Scientists work to prevent recent Ebola outbreak from decimating gorillas and chimps
...e numbers of gorillas and chimps over thousands of square miles. Since then, the Wildlife Conservation Society has initiated a gorilla health program in the region to reduce risks of disease among gorillas....Geophysicist studies life in the early solar system
...y evolved and diversified, only to be sent back to square one by asteroids 10 or 20 times wider than the one that hastened the dinosaurs` demise. When the surface of the Earth finally became inhabitable again, thousands of years after each asteroid impact, the survivors would have emerged from their hiding ......es known with a tensile strength of 5,000 lbs per square inch and an adhesive strength that has been measured at 22 60 lbs per square inch. And thats just barnacles. Blue mussels know how to make 21 different kinds of adhesives. ...Fragmentation can make seedlings wimpy
...sethat did sprout were 10% smaller (about 9 vs. 10 square inches). Fragmentation also decreased genetic diversity: in isolated trees, seedsfrom different fruits of the same tree were four times more likely tohave the same father. S. saman is thought to be pollinated by moths, andresearchers speculate that f...February media highlights - GSA Bulletin
...ast lake, or lakes, which covered at least 300,000 square km, roughly equivalent to the largest modern lake on the planet (Caspian Sea). Paleoproterozoic arc magmatism imposed on an older backarc basin: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Trans-Hudson orogen, Canada. Pete Hollings and Kevin Ansde...Comparing ag and industrial runoff between estuaries
...ies, it is in better shape. The bay, about 11,000 square kilometers (4,247 square miles) in area, with an average depth of nine meters (30 feet), and a watershed basin of 164,000 squ...Alien life forms more likely to be found outside solar system, says Colorado prof.
...ts scientists only find about 100,000 microbes per square centimeter, "and those generally are starved." "But if life is really going to succeed and flourish for an extended period, I think it has to take over and modify a planet on the surface, like it has on Earth," Pace said. Primitive life forms in the...Rock-eating microbes survive in deep ocean off Peru
... scientific goals in mind. The ship houses 13,000 square feet of laboratory space, including 13 different labs for studies ranging from microbiology to geophysics. Typically an international team of 28 scientists participates in each voyage. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) is the other principal...'Back at square one' to find culprit in familial ALS
...s in SOD1-associated ALS, so we're sort of back to square one to examine other possible pathways," he says. Not only did the disease pathway not change, but just as much mutant SOD1 enzyme was made in mice without CCS, an important result because levels of SOD1 affect timing of symptom progression. Furtherm...UC Berkeley researchers are developing a microsized microscope that can peek inside living cells
... diameter, the microscopic scanner Lee tested is a square of about 1 millimeter on each side and can move a distance of 50 to 100 microns. Lee is also testing a nanolens as small as 500 nanometers in diameter, or 200 times thinner than a strand of human hair, and smaller than the average red blood cell. Le...Physics tip sheet #4 March 13, 2002
...is formed when sets of four guanine molecules in a square are layered in the presence of potassium. The quadruple helix structure has a channel down the center that fills with potassium ions and has electronic properties like those of a semiconductor. Wires such as these may form the basis for nanoelectroni...Hiroshima porcelain pieces provide insight into exposure levels
...is the number of neutrons from the blast found per square centimeter.) The advent of nuclear accidents such as Three Mile Island and potential nuclear accidents in the future makes accurate information imperative. But scientists have recently realized that there are discrepancies in earlier estimates and ha...Scripps scientists find ignored species play key role in ecosystem interactions
...d up to approximately 12 percent of small kelp per square meter per day. A similar amount of purple sea urch...h smaller species, can remove up to 25 percent per square meter per day, or more than double. "Being bigger means you will eat more, but you will not necess...Imagine no restrictions on fossil-fuel usage and no global warming
...ioxide emissions would require only an area of one square yard per person in the developed world. A facility of sufficient size could be located in arid regions, since discharged air that is deficient in carbon dioxide could have consequences on nearby plant life. Large expanses of desert would not be aff...Sea level rise threatens marshes in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
... South Carolina alone have 300,000 hectares [1,000 square miles] of coastal marshes. Widespread disappearanc...of hundreds of thousands of hectares [thousands of square miles] of coastal marshes in the coming decades could have a significant effect on the overall North...Icebergs devastating impact on Antarctic marine life revealed by satellite data
...rmed dams along the coast preventing thousands of square miles of pack ice from drifting out of the Ross Sea. As a result, large stretches of normally open ocean were covered with ice -from November 2000 to March 2001. During these crucial spring and summer months, the Ross Sea usually teems with life, a...Massive icebergs may affect Antarctic sea life and food chain
...ut (approximately 10,000square kilometers or 3,900 square miles) "This is the first time that satellite imagery has been usedto document the potential for large icebergs to substantiallyalter the dynamics of a marine ecosystem," said Kevin Arrigo,a researcher at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. Arrigoa...Ten new candidate genes associated with salt sensitivity and hypertension are identified in rats
... of sequences can be placed on a glass slide a few square inches in size. Computational analysis has been developed to seek structure, in the form of clusters of like gene expression patterns, among different transcriptional profiles. The most prominent developing approach has been to detect similarities an......re concentratednumbering half a thousand cells per square centimeterthey have a spiny, stretched-out, finger-like shape that contacts as many skin cells as possible. Unlike other T cells in the body, which display a wide diversity of receptors that recognize a wide diversity of antigensthe molecular compone...Research highights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...r to 12 housing units, covering nearly one million square feet. Developed for the U.S. Marine Corps, DSOM was first implemented at two major Corps facilities. In every installation DSOM has improved process efficiency, reduced maintenance expenses, extended equipment life and cut energy consumption and as...