Alzheimer's disease may originate in the brain's white matter
...le, in part, to an unusually cold winter and a dry summer at hydroelectric dams. A suggested solution was to increase the output of coal-fired plants. But the state's infrastructure power lines, transfer stations, etc. would be unable to carry the extra power, thus negating any potential benefits. So it i...Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute discover how a plant times its flowering cycle
...st climates--with long days of burning sunlight in summer and wet, dark, and freezing conditions in winter--plants that have adapted the ability to flower at the best possible time would have had an advantage in evolution. Scientists have known since the 1920s, when researchers first began experimenting wit...Washington University's Sarah C. R. Elgin is one of 20 'million dollar professors'
...ted program at Washington University that provides summer research opportunities for undergraduates, support...ysics. This introduced her to current research the summer before her freshman year. She later spent a summer working on chemical kinetics at Pomona, the next ...Darwin's letters being sent to Galapagos Islands as part of Darwin Correspondence Project
...identified. Porter spends about three months each summer at Cambridge, where, as senior editor and director of the correspondence project, he has done work ranging from fund raising, researching and writing preliminary footnotes for the letters, and, along with Frederick Burkhardt, approving the finished v...MIT team probes arsenic and old lakes
...enic in water sampled from the depths of U.M.L. in summer were not in the chemical forms Hemond and earlier ...e Northeast, lakes follow a seasonal cycle. In the summer they become stratified: cold water on the bottom is topped by a warm layer. The two don't mix and ha...A message from nature to muskrats: 'Dont chill out'
...ve system is designed for green vegetation. In the summer they eat the roots of aquatic plants. In the winter, they swim under the surface ice to get to the plants. To the distress of farmers, muskrats also eat agricultural crops. Since muskrats forage underwater they should exhibit traits that maximize the...Dinosaur discoveries in Montana
...identify specimens that were discovered during the summer expedition and prepared plaster jackets around the specimens so they could be transported out of the remote site. Check out the daily web journal kept by the Smithsonian field team at http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/summer2002_fieldjournal_intro.html ...Flawed sampling, not just pollution, may be responsible for beach closings
...and Dean. The beach made national headlines in the summer of 1999 when a large section was closed to the public, hurting the local economy and drawing attention to beach water quality around the country. The researchers found that coastal water quality is controlled by an intricate relationship among a numb...Deer flies a biting problem? Oddly, 'trolling' may be just the ticket
...m a slow-moving vehicle. Working in the spring and summer when deer flies are most prominent, they "did all kinds of crazy things" to try to discover what kind of trap worked best, he said. The Mizells first tried draping their 1992 Dodge Dakota pickup with white plastic covered with black silhouettes of va...German chemist wins ACS Irving Sigal Fellowship
... C. Uzar. Luesch will complete his Ph.D. work this summer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa under Richard E. Moore, Ph.D. He will then join The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. where he will investigate new cancer drugs as part of his postdoctoral work with Peter G. Schultz, Ph. D. Irving ...Satellites see big changes since 1980s in key element of ocean's food chain
...th Pacific Ocean dropped by over 30 percent during summer from the mid-80s to the present. Phytoplankton fel...th Atlantic Ocean over the same time period. Also, summer plankton concentrations rose by over 50 percent in both the Northern Indian and the Equatorial Atlan...City birds prefer rich neighbors
...number of birds seen, regardless of species), with summer bird abundance actually being consistently lower where tree abundance is higher. The lack of correlation between trees and the bird populations is important, Kinzig notes, because the variety and number of trees planted are among the few significant ......ged with weather data to simulate the effects of a summer fire under normal and under drought conditions for each of the treatment/age combinations. The results showed that prescribed burning is still the best approach for immediate protection against catastrophic wildfire, with thinning the next best appro...Scientists find cause of dead crabs, fish off coast
...me some of the remaining oxygen in the water. When summer winds are weak, the surface waters are warm, and there is reduced mixing of oxygen from the surface to the bottom. This allows the low values of oxygen at the bottom to persist and intensify, in effect, smothering much of the sea life in the area. "...Ocean aquaculture: Technology, business practices, policies & caviar
...arch program New technology is being tested this summer in the Gulf of Mexico that will hopefully lead to ...row-out operations for blue mussels, sea scallops, summer flounder, cod and haddock. By considering two major angles of open ocean aquaculture setups - opera...Japanese shore crabs invade Penobscot Bay, Maine
...ald, a Cornell junior from New Hartford, N.Y. Last summer Seeley was conducting her annual survey of the gre...ve many more eggs than that. Seeley and McDonald's summer research is supported by a grant from Cornell's New York Science Education Program. Understanding th......ts, she taught science at the United States' first summer environmental program, produced a Reading Rainbow feature film about trees that is part of a national series on science and reading, and wrote curriculum with the National Science Teachers Association. One of the first researchers to work in forest ...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
...pproximately 35 students for 10 weeks of intensive summer research. In this program, students develop a com...ed and eager students to Washington University the summer before their freshman year for seven weeks of research. • Add a new program of HHMI/Washington...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $80 million for undergraduate science education
...an undergraduates, the university plans a six-week summer research and development program for high school s...e biology instructors to the university campus for summer workshops in current research, laboratory materials and teaching strategies in an area of biology of...Clover strip-cropping in cotton provides critical habitat for threatened songbirds
...ng migration, and finally through the breeding and summer growing season, recording the type and number of bird species in each farming scenario. To learn more about food availability for the birds, they also sampled the insects in each field type, noting whether they were beneficial or crop pests. "Our ide...