Physicist says women could vault to new Olympic records
..., such as how effectively the vaulter's horizontal running velocity is converted into vertical velocity, since this determines the amount of momentum that will carry the vaulter up and over the bar. This occurs through the "angle in" and "angle out" that the vaulter's body makes with the ground at the start ...Ice-breakers drive whales away
...evels of 197 dB, rising to 205 dB when the ship is running at full power to ram the ice. Erbe and her colleagues fed the data into a computer simulation they developed that mimics the beluga's hearing. They found that the vessels are noisy enough to mask beluga communications, inducing behavioural changes a...Rising Maryland to welcome new biotech president
...elations, at a time when international interest is running high to market UMBI's technologies, including preventative AIDS vaccines, urban fish farming methods, poultry vaccines and genomic protein data for advanced drug design. "Jennie Hunter-Cevera's wealth of knowledge and expertise will help Maryland m...Ancient running reptile was bipedal, say Science researchers
...f the body. This is similar to the posture used by running humans. Eudibamus appears to be the earliest known tetrapod, or four-legged vertebrate, to adopt this distinctive posture and gait. In its slower moments, the reptile probably moved quadrupedally, according to the Science researchers, including ...Researchers establish formula for predicting predator-prey populations
...e dynamics of the system. They tested the model by running experiments using a water-containing apparatus, in which they placed the predator rotifers Brachionus calyciflorus and the prey algae Chlorella vulgaris. During 18 experimental trials, they varied the concentration of nitrogen pumped into the sys...Simple rules predict the outcome of predator-prey struggles
... so complex that only a highly sophisticated model running on a supercomputer could predict the outcome. Not necessarily so, say ecologists at Cornell University and North Carolina State University who have developed a new mathematical model: If just a few factors are sufficient to capture the essentials ......rs. Nobody imagines that it'll just be a matter of running a hoe through the regolith and waiting for the harvest moons. Conditions on Mars are just too harsh. Temperatures regularly drop to -125 C. Sunlight is only about half as intense as on Earth. And though the atmosphere is 95 per cent CO2-the raw mater...Screensavers of the world, unite!
...friendly competition and generate more interest in running the software,`` Pande says. Team Egg Roll is now in second place, having reached 10,000 folding days, but it lags far behind the top-ranked team, Nerdz, whose members have clocked 17,000 days - or about 47 years. Folding@home is one of sev...Ancient origins found in arabidopsis genome
...ach made up of four 500-Mhz Pentium III processors running the Windows 2000 operating system. With software d...Wide Web interfaces, but they are not suitable for running a large batch of queries such as the one Vision used to track the genetic history of Arabidopsis .......f locomotion and which, until now, applied only to running gaits. Kram and his late Harvard colleague C. Rich...ore Kram moved to UC Berkeley. They suggested that running animals use energy at a rate inversely proportional to the time the foot applies force to the ground...Major unique new study shows infrequent inspections lead to greater stream pollution
...entation ponds that trap water and prevent it from running downhill into streams....UC Davis science newstips Feb 01
...ls and computer simulations to find ways to reduce running costs and maximize revenue from wind turbines. Projects include: predicting and changing power output; finding the best places to put turbines; predicting air flow through wind parks; and protecting turbines from wind gust damage. The UC Davis resea...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...dapted to dealing with short-term emergencies like running from hungry lions, primates also experience psychological stresses that can elicit physiological responses that, evoked over time, can make us sick. Sapolsky observes baboons in the wild to determine their ranks, personalities and social affiliatio...Elephants pick up good vibrations - through their feet
...the rotating blades or from the distress calls and running of the distant herd that`s under attack." Her research also has implications for how we treat captive elephants in urban zoos. "If elephants are really that sensitive to seismic noise," she argues, "then more could be done to protect them from loud c...Genes don`t control human behavior, evolutionist says
...n for thousands of years even though if genes were running the show, they would never permit it," he argued. Ehrlich pointed out that the brain "is the only organ in the body that requires enormous input of information from the environment, including especially the cultural environment, in order to develop p...Researchers pioneer techniques to lubricate microdevices
... Motor oil keeps car engines running smoothly, but what will grease tiny motors for the high-tech microdevices of the future? Ohio State University researchers may ...Virus studies reunite two families of major insect-borne viruses
...teins come together to form this spike protrusion, running up and down the length of the spike," Kuhn says. "Our findings show that while the E2 protein extends up and down the length of the spike, the E1 protein lies along the surface of the virus." The unusual placement of the E1 protein suggests that i...Scientists invite others to join them online to discuss exotic species threat
...ng the interactive sessions beginning April 16 and running through April 29th. There is no cost and anyone may participate. The meeting's website can be found at http://exoticpests.apsnet.org/...Do the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol differ by culture?
...s motor activities (or lower order skills) such as running and jumping. Furthermore, higher order skills are more complex than lower order skills and constitute what is called "intellectual abilities." "Having deficits in so-called 'higher order cognitive-motor skills,'" said Savage, "means that - as ......y graduate Lanny Rudner, 22, were the guinea pigs, running at 6.5 miles per hour while strapped into the trea...esses astronauts would experience while walking or running on Earth, in hopes of preventing the bone deterioration seen on long space flights. The problem, sai...