast, those who received medical therapy alone experienced losses in lung function to below baseline. Moreover, while the overall mortality rate was similar between the two groups throughout the study per...UC Riverside graduate student wins best poster award at international conference
... a conference in Germany with a poster in hand and returned home with a laptop, the coveted prize his poster won. Of the more than 180 poster presentations at the Seventh Annual International Conference on REsearch in COmputational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) held last month in Berlin, Figueroa's poster was r......reatto shelter. Once the threat was over, the mice returned to thedisc. Stopka and Macdonald hypothesise that these signposts are moreeffective for wood mice than scent marks: they can be moved atany time and are not detectable by predators....Premature birth linked to lack of nutrition before pregnancy: study
...he researchers found that even after nutrition was returned to normal, fetuses of undernourished ewes had accelerated maturation of their adrenal glands, prompting their premature delivery by about one week, on average. In some cases, the ewes delivered as much as 15 to 20 days early. "Even after adequate nut...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Awards 2003
...s for biochemical research. In 2000, Martin Beyer returned to Munich Technical University to continue his wor...o his doctorate at Munich Technical University and returned to Constance to work on his "Habilitation". His research focuses on structural-functional relationsh......ch in the IBM research laboratory in Rueshlikon he returned to the USA to a post at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, where he remained until he was offered a professorship at the Max Planck Society. Prof. Dr. Hélène Esnault (49), algebraic geometry, Essen University,jointly with Prof. Dr. Ec......hered the cheek cells from each of the women, then returned to his laboratory to confront two basic questions: Could he identify cheek cells that contained both an X and Y chromosome, an indication that the transplanted bone-marrow stem cells had differentiated into cheek cells? If so, could he also show th...