Researchers discover cold virus can 'hit and hide'
...s, this could explain where this virus goes in the summer and where it comes from each winter. If the virus is able to lie dormant in previously infected individuals, it could re-emerge when the conditions are right and cause the outbreaks that fill our children's wards each winter." RSV is very common inf...Bye-bye Bio 101: Teach science the way you do science
...National Academy of Sciences also are sponsoring a summer institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where 36 faculty who teach large introductory courses will develop new instructional materials that apply tested teaching methods. The course is co-chaired by three of the policy paper's authors: Hand...Clemson launches S.C. DNA Learning Center
...ter the Dolan DNA Learning Center's "DNA Science" summer workshop for middle and high school students. Program funded by student fees. July, 2004 The center will host a two-week, in-residence course (3 hrs graduate credit) for in-service high school teachers. Course title: Gene Discovery. NSF will fund...How do animals exposed to 24-hour light retain their wake-sleep habits?
...ls following 82 days of continuous daylight in the summer and 82 days of continuous darkness in the winter, a team of researchers may have begun to identify a clue. A New Study The research is captured in a presentation entitled, "Cardiac Physiology of Mammals in Arctic Light Cycle: Heart Rates and Biolog...Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
...ars, beginning in 1930, Van Niel offered a popular summer course at Hopkins, presenting microbiology as a fu...ysiology. Among those who attended Van Niel's summer course were Stanford undergraduates and scientists from a variety of disciplines. The course influen...Study reveals poor Houston air quality
...spheric sciences, modeled Houston's air during the summer months. He found that at night, the city's ozone level (rated in PPBs, or parts per billion) was near zero, but during the day it zoomed to more than 200 PPBs, far higher than the U.S. standard of 120. Zhang's findings are reported in the current iss...NSF funds summer research program abroad for undergraduates at UC San Diego
...ifornia, San Diego will be living and working this summer thousands of miles away from the La Jolla campus, ...ors (one international and one at UCSD), spend the summer at an international institution, and participate in an international meeting to help demonstrate the...Researchers say US military accidentally introduced tree pathogen to Italian estate
...tory confirmed that, for at least one month in the summer of 1944, the 85th Infantry Division, part of the Fifth U.S. Army, stayed on the grounds shortly after capturing Rome. "There is little doubt in my mind that the source of the pathogen was the U.S. Army," said Garbelotto. "Everything matches - the ti...Undergraduate research experience advances education
...graduate research at Virginia Tech during her next summer semester and has added a fifth year to her studies at Virginia Tech in order to expand her research experience. Schreiber's and Norton's poster, "Building a PCR machine: Chemistry in context (CHED 725)," will be presented at the Analytical Chemistry ...Study shows benefits to newborns from federal ban on insecticides
...n samples at three different times -- spring 2001, summer 2002 and fall 2002. They found that prior to January 2001, newborns with combined insecticide exposures in the highest 26th percentile had birth weights averaging almost 200 grams (almost half a pound) less than infants with no detectable pesti...Southern Californians commonly misinformed about beach water quality, study finds
...ater quality data and beach warnings posted in the summer of 2001 for Huntington Beach a popular coastal resort reputed to have inspired Jan and Dean's "Surf City" researchers found that the public was incorrectly notified about coastal water quality as much as 41 percent of the time. Errors were cau...Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
..., where they can learn about job opportunities and summer internships in the Orlando area. The Special Program for High School Students will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., Monday, March 29, 2004, in Room 414 CD of the Orange County Convention Center....Tony Hunter and Raymond N. DuBois awarded Landon-AACR Prizes for Cancer Research
...ACR Prizes in Cancer Research were launched in the summer of 2002 to promote, recognize and reward seminal contributions to our understanding of cancer through basic and translational cancer research. These distinguished scientific prizes bring heightened public attention to landmark achievements in the con...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...tion at Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic. By last summer Envisat could relay data via Artemis to ESRIN in F...ields powering the storm. During Europe's long hot summer of 2003 Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) showed the Mediterranean 'hot flu...Human health, astronomy, and environmental concerns merge at Dark-Sky meeting
...Comet astronomer David Levy was in Antarctica last summer for the total solar eclipse, and describes "Last Summer in Antarctica." David E. Blask, MD, of the Bassett Research Institute in New York, will talk about his work on the effects on light exposure and resulting melatonin levels on the growth of hum...Global warming to squeeze western mountains dry by 2050
...reased fall and winter flooding, severe spring and summer drought that will play havoc with the West's agriculture, fisheries and hydropower industry. "And this is a best case scenario," said the forecast's chief modeler, L. Ruby Leung, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Natio...Pacific Northwest National Lab unveils most complete human blood-plasma proteome map to date
...dollar Whole Proteome Analysis facility. This past summer the FTICR instrumentation developed at PNNL was named one of the 100 top inventions of the year by R&D Magazine , and in October NIH granted PNNL more than $10 million to establish its Research Resource center for proteomics....Molecular mechanisms that trigger flowering in spring
...ears ago, tobacco plants were shown to distinguish summer and winter by measuring the length of the day and night. This process, called photoperiodism, was later shown to be widespread in the plant Kingdom, and to occur in mammals, insects and birds. In addition to flowering, other seasonal responses in pla......lar bears, have become unavailable during the late summer and early autumn because the summer melt has reduced the availability of sea ice in these regions. Polar bears have been forced into ar...Pesticide exposure among agricultural workers varies by job task
...and floors, often wear minimal clothing during the summer spray season (increasing their likelihood of skin exposure) and engage in hand-to-mouth behavior (increasing their likelihood of ingesting pesticides)."Children are not small adults," Thompson said. "With less-developed immune systems and adults, chi...