Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...he Minoans, Mycenaeans, Egyptians and Assyrians -- sophisticated civilizations that have been depicted in countless...er to the present. Such simple displays belie the sophisticated technologies that are used at this and other dendrochronogy labs around the world to date ancient ar......to take action. Drivers want to have more and more sophisticated air quality control within their vehicles and legi...t sensor technology. Drivers have found that their sophisticated air management systems are not available because sensors cannot detect all the atmospheric pollutant......ns continue into the mass spectrometer, which is a sophisticated weighing machine. Using a spectrometer with a 6.1 Tesla superconducting magnet, the Cornell team took a sample representing 1 percent of the protein in a single red blood cell and correctly deduced its molecular weight -- 28,780.6 daltons. The breakt...Human-Like Ability, Categorical Perception, Found In Insects
...aring has found. Even the lowly cricket employs a sophisticated capability, called categorical perception, when its life (or love life ) is at stake. "Crickets -- and probably many other types of animals -- have found a simple way to build a system that responds quickly," said Robert A. Wyttenbach, the Cornell p...Robots, Virtual Reality & Other "Smart" Tools Soon Will Help Physicians Heal Patients
...biomedical engineering. "We hope soon to see new, sophisticated systems that physicians can use to improve patient care and, in many cases, even lower the cost of treatment." Plans for new surgical simulations, image-guided therapies, robotics and teleinterventions are described in a new 135-page report, ...Bigger Biology Tackled Through Keyboards
...nology, enormous and growing sets of data,and more sophisticated approaches to problem solving are now converging. Promising advances in computational techniques allow researchers to beginto account for the fact that neighboring individuals might behave differentlytoward each other than distant individuals -- whe...Computer Model Offers New Insight On Bacterial Photosynthesis
...e. The method used to solve the structureinvolved sophisticated computational modeling. A similar LH2 structurefrom a different species was reported in late 1995 in the journal Natureby University of Glasgow scientists, who had determined the structure witha different method. Because purple bacteria exist in mu...Jefferson Scientists Develop Botulism Vaccine
... Ph.D., and Andrew Maksymowych, Ph.D., used the sophisticated tools of molecular biology to create a modified and non-toxic version of botulinum toxin, which is nature’s deadliest poison. The toxin, which is the cause of the disease botulism, is ordinarily encountered as a form of food poisonin......ranges froma somewhat wacky numerology to a rather sophisticated view of thehuman body as a microcosm of the universe," said Parker. "Whileit is somewhat absurd, it also is about as poetic a view of thecosmos as there has ever been." According to Parker s translation of Damastes' brief medicaltext on "The Care of ......nce paper. He believes chimps may converseusing a sophisticated array of facial, body and hand gestures, perhaps augmentedwith grunting or other vocalizations. Patrick Gannon, assistant professor and director of the PaleoneurologyResearch Laboratory in the Department of Otolaryngology at Mount Sinai, fir...DNA Enzyme Works In Crystal Form; Yields New Insights Into Gene Copying
... Despite decades of study, many details of this sophisticated andcritical DNA replication process remain mysterious, Beese said. To understandthose mysteries, she and her colleagues use an analytic technique called X-raycrystallography to visualize the polymerase structure. In this technique,scientists shine an...Ant Pheromone May Aid Alzheimer's Patients
... every ant species can draw a crowdwith chemically sophisticated recruitment pheromones. The Myrmicine antsstudied by Cornell researchers sometimes recruited seven or eight helpers. Butarmy ants, generally regarded as being more advanced in an evolutionary sense,can summon thousands of compatriots with a single ...Transposable Elements May Have Had A Major Role In The Evolution Of Higher Organisms
...on normal genes may, intruth, be more like a vast, sophisticated chess game on an enormously complexboard. The new structures and functions that emerge from their battle serve todrive the evolution of the host genomes in which transposable elements reside. -30-...Summary Of USGS Presentations And Activities, AAAS, 1998
...o With Toxic Waste. USGS studies involve theuse of sophisticated seafloor mapping and sampling equipment to provide anew, detailed regional map of sea floor characteristics offshore of the NewYork-New Jersey metropolitan area. Information from this USGS studyprovides a regional framework for predicting the movemen...Renowned Breast Cancer Experts Present Latest Findings At UCSF Cancer Center Symposium
...able to order new laboratory tests --making use of sophisticated biosensors called "microarrays" -- to obtaindetailed read-outs of the many genetic abnormalities commonly present in cancercells. Jeffery Struewing, MD, of the NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Geneticsaims to determine just how cancerous "ca..."A Thousand (And More) Points Of Light" Yield New View Into Cells
...ation, which relies on advanced imagingtechniques, sophisticated algorithms, and the power of parallel computing, isdescribed in the April 24, l998 cover story of Science. The lead author of thepaperis Andrea Femino. The corresponding author is Robert H. Singer, head of thelaboratory in which the research was cond......ch studies should help governments to develop more sophisticated fishmanagement plans than previously possible. The Acoustics of Opera Houses Designing an opera house with good acoustics requires a much different approach than designing a suitableconcert hall. For one thing, the size of an opera house should b...... machine will learn to respond to people in a more sophisticated way. Thedevelopment of human qualities, such as personality, is uncharted territory inrobotics." "'Sage' is part of an initiative to augment the experience people havein museums," explained Robotics Institute principal investigator William L.......and smarter, they allowdevelopment of increasingly sophisticated pacemakers, implantabledefibrillators and other medical devices that have already improved lifefor more than a million people worldwide. At the same time, growingconcern about theft from retail stores has led to widespread use ofelectronic article s...