Houston scientist named as rising star in chemistry
...isiting lecture series by prominent chemists and a summer scholar research program for high school students. The Foundation also bestows the annual Welch Award in Chemistry to honor chemists across the globe for their lifetime contributions to basic research....Astronomers unravel a mystery of the Dark Ages
...hey have discovered the cause of crop failures and summer frosts some 1,500 years ago a comet colliding wit... what records there are, tell of crop failures and summer frosts. The work was carried out by two Cardiff undergraduate students, Emma Rigby and Mel Symonds, ...New antioxidants are 100 times more effective than vitamin E
...a of Vanderbilt graduate student Derek Pratt: "The summer before I came to Vanderbilt, I was at a conference in New Hampshire where several presentations dealt with antioxidants. It just occurred to me that this was an approach that hadn't been tried before." At the time, Pratt was an undergraduate at Carlt...Researchers develop model to help control West Nile outbreak
...span to the data in their area. For example, since summer in Edmonton is short and dry, the mosquito lifecyc... be quite different than in the longer, more humid summer of New York. Currently mosquitoes are killed through the application of chemical larvicides to the ...UF study suggests life on Earth sprang from borax minerals
...tructor at an international geobiology course last summer funded by the Agouron Institute and held at the University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. "We asked two questions. First, what simple organic molecules might have been present on early Earth as starting materials ...AGU journal highlights - 6 January 2004
...003 ------------------- 2. Vegetation's affect on summer warming may not last Surface temperatures in Nort...singsatellite measures of surface greenness in the summer and snowextent in the winter. Previous research had found that enhancedvegetation leads to cooler su...Endurance of plants under quartz rocks possible model for life on early Earth, Mars
...les kept the plants warmer in winter and cooler in summer compared to conditions underneath black pebbles. In fact, their Ecology paper suggested that sunlight transmitted through the translucent quartz might "confer a modest greenhouse effect" during the cooler months, in essence trapping some of the sun's...Research grants available for faculty at minority serving institutions
...outh Africa, requests applicants for an eight-week summer research experience in tropical biology for 2004. Specifically, this project targets faculty members at minority-serving U.S. institutions who have limited opportunities to conduct research in a tropical field setting, especially those faculty who wo...NASA learning to monitor coral reef health from the sky
...Guild take the first readings at varying depths in summer 2002 near Andros Island, Bahamas, with assistance from the U.S. Navy Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center. A spectroradiometer measures the amount of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light reflected from an object, and is similar to sensors ...Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life
...Biological Sciences, joined the URI faculty in the summer of 2003 after having worked as a marine ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Monterey, Calif. for several years. He received undergraduate and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition t...Study predicts loss of monarch winter refuges
...ir breeding areas within the United States. If the summer breeding areas should move north with global warming, monarchs may need to migrate farther, Oberhauser said. Although monarch butterflies may not form the cornerstone of any ecosystem, their loss will and should be felt, she said. "If we lose monarch...British Antarctic Survey wins environment award
...tocol. The clean up took place near the remote BAS summer field station at Fossil Bluff, Alexander Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. The 500k clean up was part of a partnering agreement between BAS and British Construction Company AWG Construction Services. In total over 50 tonnes of waste including hundr...Herpes research uncovers possible clue to Alzheimer's disease
...th the neurodegenerative disorder. Bearer isalso a summer investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory a...id of the North Atlantic sea," notes Bearer. Last summer Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory formalized their alliance for teaching and res...Scripps scientists link ozone to atherosclerosis
...active gas is a hazardous component of smog in the summer months. A few years ago, Lerner and Wentworth made the completely unexpected discovery that ozone is involved in human biology. Lerner and Wentworth realized that atherosclerotic plaques have all the ingredients needed to make ozone. They contain wh...Isotopes from feathers reveal bird migration
...ration routes of birds of prey. Their work on the summer origins of migrating and wintering Peregrine Falcons and Burrowing Owls has shed new light on what has previously been the secret, non-breeding half of the birds' lives. By analyzing stable isotopes of hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen in bird feathers,...It's feast or famine: Predators may drive lemming cycles, Science researchers say
... the last 15 years. The researchers have spent the summer months scanning a 75 square-kilometer region of tundra, aided in no small measure by the continuous daylight and open landscapes. For the Science study, Gilg, Hanski and Sittler compiled the 15 year's-worth of data for each of the five species. Th...A new molecular culprit for type II diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
...y be the main culprits is fairly new. Earlier this summer in another Biochemistry paper, Peter Lansbury of Harvard University suggested a possible therapeutic strategy for Parkinson's based on stopping the formation of protofibrils. "A very interesting point is the striking similarity between these assemb...NIEHS-funded researchers find low-level ozone increases respiratory risk of asthmatic children
...gfield area of Massachusetts during the spring and summer of 2001. The investigators conducted monthly interviews with the mothers to obtain information on each child's daily wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and asthma medication use. Daily measurements of ground-level ozone and fin...Research grants program closing
...rch, graduate fellowships, industrial internships, summer internships, the creation of textbooks and other teaching materials, cost-reducing medical technologies, special opportunities for advancing the field, and biomedical engineering-related conferences and meetings. For the next three years, the foundat...... involve CEBC faculty and undergraduates through a summer research experience and a visiting scholars program. The outreach will extend to the following institutions that serve underrepresented groups: Garden City Community College, Kansas City Community College, Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansa...