News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...tickle. The aye-aye shows an extraordinary skill at detecting insects hiddenbeneath tree bark by ta...y. Such foraging will be literally a life or death skill ifcaptive-born aye-ayes are ever to be returned to the wild. "We now have enough of these yo...Clever Chemistry Protects Beetle Babies
...ial chemistry. In the human world it is achemical skill that pharmaceutical researchers are still learning. By variously combining three simple molecules into a veritable arsenal ofcomplex defensive compounds and secreting them through microscopic body hairs, Epilachna borealis pupae can thwart just a...Sex-Specific Behavior Controlled By Peripheral Nervous System
...herthan the transplant, indicating a lack of motor skill in the transplant). Also, maleswere able to distinguish among stimuli of different intensities. "The results are surprising, showing that a brain region normally wiredto process touch, vibration and pressure, and thus insensitive to chemical...Harbor Branch Scientists Discover Bioluminescent Octopus
... of Maine. A livespecimen, captured thanks to the skill of Harbor Branch JOHNSON-SEA-LINKsubmersible pilot Scott Olson, was placed in an aquarium where the researchersnoticed that its suckers weren't very sucker-like. They didn't stick toanything! But even more surprising, when they turned out the light...SPIRE seeks to boost young scientists' job prospects, minority science education
...l juggle multiple responsibilities and projects, a skill that should help them be successful in their science careers. SPIRE's benefits will be four-fold, said Dr. Valerie Fleming, a Fayetteville State University biology professor. "Postdoc will develop people and productivity skills that translate int...Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...e the memory of an important day or a never-forget skill like riding a bike) in the brain. His work could pave the way towards the development of drugs that aid failing memory or treat certain neurological disorders. His work looks at calcium flows into nerve cells following electrical brain activity, and ...Bees wearing reflectors help scientists track insects training flights
...e. The scientists now want to know why -- aviation skill perhaps -- some bees take as few as one while others take up to 17 orientation flights prior to becoming a forager. They also are interested in what happens to the brain during orientation flights. Among the multiple funding sources for the study we...Inaugural award for population ecologist
...ystems, combining this with a great enthusiasm and skill for solving applied problems in ecological and conservation management. He is also a skilled naturalist who plays an active role in the work of voluntary naturalist and conservation societies. The Fenner Medal will be presented to Professor Possing...Fewer calories linked to healthier brains in old age
... provides new insight into the cognitive and motor skill deficits that occur with age. The results may also help to explain the basis of common neurological disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Cheol-Koo Lee, Richard Weindruch and Tomas A. Prolla, all of UW-Madison, profiled the action o...New obesity treatment program to sustain weight loss, UCSF study finds
...lephone "connections" with other group members for skill practice. Each developmental skill involves asking oneself two sets of questions, Mellin said. The self-nurturing skill questions are:...Korean Americans at risk for high blood pressure
...e people in our study rated their English-speaking skill as poor or very poor," says Kim. "This was particularly the case among the older people and recent immigrants. The ability to speak English plays a significant role in whether Korean Americans access the health care system, particularly through medic...New research aims to help rowers take the strain off their backs
...uous sports. It also places a premium on technical skill and demands high levels of consistency and continuity from individuals in order that they build and maintain crew synchronisation. Our research demonstrates for the first time how small changes in lower back movement can be picked up and analysed and...Card tricks and mathematics: Applying the magician's trade to numerical dilemmas
...ng, Diaconis will explain how he uses a magician`s skill to solve long-standing problems in physics, biology and engineering. Lately he has been using cards to work out problems in statistical mechanics - a branch of physics that uses statistics to predict and explain how particles interact. First, he s...Key step in gene activation discovered
...lled a "Transcription Activator," whose particular skill is the ability to find the gene that needs to be turned on among the hundreds of other genes and miscellaneous DNA material strung end-to-end along the whole length of the DNA molecule. The Transcription Activator then attaches itself to the very be...Biologists: Cell nucleus surface more complicated than expected
...P to look at the root cells, they used it on onion skill cells to highlight a tiny network called the endoplasmic reticulum, a highly folded membrane in the cell cytoplasm which has many functions, including protein creation. Using the GFP to highlight chemical sequences associated with the endoplasmic ret...UC Berkeley expert on insect flight receives prestigious MacArthur 'genius' award
...e especially deft at takeoffs and landings - their skill far exceeds that of any other insect or bird." To study insect flight, he has built some amazing contraptions. One is a virtual reality "flight arena" for flies, in which he displays various moving scenes to tethered flies and records their wing moti...African bone tool discovery has important implications for evolution of human behavior
...s of modern human behavior because of the greater skill and labor involved in producing them and the shift to more specialized tool manufacture that generally accompanies them. "In Europe, prior to 35,000 years ago, people did not make formal bone tools," said ASUs Marean. "After that, bone and antler be...EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences
...very different from talking to colleagues: It is a skill that needs to be promoted. There are no limitations to the form of communication. The jury particularly looks for imaginative and original works. These can include communication via printed and electronic media, Radio, Television, out-reach, schools...The brain uses the same neural networks to engage in conscious and unconscious learning
... declarative learning and awareness in the prescan skill learning session. These findings suggest a more refined interpretation of the parietal cortex's role in spatial attention in this task. Spatial attention may facilitate orienting to targets in either an externally or internally driven fashion. In the...