Montana State University Scientist Contributes To Latest Dinosaur Discovery
...s. Jackson was not on the expedition last spring that initially discoveredthe 70 million- to 90-million-year-old egg site. Scientists from the AmericanMuseum of Natural History in New York and Argentina's Museo Municipal CarmenFunes found the nesting ground where thousands of dinosaurs may have g...Migratory songbird breeding linked to winter habitat
...n redstarts as they arrived at Hubbard Brookin the spring and settled into breeding areas, the investigators were able todetermine that early arrivers were, indeed, those birds that had spent thewinter in wet, tropical environments. Late arrivers carried the isotopesignature of drier, scrub environments. ...... the effects on vegetation through direct fall and spring measurement of selected subplots supplemented by a...m unpolluted portions of central Chesapeake Bay in spring 1995, and their intestinal tracts and livers were analyzed for 13 metals including copper, lead, and......that findingimplies that the last killing frost of spring comes earlier and the firstkilling frost of fall later -- bad news for blue grama. "One hypothesis is that cool-season, non-native plants may be able toutilize water and nutrients stored in the soil for a longer time by startingearlier in th...Chemists To Meet March 21-25 In Anaheim
...e world's largest scientific society,will hold its spring national meeting Sunday, March 21 through Thursday, March 25,at the Anaheim convention center and nearby hotels. Findings to be discussed range from the latest research on how to treatobesity to the use of geochemicals in detecting extraterrest...National USDA Center For Food Gene Data
.... The new genomics center is expected to open this spring on the Cornell campus. It will be linked to the New York State College of Agriculture and LifeSciences, Cornell's Department of Plant Breeding and the Cornell Theory Center,as well as to Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and th...Farmers Can Afford To Clean Up Gulf Of Mexico, Analysis Shows
...precise application in terms of place and time for spring planting. Buffer zones along streams. Fewer inputs -- about a 20 percent reduction of the amount of nitrogen used." If a farmer just reduces the amount of fertilizer without improving management practices, the farmer would have to cut the nitrog...Estuaries Vital To The Productivity Of Southeastern U.S. Fisheries
...anctuaries and more plentiful food supplies in the spring andsummer, Crowder said. "They make the transition into an estuary at about the time when itbecomes warmer and more productive than the continental shelf," he said. "Theyevolved that lifestyle for a number of reasons. Basically, their life...New Edition Of Ecological Monographs Is Now Available
... the lake. Both naturaland gradual fluctuations in spring flood levels have enabled black ashpopulations to adapt to their changing environment. Researchers observed thatpopulation stability was due to the strategically different reproduction methodsbetween trees located within the floodplain and trees loca...New Biomaterial May Replace Arteries, Knee Cartilage
...tent, which is expected to beformally granted this spring by the U.S. Patent Office. Salubria has a high water content, making it similar to, and thusbiocompatible with, human tissue, Ku said. It is also unique for three otherproperties. It is an organic polymer, rather than being made from silicone...Amphibian Revival: Build It And They Will Come
...to 1911. Sexton counts the tally at the end of the spring breeding season. In 1974, thefirst year of the salamander census, 428 were counted, compared with 2,301 in1995. Only two counts have been made for wood frogs; in 1987, 311 were captured,compared with 364 in 1995. There were big drops in salamander ...Protein Adultery Revealed!: Mechanism Of Protein Folding Captured In Computer Simulation
... A paperdescribing the work will be published this spring in the Journal ofComputational Biology (Vol. 6, No. 2). Says King, "This is the first time any computer scientist has taken thisfundamental step within a mathematically sound model. Though there are millionsof proteins in any real-world experiment, t...Toxicologists To Meet March 14-18 In New Orleans
...n The Society of Toxicology will hold its annual spring meeting, Sunday, March 14through Thursday, March 18, at the New Orleans Ernest E. Morial ConventionCenter and nearby hotels. Findings to be discussed range from the latest research on naturally occurringcarcinogens and anticarcinogens and the use of ...Scientists Study Protein's Role In Tumor Development In Fish
...ors -- which appear in the fall and die during the spring spawning season --seem to pose no health risk to humans, according to officials with Ohio SeaGrant. Walleye infected with the tumors have been reported in rivers and lakesthroughout North America, including in Ohio, New York and Canada. Resea...Isle Royale Wolves Bounce Back
...ck infestation caused by the mild winter and early spring of a yearago," he says. "The unusual heat of the summer also made it difficult for themto put on the fat required to survive through the winter." Peterson says theresulting diminished vigor made moose easier prey for wolves. "Secondly, there are lots...Whitehead Receives $35 Million Grant From National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
...n genome sequence in a "working draft" form by the spring of2000, considerably earlier than expected. The five major sequence producers in the international consortium will be threeU.S. laboratories funded by NHGRI (the Whitehead Institute, WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, an...Coffee Without Addiction, Possible New Treatment For Osteoporosis, Wrinkle-Free Cotton, And More
... world's largest scientific society, will hold its spring national meeting in Anaheim from March 21-25, 1999. ACS expects 11,000 registrants to attend sessions that will cover more than 6,100 papers on cutting-edge chemistry in topic areas including medicine, food, the environment, new materials, and more....Melatonin Shapes Brain Structure In Songbirds
...stimulation caused by longer daylight hours in the spring iswhat leads to a higher level of testosterone and prompts males to sing more toattract mates and to defend against competitors. The longer daylight hours ofspringtime, they found, causes songbirds' gonads to grow from the size of pepperflakes to mar...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
... are doing." Tracking Bees' Behaviors Later this spring Bromenshenk and a team of colleagues andstudents plan to come to work at Sandia. New colonies ofhoneybees will be introduced at the test minefield. The Montana team will use highly instrumented "honeybeecondos," which automatically count the number o...... But the focus changed as researchersreturned each spring to sites where small colonies had thrived the year before-- only to find no animals emerging from their winter burrows. Analysis ofblood proteins and DNA from surviving squirrels offered three clues: -- Ground squirrels in isolated populatio...