Study Sheds Light On Behavior Of Middle-Age 'Undertaker' Bees
...other middle-agedtasks, like building the comb and storing food brought in by older foragers. They also remove debris, which fits in nicely with undertaking." Undertakers also develop slightly faster than other midde-aged bees,moving on to foraging before food storers and hive builders. Middle agelasts abo...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
..., a coupler knuckle storage table was designed for storing the 90 lb. knuckles. Previously, they were manually piled on the ground and then lifted from there. In addition, a commercial back injury training program, Pro-Back, was adopted, and every employee was taught how to bend and lift safely. Finally, man...Reclaimed Waste Water Can Augment Municipal Drinking-Water Supplies But Concerns Must Be Addressed
...ed wastewater directly into a water supply without storing it first in a reservoir isnot a viable option. Indirect use is viable, however, and that approach wasexamined by the committee. Indirect use augments the drinking-water supply byadding reclaimed treated water first to a lake, reservoir, or undergro...Spinach Enzymes Neutralize Explosives
...tockpiled around the country. "The primary risk of storing explosives at any site is explosions because they createpanic,can cause injury and are a trigger to releasing biological and chemical agents storednearby,"said Dr. Manish M. Shah, the project's principal investigator. "The challenge is to have a proc...Mouse Study Trumpets New Way To Preserve Species
...asis." The current findings also suggest that storing ovarian tissue at low temperatures may provide a fairly simple way of preserving genetic material from female mammals -- a feat that has proven to be extremely difficult. "Preserving the genome from the female side is a difficult process, and ha...Weird Creatures Have Some Lessons For Organ Transplants
...aneseresearchers have invented a new technique for storing human organs fortransplant. The team, which has successfully revived a rat's heart after 10 days instorage, says the work may lead to organ banks similar to blood banks. Thesewould allow doctors to avoid the frantic dash to bring suitable org......ns, playing a role in everything fromacquiring and storing memories to possibly contributing to certain mental healthailments. Past research has detected signs of glutamate overload in thepost-mortem brains of people with schizophrenia, and faulty glutamate signalinghas also been linked to Alzheimer's diseas...Mixing Radiation, Minerals, Toxic Waste Could Be Cleanup Boon -- Or Kaboom
... radiation breaksdown the chemicals, she said. "By storing radioactive liquid with solid material, they are degradingcomponents of the mixture and producing gases," Gray said. The rate of gasproduction can not currently be predicted, she said, so engineers and chemistswant to learn how they are generated. La...Top Experts To Address Top Food Safety Concerns At IFT Meeting
...toring systems for cooking, reheating, cooling,and storing foods will also be presented by industry leaders. "Food Allergens: Current Issues and Future Developments" (Special Forum9, July 28, 9 AM) will discuss commercially available methods for detectingcommon food allergens, such as peanuts and egg...Protein studies reveal sophisticated control of nerve communication
... hippocampusbegin to fire off electrical impulses, storing one step of the instructionsafter another for later recall. One stimulated neuron tells the next in line tofire by releasing chemical messengers called neurotransmitters across thesynaptic gap, which serves as a sort of firewall against short-circuit...... Female fruit flies mate with multiple males, storing the sperm in threespecialized storage organs (the long, tubular seminal receptacle and twomushroom-shaped spermatheace) and using it as needed to fertilize eggs. However, the odds of becoming a father aren't equal for all the males: the lastfruit fly...Scientists discover addition of new brain cells in highest brain area
...le, that the brainrelies on a stable structure for storing memories. "People thought: If the cerebral cortex is important in memory, how could itchange?" says Gross. "In fact the opposite view is at least as plausible: ifmemories are formed from experiences, these experience must produce changes inthe brain....Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...ays that calcium ions are involved in relaying and storing long-term information (like 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 wor...Do US ecosystems balance US fossil fuel use?
... that ecosystems in the US, and North America, are storing carbon, but much less than is being emitted by fossil fuel use. The uptake is widely distributed around the US, in forests, grasslands, farmlands and other ecosystems. This result implies that other regions of the world - Europe, Siberia or the tro...DNA games: From computing to espionage
...mputers by using a billion times less energy while storing data in one trillion times less space. Introduction by James D. Watson, President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Watson received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his discovery, with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, of the double helical structure o...Molecular mechanism for learning and memory is identified
...ical reactions that are involved in the process of storing information." Routtenberg and his team have demonstrated that genetically engineered mice that have more phosphorylatable GAP-43 in their brains learn tasks more quickly and can forget one strategy in order to learn a diametrically opposed strategy...Scientists look to nature to cut greenhouse emissions
...ering and lead researcher on the project. "We're storing carbon dioxide in organisms that exist in your backyard," Bayless says. "Once the algae is grown, if it can't be used as fuel or a hydrogen source, it can be used as a fertilizer or soil stabilizer." The process, he says, would work something like ...Research shows that brain receptor may control obesity
... brain of mice that causes them to become obese by storing fat and expending less energy than normal mice. In a study that will be reported in the September 2000 issue of Endocrinology (Volume 141, Number 9), a journal of The Endocrine Society, Roger Cone, Ph.D., a senior scientist at Vollum Institute and As...INEEL creates a method to link energy use, greenhouse gases
...oth the emissions and carbon sequestration" -- the storing of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. That standard method will require a way to accurately determine an inventory of greenhouse gas production, such as the initial work by Shropshire. Although the effect of greenhouse gases on global climate ch...Tiny channels carved in plastic enable medical tests on a CD
... doctor's office for a medical consultation or for storing the data in a central data bank." As the CD spins inside a CD player, centrifugal force pushes liquid medical samples from the inner channels out to the edge, where it mixes with tiny pools of chemicals for testing. All types of analytical functions ...